Politics is all about defining yourself and the party you lead before others can define you.

Sometimes laws are bad because they are undemocratic and sometimes laws are bad because they are archaic, but section 329 (the ban) manages the stunning achievement of being both undemocratic and archaic at the same time.

This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.

Same-sex divides all parties, Liberals included, and a better bet for the Tories would be to come out with something that mobilizes their base.

People looked around and said there's got to be a better party than this one.

It's the politics of the Liberal party that they seem to get away with this kind of thing in Ontario and to some degree in Quebec. He'll likely form another government. Whether it's a minority or a majority, I don't know. But certainly he'll get votes out of Ontario.