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The Ontario Liberals have already defeated themselves, says Ottawa’s queen-bee Tory Lisa MacLeod, as long as her party doesn’t destroy itself with infighting. Again.

MacLeod accepted her fifth nomination for the Progressive Conservatives on the weekend, this time for the 2018 provincial election in the newly drawn riding of Nepean, and improvised a spine-stiffening speech out of her daughter’s hockey team and its breaking of a four-game losing streak.

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“It was really getting depressing to go to the arena. It was getting sad and our girls — it was affecting them,” MacLeod said. Then, the morning of the nomination meeting, they won. “I take it as an omen today.”

Daughter Victoria’s team played harder and smarter than they had before, she said.

“Most of all, they played together, as a team. And they won together, as a team. And in order for us to win the next election we must not just worry about the other team’s weaknesses — and God knows they have a lot. It is going to be up to us to be united behind one leader, Patrick Brown.”