It’s always a pleasure to go to Toronto on business, as I did last week for three days, and be reminded why we don’t like to go to Toronto on business for three days.

Toronto loves Toronto in a way that puts the word ‘smug’ out of work.

That is why it was so much fun to be there when the report by highly respected former federal public servant and later TD Chief Economist Don Drummond landed with such a shudder last Wednesday on the corner of both Bay Street, and main street.

To recap: Eleven months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty, knowing that his economic and fiscal forecasts were almost criminally demented, appointed a commission headed by Drummond to review the state of Ontario’s finances, with a mandate above all others to tell the truth, and oh, by the way, to do so after McGuinty’s Liberal government was safely re-elected in the fall of 2011.

Tragically for the Ontario Liberals, Drummond did his job.