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OTTAWA — Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives say they’re going to change their tactics for the 2018 election and campaign hard in every riding instead of focusing only on ridings they feel they can win.

The once-mighty Tories abandoned wide swaths of the province and alienated would-be Conservative voters simply by targeting only “winnable” ridings, campaign organizer Walied Soliman told delegates at their first convention under new leader Patrick Brown.

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“Patrick Brown does not believe in target seats,” he said. “Under our plan there is no Liberal safe seat in Ontario. We have 122 target seats in 2018.”

Soliman told the PC delegates that the party that last held power in 2003 had lost its way and needed to take a new approach to winning the next election.

We’re going to be ready in every God damn riding in this province.

“Ethnic and faith-based communities … didn’t even know if we were interested in their votes,” said Soliman. “Party members were disillusioned by fake policy processes, and most disturbingly, by a feeling that we were not winners.”