The narrative shifts

Trump who?

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We may be at a turning point in the campaign that PC rivals are hoping for.

DOUG FORD has hinged this early election on DONALD TRUMP and the on-again-off-again threat of tariffs. But now that the levies are on pause, the theme is shifting — and the NDP and Liberals are talking more about the frontrunner PCs’ record on housing, health care and cost-of-living in the hopes of gaining steam with voters.

To wit: At his Thursday newser in Waterloo, Ford was asked about the latest Greenbelt drama, rural health care, transit projects, municipal funding and land expropriation — you know, things that are actually within provincial purview. No questions (of the six that reporters were granted) were about tariffs, which are on the backburner for now, undermining Ford’s rationale for calling an early election.

But Ford is trekking to Washington next week along with his fellow first ministers, so expect the PCs to keep the issue alive. They’ll shift the narrative from tariffs specifica…