The message has gone out that this week’s fundraiser for the Progressive Conservatives featuring Premier Doug Ford is a command performance, Martin Regg Cohn writes. You can’t look the little people in the eye, or the big donors in the pocketbook, while charging $1,250 for a plate of wet noodles. Which is why Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are primed for a prime rib upgrade — or whatever’s on the menu for their posh fundraiser Wednesday night. Never mind that Ford quietly attended a $250-a-plate cash-for-access party fundraiser that wasn’t on his public itinerary, contravening the law and forcing the party to return the donations when discovered. Ford promised to do things differently, and indeed he did — by undoing Ontario’s campaign finance reform, so that the premier could do it his way.

Source: thestar February 25, 2019 23:03 UTC