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For Wynne, apparently, Ford doesn’t need to be concerned, as she wasn’t, that Ontarians are now paying $13.3 billion annually just to service the province’s interest on debt, which totalled $347 billion when the Wynne Liberals finally lost power.

Nor should Ford worry that not a penny of those interest payments — the fourth-largest government expenditure after health, education and social services — goes toward improving public services, lowering taxes or reducing the debt.

In Wynne’s world, everything was fine under the Liberals — except for the overcrowded emergency rooms, hallway medicine, declining test scores in Grade 6 math, a sea of red ink and a long list of other problems too numerous to mention.

Finally, since Wynne now claims Ford is making the wrong choices in reducing spending to clean up the financial disaster she and her party left the province in, perhaps she can tell us what she would have cut instead.

In the real world, the easiest thing for a politician to do is to spend recklessly, as Wynne did.

To bribe voters with their own money, as Wynne did.

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To make an election promise such as reducing auto insurance premiums by 15% and then, after failing to do so, dismissing that promise as a “stretch goal,” as Wynne did.

To not breathe a word to Ontarians during the 2014 election that you were going to raise their cost of living by almost $2 billion annually by imposing cap-and-trade on them, and then doing it after the election, as Wynne did.

To amass a record of such disastrous decisions that in the end, Ontarians not only voted her out of office as premier, but reduced her party to unofficial status in the Legislature.

So why should the new government listen to her now?