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Results of a poll suggest Prime Minister Stephen Harper should be careful how hard he campaigns against Ontario’s new pension plan, at least in Toronto.

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Fifty-nine per cent of 2,415 residents polled in Toronto proper support the creation of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, according to the new exclusive Mainstreet Technologies poll for Postmedia News.

Premier Kathleen Wynne was attacking Harper’s refusal to help administer the pension plan as the poll was in the field Tuesday. The premier lambasted Harper on Sunday for his government’s refusal to help collect the new pension deductions from payrolls once they kick in Jan. 1, 2017.

“At the end of the day what we need is a prime minister who will work with the people of Ontario and not oppose them as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done,” Wynne said, pledging to campaign to get Trudeau elected.

Harper fired back Monday from the campaign trail, saying his government won’t help bring in the pension plan’s “tax hike.”