A Tangled Web

A TORONTO BLESSING??



David Warren reflects on the outcome of the recent Canadian General Election, and in particular, the consequences for conservatism in Southern Ontario, including Toronto. He says,



"Main Street" was transformed into "suburbia" without a huge immediate change in values and outlook; but then suddenly urban, suburban, and semi-urban southern Ontario passed a tipping point, into what I call the "Mall Culture". What I mean by this is a kind of deracinated multi-ethnic hodgepodge, genuinely lacking core values, a common outlook, or a proprietary sense about the political order -- and therefore easily responsive to the passing suggestions of media and mass culture. Or to put it another way, the sort of people who can be easily herded, using the cynical methods the Liberal Party employs; and who, as Dalton McGuinty has discovered, quickly forgive and forget when politicians tell them huge lies."