Reevely: Jack MacLaren unbound, and never happier

Jack MacLaren is two weeks free of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the happiest he’s been in years, he says.
“You know where I am? I’m out here on Tom Black’s deck, looking out and waiting for the soybeans to grow,” he says over the phone on Friday, the breeze blowing into the handset.
Black’s the president of the Ontario Landowners Association, the rural-populist movement MacLaren led before he went into politics and became the MPP for Carle