Doug Ford sucks up to the Liberals because he is a Liberal
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Summary
When given an opportunity to say something nice about a Liberal leader, Doug Ford punts. Why? Because he doesn t know who he likes better, Mark Carney or Justin Trudeau. And why not? Doug Ford has been a Liberal for years.
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It shouldn't surprise you that Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford has been kissing up to the Liberals for years now.
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And that's because Doug Ford himself is a Liberal.
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I don't know how people don't see this. I was talking about it heavily during the Ontario Provincial election.
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But at every opportunity that Doug Ford has, he always sides with or gushes over Liberals while also ignoring other Conservative allies.
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In fact, at times, even kicking them in the shins almost out of pure spite.
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You may have seen this news report clip a couple weeks back when Mark Carney was first elected as the new Liberal Party leader.
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And Doug Ford went on American television to talk about how much of a smart guy he is.
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You guys are going through a transition in leadership as well. You're about to have a new Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
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Have you spoken to him since he won? And where do you expect him to take this fight?
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Well, I spoke to him yesterday. He's a very bright individual. He understands finances like no other person.
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And we need to sit down, which we will tomorrow. We're going to have breakfast tomorrow morning.
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Has Doug Ford ever said anything nice about a Conservative, like an actual Conservative in Canada?
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He's, in fact, antagonizing people like Alberta Conservative Premier Danielle Smith.
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And when given the opportunity by a reporter in the Ontario legislature to say whether or not he likes Pierre Polyev or Mark Carney more,
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he basically just punts without even saying a nice thing about Polyev.
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He's only said nice things about Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau, and now Mark Carney.
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And even when explicitly given the opportunity to prove that he is not, in fact, a Liberal and can side with Conservatives sometimes,
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or even to say something mildly nice, no, he punts because, hmm, doesn't really want to say anything about Polyev.
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Do you think you have a better relationship with Mark Carney or Pierre Polyev?
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I don't know either one of them, to be very frank.
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It's such a stupid answer because everybody knows who he likes better.
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Because given an opportunity to say something nice about a Liberal, he takes it.
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And he has dodged for years saying anything about Conservatives.
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He effectively didn't ever do any campaigning or even say something nice about Andrew Scheer when he was a leader.
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but it wasn't for principled reasons that O'Toole was too much of a Liberal for Doug Ford.
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In fact, for Doug Ford, O'Toole was probably still not Liberal enough.
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And then he goes on posting long soliloquies about how much he is confident in Mark Carney.
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And you could say all this is a generic, of course he's going to say that he's the Ontario Premier and Mark Carney is the Prime Minister.
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The problem is, again, the man himself has governed to the left.
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He runs bigger deficits and has accumulated more debt in his short period of time than Kathleen Wynne did when she was the Premier,
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even when you remove COVID spending from the formula.
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Now I want to highlight this statement made by my friend and the MLA for Chestermere Strathmore, Chantal DeYoung,
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noting that Doug Ford has been basically playing fast and loose with Alberta's oil and gas resources,
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basically pretending like he has the power to turn off the taps to the US
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to fight his overly aggressive war on trade with the United States that he just doesn't have the capacity to win
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because he's been so bad for the Ontario economy.
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And now he thinks he can borrow into the Alberta economy to fight the battles that he is helping perpetuate.
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Hey, Honourable Member for Chestermere Strathmore.
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Mr. Speaker, since its inception, Alberta has always had to defend itself against outside forces.
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From before provincehood, people have looked greedily upon the resources and wealth of our province
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Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, when Alberta became a province, said,
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We desire, and all Canadian patriots desire, that the great trade of the prairies
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shall go to enrich our people to the east, to build up our factories and our places of work
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If Ottawa had its way, we would exist only to enrich the east,
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with our wealth forever redirected without fair compensation or respect for our autonomy.
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We owe much to Frederick Haltain, who fought tirelessly for our sovereignty.
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Even if this meant challenging the political currents of the time, Haltain was our defiant champion.
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Time and time again, Albertans have faced attempts by eastern elites to leverage our resources for their own gain,
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peaking with the national energy program in the 80s,
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devastating lives and livelihoods in the name of making Alberta do its part for Team Canada.
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So when the Premier of Ontario tells us to implement export taxes on our oil as a trump card in the trade war with the US,
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something he won't do for automobiles, it comes as no surprise to us.
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Mr. Speaker, Albertans will make these decisions about our own resources, not a politician in the east.
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Great statement there. I don't need to play any more of it because I believe it cuts over to another minister
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answering a question as like, you know, an add on to what Chantel says,
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because obviously people in the same parties will sometimes still ask a question to a minister
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But yeah, Doug Ford around every corner has acted like a liberal elite in the east.
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The man has never done anything that makes me think,
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oh, look at him thumbing his nose at the federal liberals.
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He goes in with the federal liberals on every single green boondoggle he can find.
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He added his new swearing in for his new government that he effectively fraudulently got
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from calling a snap election while nobody was prepared
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and not having an election actually based on his merits.
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He specifically invited along disgraced former finance minister,
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Chrystia Freeland, who I guess is the minister of transportation now.
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And it's funny how her and Ford keep saying gushingly nice things about each other.
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He calls her one of the most competent people or one of the most competent ministers he's ever met.
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And here's her at the swearing in talking about the great relationship that they have.
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It's important to see a strong partnership between the federal government and Ontario.
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And, you know, specifically, I had a great cup of coffee with the premier yesterday.
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He struggled a little bit working his coffee machine.
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I'm excited to be the minister for inter-percential trade.
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And that's something premier Ford and I discussed yesterday.
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Sometimes there's a thing everyone knows is a good idea and do it.
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And I'm excited that this is that moment for Canada and inter-percential trade.
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Premier Ford has a strong mandate from the people of Ontario.
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And I think today is, I'm glad to be here to show the partnership between the federal and provincial governments.
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Why is she so bright and sunny if he's not a liberal?
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You think that she would be like, yes, I'm here to work with him.
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I think he's been, you know, maybe doing a decent job on this stuff.
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It's like this very smiley, faulty smile that we have a great relationship.
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Oh, I was over at his house and he was struggling to make coffee.
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And it sounds like they are flat out just knowing that the provincial progressive conservatives
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are effectively the liberals on the provincial level.
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Crombie may be a liberal, but what's really the difference between Bonnie Crombie and Doug Ford?
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I couldn't tell you that much significantly different between the two of them or the three of them
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And again, you could say maybe that's all boilerplate stuff.
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Maybe Christy Freeland always talks like this about different politicians.
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No, but does she usually take selfies with them like this?
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Is she usually this wanting to be associated with Doug Ford?
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even if let's say he's personal friends with Freeland,
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you know, they used to be on a bowling team together.
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They're like blood brothers and sisters because they fought in some war we didn't know about together.
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You should know that a lot of Canadians, especially conservatives,
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don't like Freeland and not for frivolous reasons.
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For the reasons of absolutely demolishing Canada's economy as finance minister.
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Technically, that's mostly Mark Carney's fault as the financial advisor over the past five years.
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But wait, Ford was in favor of all that stuff too.
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In fact, he backed the bank account freezes during the Freedom Convoy
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and then even revoked, I believe it was like a hundred or maybe at least a few dozen
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trucking licenses because they had even tangentially participated in the Freedom Convoy
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because, in fact, Doug Ford is a left-wing progressive authoritarian when it comes to his governing style.
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He's never lowered taxes, even in the provincial election.
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He's so pathetic that this big coup was that I've never raised taxes since I got in,
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He implemented his own industrial carbon tax on top of the consumer and federal industrial carbon taxes.
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But even then, even if it wasn't, okay, he's never raised income taxes and corporate taxes.
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Yeah, because I'm not sure if you've ever seen Ontario's tax system.
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If they raise taxes in Ontario, the income taxes, by even half a percent,
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you would see a mass exodus to other provinces or down to the United States.
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So Doug Ford proudly puffing out his chest and saying,
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I've never raised taxes, is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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Because once they pump up taxes enough, they can't do it anymore.
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Even David Eby hasn't raised taxes, technically,
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because they're already at the maximum in British Columbia.
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But, again, this is why I was telling people the provincial election,
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and a lot of people didn't believe me because they're like,
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if we don't vote for the Doug Ford PCs, then the liberals or the NDP are going to get in.
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They just have a slightly different style than the liberals,
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but the general guidelines they base their policy on is the exact same.
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In fact, they even voted in favor of the PC party under Doug Ford.
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They voted in favor of an NDP bill to insert anti-racism,
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And I'm supposed to be like, well, if it was Crombie in charge,
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to get something that is, in theory, maybe like 2% better than the liberals,
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I don't think corrupting the main vehicle of conservatism in Ontario
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was a good idea to get this silly child in as the premier.
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you've got to check out the new blue party of Ontario
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because they haven't done everything I've wanted.
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Their problem is the Ford PCs haven't done anything
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to achieve the promises that the Ford PCs made back in 2018
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They will kick people out who are troublemakers.
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Just maintaining the power that Doug Ford and his inner circle have
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and not giving up any power to grassroots at all.
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So yeah, check out the new blue party of Ontario.
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I'm going to link their website in the description below