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Paying attention is more important now than ever.

When progressives look at Doug Ford, many see the incarnation of that dastardly Mike Harris, the former PC premier who brought in the Common Sense Revolution and did what few politicians have ever done.

He did what he said he would do.

But Doug Ford is no Mike Harris.

Unlike Harris, who moved rapidly to undo the fiscal damage done by the last NDP government in the province, namely the collective of accidental MPPs headed by Premier Bob Rae, Ford has promised to seek line-by-line cost efficiencies in the provincial books he anticipates will produce savings of at least 4%.

But he is also talking about running deficits that are totally uncharacteristic to true conservatives and spend more than Kathleen Wynne is currently spending without firing a single public servant.

In other words, he is not Mike Harris scary.

In fact, it would be wise for the parents of millennials to sit down with their progeny and explain Rae Days, and the economic horrors entrenched in the NDP’s fiscal wisdom.

The problem with Kathleen Wynne, of course, is that she doesn’t know she is dead yet. She thinks she still has a chance if she only promises to do better.

Her latest campaign ad is in dire need of a laugh track.

“How can I make life better for you,” she asks in a tweet, claiming that when she gets up at five in the morning to do her run — jog, surely — all she can think about as she chugs along is our betterment.

“Government isn’t about winning power, it’s using power you’re given to help … Better never stops. Neither will I.”