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Back in 2003, Ontario PC campaign staff issued a press release calling then-Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty an “evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet.”

While then-Premier Ernie Eves dismissed the smear as an “attempt at humour,” the reality was the Conservative government was trailing in the polls, running out of time and desperate to undermine McGuinty’s momentum.

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It failed to have the desired effect.

“I love kittens, and I like puppies too,” McGuinty said shortly before he became premier.

Fast forward to 2018.

Kathleen Wynne, whose scandal-plagued government is trailing badly in the polls and desperate to undermine the frontrunner, found something worse to compare Doug Ford to than a “kitten-eater from another planet” – Donald Trump.

“Doug Ford sounds like Donald Trump, and that’s because he is like Donald Trump,” Wynne said Wednesday. “He believes in ugly, vicious brand of politics that traffics and smears and lies. He’ll say anything about anyone at any time because just like Trump, it is all about him.”