And that is, basically, what Ontarians have said they wanted, election after election after election, ever since Bill Davis in the 1970s ~ when he swung Ontario, fairly sharply away from Leslie Frost and John Robarts and aligned the province with Pierre Trudeau's big spending, culture of entitlement vision. Mike Harris was, of course, the exception, called in to prove the rule, after Peterson/Rae took things too far. I suspect Patrick Brown will try to steer a moderate course but will be forced to tackle spending and will be unpopular for it.
It is not what Ontarians want, it is maybe a suicide pact the rest of us have tacitly agreed to with Toronto and that's the best I can say about it.
I don't believe there is one answer to politics; that the Liberals are on a mission from the UN to make us not just post-nation, but post-political, that we have a Natural-Ruling Party.
But, if you really believe that, E.R. Campbell; that our country is just on the way to the same sad state of affairs most places in Europe have where elections are arguments between competing socialists, then we're done. We've just handed in another proof to the theory that Democracy only lasts so long as people don't realize that they can just vote themselves money for nothing.
What I see and hear when I talk to people is that many are tired of this same old nonsense and want real, revolutionary change, but we a) lack a candidate and party to vote for and b) it doesn't matter what most of the province/nation wants; Toronto picks our leaders and the rest of us can go hang.
Mark my words; Brown will lose and lose badly; the liberals will get another majority or minority and the NDP will be the opposition; they deserve that as they have been doing a better job at it than the CPC for years now. The CPC at all levels needs to be gutted if it is to survive. If not it will be replaced. CPC members especially are disgusted with Brown and Scheer.