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It’s a pretty wild theory, though.

Mad as Wednesday and Thursday at Queen’s Park were, what didn’t happen was interesting too. No one except Brown publicly doubted the women’s accounts. And in back-to-back press conferences, neither Wynne nor NDP leader Andrea Horwath took any real shots at the Progressive Conservatives.

Wynne, Horwath and Tory deputy leaders Steve Clark and Sylvia Jones all commended the women for coming forward and committed themselves to eradicating this sort of behaviour.

“There are all kinds of thing that prevent women from coming forward,” said Horwath. “Now that the logjam has burst, and women are coming forward, as a society we need to acknowledge that we silenced … women for a very long time. We can’t silence them anymore.”

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At this point in the #MeToo cascade, it’s either impossible or risky for any party to present itself as morally pure. On Thursday, Wynne again refused to elaborate on instances of inappropriate behaviour within her own caucus that she revealed nearly two years ago. Brown was one of two Progressive Conservative provincial leaders to step down Wednesday under similar circumstances, the other being Nova Scotia’s Jamie Baillie. On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accepted Minister of Sport Kent Hehr’s resignation over harassment allegations. If this is only the first wave of a #MeToo tsunami waiting to overtake Canadian politics, then all bets are off.

For now, though, the Tories have no good options. The caucus is to meet Friday morning to pick a leader, almost certainly from within its own ranks. Finance critic Vic Fedeli threw his name into the hat on Thursday afternoon. Whoever is chosen could conceivably lead the party into the June 7 election but, regardless of the outcome, would have to contest a one-member-one-vote competition within 18 months.