For Test Only

As expected, John Tory's stubborn insistence on bringing up that faith based school funding issue proved to be the undoing of the Progressive Conservatives in yesterday's provincial election. I can just imagine the barrage of "I told you so's" he will have to endure, particularly within his own party. His too-late softening on the issue -- allowing members a free vote if the PC's won -- only worked to question his previously much vaulted leadership as well as his political instincts. It would appear he also suffers from that common conservative trait of irrational hubris. Early in the campaign Tory polled well compared to Liberal winner Dalton McGinty. Now Tory's survival as party leader is very much in question.

It's too bad. Better the enemy that you know. Tory is still broadly respected for his integrity and decency. He's no Mike Harris. And I feel that a government lead by John Tory would not be much worse than that of the McGinty's Liberals. He seems committed to the fight of hanging on as leader. I hope he survives the "long knives".