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THOROLD, ONT. — Andrew Scheer is right about one thing – this election is going to be all about trust.

None of the issues have punched through, as the parties cancel each other out with tit-for-tat spending commitments, all paid for with borrowed money.

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Scheer says you can’t trust Justin Trudeau — “he’s not who he says he is,” which is as close to referring to the blackface scandal as he has come in recent days.

Trudeau hardly mentions Scheer but referred to Ontario Premier Doug Ford 15 times in his pharmacare announcement on Monday. He suggests Scheer will do to Canada, what Ford has done to Ontario — that is, make massive cuts to public services.

Scheer has fought back in lacklustre fashion by conjuring up the nightmare of Liberal governments past, specifically those of Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty in Ontario.

But he is wide open to the charge that he will slash-and-burn services because every day he makes new spending promises, while saying he will return the budget to balance within five years.