ontario did have a stable tory majority up until 1985.

that was over 30 years ago.

since then, we've undergone a major generational change. and, today, there are wide swaths of the province where there are less native-born citizens than immigrants. in 1968, the country was almost totally white; today, there are wide swaths of toronto where white people are literal minorities.

the canada that exists today has essentially no meaningful connection to the canada that existed in the past. and, one is being generous as pointing to patriation as a new starting point; i wouldn't even bother looking at data from before the last referendum. canada as we know it today is really a creation of the last generation.

again: i prefer the sitting government's policies. and, i'm savvy enough to know that i'm watching politics. but, in tapping into this rather trumpian concept of moral indignation and self-righteous conservatism (traits usually associated with progressivism, not liberalism), wynne is trying to appeal to a past that not only never existed, but never existed in a country that no longer exists; she's selling a fantasy reality to voters that don't exist, and never existed.

again: causality is hard to determine. i'm pointing a lot at the media. but, at the very least wynne is not helping herself at all - and hasn't been since day one.

this is a co-ordinated strategy of potentially disastrous miscalculation.