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Aug 10, 2026
Far Left
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is negotiating a new health accord and housing deal with Ottawa, while pushing more private surgical clinics.
Ford's private clinic expansion and doctor bonus rebates are the exact two-tier health care direction the NDP has campaigned against for decades, so Singh is singling him out.
Aug 9, 2026
Far Left
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing backlash after hospitals lost $2.2bn in day-to-day funds and job cuts made hallway medicine worse.
NDP/Green supporters blame Ford for breaking his promise to end hallway medicine and for imposing austerity on public health care.
Aug 7, 2026
Far Right
He promised $50 million for border patrol helicopters and joined other premiers in Washington for tariff talks.
PPC says Ford's spending is pre-election theater and that his government would never confront the U.S. or enforce true border sovereignty.
Aug 6, 2026
Far Right
Ford pledged $50 million in Ontario funds for border patrol helicopters in response to U.S. tariff pressure.
The PPC says it is telling that a province has to bankroll border security that is supposed to be Ottawa's constitutional job.
Aug 6, 2026
Lean Right
His relationship with Mark Carney is showing strains, according to a National Post column by Kelly McParland.
Conservative supporters want Ford to resist Liberal federal encroachment, even as his alliance with Carney weakens his conservative credibility.
Aug 6, 2026
Far Left
Ontario's premier is waging public fights with Ottawa over carbon pricing and energy infrastructure.
He personifies the provincial right's obstruction of climate policy, and NDP/Green media point to him as proof that federalism can be used to gut national standards.
Aug 4, 2026
Lean Right
Ontario Premier Ford is urged by Noah Jarvis to block the Liberal high-speed rail project in his province.
Conservatives want Ford to stand firm against federal spending and defend property owners from expropriation for a rail boondoggle.
Aug 3, 2026
Lean Left
Ontario's premier is central to the move toward small modular reactors that require foreign uranium enrichment and fabrication.
Liberals often view Ford's nuclear push as a provincial business play that undermines Canada's historical energy independence and federal climate leadership.
Aug 1, 2026
Far Right
Announced $50 million in patrol helicopters to guard Ontario's border during the U.S. tariff dispute.
He gets credit for acting on border security while Trudeau and the federal Liberals stall, though his PC government is still part of the old consensus.
Jul 29, 2026
Far Right
Pledged $50 million for border patrol helicopters as part of Ontario's response to Trump's tariffs.
Seen as acting unilaterally to address a federal failure, but People's Party questions the cost and effectiveness of this provincial spending.