Wooed and Not Won

Stephen Harper’s charms were lost on an Ontario electorate that shied away from the unfamiliar

by Rick Spence

“Ontario let Canada down.”

At least, that was the mantra of many Conservative supporters after the federal election, when the disgraced and tired Liberals pulled out a minority win thanks to their last-minute campaign of fear that shook Ontarians to their Roots sweats. “What is wrong with these people in the East?” one caller asked talk-show host Dave Rutherford. >