There are definitely similarities between the 2014 Ontario election and the current presidential campaign. And if these parallels hold true, Hillary Clinton will be the 45th president of the United States no matter how many scandals she becomes embroiled in.
The Liberal Party has held power in Ontario since 2003; first under Dalton McGuinty and then Kathleen Wynne. Liberal corruption and scandals were well known when the voters went to the polls in 2014 but the voters not only rewarded the scandal-plagued government with re-election but the Liberals went from a minority government to a majority. Why?
The answer is quite simple. Tim Hudak, the leader of the Progressive Conservatives, the only other party with a realistic chance of forming the government, said something dumb during the campaign. With that, as has often been said, the PC leader snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It would take a thick tome to detail all Liberal Party scandals but here are some of Dalton’s and Kathy’s greatest hits.