Premier Doug Ford should focus on his day job instead of daydreaming about being prime minister, says federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.LeBlanc expressed astonishment Thursday at Queen’s Park that “Mr. Ford hasn’t put to bed the idea that he’s got national ambitions.”“You get a four-year job and you’re 10 per cent into it and you’re already looking to upgrade to go somewhere else? I can’t imagine that that’s very constructive,” said the federal minister, a long-time friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Ford, who led the Progressive Conservatives to power in the June 7 election just three months after becoming provincial party leader, has privately mused to associates about taking his act nationally after the 2019 federal election.Since bringing some star power to the federal Conservatives’ August convention in Halifax, where he was a bigger draw for delegates’ selfies than Tory Leader Andrew Scheer, he has campaigned in Saskatchewan and Alberta.“If I was worried about a problem with my children’s education in a public school in Ontario or if I was on a waiting list for a hospital, I might find it more useful to see the premier here, worrying about those issues than campaigning for Mr. Scheer in Alberta,” said LeBlanc.Read more: Ottawa fires back at Ford over USMCA grousingOpinion | Gillian Steward: Someone tell Doug Ford and Jason Kenney that carbon taxes are a conservative ideaFord appoints veteran conservative public affairs executive to trade envoy post in WashingtonThe premier has also been concentrating his attacks on Trudeau, criticizing the Liberal prime minister for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the forthcoming federal carbon-pricing plan, and the legalization of cannabis.“When it comes to defending his plans for cannabis Justin Trudeau has been a no-show. When it comes to defending his cannabis plan he mi ...
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