Duck Ford crush the match

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The biggest story that has emerged from the Ontario election is the inability of the opposition parties to gain any meaningful gain against Duck Ford’s progressive conservatives.

Ford Been invited A Snap election in the hope of winning a “strong decree” to protect the province from US President Donald Trump’s payment threats. The NTP of Marit Style, Bonnie Krombi’s liberals and all the greens of Mike Schrener have repeatedly tried to change Ford’s electoral stories, but failed so far.

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A new one Postmade/Doctors referendum This analysis confirmed from February 7-9. According to the survey, 47 percent of the PCs are in front of it, followed by liberals (26 per cent), NTP (17 per cent), greens (six per cent) and a new blue party (two percent).

Fourteen PCs lead the lead in five provincial regions Nanos research. An exception is Toronto, where the liberals have been expelled from a small front (38.5 percent to 37.6 percent). But in all the honesty, if the PCs lose Toronto, it does not make a difference because it has not been a significant factor in the party’s election for many decades.

Of course, things may change before the day of the election on February 27, but it is unlikely that Ontario’s political windmill will suddenly become left.

The Ford’s election strategy seemed unwise at the beginning of the campaign. The famous Prime Minister was in the middle of his second straight majority government. In the 2022 election, he received one of the largest orders Ontario History.

Why does he take the calculated risk to spend Estimated at 9 189 million Can they march behind his plan to deal with Trump’s fees? Well, it seems that his dice pays roll.

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59 percent of Ontarians and 79 per cent PC voters, “Legor discovered” President Trump’s comments on trade fees and his suggestion that Canada became the 51st state. ” In addition, the poll revealed that “Ontarians about Duck Fort have increased by 19 percent since the election began, has increased by 19 percent.

If this trend continues, Ford can get a higher percentage of popular votes than in the last two elections. (He won 40.5 per cent in 2018 and 40.8 per cent in 2022). His party could win more than 79 seats when the Ontario Assembly was dissolved Overtake In 1987, the 95 seats set by former Liberal Prime Minister David Peterson.

How did Ford reach this? He has successfully defended Canada’s interests in this fee war on home and US television networks. He is with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s payment approach Notice He continued to point out that he would reduce energy exports to the United States, saying that this is a “tool in our toolbox.”

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Him too Went to Washington He appeared this week and the American Chamber of Commerce, where Trump praised Trump as “one of the world’s best negotiators”, but also emphasized that Canada and the United States are “strong”.

Although Ford’s main importance is for fees, it does not mean that he has completely ignored other problems that affect Ontario voters. His PC government Assigned 8 1.8 billion per election to connect Ontarions with local primary maintenance providers. He has assured him of $ 2 billion funding for water and wastewater located near new housing projects.

Customs will be removed from the general areas of the Highway 407, and a new highway will be minced under the Highway 401. The provincial gas tax will be 5.7 per cent per liter per liter.

Opposition parties have also published the assortment of propaganda promises. Krombi proposed to eliminate the provincial land transfer tax for home buyers and to eliminate middle -class housing development fees. Style will bring 3,500 new doctors, hire 15,000 nurses and return to the individual part of the Highway 407.

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Nonetheless, most of these promises do not reflect with voters, and some Ontarians may even know what these leaders have actually recommended.

As a true symbol of despair, Chrombi really challenged Ford to compete against him in the gym. “I am happy to challenge him at any time of his ground or at any time of mine.” She said that At a campaign stop on Monday. “My ground the gym, so if he wants to come to me, we will get a match in the gym. Maybe we will do push-ups. What do you think?”

Ford and his group thought that this was an incredibly stupid stunt, like the most sensible Ontarians. It showed that Chrombi was “not a serious leader,” the PC party noted. If she is the best she can come when she gets into the referendum, her politician is cooked.

Stylish and Shrewiner are not the best. In both cases, their political duck has been badly burned, and Ford is undoubtedly aimed at increasing the stove temperature in the last two weeks of the campaign.

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