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Scott Stinson: As Ottawa asks provinces to end U.S. liquor bans, Captain Canada goes silent

Doug Ford has wanted to fight back against Trump's tactics for months. Is he going rogue or falling in line?

In just about every public appearance he has made over the last few months, Doug Ford has expressed his displeasure with Donald Trump.

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Often it comes as an aside to his scripted remarks, as when the Ontario premier, while recently mentioning the importance of trust in a trade relationship, veered off to say that he didn’t “trust Trump as far as I could throw him.” Or, when saying how much he generally likes Americans, he’ll pause and say, “I’ll tell ya, there’s one guy down there I don’t like too much.”

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Sometimes his complaints have been a bit more measured. At last month’s first ministers’ meeting in Charlottetown, after the U.S. president threatened to impose 50 per cent tariffs on certain Canadian goods, Ford said his fellow premiers “should be a little more........

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