The Ben Mulroney Show - The results are clear. The people trust Doug Ford to bring the fight to Donald Trump

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

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Doug Ford asked for a third mandate, a strong mandate, as he said, to go toe to toe against Donald Trump over the course of Donald Trump's entire four-year term. And that's exactly what he got yesterday. At dissolution of the last parliament, he got, he had 77 seats. He received 80 seats yesterday. He got over 2.1 million votes. The liberals who did not have official official party status for two consecutive elections, indeed now find themselves with official party status,

14 seats, I think official party status is 12. However, Bonnie Cromby, the leader of the Ontario liberals still finds herself on the outside looking in. The, a positive note, like The, a positive note, like could be a positive note is she received, her party received 30% of the vote, 30% of the popular vote. She got 1.5 million votes.

Despite that, she's still in third place. The vote of the Ontario Liberals is so spread out across the province that it didn't translate into enough votes in any particular writings to generate more seats. The exact opposite can be said about the NDP. Yes, they lost, I think, five seats. Yes, they lost a number of votes. They only got 931,000 votes, but they still find themselves with 26 seats in Queens Park. So think about that. The liberals get one and a half million votes, get 14 seats. The NDP, 931,

and get 26 seats, 12 more seats. Mike Schreiner finds himself with a small rump of two seats, Mike Schreiner finds himself with a small rump of two seats, same as he had before dissolution, and the one independent rounds out Queens Park. Here's what Doug Ford said after winning his third consecutive majority. Now as we stare down the thread of Donald Trump's tariffs, I will continue to do just that. I will work with every level of government and every political stripe. Because fighting back against Donald Trump, standing up for Canada, it will take a full Team Ontario effort. It will take a full Team Canada effort. Doug Ford said a lot of stuff in his acceptance speech yesterday that I really liked.

He recognized that his opponents are not opponents to Canada. He said each and every one of them love Canada, love Ontario, and fought for their vision of this province and this country. And we need to hear more of that from every politician. I am so sick and tired of politicians offering up an alternate version of what they think Canada should be and being told you are less than, you are not Canadian, you're less than I am, your vision is not Canadian,

you don't stand for Canadian values. F off, I don't have time for you. Shame on you. That is divisive. It is pigheaded. It is destructive. It is toxic. It is corrosive.

And I'm very glad that Doug Ford took the highest of high roads when he said that. But he wanted this mandate claiming, he said he wanted it because of the Trump of it all. So he continued down the Trump road. Donald Trump thinks he can break us. He thinks he can divide and conquer, pit region against region. Donald Trump doesn't know what we know.

He is underestimating us. He is underestimating the resilience of the Canadian people, the Canadian spirit. Make no mistake, Canada won't start a fight with the U.S., but you better believe we're ready to win one. And yeah, so that's what he ran on. And he got what he wanted. He got what he needed. Marit Stiles, this was her first election leading the NDP into an election and she acquitted herself very well. She will be Doug Ford's counterpoint in the House of Commons

as the leader of the official opposition. And just as I said, Doug Ford took the highest of high roads. So too did Marit Stiles. Listen to what she had to say, essentially in response to him, because she came on after him. I am congratulating tonight Premier Ford on his victory. I really do want to offer him any possible help that we can provide in the face of the threat of Donald Trump.

The threat is real. And I deeply believe that we can overcome it with a strong Team Ontario and a strong Team Canada approach. They echoed each other. He said, we need to work together. She said, we will work with you. And given the fact that everything that we need to accomplish as a province depends on how we deal with Donald Trump, meaning our economy will either be destroyed

or we will be resilient because of the steps that we take as a government and as a legislature. Given that everything depends on dealing with that threat, that means that so many good things beyond dealing with just the threat of Donald Trump himself can come from these two parties working together. If we wanna fund our hospitals and our schools, we wanna build houses, all of that depends on dealing with Donald Trump.

And my hope is if they work well together, We want to build houses. All of that depends on dealing with Donald Trump. And my hope is if they work well together, they will find common cause on other things as well. It may be naive of me, but you don't wake up every day assuming tomorrow is going to be worse than today. And if we heard that on election night, here's hoping they have the courage of their convictions and they mean what they say, because I think a lot of Canadians,

a lot of Ontarians would feel very good about seeing the blue and the orange working together for all of Ontario. That is my hope. And then Bonnie Crombie is on the outside looking in. Again, she has yet to have a seat in the uh... in the legislature uh... but she was looking for the silver lining yes they got thirty seats uh... yes it three percent of vote and now they have official party status

so here's what she had to say people counted us out they said the ontario liberal party. Tonight, you proved them wrong. Yeah, I don't know. She also said that she was going to continue on as the leader. I don't know if that's necessarily true. What I believe is yesterday was not the time to rain on your own parade. Take the wins that you got and don't say, and yeah, we won all this stuff and we did so much better. However, I don't know what I'm gonna do yet.

I don't know if I'm gonna be leader or even worse, I think I'm stepping down. I think that is a conversation that she will have with her team, with the party, with her family, and then decide. But last night, I think she had to say that so that to keep whatever little wind in the Liberal Party's sails there were. And so that's the whatever little wind in the Liberal Party sales there were.

And so that's the lay of the land. The day after the election coming up, I want to hear from you, your reaction to the Ontario election results next on the Ben Mulroney show. Welcome back to the Ben Mulroney show. Last night was the Ontario election. We've got another a third consecutive progressive conservative majority. The first time since the 1950s in this province. And so the question is being put to you, the voter.

Are you happy with last night's results? Did you go out and vote? Looks like the number of people voted was around 38 percent of registered voters took time out to cast their ballots. Do you trust this government to follow up on their promises, which is the one campaign promise that you are most looking forward to them achieving? So give us a call 416-870-6400 or 1-888-225-TALK. Andrew, welcome to the Ben Mulroney Show.

Morning, Ben. Morning. Yes. So status quo makes sense. Because as I was saying to your screener, you had one leader and two pretenders. I was not happy at all when I think it was on Greg Brady's show that Bonnie Crombie basically told Donald Trump to, you know what? Yeah, I know what you mean. She used the F, well, she didn't use the F word, but she implied it.

And it's, yeah, that's not, I think every one of us wants to say that to him, but that doesn't help us get to where we need to go. Exactly, no leader would say that at the day before they're about to be elected or not elected. And for her now for her to say, I'm going to stay on. Well, what is she going to do? Stand outside Parliament and talk? I don't know. How is she going to do her business? Well, Andrew, you make a good point because I believe that the liberals are in a tricky position. I mean, with 14 seats, that's a very small,

let's call it, like they're barely official party status and they've elected a lot of new MPs. And so what is the option? Is Bonnie gonna ask one of these young new MPs to step aside so that she can run in their seat with no guarantee that she will win? And then they dropped down to 13 and she doesn't have a seat. Or does she wait for somebody else

for another vacancy at some point? What if that is not a strong liberal area of the province? So there's a lot of, so how long is she gonna be on the outside looking in? And as I've said many times, leaders belong in Queens Park. The people who are on the outside who complain are journalists and protesters. And she is neither.

She has been granted the right to seek a seat and she should have sought a seat a long time ago. So this is a very tricky position for her to be in. I wanna thank you for your call. Welcome, Rick, welcome to the show. Hey, Ben. Yeah, I think, yeah, she didn't show any grace in her speech at the very end.

I mean, not even to congratulate Doug. And there again, there she was, almost anointed, just like Mr. Carney is going to be. And look what happened. But I think Doug Ford did a great job. Now he's there for four more years. He might have, you know, I am not a fan of calling early election, but I see his point in that. Now he's got four full years,

you know, to go after Trump, well not go after Trump, try to work with Trump, and we'll see what happens there. Yeah, well, no, and look, there is an argument to be made that we now know that we have the consistency in the province of Ontario that there will be one government in office for the duration of his term. So that should give people confidence, a certain type of confidence. You know, for those people out there

who are trying to beat the drum, that he gambled and lost and didn't win the strong mandate that he wanted. That's nonsense. He has three more seats now than he had at dissolution, which is when he asked for the strong mandate. So he ended up getting more seats than when he asked for it. His percentage of the vote increased as well.

One of the two parties that opposes him is leaderless in the house. So by any metric, he got exactly what he wanted. And anybody who suggests, oh my God, well, you know, he should be disappointed. Are you kidding me? He's a progressive conservative leader who just won a third consecutive crushing majority. Anybody who suggests otherwise is asking you to be an idiot. And so I really don't have time for

that. But thank you. Oh, we got a lot of calls. So let's jump right into the next one. Frank, what say you about the election? I'm really happy with the outcome. I'm glad that Ford won and I believe he's going to have success in his mandate. What I think Ontarians have come to realize and recognize clearly is that given that Ontario is the manufacturing hub of Canada, if we don't succeed in Ontario, there won't be success in other provinces. So I think what Ford is going to do and what I believe Polyamory should do, they should work together to come up with some changes to the corporate tax rates, which will be

material in helping Ford achieve its mandate and benefit Canada all through all the provinces. Yeah, look, if the general voting public across the country decides that Pierre Polly and the Conservative government is, or the Conservative party deserves government, then I do hope that there is a very good working relationship between Queen's Park and Parliament Hill because I think we'll have an opportunity to do what Pierre wants to do. Pierre wants, has said, he wants to be the freest country in the world,

meaning he wants you to be free to open a business. He wants you to be free to travel. He wants you to be free to spend money. He wants you to be free to do all the things that generate tax revenue, if you will. And if he can have an analog at Queens Park who feels the same way, then they can both lower taxes simultaneously.

There is only one taxpayer, right? It's you, it's me. And so if one level lowers income tax, for example, or corporate taxes, and the other level raises them, then it's a push and it doesn't help anybody. So I do hope that we align for four years and we're able to see what can be accomplished with responsible conservative governments at both levels.

But that's just my own personal opinion. I don't expect everybody else to believe that. Let's welcome to the show, Mark. Good morning, Mark. Good morning, Ben. Love your show. Love your take on everything. So I'm glad you're on the radio now. Thank you very much.

So my take is actually something that no one is talking about pretty much over the whole campaign. Now, he knew he was going to win. He called the snap election because he knew he was going to win. He wouldn't do it otherwise. Now, what I haven't heard is how we're going to tackle affordability in the province in terms of insurance. Our

insurance rates in this province are insane. And the only reason why I'm bringing it up today is because I got my renewal and I almost, I almost fell over. And when I called my insurance company, their only justification is rates have gone up because of auto thefts and everything is more expensive to replace, yada, yada, y yada they're not regulated by the province so i'd like to know if the province can regulate insurance companies specifically auto insurance because we do pay some of the highest premiums in the world how can he make our life more affordable because like toronto's taxes have gone up the last three years in a row our insurance rates have never come down i cannot remember the the last time that my insurance renewal

actually showed a decrease in the premium and I've had no tickets, clean records, no accidents. Mark, I tell you what we're going to do. I tell you what we're going to do. That's a very good question. I'm looking at my producer, George, right now. And the next time that we have the premier on the phone or on our show, we will make sure that we ask a question about insurance and what the province can do to solve the problem that you just brought up. Thank you so much. That would be, I'm sure, helpful for us. I appreciate it.

Thank you very much. All right. Let's say hi to Nathan. Nathan, what did you think of last night? Oh, I'm happy with the result. To be honest with you, I'm quite happy about it. I think it was, it was, it was what we thought it would be, to be honest with you, anybody who thought that, you know, the NDP or the liberals were going to win this one is out to lunch. Well, Nathan, Nathan, I will push back a little bit because I think you're right. We all knew who was going to win.

But when I heard when I saw that Bonnie Cromby was pushing, was nearing 30% of the popular vote, there is no part of me that thought that that vote was so diluted and spread out across the province that it was going to lead to only 14 seats. Well, I yeah, fair, fair. I'm thrilled. I'm I'm a resident of Mississauga. Bonnie cram Bonnie Cromby was voted in to be the mayor of Mississauga by the people of Mississauga given trust. And she said, thank you very much and promptly walked away from the job at the first at the next best in her mind, the next best offer. I think it was disingenuous. It was elitist and she gets her just desserts. She can not be on the outside looking in. I hope she disappears and nobody remembers her name in five years.

Tell me how you really think Nathan. Thanks so much. Who do we have now? Hey, Kenny, welcome to the Ben Mulroney Show. Hi, I'm kind of happy that Ford won. I'm not happy that liberals have official party status. I wish they would have just disappeared into the nothingness. And I got a message for Karina Gould. I'm going to Florida. I want to ship a nice big sack of oranges and a case of orange juice to wherever she is. Karina Gould is in Florida? No, I said I'm going to Florida. She said we should avoid going to Florida and don't buy oranges and orange juice in Florida. Well, I'd like to ship her a nice big sack of oranges and a taste the freshly squeezed orange juice. Well listen, listen, you know, when politicians say stuff like that, it's gonna elicit the ire of a certain type of person.

I want to thank you for telling us your unvarnished truth. Andrew, your last call before the break. Hey Ben, fan of the show, you get me through my morning commutes every day, so thank you. Oh I'm glad, thank you. First and foremost, congrats to your sister. She represents our riding in York Simcoe very well. And I know she's going to do a great job moving forward these next four years. I'm glad. I'm glad that you said that.

I'm glad that you feel that way about her, because I know how hard she works and I know how how much that riding means to her. Yeah. And more so, we already know what Doug Port's going to do and everything. But I want to turn my going to do and everything, but I want to turn my attention to the Liberal Party because as much as Bonnie Karami seems to think that last night was a win, it was another devastating loss in my opinion. And in all honesty, I think she needs to go. I think she needs to step down and I'm sure she will because there will be other ambitions

for her to go after. And honestly, this is what my message would be is to Mike Shriner, leave the Green Party. It's time for you to take over the Liberal Party. You represent yourself well at Queen's Park and you could represent the Liberal Party in such a better way than anybody else has ever had in the last decade plus. Andrew, Andrew, you've just set up my next segment very well. I want to thank you for your call. Daniel Blanchard is no ordinary thief.

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