Ford's campaign rhetoric takes shape

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HINT, HINT — DOUG FORD offered a preview of what he’ll be talking about on the campaign trail ahead of a possible snap vote next spring.

In a fiery exchange with Opposition Leader MARIT STILES during Wednesday’s Question Period, the Premier said something that sounded an awful lot like the beginnings of a campaign slogan.

“People know life is better in Ontario than it was six years ago.”

That’s why, according to Ford, the PCs are going to wipe out “that row, that row, and that row over there” in the next election, he said, gesturing across the aisle.

Ford went on to say: People “have certainty now, they have jobs now, they’re bringing home a paycheque that they never had before under your left-wing regime of ‘don’t build anything, let’s kill businesses, let’s all go around and hop on our bicycle and go down the crowded streets that are just absolutely insanity right now, on Bloor, on Yonge, on University.’”

“People…