We can explain the inexplicable — starting with his declaration Monday to seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives and become Ontario’s next premier. The next election looks like a referendum on the opposition Tories as they turn themselves inside out with a bitterly contested leadership race. By suppertime, in a bizarre power play, PC party president Rick Dykstra and his executive basically told caucus — you know, the elected MPPs who face voters every four years — to go fornicate themselves. That left Fedeli serving as the unchallenged PC leader for a day, until his own party executive downgraded him to interim chief of a disrespected caucus. The executive wanted a wide open leadership race, and it got one — an epic war of egregious egos.

Source: thestar January 30, 2018 01:07 UTC