Doug Ford´s pitch to Ontario voters will cut costs, size of government - but no layoffs
(The Star Food)

Doug Ford’s pitch to Ontario voters will be simple — no glossy magazine with 147 promises like his predecessor — and the new leader of the Progressive Conservatives predicts his popularity will help the party nab 10 Toronto seats from the Liberals.Ford’s platform would lower hospital wait times, cut hydro rates, reduce the size and cost of government — but he promises all that will be done through almost $6 billion of to-be-identified “efficiencies,� not job losses.“Let me be clear: No one is getting laid off,� Ford said during an interview at the Etobicoke head office of his family’s labels business, amid Liberal predictions some 40,000 jobs are at stake.As for a recent Forum Research poll that found the PCs would win a majority but almost half of those surveyed expressed disapproval of him as leader, he questioned the pollster and the small sample size and said he’s “seen polls that are absolutely opposite I am the only candidate out of anyone on both sides that attracts Liberal and NDP voters, and they know it. Read more: Opinion | Chantal Hébert: Doug Ford’s win shows that grassroot movements continue to shape Canada’s politicsOpinion | Bob Hepburn: How should the media cover a hostile Doug Ford?PC Leader Doug Ford promises to scrap the Liberals sex-ed curriculum“I know some Liberal insiders and they told me ‘Kathleen Wynne was terrified that you’d win because you’d attract the 416 voters that they’ve held on to for years.’ I proved it out in Scarborough when I helped Raymond Cho� win a byelection in a stunning upset in Scarborough-Rouge River in 2016.“We are going to win nine to 10 seats in Toronto and we’re going to win 905.�Ford emerged victorious from the leadership of the PC party last weekend after a tough fight with Christine Elliott, who actually took the popular vote and four more ridings than he did &# ...