Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has said he needs a new mandate to deal with Trump’s administration and to spend tens of billions of dollars in response to threatened tariffs
Left to right: Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner and Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie in a combination photo. Ontario ’s political party leaders are fanning out across the province today for their first official day on the snowy campaign trail.more than a year before the next fixed date, plunging the province into a rare winter campaign that opposition parties say is unnecessary.
To highlight that issue, Ford is set to launch his campaign in Windsor, a city more keenly aware than many of the connections between the Ontario and American economies, as it sits across the river from Detroit and is home to auto and parts workers. Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie is set to launch her campaign in Barrie, where she is expected to talk about health care and in particular a plan to increase the number of family doctors.
She is running in a riding where the Liberal candidate in the 2022 election, former Barrie mayor Jeff Lehman, came within a few hundred votes of besting Doug Downey, who has served as the Progressive Conservative government’s attorney general.
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