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RSS FeedsLiberals and Conservatives agree: Ford is a liability for the federal Conservatives in Ontario
(The Star Theatre)

 
 

9 october 2019 02:14:29

 
Liberals and Conservatives agree: Ford is a liability for the federal Conservatives in Ontario
(The Star Theatre)
 


It is the one thing Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford, and Andrew Scheer seem to agree on: Ontario’s Progressive Conservative premier is considered a liability to the federal Conservative campaign here.For Scheer, Premier Ford is a sort of Voldemort from Harry Potter — he who shall not be named.For Trudeau, the nation’s most powerful and polarizing Conservative is a useful foil who can motivate disillusioned or complacent Liberal voters.For Ford, still bothered by being booed at the Toronto Raptors’ June victory celebration while Trudeau and Mayor John Tory were cheered, the federal campaign is a time to seethe privately and regroup.The premier did Scheer a favour last summer, delaying the scheduled return of the Ontario legislature from Sept. 9 until Oct. 28, one week after the federal election.That was to give the national Conservatives a clean runway in Ontario.Ford’s government also averted a strike this week by 55,000 school support workers, ceding to most of the demands from the Canadian Union of Public Employees to the relief of parents, students, and the federal Tory campaign. For his trouble, Scheer has thanked the premier by refusing to utter his name in speeches, treating it as a four-letter F-bomb even while campaigning 700 metres from his Etobicoke home.Adding insult to injury, the federal Tory leader conscripted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney last weekend to swoop into Ontario for 23 Ford-free campaign events, including in Ford’s riding of Etobicoke North.Four Ford loyalists, speaking confidentially in order to discuss internal conversations, said the premier feels slighted by Scheer, who he invited to be the keynote speaker at the Ontario PC convention last November.“He looks like the black sheep sitting in the corner simply because Scheer doesn’t want to make the narrative about Ford,” said one insider.But another emphasized that if Scheer loses the Oct. 21 election, any Conservative failure to break th ...


 
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