Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his government had to pull its funding from a planned francophone university, and that Quebec's newly-elected premier understands why. Ford addressed the media after his first meeting with Quebec's new premier, François Legault, on Monday afternoon. Following the closed door talk, Legault said he was "disappointed" with Ford's decision to abolish Ontario's Office of the French Language Services Commissioner and scrap plans for a new francophone university to save money. Legault says he told ford he was ‘disappointed’ with the changes to francophone services in Ontario’s. The premier said the previous Liberal government shouldn't have promised to build the institutions if they didn't have the money.

Source: CBC News November 19, 2018 19:11 UTC