Self-awareness is seldom cited as one of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s main characteristics, but can he really not see the hypocrisy of his “We are taxed to death” comment this week? For Ontarians, Ford is one of the people doing the lethal taxing.

Ford apparently thinks high taxes are a problem for someone else to solve. The premier is meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney next week to urge him to cut taxes . OK, but Ford hasn’t even kept his own 2018 campaign promises to cut business and income taxes. Carney, by contrast, is cutting personal taxes, if modestly.

Back in 2018, Ford promised a one-point cut to the second personal income tax bracket and a reduction in corporate taxes from 11.5 per cent to 10.5 per cent. Ford still hasn’t implemented either one.

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