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Relax.

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Premier Doug Ford is not – I repeat NOT – going to slash your babysitting, aka full-day kindergarten (FDK).

That was a certainty even before Education Minister Lisa Thompson’s statement late Friday that the government was, “absolutely committed to full day learning for four and five year olds across the province.”

What Ford could do is massage FDK into a more affordable model.

But axing the popular program that provides free daycare to thousands of parents would be political suicide and I don’t sense Ford has a death wish.

Make no mistake though. Ford’s Progressive Conservative government was elected on a platform of fiscal prudence. After 15 years of reckless spending by the Liberals, first under former premier Dalton McGuinty and then with Kathleen Wynne, this province is ruinously in debt.

After watching our tax dollars piddled down the drain in scandalously inefficient ways – think gas plants – last June voters told the Conservatives to wrestle the massive debt under control.