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Over the weekend, Patrick Brown, leader of the PC Party of Ontario, came up with a promise for everybody.

There were 147 promises, to be exact.

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You get a promise and you get a promise and you get a promise.

All I wanted was for Brown to come out on stage, point to a picture of Premier Kathleen Wynne and say, “I’m not her.”

But instead, he was sort of her.

By which I mean he promised to lower hydro bills even more, institute a carbon pricing scheme, run a deficit, pay for child care without getting rid of all-day kindergarten babysitting, and go along with increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Brown seems to be trying hard not to look like Mike Harris or Stephen Harper – the real conservatives.

Why make 147 promises? Even when we get married, we basically promise to be good and faithful.



Two promises. That’s it. Not complicated.

But it seems the way to get elected in Ontario is to promise everybody everything.