Ford praises Carney after late-night fireside chats at Muskoka cottage
CBC
It may not be the sunny ways government, but some premiers certainly seem to be feeling sunny about the future.
And that's despite troubled trade negotiations with the United States and the worsening effects of that country's tariffs on Canadian businesses.
Still, provincial premiers have nary seemed so cheerful about their own relationships to each other — and the federal government.
"First off, isn't it great? Like, these are such important relationships for Canadians and we're all kind of binding together and spending time together," said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston in response to a question about what has been achieved in the three meetings premiers have so far held together since Mark Carney became prime minister.
Premiers typically get together about once a year, and even more rarely with the prime minister present.
Houston was speaking in Huntsville, Ont., where Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been hosting this year's premiers' meeting, which Carney attended on Tuesday.
Both Houston and Ford — two conservative leaders — heaped praise on Carney in news conferences at the cottage country gathering.
Houston listed the passage of Bill C-5, Carney's internal trade and major projects legislation aimed at creating "one Canadian economy," as one of the accomplishments achieved thanks in part to better relations with and between Canadian first ministers.
But perhaps most notable was Ford's near soliloquy about the night Carney spent at his cottage.
Just as Ford was preparing to wrap up a news conference held with Quebec Premier François Legault, a reporter shouted a question about Carney's dinner invitation to Ford's Muskoka home on Monday.
"Full disclosure, the prime minister stayed up at my place," Ford said. "We had dinner, we were up 'til 12:30 at night, chattin' in front of the fireplace, solving all the world's problems."
Legault, seemingly amused, leaned into the microphone to interrupt Ford: "A very nice, small chalet," he said.
"Yeah, yeah I have a little shack up — down the street, there," Ford said.
Undeterred, he continued.
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