The Ontario election is locked in – unless the Libs lose all the ballot boxes the night before the polls open, it’s still going to happen, guys. At least the provincial Libs can’t change the date because they don’t think they can win. They’re stuck with it.

All parties are poll worshippers and if the party bosses don’t get their weekly fix of polls, there’s no living with them. It’s the ripple effect they worry about. Is their party’s popularity moving up or sliding down? What politicians can’t plan for is the 100-pound chicken slush fund scandal that landed on Premier Dalton McGuinty’s desk one day recently. It involved thousands of taxpayer dollars poured out generously to any ethnic group that could produce thousands of ethnic votes.

The opposition parties did an excellent job of torturing poor Dalton for his party’s sins and he did the best he could in the situation by endlessly repeating the same mindless mantra before collapsing and calling for a full inquiry. I suspect Dalton will try to deep-six the inquiry until after the forthcoming election. I can assure you, Dalton, the inquiry won’t do a thing to increase your government’s popularity and re-election chances.

I attended a large meeting of the Willowdale P.C. provincial party recently, where the guest speaker was John Tory. He spent the whole meeting trying to define the Progressive Conservatives as not being Liberals. At the end, he stopped abruptly and said: “You’ve got to give me this one. It’s not negotiable. I’m in favour of supporting independent schools in Ontario.” Was John not aware that this was the perfect storm Mike Harris created that doomed his re-election chances and made Stephen Harper burn his phone number?

When you create a boiling pot of an endless number of private schools clamouring for funding that can come from only two sources, public and Catholic schools supporters, you’re going to find a lot of voters suspicious of where you are going to find this money. John, this is a pot made for drowning your election chances. Your idea wouldn’t kill public or Catholic schools, but it would financially cripple them. Drop it, John. It’s another 100-pound chicken.

John Tory is a heavy-handed politician and tends to force his PC caucus to see it his way – why do you think Jim Flaherty sought the greener pastures of Ottawa? He tried to force all of his caucus unsuccessfully to support same-sex “marriages,” along with the Liberals and the NDP recently. Tory is forcing Frank Klees, a well-regarded PC MPP, to move from his safe riding to a less winnable riding so he can put another Tory candidate in Frank’s old riding. Frank Klees has highly principled positions, is a former Baptist minister and recently moved a motion to honour Pope John Paul II in the Ontario legislature. Klees has a history of pro-life, pro-family stands that has always been a bit of a pain in the backside of John Tory.

Tory is a wealthy former successful CEO of Rogers, but is considered by many pro-family advocates the King of Porn. He had many opportunities while head of Rogers to crush pay-for-view TV porn, but said in the past that you don’t have to watch it and you have to pay for it. He has said he believes in free speech. He has always insisted that obscenity is a federal matter.

Tory has claimed that out of all the stations Rogers operated, there were only a few that catered to the porn audience and he never allowed anything that would violate the Canadian Bill of Rights and Freedoms. As a Christian, does Tory realize that sodomy and same-sex “marriage” violate the Ten Commandments? It makes the Liberal Party-created Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms a pink piece of pagan propaganda.

Tory in 2005 supported the McGuinty Liberals and the NDP in Bill 171, which erased real marriage words like husband, wife, man, women, widow, widower from all Ontario laws, substituting “gender neutral” terms so as not to preclude official recognition and benefits for same-sex couples. All of the parties agreed to a non-recorded vote so no one would learn how they voted. Thank God they left us with Mom, Pop, Gramma and Grampa.

The trouble with John Tory is that he’s a Tory who wears a liberal wig and could easily be mistaken for one. Truth be told, I’m not sure why he’s so keen on replacing McGuinty’s Liberals.

Fortunately, there is always the FCP.