Just 27 per cent of Ontarians approve of how Doug Ford is doing his job, according to a new poll
The Ford government now trails the Liberals by two percentage points
Well what do you know, it turns out buying (and promptly returning) a $28.9-million private plane was bad for Premier Doug Ford’s brand.
According to a new poll, among decided and leaning voters, the Ford government is trailing the provincial Liberal party by two percentage points.
Thirty-eight per cent of the poll’s 1,000 respondents said they support the Liberals, while 36 said they support the Progressive Conservative party. The poll was conducted by Liaison Strategies last week, after Premier Ford announced he had sold the Challenger 650 jet back to Bombardier at the same price the government paid for it.
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“The trend is always more important than a snapshot and since October, the PCs have been bleeding support, sometimes one point per month, sometimes two,” David Valentin, principal at Liaison Strategies said in a statement accompanying the results.
“While the decay may have been slowed down by government advertising, the jet fiasco has pushed the PCs down even lower, and they now find themselves in second place.”
The poll also found that just 27 per cent of respondents approve of how the premier is doing his job. Sixty-five per cent said they believe the province is “on the wrong track.”
Sixty-five per cent of respondents also said they have little or no confidence in how Ford manages the money of taxpayers. A $28.9-million private plane will do that!
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
