Oops. I read quickly, and thought I saw "Mary" Patterson. I thought it was a bit odd that a female evangelist would be holding up the conservative position. Not at all unlikely in the general evangelical world, but not usually to be seen in Anglicanism.
Why did he stay so long? Surely this has been coming for a very long time... And is the case in Canada similar to that in the U.S., where most remaining traditional-leaning clergy in ECUSA are of the "evangelical" persuasion?
Maybe not, but we've had a couple on the Anglican ping list.