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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the queen of wedge-driven Liberal Party politics, wants you to hate me, and everything about me.

She talks about the importance of young people getting out to vote, but says it with a venom-edged racist message that epitomizes all that is wrong today with the party she leads.

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She talks inclusiveness, and spews divisiveness.

“If you don’t vote,” she tells these young people, “then somebody who looks like me is going to vote, some senior person, older than me, some white person. You know the reality is that that’s the demographic that’s going to get out and vote so we need you to be engaged.”

Enraged, maybe, if not engaged.

In early May, my alma mater, Ryerson University, is holding a three-day conference on “white privilege”— described as a “socio-political system that distributes power, privilege and benefits unequally … rooted in the history of European cultural denomination and the 19th century practice of ‘race science’ justifying this domination.”