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There are some interesting lessons to be learned from the Ontario election for the federal Liberals to make sure they do not suffer the same fate as their Ontario cousins and Premier Kathleen Wynne.

Ontarians on Thursday elected Doug Ford of the Progressive Conservative party as the 26th premier of Ontario. The Tories crushed the competition.

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It was a landslide majority and a rout of the governing Liberals.

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The NDP were in a position to win the election but their leader, Andrea Horwath, stumbled in the second leaders’ debate and faltered in the final 10 days of the campaign.

If you watched her concession speech without the sound you would have thought the NDP won the election.

I have never seen someone so happy to lose her third election in a row. Sadly, TV broadcasts did not show Horwath receiving her participation medal.

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The first campaign lesson is that there is a desire by voters for plain language. Plain communication by Ford won him the leadership and won him the election.