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Title: Ontario PCs admit sex-ed opposition was a 'mistake'
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: BeaverFever
Date: 2016-08-29 19:46:45
Canadian

[BeaverFever]

And so after yet another failed policy idea, the search for the elusive Ontario Conservative identity continues...

[andyt]

I thought they just said they would reverse the curriculum if they won the next election?

[BeaverFever]

You're not imagining things.

As the article says, there's a byelection underway and the local candidate mailed out letters reaffirming their opposition to sex ed, which fed the news cycle in recent days. Apparently he didn't get the memo from party HQ that the party had flip-flopped on the issue and was hoping to just quietly slip away from it, hence the need for leader Brown to take out the emergency op-ed officially renouncing their opposition.

[BeaverFever]

$1:

Patrick Brown? He’s just not ready
Today at 5:50 PM
THE SUN

We have no idea where Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown really stands on the issue of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum and we doubt he does either.
Over the past few days he has twisted himself into a pretzel, at first telling voters by mail in Thursday’s Scarborough-Rouge River byelection that he would scrap it, then saying he made a mistake and supports it.
To us, it’s irrelevant whether Brown flip-flopped or if, as he now says, campaign staff sent out the original notice to voters without him seeing it.
Either he doesn’t know what he thinks, or he changes what he thinks according to the wind, or he doesn’t have control of staff.
None of those things say: “Premier.”
Now Brown’s got everyone attacking him from the Liberals — who say he can’t be trusted to keep the sex-ed curriculum if he wins the next election, to social conservatives, who say he betrayed them given his past statements that were highly critical of Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum.
How many times do Ontario Conservatives have to lose to the Liberals before they stop shooting themselves in the foot over issues that do not decide elections and start addressing the pocketbook issues people care about?....

http://torontosun.com/2016/08/30/patric ... -not-ready

Lol nice one Sun! A Conservative's gotta know he's in trouble when he can't even get good press in his own mouthpiece publication!