If only I’d asked the right question …

… ITQ readers could benefited from Ian Brodie’s political insight.

Instead, though, he was his typical inscrutable self, and instead waited until he was at what I’m assuming was supposed to be an off-the-record seminar at the University of Toronto, during which he reportedly confided the somewhat less than shocking news that the Conservatives have “virtually written off” Toronto and Montreal – and aren’t likely to win a majority. Which isn’t exactly what you’d call a shocking revelation — I mean, if it turned out they actually had a strategy to woo big city voters, that would have been news — but still.