CBC Radio's Metro Morning hosted a panel of political strategists to discuss the potential impact of federal election uncertainty on Premier Doug Ford's decision-making regarding a possible early election in Ontario.
CBC Radio's Metro Morning convened a panel of political strategists to debate how political chaos on Parliament Hill could influence Premier Doug Ford 's thinking about a possibly early election in Ontario. With political uncertainty in Ottawa, Metro Morning hosted a panel of party strategists to debate how a federal election could change Ford's thinking about sending Ontarians to the polls early. A federal election in the coming months seems increasingly certain.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is weighing his own political future after the exactly how and when a federal election might play out, more than a year ahead of the next fixed election date. His possible reasons for doing so with a majority governmentAfter all, those signals were sent when Ford and his aides assumed a federal vote would most likely not come until the fall. They similarly came before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump promised to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods, a policy that economists say represents a potentially existential threat to Ontario's economy. Will he or won't he? Signs that Ford may call an early Ontario election stack upturned to its panel of political strategists to help make sense of it all, and to debate how the many moving parts could influence Ford's thinking in the coming weeks.Jeff Rutledge, Tory strategist and vice president at the public affairs firm McMillan Vantage.Marina Nader, co-CEO of Nexus Strategy Group and former staffer for the Ontario and federal New Democrats
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