Denley: The real losers in the debate: Ontarians

Well, that was depressing. The Ontario election’s first leadership debate was more like an episode of the Jerry Springer show than a serious political discussion.
Doug Ford, Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath spent much of the evening talking over each other, exaggerating their opponents’ defects and making dubious assertions, and yet, in just over a month one of them will be our premier.
Partisans of all three parties will claim their leader won the debate, as they always do, but it&