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It took Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Liberals a decade to dig itself into such a deep hole that it lost party status.

At least two things contributed to reducing the Ontario Liberals to rubble apart from the miscellaneous scandals.

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One, Wynne’s own gargantuan ego that she could beat the odds, whatever they might be. Wynne was in it for herself. The Liberal party not so much.

Second, she lost touch with people. It made it easy for Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives to run on a simple three-word slogan: “For the People.” It wasn’t sophisticated but it worked.

The same disease is now afflicting the governing federal Liberals. But, instead of incrementally losing touch with reality, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a free-fall seven months before the election and after only three years in power. Trudeau thinks acting the role of Prime Minister instead of actually doing the job is good enough.