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“Media coverage of the byelection debacle clearly troubled Wynne,” Benzie writes in his account of the footage. “She even tells aides she is ‘never speaking’ to one reporter again.”

At this point in the documentary, Wynne’s spouse Jane Rounthewaite chimes in: “He’s a twerp,” she says.

“You’re on mic,” Wynne says.

“I know. I could have said something worse, but I said ‘twerp,’” Rounthwaite responds.

That is probably the juiciest detail in Benzie’s description, but it is certainly not the most nauseating. For that, we go to an interview with Wynne in her home about the Sudbury scandal:

“There are certain people in the press gallery who I just know are out to get me,” she says.

“I mean they just want to — not ‘they’ personally but their organization — just wants to bring me down. They can’t stand what I stand for and they are going to look for any way to make me look bad.”

With all due respect to the premier, if she really thinks members of the press gallery want to make her look bad, she should probably stop making it so damn easy.

This is the premier who campaigned on “truth,” and secretly bought peace with teachers for $468 million before the election. The premier who has consistently downplayed her role in the party’s gas plant, Ornge air ambulance and green energy fiascos, as well as her involvement in the Sudbury scandal, which she still maintains was above-board despite published recordings making clear the intensity of the pressure applied to Olivier. Wynne attacked the opposition Progressive Conservatives during the campaign for saying Ontario needed to close underused schools and get tough with unions, and now says Ontario must close underused schools and get tough with unions. And despite campaigning on a promise of “transparency,” the premier surprised Ontarians when she suddenly proposed a Hydro One fire sale.