God Bless you Doug Ford

[Boges]

While Mark Carney is in the bullpen getting ready for whatever he's going to do. 

Canada's premiere is speaking for the ENTIRE country. 

 

[ironstone]

1 hour ago, Boges said:

While Mark Carney is in the bullpen getting ready for whatever he's going to do. 

Canada's premiere is speaking for the ENTIRE country. 

 

Isn't he the guy that said he'll turn off the power to some states 'with a smile on my face!' ?

He's backed down from that incredibly stupid comment, but this man has an ego. I wish our Premier's were like Danielle Smith.

[August1991]

On this, I have to agree.

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I'll stop hitting my head with hammer if you stop doing the same.

[WestCanMan]

How do Ontarians feel about this now?

Hasn't CBC managed to destroy his popularity yet?

[I am Groot]

[CdnFox]

It's pretty obvious to most observers that what Doug Ford would like to see happen is poilievre lose this election, get kicked out and then ford will run to lead the conservative party and become the next prime minister.

The guy is a slime bag. 

[SpankyMcFarland]

On 4/13/2025 at 9:21 PM, CdnFox said:

It's pretty obvious to most observers that what Doug Ford would like to see happen is poilievre lose this election, get kicked out and then ford will run to lead the conservative party and become the next prime minister.

The guy is a slime bag. 

Wouldn’t Ford struggle to unite federal Tories behind him if he went for the post after this? Plus many Tories don’t consider Ford a Conservative. It is weird to air such divisions in a campaign. One would expect silence from one’s enemies in the party if they can’t bring themselves to support the leader. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/sometimes-the-truth-hurts-ford-defends-campaign-manager-who-criticized-poilievre/

 

 

 

[CdnFox]

7 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Wouldn’t Ford struggle to unite federal Tories behind him if he went for the post after this?

 

Yes and no. First off you have to remember that leadership conventions are not the same as an election, there are many different rules and internal politics plays a heavier role. He certainly wouldn't be a shoe in but depending on how he managed things he could have a very strong chance. And if he feels he can always go back to being premier. There's no law that says he has to renounce that in order to run federally

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Plus many Tories don’t consider Ford a Conservative. It is weird to air such divisions in a campaign. One would expect silence from one’s enemies in the party if they can’t bring themselves to support the leader. 

I'm sure the pitch will be obviously we need to move closer to the center and Doug ford is used to winning, the only way we have any chance of winning is doug ford who can bring us Ontario. Ontario is the world and if we don't win there nothing else matters so if you want to ever beat the liberals you have to go with Doug Ford.

And it's not without a tiny bit of truth. Ford is strong in Ontario and could probably mobilize a significant portion of it to vote for him especially right now after he's been fighting trump, despite the fact that he hasn't actually been beating trump. He's benefiting from the same glow carney is.

So he would also pick up a lot of right-leaning liberals. All those millions of liberals who swear to god they would have voted conservative if only we'd elected Mike Chong as leader (yeah right) will at least consider ford, or so the theory will go. 

He cannot be seen too aggressively be working against Poilievre which is why he sent out his attack dog but the simple fact of the matter is it's pretty obvious to anybody who's watching that he is Itching to see Poilievre fail

[August1991]

Nationalism has many forms.

I am surprised when people in Ontario don't see it. 

[August1991]

Let me repeat: Ontario is NOT Canada.

Or as "you people" would now say, Southern Ontario is not Toronto.

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