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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s increasingly frantic efforts to drag Ontario Premier Doug Ford into the federal election campaign blew up in his face Monday, and deservedly so.

The Liberal plan was to have Trudeau meeting with teachers in Ottawa Monday morning, emoting his concern about the dire state of eduction in Ontario under Ford — the PM emoting his concerns the same way he applies blackface, liberally.

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The news hook was to be that the province’s 55,000 educational support workers had just gone out on strike Monday morning, as had been widely expected, closing public and separate schools indefinitely.

This would have been a golden opportunity for Trudeau to return to his favourite theme in Ontario that Ford is out to destroy public education in the same way Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will destroy federal public services if he wins on Oct. 21.

But then Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce sabotaged Trudeau’s plan by having the audacity to announce a new tentative contract with the Canadian Union of Public Employees Sunday evening — thus averting a strike.