As certain as I am of being even uglier when wearing a toque, Ontario’s teachers have been playing us for dupes for as long as I can remember.
And that’s a significantly long time.
I have been working solely for Sun Media, the Toronto Sun in particular, since 1974 — which is 46 years and counting.
And those years include 10,080.7 work weeks news-watching Ontario’s elementary and secondary school teachers and their unions repeatedly use the same faux “woe-is-me” rhetoric of being underpaid and underappreciated.
Their television ads attacking the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Doug Ford — crafted by outside marketing wizards — are more fantasyland than any true reflection of what’s real.
But that’s their intention, isn’t it? It’s to dupe us just like they’ve been duping us for as long as I can remember.
“Cuts hurt kids” is apparently this year’s favourite line, but it would be, wouldn’t it? It’s part of the shakedown.
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