Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership hopeful Doug Ford is coming to Peterborough and Lindsay this Wednesday (February 21).
Ford will host a meet-and-greet from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Carousel Restaurant (116 Lansdowne St. E., Peterborough) and then from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Howard Johnson (354 Lindsay St. S., Lindsay).
The brother of the late former Toronto mayor and a former Toronto city councillor himself, Ford announced on January 31st he would seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and would also seek the PC nomination in Etobicoke North to run for the seat in this year’s Ontario election, to be held on June 7, 2018.
Prior to that announcement, Ford had intended to run as mayor of Toronto in the 2018 municipal election.
The 53-year-old Ford is competing for the leadership with lawyer Caroline Mulroney (daughter of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney), former PC MPP Christine Elliott (widow of former federal and provincial Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty), Catholic school parent advocate Tanya Granic Allen, and former Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader Patrick Brown.
On Monday (February 19), Ford spoke to a crowd of around 400 supporters at a meet-and-greet event in Ottawa.
“You need a principled leader, you need someone with integrity,” Ford said. “I’m the only person that’s going to go down there and clean house. I’ve said it over and over again: I’m cleaning house from top to bottom. The party’s over.”
Members of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party will be voting from March 2nd to 8th for the new leader, with the winner to be announced at a March 10th convention in Toronto.
