Doug Ford will run for Ontario PCs if election called
Posted April 3, 2013 1:06 pm.
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Toronto Coun. Doug Ford says he will run for Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party if Premier Kathleen Wynne calls an election this spring.
“I’m calling her out,” the mayor’s brother said Wednesday morning on The John Oakley Show on AM 640. “Call an election, Kathleen Wynne, in May and I will run. I will guarantee it and we will defeat you.”
Ford is the councillor for Ward 2 Etobicoke North and has said he’d run as an MPP in that riding, now held by Liberal Shafiq Qaadri.
Ford called Wynne’s proposed revenue tools to pay for transit “a tax on top of a tax” in an interview with CityNews.
“This province has to get back in shape, get the fiscal foundation going in the right direction like we have in Toronto, rather than constantly going back to the taxpayers of this province and continuously asking for tax increases,” he said.
“I support Tim Hudak and I think he’d be an incredible leader.”
Wynne has said she hopes to find common ground with the NDP and PCs in her government’s spring budget and avoid an election.
The Ford brothers’ father, the late Doug Ford Sr., served as an MPP under former premier Mike Harris from 1995-1999.
