Ontario Progressive Conservative Chief Doug Ford is beginning the provincial election marketing campaign by specializing in worldwide tariffs, pitching himself as the perfect steward of Ontario’s financial system.
He says he wants the strongest majority in Ontario historical past with the intention to successfully cope with the threatened 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump.
NDP Chief Marit Stiles says Ford will not be the professional deal-maker he makes himself out to be, pointing to a 95-year lease for a spa on Toronto’s waterfront.
Neither Ford nor Stiles made any coverage bulletins immediately, as an alternative specializing in their total pitch to voters on this snap election set for Feb. 27.
Liberal Chief Bonnie Crombie highlighted a promise to make sure everybody in Ontario has a household physician inside 4 years.
Crombie was in Barrie alongside Liberal candidate in Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte, Rose Zacharias, an emergency and household physician in addition to previous president of the Ontario Medical Affiliation. The get together is touting her as certainly one of its star candidates and named her as marketing campaign co-chair.
She is working in a driving the place the Liberal candidate within the 2022 election, former Barrie mayor Jeff Lehman, got here inside just a few hundred votes of besting Doug Downey, who has served because the Progressive Conservative authorities’s legal professional common.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 29, 2025.
Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
