Doug Ford wins Ontario in the voice
The Doug Ford, the conservative prime minister of the most populous province in Canada, Ontario, was re -elected Thursday after a campaign that focused less on standard domestic questions and more when asked who would be best equipped to take over US President Trump in a possible trade war.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projected his victory 10 minutes after the surveys closed.
Mr. Ford, 60, made the point of his campaign to project strength, threatening to take revenge on the proposed Mr. Trump tariffs on Canadian export and promising to reject the energy that the United States buy from Ontario.
Ever since he invited the elections a month ago Trace of campaign to travel to Washington To make the case of why the tariffs would be badly advised.
Ontario, with 16 million people, or about 40 percent of Canada’s population, is home to some of the main industries in the country, including cars, production and technology. The tariffs would cause a deep painful blow to the province, including significant job losses.
Before voting on Thursday, polling stations Consistently showed the political opponents of Mr. Ford – Bonnie Combie of the Liberal Party and Marit Stiles from the new Democratic Party, whose policy put on to the left of the liberal – following it with a two -core number.
“What happens south of the border is to take up more attention from people perhaps what is happening in Ontario,” contributing “somewhat uninteresting elections,” said Daniel Rubenson, a political science professor at the Metropolitan University of Toronto.
By further release of some drama, three candidates agreed on the main issues, said John Beebe, founder of the same university democratic engagement, organizing the focused on the participation of the voters. This policy agreement included the need to increase the number of family doctors, the construction of transit networks and lower costs for the construction of houses.
“There is a wide consensus about what questions are and I think it’s really hard to say to the average voter,” Ok, who has a better plan? “Mr. Beebe said.
Although Mr. Ford’s party, a progressive conservative party in Ontario, has already ordered most of the place in the provincial legislative body, Mr. Ford called early elections – more than a year before the scheduled date in June 2026 – because he said that foreigners needed a “powerful term” of voters to fight against Mr. Trump’s tariff.
Mr. Ford’s opponents questioned the time of choice on Thursday, noting that if the tariff imposed, they would support additional consumption in order to cope with any economic pain caused by levies, making early elections unnecessary.
They also pointed out that the Federal Government would be the main negotiating party with the administration of Mr. Trump, not Ontario, although Mr. Ford could take some retaliation.
Tariffs could cost Ontario as many as 500,000 jobs, said Mr. Ford, especially in the auto industry of the province, where Production is so intertwined with the United States These parts of the car can cross the border several times a day during the assembly.
Mr. Trump said he plans to apply 25 percent of tariffs to Canadian exports unless Canada strengthens his border security. Mr. Trump and Canada agreed on a 30-day return, which should expire on Tuesday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to adopt different steps to determine the border.
Mr. Ford was first elected in 2018, winning the majority government after 15 years of the Liberal Party’s reign. He ran on a platform that focused on lowering taxes and the development of industries, such as mining in the northern part of the province.
The son of a businessman who was also a provincial politician went through his party policy with marketing as a candidate for the fight against establishment, and during his first prime ministerial campaign he compared with Mr. Trump.
Before he became Ontario leader, Mr. Ford served as a city councilor in Toronto, where his brother Rob Ford was the mayor who attracted International notority After admitting he used crack cocaine. He died in 2016.
Some critics have called into question Mr. Ford with developers.
A plan to open a protected area of agricultural area, forests and wetlands around Toronto, known as greenbeltDevelopment is under investigation by provincial police.
But with his victory on Thursday, it seemed clear that his basic message echoed with the Voters of the Province.
“These elections are talking about who we are and what we are committed to,” Mr. Ford Ua said addenying Mr. Trump’s threats to Canada. “So let me be clear: Canada will never be 51. The state. Canada is not for sale.”