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The CEO and board of directors of Hydro One have been replaced and the salaries of public service executives earning over $100,000 annually frozen.

The dismantling of the Liberals’ disastrous Green Energy Act has begun, putting a hold, where possible, on wasteful renewable energy contracts that have been sharply criticized by two provincial auditors general.

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The Liberals controversial sex-ed curriculum is on hold, pending review.

Two inquires are getting under way to determine the true state of Ontario’s finances.

A sensible plan to sell marijuana through the private sector after it becomes legal is underway.

$25-million over four years have been earmarked to fight gangs and guns in Toronto.

Meanwhile, the NDP’s Andrew Horwath, the new leader of the official opposition, was primarily focused on attacking Ford for passing legislation he didn’t campaign on, which will downsize Toronto council from 47 seats to 25 (plus the mayor) for the Oct. 22 municipal election.

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This contains a useful warning for the Ford government.

It’s that opposition parties often focus on issues that are not priorities for most Ontario taxpayers.

For that reason, Ford should focus on fulfilling his bread-and-butter election promises in the fall.

They include a 10-cent-a-litre cut in gasoline prices, a 12% reduction in electricity rates, a 20% cut to the second income tax bracket, lowering business taxes from 11.5% to 10.5%, a $3.8-billion boost to mental health services over 10 years, the creation of 15,000 long-term care hospital beds over five years, and substantial new investments in public transit.

These are issues Ontarians most care about.

Finally, what inevitably undermines governments over time, and what finally defeated the Liberals, is the public’s perception of political corruption, of special deals for insiders, that public dollars are being used improperly for private gain.

If the PCs want to be more than a one-term government, it is this, most of all, they must guard against, every day.