By Jim Coyle Toronto Star  Jun 04 20

Over the holiday season of 2008, Premier Dalton McGuinty was having his now-famous Christmas existential crisis.

Back then, John Laforet was a U of T student, an active Liberal since he was 14, a young man who had grown up hearing his grandparents' stories about their civil-rights activism in Windsor and Detroit in the '60s, a chap so politically precocious he'd already served three years as a riding association president in Scarborough.