Parliament is back in session, day 2 after a 102-day break.

Doug Ford is downplaying the OSAP protest gearing up for today at Queen’s Park as being ‘some unhappy students’ but will also be union members who are ‘unfortunately getting paid by taxpayers to take a day off’.

Which isn’t the case anyway, since union members pay their own dues and don’t get paid by taxpayers. If they’re taking a day off, they’re burning a sick day that they’ve earned in order to do it.

But read all that again from the top: The key part of Ford’s statement that galls me is that he’s focusing on people taking taxpayer money to take *A* day off, while he’s back from *a 102-day break from his work.*

Very much playing “Look at this distraction, everyone! No, no, don’t look at those facts, look at this distraction over here.”