By Pepper Parr
February 4th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
We erred: Bonnie Crombie has said she will be running for the Mississauga East seat in the legislature.
The focused concern over what the threat of 25% tariffs would do to not only the economy but individual households has taken our eyes off the provincial election campaign that is now underway.
Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
Doug Ford put his foot in it when on the campaign trail Monday he was caught on a hot mic expressing frustration with the president.
“On election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was. Then the guy pulled out the knife and f—-ing yanked it in me,” said Ford.
That comment is going to haunt him throughout the balance of the campaign. The upside for Ford is that the election will have taken place before the 30-day hold on possible tariffs is reconsidered.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford said he hoped the situation with Trump “might be a little different,” despite Trump’s prior threats to levy tariffs on Canadian exports.
Ford was captured on video after a news conference Monday saying he was happy that Trump had won the most recent U.S. election — until Trump made threats of steep tariffs that could devastate Ontario’s economy.
“I can work with anyone, I don’t care who it is. I just thought things might be a little different,” Ford said Tuesday when asked why he was happy that Trump was elected, despite Trump’s history of trade threats during his first term.
While polling numbers show Ford with an impressive lead the campaigning taking place in constituencies across the province shows a different scenario.
Marit Stiles in Quinte, a part of the province where the Progressive Conservatives have always done well.
In Quinte, a constituency where political views have been decidedly conservative for a long long time the New Democrats have been pulling out good audiences.
The Liberals can’t seem to get much in the way of traction; party leader Bonnie Crombie has said she will be running for the Mississauga East seat in the legislature.
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“I didn’t think the lion would eat my face”.
Bonnie Crombie announced last week that she will be running in Mississauga East.
Editor’s note: I missed that one – thank you
Anyone paying attention is likely to see that Ford’s principles are more aligned with Trump compared with the average Ontarian. So why are these same Ontarians so unwilling to take a chance with one of the other parties after Dougie’s lack of getting things done and tenure filled corruption? Are we really that apathatic as a province??