By Gazette Staff
September 1st, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on those Canada is Not for Sale toques and hats.
The politicians were handing them out like candy.
The political party leaned into the theme during the last provincial election. At many photo ops during the winter campaign, PC politicians wore tuques with the slogan and handed them out like candy.
It tied into the party’s political pitch: voters must “Protect Ontario” by re-electing the PCs to fight U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariffs.
Doug Ford loved the hats – seldom seen without one on his head.
According to newly public election finance filings, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario paid $278,910.71 to the company behind the hats, Jackpine Dynamic Branding, during the campaign period.
The party also transferred over 600 tuques, bought for $23.19 each before the election, to the campaign.
It obviously worked. Doug Ford is the Premier and the RCMP seem to have lost interest in the Greenbelt scandals
What got the lout Ford elected was the absence a credible alternative.