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Better the enemy you know

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.