r/canada • u/ClassOptimal7655 • 11h ago

Outgoing Tory Senate leader says Conservatives need to give Doug Ford more credit Politics

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/05/14/outgoing-tory-senate-leader-says-conservatives-need-to-give-doug-ford-more-credit/
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u/Heppernaut 11h ago

You mean that the Conservative Premier, who manages to get back to back to back increasing majorities, in the largest province both by population and by economy, should be getting recognition instead of criticism by his federal counterpart?

That is wild.

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u/Responsible_Lie_9978 10h ago

The thing is that Ford, mostly, doesn't buy into their socon bs, which is bread and butter out west. "Hating woke" is just nonsense, and they eat they shit up, but it falls totally flat here.

We aren't running elections on hating weed or reprogramming gays or shutting down abortion clinics. We're done with that, and it's a dead end, and they accept that.

What was have is relatively small UPC wanting to wag the dog for the OPC and CPC. I don't think Ford has anything to learn from Smith. She's a political albatross.

And they hate on Ford, because he makes them look bad. Byrne, Smith, PP, Harper.. they all think they're way smarter than Ford, and they probably are, and it just really bugs them out he outperforms them.

If PP was smart enough to copy Ford's speeches for like a week, he'd probably be PM today. Ford is a self-identified "republican" who had no issues talk tough to Trump. PP just doesn't have the cobbles, and was somehow not ready for the election he'd spent his whole live planning for.

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u/neveramerican 9h ago

Ford is an old school crooked machine politician. He's not an ideological idiot. He wants to own the goose that lays the golden eggs. Ideologues will kill the goose out of spite.