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I didn’t attend the Ontario Liberal Party’s hike through the ashes of their recent past on Saturday, there being so many more cheerful ways to spend a weekend. Also because one of the reasons the Liberals needed to hold a post-trauma gathering in the first place is because they spent years not listening to people who argued they were on the wrong path, doing harmful things (see: massive debt) and wasting the time and tax money of the residents of the province.

But fortunatelysomeone from the Toronto Star was keeping track of the proceedings, and came across the Facebook posting of Bryan Leblanc, “a veteran senior staffer to several cabinet ministers,” who explained that the problem lay partly in the leader, and partly in the core culture of the party itself.

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Former premier Kathleen Wynne, wrote Leblanc, “was over-exposed … nobody wanted to hear another word come out of her mouth.”

“For five years she was the only face and the only voice of our government, and our message was often a scold, or advice about the way people should live their lives. Or some guidance on how they can become better people. And they were sick of it.”