Published February 13, 2025 at 3:03 pm
Last Updated February 13, 2025 at 3:48 pm
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Ontario’s NDP and Liberal party leaders cried foul Thursday over a trip Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford took to Washington, D.C., in the middle of a snap election he called, saying he’s touting that visit for partisan purposes.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles said she is planning to write to the province’s integrity commissioner to ask him to look into a campaign-style video Ford’s team produced using clips from the trip.
“Ford is in fact using his taxpayer funded Washington photo op for partisan purposes,” Stiles wrote in a social media post. “Doug Ford keeps finding new and expensive ways to erode our democracy.”
Ford and the country’s other premiers travelled to Washington this week to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods. The Progressive Conservatives have said the party paid …