What Doug Ford accomplished on his Washington trip [Video]

When Doug Ford emerged through the security gates surrounding the White House after an hour-long meeting on Wednesday, the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader declined to reveal who he’d actually met. 

“I’m not at liberty to say, to be frank with you,” Ford said as he stood alongside Quebec’s François Legault and Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe, two of 11 Canadian premiers who went to the White House at the end of their two-day mission to Washington. 

Ford described the Trump administration officials in the meeting as “very high-ranking” but refused to name them. Moments after Ford left, British Columbia’s David Eby named them anyway: Trump’s deputy chief of staff James Blair and the director of presidential personnel Sergio Gor. 

Earlier in the day at a news conference, Ford was asked what success would be out of the Washington trip and set a rather high bar with his answer: “What success looks like …