OTTAWA–Peter Kent is pretty sure he knows why the Conservatives failed to win GTA seats in the 2019 election.
Two words: Doug Ford.
“We might have won that election but for Doug Ford’s disastrous first year,” the former cabinet minister and retiring Thornhill MP told the Star in an interview this week.
“It’s that simple. That’s what we heard at the door. We were leading in a lot of York Region ridings … up until about three weeks, four weeks before the election.
