Ontario´s interim Liberal leader John Fraser said the party is confronting some `harsh truths´
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Ontario’s interim Liberal Leader urged party members “not to dwell on our mistakes� as they gathered Saturday for a post-mortem on the June election that saw voters shrink Kathleen Wynne’s majority government to a third-party rump of seven MPPs.“They made the right call,� Ottawa South MPP John Fraser said in a speech prepared for 700 delegates from more than 100 ridings across the province.“They’d had enough of us.�Liberals — including Wynne — spent the morning in a session grilling campaign strategist David Herle on what went wrong in an effort to reach voters that saw the party stray from a long-standing promise to balance the budget by 2018 to a return to multi billion-dollar deficits with expanded pharmacare, child care and new dental care initiatives.“This morning, we confronted some harsh truths,� Fraser added. “We lost our way and, in turn, we lost the election.� Read more:Opinion | Martin Regg Cohn: Ontario’s 2018 election was fought on a digital battlefieldOntario Liberals gather for a campaign autopsyDefeated Toronto MPP Arthur Potts called the session with Herle and other campaign officials including former deputy premier Deb Matthews “a good gnashing of teeth.� Media were not allowed in the question-and-answer session so party members, including other former MPPs and cabinet ministers — could speak freely. In an attempt to turn a frequent “minivan party� taunt from Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives into a rallying cry, Fraser said Liberals must rebuild so they are ready to become “an alternative to the cuts and the chaos we know are coming� under the new government that has promised to find $6 billion in “efficiencies� on Ontario’s $150 billion annual budget. “My gut tells me that when Doug Ford is done ransacking Ontario, there will be even more young Liberals ready to bui ...