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The June 7 Ontario election is not, as Premier Kathleen Wynne claims, a “stark choice” between her debt-funded social activism and the Trumpian chaos of Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford.

Rather, it poses a serious question about whether anyone can undo the enormous damage of 15 years of Liberal mismanagement of the province’s finances, first under Dalton McGuinty and now Wynne.

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If Ford can be faulted for anything, it’s for suggesting to voters that righting Ontario’s finances is a simple matter of electing him and letting the good times roll.

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But that pales in comparison to the blatant political fraud Wynne’s re-election campaign is based on, which is that times are good in Ontario and electing the Liberals to a fifth consecutive term since 2003 will make them better.

If Wynne’s re-election strategy of giving away “free” stuff to taxpayers while driving them into unprecedented levels of public debt actually worked, don’t you think Ontario premiers, prior to Wynne and McGuinty, would have done it by now?