The Ford factor
Plus: Oosterhoff takes a hard line against a vax pass, Trudeau disses O'Toole while wading into provincial housing territory, Fisman fallout, and Ford spotted up North
Good Wednesday morning. This is Queen’s Park Observer.
ABOVE THE FOLD
— SPOTTED in Thunder Bay: The answer to the question trending on Twitter this week, #WhereIsDougFord: The Premier spent Tuesday touring the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center and the Alstom Thunder Bay Plant with Northern Development Minister GREG RICKFORD.
The Premier has kept a low-profile during this federal campaign summer. Liberal Leader STEVEN DEL DUCA would prefer to see him back at Queen’s Park, to convene a meeting with Opposition leaders and other stakeholders on “clear vaccine mandates and a provincewide vaccine certificate.”
— FORD FACTOR: It only took until Week 2 of the campaign for JUSTIN TRUDEAU to raise the spectre of DOUG FORD — his common foil in the 2019 election — while at a pit stop in the province, where the Liberals need to secure more seats if they want that majority.
Trudeau name-checked Ford when dissing federal Conservative Leader ERIN O’TOOLE