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The decision by Ontario voters to elect Doug Ford and a majority Conservative government this week ended 15 years of increasingly progressive Liberal rule.

Ford’s victory wasn’t, as Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein points out in Sunday’s paper, the hard swing to the alt-right that pundits and opposition politicians post-election are peddling as a storyline.

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Instead, as pollster Nik Nanos is quoted saying in another piece in the Sun, Ford’s victory is the latest example of populist electoral upset around the world rooted in voter anger and a swing away from establishment parties.

In other words, voters here, as elsewhere, were mad as hell and didn’t want to take it anymore.

Too many voters feel left behind in the past 15 years.

Too many are worried about their jobs, their future and the future of their kids.

Too many see public services that are not working and wanted real change.

So they sent a message.