Analysis: Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford may be coming to Ottawa on Monday, just three days before voters elect their next provincial government.
Those absences have not gone unnoticed — with Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca, in particular, hitting Ford hard on the hustings during his three trips to the Ottawa region, telling voters how a leader's job is "to show up." And reminding them that he himself visited during the protests in February.calling for the province to give more
Ford, meanwhile, visited Ottawa on March 25 — weeks after the protests ended — to announce the next stage of funding for a new campus of The Ottawa Hospital.Whether Del Duca's message about showing up resonates with voters — or they see it as electioneering — remains to be seen. But Ford does seem to be falling into the Liberal leader's script.
There appears to be no practical reason Ford couldn't have toured Ottawa in the next day or two. Asked at a Tuesday news conference whether anyone dissuaded Ford and his entourage from visiting Ottawa, city leaders said no.
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