“They seemed to have a pretty tumultuous relationship, but Kinga certainly spent as much time as she could with him, and with Doug Ford,” says Milczyn, now a Liberal MPP. Surma’s campaign manager is a senior policy adviser to the Tory chief, and she twice stumped for Doug Holyday, a city council ally of late mayor Rob Ford, Doug’s brother. The candidate herself and Massoudi could not be reached Friday, and Tory campaign representatives did not comment. “She’s quite political.”Surma ran for the Tory nomination in Etobicoke Centre in late 2016, a relatively late challenger to PC stalwart and lawyer Pina Martino. “What prompted (she and Ford) to co-operate and to seek that nomination, I have no idea,” he said.

Source: National Post May 25, 2018 23:48 UTC