By Pepper Parr
January 21st, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
A reliable Queen’s Park source said the provincial election could be as early as February 5th.
Before Donald Trump took office, Ford said he would require a new mandate for a multi-billion-dollar stimulus package to fight the tariffs.
Now, he says Trump’s more “aggressive” administration itself is reason enough to pull the trigger on a snap vote.
Doug Ford is his new hat.
“This is going to be for four years with Donald Trump. He wants to undermine us any which way he can,” Ford told reporters. “We need a clear mandate, not for tomorrow, not for the next day — for four years of dealing with our American friends.”
When will the writ drop?
Timing is everything: Ford is scheduled to visit Washington February 12 and 20, but Sun columnist Brian Lilley suggested that could be bumped up to an earlier date. Elections are called on Wednesdays and held on the fifth Thursday after that.
A writ drop on February 5. Or perhaps the week before that. Or maybe the week after.
Closer to home, Ford’s political rival say he’s already got what he needs to fight Trump’s tariffs — including their support — and that an early election would be unnecessary and self-serving.
“Ford is selfishly creating chaos to justify going to the polls a year-and-a-half early for one reason: to outrun an RCMP investigation into his Greenbelt scandal,” said Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie.
Salt in the wounds: “Doug said he’d go to Mar-a-Lago — he never got an invitation. He went on TV, got a new hat, and threatened to pull booze off the shelves. Donald Trump isn’t paying attention to Doug Ford. He doesn’t care,” Crombie added. Ouch.
Doug should stop running around with Trudeau and any other Liberals. and smarten up: he abandoned Ford nation during Covid in favour of Trudeau. Ron Desantis, he isn’t. Danielle Smith was invited to Mar-a-largo by Kevin O’Leary, a real businessman, he and Danielle have worked together before on a massive data centre project in her Province, so why did he not contact you? your only hope now is to ditch that stupid hat and get a sit down with Poilievre.
We don’t hear a lot from Bonnie Crombie, but it sounds like her take on Ford’s gambit hits pretty close to the mark. He’s a showman like Trump and certainly wants to be praised, but he can’t pull it off like Trump does IMO. Captain Canada he’s not. He’s Captain Election.
Doug Ford is a CINO. Last night, I decided that I liked Bonnie Crombie. She says she’s centre-right, which is close enough for me.