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The message from teachers’ unions and their allies is clear: Don’t question them, don’t push back on their messaging or you will be attacked.

It’s something I’ve been putting up with for months now every time I write a column that is anything but in full praise of the teachers’ unions.

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The Twitter mobs, like I have faced, can be vicious. The behaviour of teachers and their supporters in response to any criticism is the kind of bullying that we ask teachers to fight against in the classroom and in the schoolyard.

Now that wrath is being turned against whoever is behind a series of ads that appeared in several newspapers over the weekend, including the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and Toronto Sun.

No one knows who is behind the ads and the ad departments of the respective papers aren’t releasing that information so the NDP is acting for the teachers’ unions.

On Monday, two different complaints were launched by NDP allies of the unions.