Watching the final televised debate in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership campaign Thursday evening, I certainly got a clear picture of what the candidates are opposed to, but we heard very little of what they stand for.
They spent a lot of time slamming former leader Patrick Brown, which was curious at best, since Brown is out of the race, and hardly a threat to the leadership ambitions of any of the candidates.
Disgruntled voters, who tuned in, looking for a new vision for Ontario, heard only rhetoric and very little substance.
As you might expect, there was a lot of Kathleen Wynne bashing, and that played well with the partisan in-studio audience.
We heard how they would tear down wind turbines, tear up hydro contracts, rip up the sex-ed curriculum, lower hydro rates, reduce wait times for medical care and, of course, lower taxes.
All of those promises are feel-good crowd-pleasers, but what was lacking was the answer to one very significant question: how are you going to pay for it?
There’s a variation of an old Japanese proverb that states, vision without funding, is just a hallucination, and action without vision is a nightmare.
Ontario voters need substance, not hallucination because we certainly don’t need any more political nightmares.
Bill Kelly is the host of Bill Kelly Show on AM 900 CHML and a commentator for Global News
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