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Hey, old white people. Stop outvoting the interests of young people and minorities.

Maybe just stop voting.

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne at Humber College on Friday said, “If you don’t vote, then somebody who looks like me is going to vote, some senior person, older than me, some white person.”

So let’s count the ways this is an outrageous comment, based on the metrics liberals usually use to attack conservatives.

First, it is ageist. To suggest that old and young people may not have the same party and policies in mind on election day is presumptuous at best.

Perhaps both demographics are concerned about employment and the ability to get by on what they earn. Both have lagged under 14 years of the Liberals.

Perhaps minorities are just as concerned about hydro rates and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs in Ontario as old white people.

Her assertion is that the votes of old, white people need to be challenged and negated.