Doug Ford promised to ‘Get It Done’ last election. How did he do? [Video]

With Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives seeking re-election on a slogan of “Protect Ontario,” it’s worth examining whether they made good on their last campaign slogan: “Get It Done.” 

The Ontario PC campaign promises in 2022 focused largely on building, in particular housing, hospitals, highways, transit and long-term care homes. 

A promise-tracking project run by a group of Canadian universities assesses that Ford’s government kept or was “in progress” of keeping the bulk of the party’s 2022 promises when he called a snap election with more than 15 months left in his mandate. 

“Overall I would say it’s a relatively good performance,” said Geneviève Tellier, a political scientist at the University of Ottawa, in an interview.

Peter Graefe, a political scientist at McMaster University, says while Ford may have acted on many of his specific promises, it’s questionable whether those actions actually solved the bigger problems they were supposed to address. 

Here’s a detailed look at what Ford’s PC …