I have lived through a Conservative government in Ontario before.

I remember Snobolden telling a closed meeting of education professionals how they needed to "create a crisis in education" so they could wipe it all out and start over.

I remember consolidating the GTA into Toronto proper to 'reduce governmental duplication', 'find efficiencies', 'release shareholder value'. The costs skyrocketed. (Especially interfacing bordering incompatible 911 systems.)

I also remember the consolidation reducing the number of city councillors in Toronto, and increasing the number of constituents, and effectively gerrymandering some of the richest and poorest neighboorhoods together under the same wards and ridings. Do you think that amplified the voices that needed amplification?

I remember the smiling golf pro face of Harris' 'Common Sense Revolution'. And now it looks like we're getting his belligerent heir for the next four years.

I remember Tsubushi suggesting those on welfare finding it hard to eat on reduced funding haggle with grocery stores over the prices on spoilled food and "dented tins of tuna".

This is who Ontario Conservatives were when they put a value on appearances.

Now they've put Doug Ford up to lead the province... and Ontarians, by a slim majority, appear to be choosing him of their own free will.

All the promises Rob made, only bigger.

I'm resigned. It'd take a miracle for the NDP to pull off a minority government, and it'd fall in months.

Time to hunker down and save everybody we can. It's going to be a hard four years.