Premier Doug Ford wants you to believe that his decision to postpone municipal budget cuts had absolutely nothing to do with successive polls showing a sharp drop in voter support for his party. Meanwhile, the somewhat opaque nature of the Ford government's budget cuts meant that new cuts were being exposed in the news media on a near-daily basis. I've been back up in the polls," Ford replied. "Of course they're motivated by polls, and in this case the polls were a cascade," said Corbett, who runs a Toronto-based communications and polling firm. Both the federal Conservatives and Liberals have seen evidence in their polling that Ford's budget cuts were to some extent dragging down Andrew Scheer's party in Ontario.

Source: CBC News May 28, 2019 07:52 UTC