{"id":234942,"date":"2019-10-18T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234942"},"modified":"2019-10-18T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T04:30:11","slug":"premier-ford-says-he-wont-be-drawn-into-federal-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/18\/premier-ford-says-he-wont-be-drawn-into-federal-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Ford says he won&#8217;t be drawn into federal election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231032\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70872847_2391459507641666_7793362508147851264_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231032\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70872847_2391459507641666_7793362508147851264_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70872847_2391459507641666_7793362508147851264_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70872847_2391459507641666_7793362508147851264_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70872847_2391459507641666_7793362508147851264_n-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ford made the comments in Kenora, Ont., during only his second media availability since the campaign began in September. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FordNationDougFord\/photos\/a.640294379424863\/2391459500975000\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FordNationDougFord\/\">FordNation\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KENORA, Ont. &#8212; Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he won&#8217;t be drawn into the federal election despite being the subject of frequent attacks from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>Ford made the comments in Kenora, Ont., during only his second media availability since the campaign began in September.<\/p>\n<p>The premier says he&#8217;s been too busy governing to campaign on behalf of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who has rarely mentioned Ford&#8217;s name during his own events.<\/p>\n<p>Ford was in Kenora to announce funding for local infrastructure aimed at improving road safety.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial legislature was initially meant to return from its summer break early last month, but Ford extended the recess until after the Oct. 21 federal election.<\/p>\n<p>His name has nonetheless come up frequently throughout the campaign, with Trudeau suggesting Ford and Scheer are cut from the same cloth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you want to see me scrap it out with the feds,\u201d Ford told reporters. \u201cI&#8217;m just not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ford, whose Progressive Conservatives won a majority last year, has seen his popularity plummet since then.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau, seizing on those sinking figures, has repeatedly invoked Ford&#8217;s name and policy decisions when warning of the potential consequences of a Conservative election win.<\/p>\n<p>Ford&#8217;s government has launched several attacks against Trudeau and taken the federal government to court over its national carbon tax plan. The premier declined to respond to Trudeau&#8217;s attacks, making a quip instead about the notoriously antagonistic relationship between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the guy loves me or something, because he constantly mentions my name,\u201d Ford said of Trudeau. \u201cBut that&#8217;s politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 16, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENORA, Ont. &#8212; Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he won&#8217;t be drawn into the federal election despite being the subject &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":231032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234943,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234942\/revisions\/234943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}