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It’s ironic that Premier Kathleen Wynne’s so bent on painting Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown as our own version of United States President Donald Trump that she’s adopted Trump tactics to do so.

She’s even happy to manufacture and spread fake news, to boot.

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The Liberals’ tactics leading up to the June 2018 election have been to smear Brown as an anti-woman social conservative, even though he’s on the record as saying that social conservative issues are off limits. Period.

Let’s face it, it would be political suicide to embrace social conservativism in 2017. No shrewd politician would want to die on that hill. The “hidden agenda” angle also hounded former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Paranoid Liberal pundits would continually warn that Harper would make abortion and gay marriage illegal and even bring back the death penalty. He was in power for nearly a decade and there was not even a hint of his interest to do so. In fact, just as Brown has said, Harper took social conservative issues off the table.