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In less than a week, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have gone from a credible alternative government to a second-rate circus with a surplus of clowns.

After the sudden and shocking departure of leader Patrick Brown, the PCs had one credible path to victory. That was backing respected veteran MPP Vic Fedeli, who was caucus’s choice to carry the party through the election. Fedeli had vowed to stick with the platform the party had already released.

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Instead, the party executive decided that a leadership race would be the thing, even though it would only give the new leader two months to campaign before an election.

For a while, it looked as if the executive might reconsider its ill-advised position, but all that came crashing down Tuesday, when Fedeli said he wasn’t going to continue as leader and preferred to spend his time cleaning out the apparently extensive internal rot in the party.