So Ontario Premier Doug Ford doesn’t want to talk about it?

No one wants another Canadian city to be turned into a parking lot by another group of 'protesters' who confuse liberty with licence, and disagreement with intimidation. Time to dish on what you know, Doug Ford.

When the Emergencies Act inquiry repeatedly asked both Premier Doug Ford, pictured, and his then-Attorney General Sylvia Jones to be interviewed, the answer was no. When they were asked to testify about matters they know more about than anyone else in the Ontario government, they refused. As a result, the inquiry has been forced to issue subpoenas to both Ford and Jones. Think about that, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 31, 2022

HALIFAX—Under his watch, a major city in Ontario was under siege for three weeks. The downtown core of the national capital was paralyzed by “protesters” who wanted to bring down the federal government, without the bother of an election; and Ontario Premier Doug Ford's federal Conservative cou...

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