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Whether you look at Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals you can’t help to think it’s a sad situation all-around.

Wynne’s troops are sounding nastier and uglier, and more desperate by the day. For example, in a recent email marked “urgent” by Attorney General Yasir Naqvi to a constituent, he reminds the poor soul in the first line that he’s been naughty at Christmas time. Naqvi writes: “It’s crunch time in our race against the clock. But we still haven’t heard from you. End-of-year donation status: PENDING.”

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But good news, he reassures the recipient he can make amends and be nice by reaching into their pocket for $10. He sounds like a panhandler. What’s next? Asking his constituents to sell pencils on the street corner?

Then the sickening and vile part comes. Brace yourself. Naqvi, embracing political lies, fear and division writes: “The Conservatives have proposed to cut $12 billion in funding from essential services and programs that millions of people rely on. They’ll start by killing the minimum wage increase. Next, they’ll target seniors, the poor and the sick by cutting funding to our health care system. After that, the Conservatives will do away with free post-secondary tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, all just to meet their quota for $12 billion of ideological cuts. And as for our basic income pilot, who knows what could happen to that if Patrick Brown has his way.”