Doug Ford, the Canadian politician loudly contesting Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policy
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The Ontario premier is now a ubiquitous presence on US cable news as he pushes back against US tariffs on Canadian goods while telling Americans that “Canada is not for sale” in the face of Trump’s threat to turn it into the 51st state.
Since Donald Trump began his second term, Canadian politician Doug Ford has become one of the loudest international voices to contest the US president’s “America First” trade policy. The Ontario premier is now a ubiquitous presence on US cable news as he pushes back against US tariffs on Canadian goods while telling Americans that “Canada is not for sale” in the face of Trump’s threat to turn it into the 51st state. Here’s how the leader of Canada’s most populous province became one of the standard bearers of Canada’s response to the Trump administration. Ford comes from a prominent political family in Ontario. His father served in the provincial legislature and his older brother Rob Ford was a colorful figure in Toronto city politics for over a decade. After Rob Ford left his seat on Toronto’s city council when he became mayor in 2010, Doug Ford ran and took his place. Three years into the elder Ford brother’s tenure as mayor of Toronto, however, Rob was caught on video smoking crack cocaine. Though Rob Ford admitted to using the drug, he refused to resign, and the scandal seriously damaged his reputation and derailed his term as mayor. After spending time in drug rehabilitation, Rob Ford managed to return to his old seat on Toronto’s city council in 2014 before his death from cancer in 2016.
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