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If John Tory gets elected as premier, will William Davis be back running in Ontario? The new Progressive Conservative leader and former premier are embraced in a love-in that makes Prince Charles and Camilla look lukewarm.

Premier Dalton McGuinty boasts he does not bow and scrape to lobbies, but he is finding some are too powerful to ignore.

Parting speeches when political leaders retire are being sanitized as if scrubbed by Molly Maids so voters are deprived of some useful thoughts.

So which is the most precarious post in the Ontario cabinet? Few would associate it with peaceful pastoral scenes, rolling fields and lazy rivers.

Adeath in the legislature has prompted a lot of fuss and many may feel it has been overdone. Dominic Agostino, a respected and sometimes rambunctious Liberal backbencher died recently.

Ontario’s Liberals are turning again to promising “modernized” drinking laws to divert attention from issues that embarrass them, but they sound like they have hoisted a few glasses themselves.