I’m a conservative who believed in Doug Ford. His credibility is collapsing

When Premier Doug Ford first swept into office, he promised to clean up the mess. Ontario had endured years of Liberal scandals: gas plants, eHealth, hydro costs, etc. Reminders of how insider politics corrodes public trust.

Ford did not run as an ideologue. His pitch was simpler. He would look out for the little guy, spend tax dollars wisely, and restore trust, accountability and common sense at Queen’s Park.


Ford revealed his true colours very early on and bear in mind the author is a Toronto Star conservative who takes seeming offense at labeling ChiCom EV’s “spy cars” which in fact they are.

We were warned he was nothing like his legendary brother Rob and that was said by “conservatives” hoping to ease the anxiety of fence sitters.

He’s a Liberal doing what Liberals do identity politics, crony capitalism, while maintaining a strong aversion to anything perceived to be “Right Wing”.

I do have some sympathy for Ford, right now Ontario is caught in a vise between Trump and the Laurentian elite and a great deal of  unavoidable pain lies ahead for all of us.

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Doug Ford spends nearly half a billion dollars to push DEI and race ideology in schools

Under Premier Doug Ford’s watch, Ontario has quietly poured nearly half a billion dollars into reshaping its schools around a DEI agenda and pushing race-based ideology onto students.

Since Ontario launched its “equity” education overhaul in 2017, programs rooted in Marxist-inspired critical race theory and other DEI-rooted practices have been embedded throughout the public education system.

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Doug Ford Worried He May Have To Do Something Conservative

‘I don’t know who these yahoos are’: Doug Ford dismisses new conservative group Project Ontario

A defensive Premier Doug Ford has dismissed the conservative activist organization Project Ontario as “yahoos” and a “radical right group.”

In the wake of a Star article on the nascent think tank being launched Tuesday at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, Ford was asked if he were open to any of its right-wing ideas.

“I don’t even know who these guys are. They sound like a bunch of radical rights. You know, folks, I’m not in favour of the radical left and the radical right,” he told reporters Monday in Hamilton.

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The Ontario Liberals need a new leader. Doug Ford would be perfect

In the seven years since the Ontario Liberals got their proverbial backside handed to them in the 2018 election, the party has yet to develop a real ethos, focus, or intention. The party’s sell to the people of Ontario during the last two elections was simply that it will make things better, and also get rid of the current guy.

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Ford government agrees to fee cancelling $100M deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink because it’s your money and they don’t give a crap how they waste it

The Ford government has negotiated a break fee to cancel its $100 million contract for Starlink internet, Global News has learned, officially ending its deal with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX.

The now-defunct agreement between Ontario and SpaceX was first signed in November to provide satellite internet to roughly 15,000 homes in the north of the province.

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The Doug Ford Doctrine: Don’t Be Conservative!

The Doug Ford Doctrine: ‘We really have to flex our muscles’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is hosting Canada’s premiers in Muskoka starting Monday at a Council of the Federation summer gathering. Premiers of the 13 provinces and territories can look forward to enjoying Alberta-bred and Ontario-fed beef on the grill at the Ford family cottage. They will have a special guest: Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“For the first time ever that I can remember,” Ford says, “the prime minister is invited. That would have never happened with Trudeau, but it’s happening under Mark Carney. And he’s going to be welcomed with open arms.”

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Bell: Doug Ford tells Poilievre Conservatives — avoid the hardcore right-wing

Couldn’t resist the question when the guy is sitting next to you and Ontario Premier Doug Ford didn’t shy away from answering it.

What does Ford, leader of his province’s Progressive Conservatives, think the federal Conservatives could do to win over more Canadians, a few more Canadians?

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GUNTER: Time for Ford to get out of bed with Carney, back Alberta premier

So, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is unhappy with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her hints at a separation referendum next year in Alberta. Well, the feeling is mutual. Ford isn’t very popular or respected in Alberta.

I’ve taken to calling Ford the Liberal Premier of Ontario. I know he styles himself as a Conservative, but after his behaviour during the recent federal election an outside observer unfamiliar with his party affiliation would be forgiven for assuming Ford and Liberal Leader Mark Carney were political bunkmates.

An insincere change of heart by Carney Suck-Up Ford

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Here’s what the federal election results mean for Doug Ford and Ontario

If you’re a backer of either the Liberals or the Conservatives, you can read the Ontario results in the federal election in both optimistic and pessimistic ways.

For Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, the pessimistic view is that a poorer-than-expected showing in Ontario is precisely what kept him from forming a majority government.

The Liberals lost a string of ridings in the Greater Toronto Area that they had held for the past three straight elections, and Liberal incumbents also went down to defeat in places with notable working class populations such as Hamilton, Windsor and Sudbury.

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Jack Mintz: Ontario is the ‘sick man’ of North America. Its premier should stay out of the federal election

Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to be a happy camper these days. After donning his Captain Canada cape to fight Donald Trump on tariffs, in February he won a third straight majority victory. And now he and his campaign manager have been lecturing federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on how to run his election campaign, arguing he should focus more on Trump, less on the economy.


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Dougie doesn’t disappoint we knew he was a Liberal all along.

More … As productivity plunges, Ontario and Alabama now have the same per capita GDP

Canada’s economic productivity has trailed the U.S. for decades. This isn’t news and has numerous possible causes. What is particularly troubling for all Canadians, though, is that the gap is getting wider.

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Doug Ford Spending $70 Million Of Your Money On A “Sikh-Punjabi” Long Term Care Home … Your Granny Gets SFA

Niwaas Long-Term Care, a not-for-profit organization, describes itself as “the first Sikh-Punjabi long-term care home in Ontario”. Its aim is to build a facility in Brampton that provides Sikh and Punjabi elders “with the medical care and support they need, in an environment that is familiar – with our food, our language, our culture and heritage”.

Cripes. What A Ho. h/t Patti Jo

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Ontario Liberals promise to cut all transit fares to $1 until 2024

The Ontario Liberals say that if they form government after the June 2 election they would make all public transit fares $1 until 2024.

The party says the fare reduction would apply to “every transit system in Ontario,” including all municipal services, as well as GO Transit and Ontario Northland.

The Liberals are dubbing their plan “buck-a-ride,” a reference to a popular part of Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s 2018 platform to offer “buck-a-beer.”

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Doug Ford Seeks To Make Anti-Protest Emergency Powers Permanent

Ontario has mostly reopened at this point, with mask mandates, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates presumably behind the province, but it seems like Premier Doug Ford’s PC government does not want to let go of all the new powers it granted itself over the last two years.

Bill 100 was tabled by the Solicitor General, Sylvia Jones, who was the same PC MPP who tabled Bill 195, ironically named “The Reopening Ontario Act” which gave Ford the power to lockdown Ontario and add restrictions whenever he wanted.

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The Ontario Establishment’s War On Parents And Children

The Ontario Progressive Conservative government has been a major disappointment to conservative Ontarians on multiple fronts since they were elected to a majority government back in 2018. Spending has not been brought under control, wasteful green technology programs have not been scrapped, and small businesses and civil rights were trashed due to draconian government lockdowns and restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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