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Scott Stinson: Doug Ford gets closer to the (Liberal) majority he covets

Ford would have been heartened by news that Carney had taken a step closer to majority status by adding Marilyn Gladu to his expanding Liberal tent

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It is easily forgotten, as Donald Trump thunders around the china shop on a daily basis, but the original reason why Doug Ford sought to call an early election last year wasn’t so he could don a Captain Canada hat and strengthen his hand in trade negotiations with a newly antagonistic ally.

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It’s because he was afraid of Pierre Poilievre.

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More to the point, he feared having to run for re-election this year while a Poilievre government — the prospect of which was a stone-cold lock 18 months ago — was in Ottawa. That raised the spectre of Conservative job cuts and austerity talk, plus some culture-war stuff that Ford has studiously tried to avoid, and the potential for shrapnel that might wound a Conservative premier, even one with progressive as a modifier.

That fear, it would turn out, was wildly misplaced. Not only did Poilievre not become prime minister, as the Canadian electorate rushed to the........

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