The Ontario PCs have a clear mandate for change. But in their pursuit of it, they are alienating the very people they want to serve....
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Can Ford mend the very party from which he tried to run away
The Ontario election is over, and the winner is… populism. Its anti-establishment broom swept the Progressive Conservatives to victory with 76 seats, and saw the NDP form the official opposition with 40. It blew the Liberals out the door with just seven – while the Green Party gained its first seat in provincial history....
READ MORE Wynne making it easy for Ford
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Those are the most terrifying words in the English language, according to the late US President Ronald Reagan – but then he never met Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. In this week’s Throne Speech, Wynne promised not just to help – but to care. “Care...
READ MORE Ford must eschew grievance politics in favour of practical outcomes
Disaster. Debacle. Clusterf***. There simply aren’t enough epithets to describe the shambles that was the Ontario PC Party leadership convention this past weekend. Members, media, and twitterati watched in amazement as the counting dragged on for four hours while lawyers for the rival leadership camps of Christine Elliott and Doug Ford duked it out...
READ MORE Patrick Brown plays it safe
Is change the answer to Ontario’s many woes? Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown is saying ‘yes’, of course, and offering himself as the man to deliver it. At the PCs’ weekend policy convention, the party unveiled its ‘People’s Guarantee’, a glossy 78-page platform document featuring Brown’s face on the cover and the word...
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