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Justin Trudeau has a friend in Ontario. Her name is Kathleen Wynne and she says she’s going to do all she can to help the federal Liberal leader become prime minister.

The Liberal premier is not on good terms with the Prime Minister.

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He refused to return her calls for a full year over a minor tiff, he’s picked his own projects to finance even if they aren’t on Ontario’s list of preferred recipients, and he won’t let Finance Minister Joe Oliver collect the money from paycheques needed to run her planned new Ontario-only pension plan. As a result the plan will cost even more to administer than was already the case. Wynne denounced the pension decision as “pretty unprecedented and mean-spirited in a pretty big way,” and the infrastructure action as “disrespect … for the people of Ontario.”

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Declaring her intention to help Trudeau defeat Stephen Harper, Wynne declared: “What really concerns me, is that Stephen Harper thinks Canadians can be bought. That’s the reason he can do this: because he can spend a lot more money… and he believes that will win him the election.”