We have no idea where Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown really stands on the issue of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum and we doubt he does either.

Over the past few days he has twisted himself into a pretzel, at first telling voters by mail in Thursday’s Scarborough-Rouge River byelection that he would scrap it, then saying he made a mistake and supports it.

To us, it’s irrelevant whether Brown flip-flopped or if, as he now says, campaign staff sent out the original notice to voters without him seeing it.

Either he doesn’t know what he thinks, or he changes what he thinks according to the wind, or he doesn’t have control of staff.

None of those things say: “Premier.”

Now Brown’s got everyone attacking him from the Liberals — who say he can’t be trusted to keep the sex-ed curriculum if he wins the next election, to social conservatives, who say he betrayed them given his past statements that were highly critical of Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum.

How many times do Ontario Conservatives have to lose to the Liberals before they stop shooting themselves in the foot over issues that do not decide elections and start addressing the pocketbook issues people care about?

Things like soaring hydro rates that are sending senior citizens into fuel poverty and businesses fleeing from Ontario.

Things like the billions of public dollars the Liberals have wasted in scandal after scandal, from cancelled gas plants, to eHealth, Ornge, smart meters and the Green Energy Act.

Or the $300 billion and rising debt the Liberals have saddled present and future generations of Ontarians with, turning their government into the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower.

What is this obsession Conservatives have with, on the one hand, telling people how to live and on the other, like Brown, proclaiming themselves to be oh-so-compassionate and not like all those other Conservatives that came before them?

Ontarians are looking for a leader who can end the fiscal insanity of the Wynne government, restore order to the province’s books and protect them from every special interest group with deep pockets that has the ear of this government.

Brown has not helped his case that he’s that leader.