John Tory got that rarest of things in politics \u002D\u002D a second chance \u002D\u002D and he threw it away.
In the 2007 Ontario election, Tory was poised to give Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty, who had been in power for four years amid a bevy of spending controversies, a run for his money.
He followed that up with a successful business career culminating with his elevation to president and CEO of Rogers Communications and Rogers Cable and a public service stint as commissioner of the Canadian Football League in order to keep it alive.Article content But even before Tory’s uninspiring turn as Ontario Progressive Conservative leader there was another incident that displayed his propensity for moments of incredibly bad judgment in an otherwise largely successful career.Article content
Chretien, his mouth partially paralyzed from having contracted Bell’s Palsy as child, destroyed the Progressive Conservative campaign when he quipped:
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