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Doug Ford promised to fix Ontario.

Now the Progressive Conservative Leader, who won a majority Thursday night, faces the monumental task of balancing the books, cutting taxes and not laying anyone off.

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“The party with the taxpayers’ money is over,” Ford said to loud cheers in his victory speech.

Ford described his platform as “modest” but it includes several major commitments — a 20% middle class tax cut, a corporate tax cut, the elimination of the cap-and-trade program, booze in corner stores, 10 cents off a litre of gasoline, the firing of the CEO and board of Hydro One, thousands of new long-term care beds, a rewrite of the controversial sex-ed curriculum and possibly private sales of cannabis.

There`s even a promise to allow buck-a-beer.

The PCs rolled over Ontario Thursday night, and were leading in or had won 76 seats with 8,323 polls reporting out of 8,419.

The Tories defied polls that showed they were tied with the NDP in popular support, instead earning about 41% of the vote to the NDP’s 34%, the Liberals’ 20% and the Green Party’s 5%.