Doug Ford is not Donald Trump. And what links Ford and Trump is arguably more interesting than what sets them apart. Put simply: both Donald Trump and Doug Ford are populists. U.S. President Donald Trump is a populist who hasn't been shy about breaking political norms during his first term in office. On those grounds, Doug Ford is the very definition of a populist, having explicitly positioned himself against the "elites" and "for the people" (there's even a song).

Source: CBC News May 19, 2018 08:01 UTC