WYNNE GETS UGLY

  NP, McParland: Even when you see the train coming at you, it’s a shock when it hits. Such is the case in Ontario right now, where the Liberal government has ensured the coming election campaign — which hasn’t formally been called yet — will be one of the ugliest and demeaning in memory.
   Premier Kathleen Wynne cemented this when she launched an extraordinary blitz of invective at opposition leader Doug Ford on Wednesday.
   It was as predictable as an onrushing train, yet unsettling nonetheless, that a sitting premier would so quickly turn a political contest into a barrage of insults against an opponent. In particular given Wynne’s justification for her attack: it was, she said, an attempt to alert voters that the race was bound to be nasty. “It’s crystal clear that this is going to be a vicious campaign,” she said. So, to let people know things might get ugly, she got ugly.