Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford won the provincial election in Ontario. The defenestration of the late drug-addled Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, has been squared by the election of his brother Doug as premier of Canada’s largest province. What the election did not signal was a wholesale transplant of Trumpian populism to Canada. Doug Ford is an unconventional politician, but he is not entirely apart from the current form of Canadian conservatism. Kenney spent years attending banquets and building personal relationships with diverse immigrant groups, focusing on the fight for conservative values.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2018 18:00 UTC