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There’s a Yogi Berra quote for everything life can throw at you, and in Caledonia, Ont., at the moment, it might seem obvious which is the one.

The barricade on Argyle Street, the town’s main drag, is up again; it’s even part of one of the original Hydro towers that were dragged down in the bad old days of 2006. Since last Thursday, people have had to either take the bypass or go around via the McKenzie Road.

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And the Ontario Provincial Police are once again in position, there at the ready to direct traffic and not, heaven’s no, remove the barricade. As Const. Rod LeClair put it recently, police ask everyone to “remain calm, patient, obey the law and respect the rights of others for the benefit of all.”

It is indeed, as the late great New York Yankee legend inimitably put it, “deja vu all over again.”

But that’s not the Berra saying that really fits. What is, from the Ontario government’s point of view, is “We made too many wrong mistakes” back in 2006 and by God, we’re going to make them again.