The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Ontario PCs fall hard in polls after Ford hot mic moment and trade war cancelled

00:00:00.000 Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to have put himself in a very precarious position.

00:00:05.740 He made the gamble that having an early election and justifying it with Trump bad

00:00:12.240 was going to allow his PC party to easily cruise to another majority government,

00:00:17.640 and that doesn't look to be true anymore.

00:00:20.540 I made a polling analysis video about four to five days ago

00:00:24.200 going over Doug Ford's chances of being re-elected,

00:00:27.620 and back then, I concluded that very likely he was going to get another majority government,

00:00:33.640 and in fact, it could be bigger than his 2022 majority.

00:00:38.100 Now that the election issues have changed,

00:00:41.240 there's not going to be a trade war anymore,

00:00:43.220 and Doug Ford got caught on a hot mic,

00:00:46.020 things are kind of starting to reverse.

00:00:48.360 Let's just do a bit of a review and look over the first three days of the campaign

00:00:52.480 with Main Street's tracking poll.

00:00:54.180 Then I want to look at days seven, eight, and nine.

00:00:59.060 Here was day one, and I like to use the charts this early in a campaign that include the undecideds,

00:01:05.320 because where they split or how many undecided people there are really tells you how the race is going.

00:01:11.220 So day one, PCs are at 32%,

00:01:14.000 the Ontario Liberals and Crombrie are at 24%,

00:01:17.140 and the NDP and Stiles are at 19%.

00:01:20.080 Jump to day two, you have the PCs still at 32%,

00:01:24.960 the Liberals at 24%,

00:01:27.680 and the NDP at 18%.

00:01:30.260 Day three, now what you see where I was starting to conclude,

00:01:34.600 this looks like an Ontario PC race and nobody else's,

00:01:38.680 because the PCs had jumped up from their 32% to a 35%,

00:01:42.220 the Ontario Liberals had fallen to 23%,

00:01:45.060 and the NDP had fallen significantly from day one from 19 points to 16%.

00:01:51.040 Everything was looking really good for Doug Ford,

00:01:54.520 including on day seven, which was a day after the entire trade war was called off.

00:02:02.380 On day seven, the man was at 38%.

00:02:05.700 The Ontario Liberals, 25%,

00:02:08.020 it makes sense that they were going to expand a little bit,

00:02:10.280 because they're clearly the main opposition to Ford in this election,

00:02:14.700 and the NDP was all the way down at 14 points.

00:02:19.120 It gets really bad after that,

00:02:20.680 but maybe before I get into these other stats,

00:02:23.520 these days eight and nine where things start to reverse,

00:02:26.580 I want to highlight this from day eight,

00:02:28.920 that kind of flavors why a lot of people might not be voting Doug Ford anymore.

00:02:33.540 The question of this poll is,

00:02:36.300 do you support or oppose the early election call?

00:02:39.200 Unfortunately, Main Street seems to have stopped collecting this data on day nine

00:02:43.940 that I just looked at today,

00:02:45.340 but I remember looking at these stats earlier on the election,

00:02:49.960 and it was kind of 50-50 whether people supported the early election or not.

00:02:54.300 As people become less undecided on this,

00:02:57.260 it has basically become a 60-40 if not more than that of a prospect.

00:03:03.900 Here, we have 44% of people somewhat or very strongly supporting the early election,

00:03:09.960 but 55% of people somewhat opposing or strongly opposing the election.

00:03:15.660 Obviously, Ford can still win with 42% of the vote

00:03:19.080 if we assume that 42% was on his side,

00:03:22.380 but the problem is it might not be.

00:03:24.300 Some of the people who support the election might actually be from the opposition parties

00:03:28.260 because they want to take a swing at the government whenever they can.

00:03:32.180 And a lot of people who might be ticked off might be PC voters saying,

00:03:35.360 hey, Doug, you had a big majority.

00:03:37.620 Why did you tear that up a year and a half early and force us back to the polls?

00:03:42.500 And before I move forward now into day eight and nine,

00:03:45.660 I just want to mention to you guys,

00:03:47.660 Doug Ford's basically a liberal.

00:03:49.700 He is so liberal that Bonnie Crombie and the liberals,

00:03:52.380 while they're not conservatives by any means,

00:03:55.180 they are arguing that Ford is the one who was more like Justin Trudeau's liberals than they are.

00:04:01.060 Again, they're not conservative, but that's their argument,

00:04:04.280 that we're liberals, but we're not Trudeau liberals,

00:04:06.600 and in fact, Ford is more of a Trudeau liberal than we are.

00:04:10.040 It's very telling, and they're not just saying that.

00:04:12.740 Doug Ford is basically a federal liberal,

00:04:14.980 and I just want to put it out there, guys.

00:04:17.460 If you live in Ontario,

00:04:19.220 please consider voting for the new blue party of Ontario.

00:04:22.760 Basically, if you're a federal conservative,

00:04:25.020 the new blue party of Ontario's views will map on to yours like one-to-one.

00:04:29.780 You know, they're a generally socially conservative,

00:04:31.860 fiscally conservative party.

00:04:33.720 Their entire pitch is basically,

00:04:35.880 how about we actually fulfill the promises the PC party made back in 2018,

00:04:39.840 and so they started a new party vehicle to do that sort of stuff.

00:04:44.000 Anyways, so now I want to move on to day eight and nine,

00:04:47.220 and then I want to get into the hot mic moment

00:04:49.520 that requires a lot of context for, of course, why it ticks people off,

00:04:53.940 as well as why is Ford a liar in more ways than one.

00:04:58.220 Anyway, so here on day eight,

00:05:01.040 things start to reverse a little bit,

00:05:03.580 because as we saw day seven,

00:05:05.340 on day seven, or maybe I didn't show day seven,

00:05:07.560 on day seven, Doug Ford's at 38%,

00:05:10.380 Liberals 25%, NDP 14%.

00:05:12.520 No, I did show this.

00:05:13.660 Now we go to day eight.

00:05:15.540 Ontario PCs under four are 32,

00:05:19.440 the Ontario Liberals are at 23,

00:05:21.860 and the NDP is at 15.

00:05:23.940 Notice how the undecideds went from 14.

00:05:27.340 This was technically the trade war

00:05:29.420 and the hot mic moment happened on day five and six,

00:05:32.440 although news cycles in Canada take a while to catch up.

00:05:35.440 Sometimes you don't have news reports on things until like a day later,

00:05:39.300 and so usually there's going to be a bit of a lag.

00:05:41.760 But that's significant.

00:05:43.240 From day seven, you have 14% of people undecided.

00:05:45.940 Today, you have 22% of people undecided.

00:05:48.800 And you can see that pound of flesh in terms of support

00:05:51.880 mostly comes out of the Ontario PCs.

00:05:54.780 They lose six points overnight.

00:05:57.760 And, well, maybe day nine,

00:05:59.340 people get a little bit less ticked off.

00:06:01.400 No, not really.

00:06:04.100 Day nine undecideds go down,

00:06:06.120 but Ontario PC support also goes down.

00:06:08.960 They are down to 30% with the Liberals at 24

00:06:13.460 and the NDP at 18.

00:06:17.100 That's not very good at all.

00:06:19.200 This is very much getting into death territory

00:06:22.040 for the Ontario PC party,

00:06:24.120 and they deserve it.

00:06:25.340 What have they actually done in office?

00:06:26.980 They're very, very liberal

00:06:28.340 in terms of everything they do that's pro-business

00:06:31.220 is like what Trudeau and Carney would do

00:06:34.020 that's pro-business.

00:06:35.100 So anyone who's like supporting them

00:06:36.520 and saying, well, they're the more pro-business party.

00:06:38.340 No, they're not.

00:06:39.060 They're the subsidy party.

00:06:40.940 But I want to get into this hot mic moment

00:06:42.500 because I know that the Ontario PCs

00:06:44.400 have been throwing tons of mud

00:06:45.800 at Bonnie Crombead.

00:06:48.200 And does she deserve it? 0.64

00:06:49.380 Definitely.

00:06:50.140 She's also not a very good politician. 1.00

00:06:52.240 But that is to say that Ford and her equally suck, 1.00

00:06:54.980 but Ford's supposed to be the one who shouldn't suck 0.99

00:06:57.060 because he is the progressive conservative leader. 0.95

00:07:00.900 And yet he basically only acts progressive.

00:07:03.480 But this is the thing.

00:07:04.600 On top of the fact that the entire election is now moot,

00:07:07.880 the purpose of it is moot

00:07:09.480 because there's no longer a trade war.

00:07:12.140 You can't have all these protect Ontario signs around you,

00:07:14.840 protect Ontario workers, protect Ontario business.

00:07:17.740 At the same time, there's really nothing to protect them from.

00:07:21.360 And in fact, Ford was even steering Canada

00:07:23.860 into a trade war because he thought it was good

00:07:26.040 for his re-election chances.

00:07:28.920 That by having Trump tariff us,

00:07:31.500 that would make him seem like a strong man,

00:07:34.180 even though unlike Danielle Smith,

00:07:36.180 he wasn't doing anything to protect the border

00:07:37.800 to actually protect Ontarians from a trade war.

00:07:41.460 But check out this news report from, I believe, Global.

00:07:43.740 It was a candid moment caught on camera Monday.

00:07:50.800 Yeah, and so this is Doug Ford saying

00:07:56.460 basically that he was very happy

00:07:58.800 that Donald Trump was elected on election day

00:08:03.000 in November of 2024.

00:08:05.200 But now, oh, I can't believe he turned on us

00:08:07.680 and like did this to us.

00:08:09.640 One, by the way, do you actually think Doug Ford was happy

00:08:14.060 that Donald Trump won?

00:08:15.420 The man endorsed Tim Walz.

00:08:17.920 The man, as soon as Tim Walz was picked

00:08:19.900 as Kamala Harris's vice presidential candidate, 0.99

00:08:22.780 talked about how like great it was

00:08:25.120 to see that Tim was going to be on the ticket.

00:08:27.600 He's a great fellow and a great guy.

00:08:30.060 Like he just, the only thing he didn't do was endorse,

00:08:33.260 which you don't really do

00:08:34.320 because you're a Canadian politician.

00:08:35.880 But he did everything short of full on endorsing him.

00:08:38.840 But he's trying to basically assure

00:08:41.580 sort of blue collar conservatives that,

00:08:44.300 oh yeah, I know I like Trump.

00:08:45.760 I just can't believe he yanked us

00:08:47.360 with this whole tariff situation.

00:08:49.720 Like, what are you talking about?

00:08:51.460 One, we know you didn't support Trump.

00:08:53.520 Two, like you were,

00:08:55.480 you've been positioning yourself

00:08:56.700 as the anti-Trump guy

00:08:58.140 and you've been not complying

00:08:59.700 with any of the stuff around border security. 0.96

00:09:01.720 You're complete fraud.

00:09:03.160 But then he was caught on something else 0.97

00:09:05.100 because he said like the opposite

00:09:06.200 five seconds before he reassured people.

00:09:08.400 Well, no, no, no.

00:09:09.220 I'm a really big Trump guy.

00:09:11.640 That came just moments

00:09:13.460 after Doug Ford had denounced Donald Trump.

00:09:16.600 Do you can still consider yourself a Trump supporter?

00:09:18.800 Absolutely not.

00:09:19.940 It's been a disaster.

00:09:21.580 I'd never support that guy in my entire life.

00:09:24.140 The hot mic comment

00:09:25.220 immediately became campaign fodder.

00:09:28.140 Yeah, and it's going to go into

00:09:29.540 NDP leader Merritt Stiles

00:09:31.100 and Bonnie Crombie

00:09:33.060 and those two are the most boring people on the planet.

00:09:34.960 Frankly, every time I see a photo

00:09:37.220 of Merritt Stiles and Bonnie Crombie,

00:09:39.000 I don't know who it is.

00:09:40.440 I'd have to like put a,

00:09:41.840 like a, like a Sharpie mark on one of them

00:09:43.860 to keep them straight if I was in the same room. 0.86

00:09:46.220 It's silly.

00:09:47.700 Anyway, so yeah,

00:09:49.000 this is not going very well for Doug Ford

00:09:51.720 and neither should it be doing,

00:09:53.620 going well.

00:09:54.480 Again, go check out the new blue party of Ontario.

00:09:57.880 Consider voting for them.

00:09:58.860 Consider running for the new blue party of Ontario.

00:10:00.940 If you don't have a candidate in your riding,

00:10:03.640 they're going for a full slate of 124 candidates.

00:10:06.740 But I want to take you through

00:10:07.760 a little bit of the detail right now

00:10:09.640 in the latest poll on day nine

00:10:11.160 of who is feeling trepidation.

00:10:15.220 This is where I'm also going to say

00:10:17.240 Doug Ford is very much a liberal

00:10:19.120 in the sense that the disproportionate amount

00:10:22.080 of his vote comes from,

00:10:23.540 and obviously if you're an older voter

00:10:25.920 and you watch my show,

00:10:26.940 you're obviously a very conservative person.

00:10:28.840 But he gets most of his strength

00:10:30.660 from the 65 plus crowd.

00:10:33.040 His disproportionate support

00:10:34.340 comes from that group.

00:10:35.860 When that is actually much more

00:10:37.460 of the federal liberal voting demographic.

00:10:40.120 When I go through

00:10:41.200 the Doug Ford voting demographics,

00:10:43.500 it kind of lines up very closely

00:10:45.760 with the type of people voting for Justin Trudeau.

00:10:49.320 Older pensioners 1.00

00:10:50.480 and people with graduate degrees

00:10:52.580 or like university degrees and whatnot.

00:10:55.380 People who really don't care all that much

00:10:58.700 when it comes to not,

00:11:00.960 and this isn't to say older,

00:11:02.140 it's just that that's the disproportionate group

00:11:03.920 where you get a lot of people

00:11:04.780 who are pensioners.

00:11:06.400 They vote progressive

00:11:07.100 because it sounds nice

00:11:08.960 and they don't work in the economy anyway,

00:11:10.680 so they don't care about how it affects it.

00:11:12.560 And that's really what you see with Doug Ford.

00:11:14.580 People in younger age groups

00:11:16.220 are like really when it comes to his government.

00:11:20.680 And the thing that he's losing,

00:11:22.360 again, is the 35 to 49 crowd

00:11:24.480 and the 18 to 34.

00:11:26.020 That is where there are more than a quarter of people

00:11:28.240 who are currently undecided.

00:11:30.840 And so with Ford calling an early election,

00:11:34.620 it's the winner

00:11:35.280 and a lot of people are going to resent

00:11:36.860 going out and voting.

00:11:38.100 He has put himself in a position

00:11:39.440 where the swing against him

00:11:41.060 could be really bad.

00:11:42.700 In fact, he used to have a 40% with men

00:11:46.620 and now it's down to 34%.

00:11:48.480 He's already behind on women 1.00

00:11:50.600 and that was a big reverse again from the start

00:11:53.240 where he was actually ahead

00:11:54.180 with all the different groups.

00:11:56.940 And right now,

00:11:58.140 and this is what really like is insane,

00:12:01.560 he still has a little bit of a lead.

00:12:04.600 It's Southwest and Northern Ontario.

00:12:07.060 And the thing that bothers me the most

00:12:08.660 is the Northern Ontario thing

00:12:10.080 because this guy ripped up

00:12:12.080 the Elon Musk Starlink deal

00:12:14.620 to get better internet service

00:12:16.720 for Northern Ontarians.

00:12:18.100 So the people most neglected by the government

00:12:20.400 got their internet deal torn up.

00:12:23.040 And by the way,

00:12:23.760 he tried to tape it up

00:12:24.880 after the entire like the scuffle

00:12:29.980 with the Americans during the tariff war.

00:12:32.160 He for some reason put that on the table

00:12:33.940 as if it mattered

00:12:34.820 that he was going to rip up the Starlink deal

00:12:37.120 to tick off Elon Musk

00:12:38.460 because Elon Musk works for Trump

00:12:40.500 in some capacity.

00:12:42.620 Elon then said,

00:12:44.240 okay, fair enough.

00:12:44.980 We'll put it back together.

00:12:45.860 Fair enough.

00:12:46.480 Water under the bridge.

00:12:47.760 And then Doug Ford said this

00:12:49.220 because he's still trying to be tough.

00:12:50.960 He says,

00:12:51.640 probably in response

00:12:52.620 to the hot mic moment

00:12:53.520 seemed even more anti-Trump in response.

00:12:56.240 The people didn't care

00:12:56.940 if he was pro-Trump or anti-Trump,

00:12:58.340 although I always knew he was anti-Trump.

00:13:00.520 At the same,

00:13:01.040 people just didn't like the inconsistency,

00:13:03.300 the obvious lying.

00:13:04.140 And now he says,

00:13:05.260 I can't support someone hell-bent

00:13:06.800 on destroying our province.

00:13:08.500 Ford tells CNN

00:13:09.320 he remains prepared

00:13:10.520 to rip up the deal

00:13:11.780 with Elon Musk. 0.69

00:13:14.740 Doug Ford's such a putz.

00:13:16.020 Why are you ripping this up? 0.92

00:13:18.460 Why are you threatening to?

00:13:20.040 Basically, you're saying,

00:13:21.160 I will threaten you

00:13:22.360 by not letting

00:13:23.220 Northern Ontarians

00:13:24.200 on the internet

00:13:24.960 to really irk you.

00:13:27.220 I am prepared 0.98

00:13:28.160 to irk you

00:13:29.040 pretty hard there, Elon.

00:13:30.880 And to do it,

00:13:31.860 I'm going to keep 0.98

00:13:32.820 kicking the Ontarians 1.00

00:13:34.560 in the face 0.99

00:13:35.140 who get kicked 0.97

00:13:36.060 in the face the most.

00:13:37.420 The people who are

00:13:38.060 constantly neglected

00:13:39.140 in the northern part

00:13:40.660 of the province,

00:13:41.360 even though you have

00:13:42.300 extremely important industries

00:13:44.160 up there

00:13:44.680 that you should probably

00:13:45.880 not be taking people

00:13:47.020 off around.

00:13:48.000 If you live

00:13:48.700 in northern Ontario,

00:13:50.000 like if you live

00:13:50.680 in any other part

00:13:52.420 of Ontario,

00:13:53.500 please vote for

00:13:54.020 the new blue party.

00:13:54.900 Again, I'll link them

00:13:55.640 in the description below.

00:13:57.120 Check out if you have a candidate.

00:13:58.320 If you do not,

00:13:59.340 please consider running

00:14:00.140 for them.

00:14:01.240 These guys do not deserve

00:14:02.200 to be re-elected.

00:14:03.420 I'm not saying,

00:14:04.240 oh, well,

00:14:05.120 the Ontario Liberals

00:14:06.120 should get elected,

00:14:06.840 the Ontario NDP

00:14:07.760 or the Greens

00:14:08.340 should get elected.

00:14:09.340 No, no, no.

00:14:10.020 The whole point is 1.00

00:14:10.560 they all suck. 1.00

00:14:11.560 And there needs to be 1.00

00:14:12.440 probably a new force

00:14:13.800 in politics

00:14:14.440 being built up

00:14:15.260 in that province

00:14:15.920 that's actually conservative.

00:14:18.160 And I've said this before.

00:14:19.220 This is not like

00:14:19.880 the PPC is more conservative

00:14:21.820 than the conservative party,

00:14:23.380 so you can't vote

00:14:24.080 federal conservative.

00:14:25.600 The federal conservatives

00:14:26.720 with pure poly

00:14:27.480 are very conservative.

00:14:28.960 They are increasingly

00:14:30.180 becoming more conservative

00:14:31.380 over time.

00:14:32.480 That should be rewarded.

00:14:34.020 I don't like purity testing.

00:14:35.720 I am not purity testing

00:14:37.300 Doug Ford.

00:14:38.240 He has gone in 1.00

00:14:39.040 on every stupid subsidy, 1.00

00:14:41.040 boondoggle, 1.00

00:14:41.820 green energy,

00:14:42.440 groondoggle

00:14:43.080 with the federal Liberals.

00:14:44.600 He went in with them

00:14:46.020 with lockdowns,

00:14:47.260 with mandates.

00:14:48.160 There are still mandates

00:14:49.800 on nurses and doctors

00:14:51.040 in Ontario.

00:14:52.400 And even though

00:14:53.820 they still have

00:14:54.400 the best wait times

00:14:55.460 in Canada,

00:14:56.740 which is really just

00:14:57.660 because of the fact

00:14:58.980 that it's the biggest province

00:14:59.900 and a lot of people

00:15:00.600 want to live in it,

00:15:02.120 they are starting

00:15:02.920 to have wait times

00:15:04.360 that are looking

00:15:04.940 like the rest of Canada

00:15:06.040 when it comes to healthcare.

00:15:07.580 And this isn't like a,

00:15:08.820 Ford isn't funding

00:15:10.120 the healthcare system enough

00:15:11.300 like the Liberals

00:15:12.060 and the NDP will say.

00:15:13.880 Ford funds it heavily.

00:15:15.560 He funds it in the same way

00:15:16.660 that any lefty

00:15:18.040 would fund it,

00:15:18.720 just dump money into it

00:15:19.820 and be inefficient.

00:15:21.380 But it's the fact

00:15:22.500 that he had basically

00:15:23.340 undermined nurses

00:15:24.300 and doctors

00:15:24.980 that is causing them

00:15:26.620 to have a shortage

00:15:28.200 of people,

00:15:29.320 like hands on deck,

00:15:30.240 of beds.

00:15:31.020 It's the same problem

00:15:31.940 that David Eby caused

00:15:33.200 in British Columbia.

00:15:34.620 You fire a bunch

00:15:35.320 of nurses and doctors

00:15:36.280 and you don't bring

00:15:37.280 them back

00:15:37.660 and when you kind

00:15:38.340 of start bringing

00:15:38.880 them back,

00:15:39.700 it's like you still

00:15:41.440 make them jump

00:15:41.980 through 50 hoops

00:15:42.780 and they don't trust you

00:15:43.640 so they're not going

00:15:44.160 to do it

00:15:44.460 and they go down south

00:15:45.320 or they go to

00:15:46.160 another province.

00:15:47.280 If anything,

00:15:47.880 Alberta has actually

00:15:48.940 benefited a lot

00:15:49.780 from the incompetence

00:15:50.960 of David Eby

00:15:51.660 in British Columbia

00:15:52.660 and Doug Ford

00:15:53.760 in Ontario

00:15:54.260 because we are getting

00:15:55.100 more nurses 0.86

00:15:55.680 and doctors every day.

00:15:57.340 Still not great wait times,

00:15:58.720 but that's the Canadian

00:15:59.460 healthcare system for you.

00:16:01.300 But yeah,

00:16:02.160 right now,

00:16:02.920 Doug Ford is in a position

00:16:04.020 where he could falter

00:16:05.100 really hard right now.

00:16:06.940 If an election was held today,

00:16:08.620 probably doesn't win it

00:16:09.680 and if anything,

00:16:10.360 it would be the ideal scenario.

00:16:11.680 It'd be a hung parliament

00:16:12.620 and nothing's going

00:16:13.340 to get done

00:16:13.940 because that is all

00:16:15.620 we can really hope for

00:16:16.500 in a place like Ontario

00:16:17.560 that they don't do anything

00:16:19.660 because every time

00:16:20.440 these politicians do stuff,

00:16:21.880 your taxes go up,

00:16:23.240 services become poorer quality

00:16:25.000 and corruption increases.

00:16:27.040 That's another thing

00:16:27.740 going on with Ford.

00:16:28.840 They had a corruption scandal

00:16:29.880 where staff members

00:16:31.060 were basically acting

00:16:32.160 as lobbyists

00:16:32.900 for their friends

00:16:33.620 to get them

00:16:34.400 new land acquisitions.

00:16:36.300 The thing is,

00:16:36.840 I don't like the Greenbelt.

00:16:38.360 It's overly large

00:16:39.360 and it's overly restrictive

00:16:40.640 on house building

00:16:41.460 and it's basically

00:16:42.180 just an arbitrary line

00:16:43.400 where you can't build.

00:16:44.640 There's nothing outside

00:16:45.980 of the Greenbelt

00:16:47.000 even further

00:16:47.700 that's unlike the Greenbelt.

00:16:49.220 It's not the rainforest.

00:16:50.800 And I actually support

00:16:51.960 selling off some of the land

00:16:53.100 for development.

00:16:54.240 The problem is,

00:16:54.840 even when Ford does that,

00:16:56.280 he always does it

00:16:56.780 for the wrong reasons

00:16:57.660 and starts trying to sell

00:16:58.720 the land to his friends.

00:17:00.660 When he wants to privatize

00:17:02.040 the LCBO,

00:17:02.900 which I generally support.

00:17:04.320 In Alberta,

00:17:05.280 we mostly have private liquor stores.

00:17:07.440 Far better,

00:17:08.080 far better for the economy,

00:17:09.560 everything.

00:17:11.040 The LCBO,

00:17:12.120 even when he starts

00:17:12.900 talking about privatizing it,

00:17:14.340 he starts basically

00:17:15.220 lining up friends of his

00:17:16.400 to be on the board

00:17:17.060 to get first dibs

00:17:18.060 to buy it.

00:17:18.820 Did you know

00:17:19.740 that he gave

00:17:20.780 the Toronto Star

00:17:22.120 the first online

00:17:24.040 gambling license

00:17:25.080 in Ontario?

00:17:26.420 Tor Star,

00:17:27.060 that left-wing rag,

00:17:28.480 was about to go out

00:17:29.800 of business.

00:17:30.940 And maybe to get

00:17:31.700 better media coverage,

00:17:33.340 Doug Ford organized

00:17:34.440 with their lobbying group

00:17:35.660 to give them

00:17:36.680 an online gambling license.

00:17:38.160 So now the Toronto Star

00:17:39.280 is fully funded

00:17:40.000 by gambling addicts

00:17:41.340 because Doug Ford

00:17:42.320 is such a principled man.

00:17:44.180 He is not.

00:17:45.100 I am being very sarcastic.

00:17:47.160 Anyways,

00:17:48.020 that should be it

00:17:48.720 for me today, guys.

00:17:50.200 I'll see you

00:17:50.920 in another video.

00:17:51.540 I need to cover

00:17:52.080 this ongoing election

00:17:53.380 interference issue

00:17:54.580 in British Columbia.

00:17:55.760 It's crazy.

00:17:56.360 People are signing affidavits

00:17:57.800 that they're being

00:17:58.340 threatened at this point.

00:17:59.780 I'll be covering

00:18:00.300 the Ontario election more.

00:18:01.720 I, in fact,

00:18:02.380 will be probably flying out

00:18:03.620 to Kitchener, Cambridge

00:18:05.060 to do door knocking

00:18:06.140 on the 20th.

00:18:07.840 So I'll try and do

00:18:08.540 like a big spurt

00:18:09.560 of like five days

00:18:10.680 straight of door knocking.

00:18:12.320 So I put my money

00:18:12.960 where my mouth is.

00:18:13.740 I might be an Albertan,

00:18:14.600 but I will be coming

00:18:15.320 to show up

00:18:15.880 to support

00:18:16.760 the new Blue Party.

00:18:18.600 But again,

00:18:19.220 other than that,

00:18:20.180 that's it for me today, guys.

00:18:21.380 Make sure to like the video,

00:18:22.500 subscribe,

00:18:23.120 check out the new Blue Party,

00:18:24.380 and leave a comment

00:18:25.560 on anything you want me

00:18:27.260 to, you know,

00:18:28.160 talk about next time

00:18:29.440 or that you noticed

00:18:30.440 about the topic.

00:18:31.620 Anyways, see ya.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 07, 2025

Ontario PCs fall hard in polls after Ford hot mic moment and trade war cancelled

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