The progressive conservative party won a third consecutive majority in the voting dominated by trade tensions.
Ford and his Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) was cruised in the third consecutive legislative majority on Thursday after “the largest mandate in the history of Ontario” protect the economy of the most populated province in Canada from Trump Tariffs.
The PC Party won at least 74 seats in the 124-member Legal Assembly ontario and led in seven other neighborhoods from Thursday evening, according to the thermal company of the Canadian broadcasting corporation.
“We will make sure to protect people ontario and protect our families and their jobs and jobs”, “Ford, 60, said for CTV news after his victory.
“I will fight against the teeth and nail against Donald Trump. I’ll promise you that.”
Ford, who has often cited “Canada is not for sale”, and is called the Captain Canada during its election campaign, by voting for more than a year earlier, claiming that it should have a stronger navigation term of potential economic chaos under Trump.
“This will be a battle for the next four years,” Ford said last month as he called the polls. “I want to make sure I have a strong mandate to tender President Trump.”
During his campaign, Ford traveled twice to Washington, DC and gave numerous performances on American networks, such as Fox News and CNN for lobbying on tariffs and position as a Canada spokesman as a whole.
Ford critics examined his decision on the election of the election and prominently that Otawa has primary responsibility for negotiating with Trump Administration.
Earlier this week, he said that they would send a tariff to electricity from the province in the US if Trump continued with trade measures, and then “wait to see what happens there.”
Ontario, surrounding Toronto and home is about 40 percent of the population of Canada of about 40 million people, very dependent on trade with the United States.
More than 80 percent of Ontari’s exports went to the USA in 2023. years, which is the province of the most important in American consumers after the new Brunswick and Albert, according to Scotiabank analysis.
Ontario’s car industry, which is processed for Honda, Toyota, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, was the second largest manufacturer in the world next to the American State Michigan in 2022, according to Invest Ontario.
The province is also at home to one of the largest technological industries in North America, with about 420,000 employees and 22,000 companies involved in the sector, investment agencies.
Trump, who agreed to 30-day breaks on his endangered tariffs on Canada and Mexico regarding border security negotiations, told Thursday that the 25-percent set go into force on 4. March.
Trump, which also suggested that the United States could absorb Canada as their 51st state, has stated the truth social that he had made his decision as a non-fentanil to cross the border at “unacceptable levels.”
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2025-02-28 03:27:00