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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s re-election strategy for June 7 is best summed up by the cynical observation of George Bernard Shaw that, “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

With one problem.

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That’s that Wynne is actually robbing Peter to pay Peter because Peter and Paul are the same person.

Take Wynne’s Fair Hydro Plan to cut our hydro bills by 25%.

Wynne’s financing that with tens of billions of borrowed dollars.

But she’s keeping them off the province’s books, where taxpayers are responsible for paying them back, by putting them on Ontario Power Generation’s books, where electricity ratepayers are responsible for paying them back.

Never mind that the Auditor General of Ontario and the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario have both warned this fiscal sleight of hand is one way for Wynne to claim she’s balanced the province’s books this year, when the real deficit is $4 billion to $4.5 billion.