The Ontario Provincial Conservative Party are having a leadership contest - they need a leader as the last two people have been totally clueless and the one before while he talked of change did a lot less than he is given credit for. While in general I have no interest in any of the Conservative parties there is at least one interesting person in this race - predicably they are not getting much support: even from the people that know better.

This I sent to the National Post this morning. It was published, with some rather heavy handed editing.

It's a sad commentary on the state of the libertarian idea in Canada when the National Post won't back the better ideas (Hillier's) simply because they won't trust people to understand the same idea they already know is best. Dare I say almost sounds like implicit support of the "Nanny State", let's save the people from thier dumbness?
John Tory was wrong in proposing the expansion of the bad idea idea of funding segregated education. This was not a mistake in strategy or
communication: the people understood it was a bad idea. Voters very correctly did not vote for a bad idea despite their widespread distaste for McGuinty. The people did "get it": half of them are above average intelligence ya know!
That bad idea from a past election would not likely be confused with good ideas as Randy Hillier is proposing. With respect the HRC many people understand free speech and they would vote for it given the choice. Sadly the National Post is not alone on this confusion and we will likely get the choice only of dumb and dumberer as leaders once more from the 2 major parties next election . I consider McQuinty is the dumb part of that choice since it is dumberer for an opposition to offer no opposition and expect to be elected against an incumbent.