The NPD of Ontario asks the Commissioner for Integrity and the Ontario elections to investigate a campaign video of the leader of the PC Doug Ford in Washington DC this week, of which games were supported taxpayers’ resources.
The complaint was filed after a new video was published on social networks Thursday morning showing Ford and two progressive conservative candidates walking in Washington DC
The video also included images of an event in the American Chamber of Commerce and meetings with elected officials, which have been paid and organized by the government.
The video, downloaded on Ford’s social media page, ended with the PC Party campaign slogan, Protect Ontario.
The images were deleted several hours after its publication for the first time online on Thursday and re-staked on Ford’s social media account without the campaign slogan.
Ontario NPD leader Marit Stiles Said Ford used “his photo session financed by taxpayers for supporters” and said that she would write both the integrity and elections in Ontario to complain.
“Doug Ford continues to find new and expensive means of eroding our democracy,” wrote Stiles in an article on social networks. “He uses his position to advance his own political objectives first – he does not seek jobs in Ontario. Doug Ford is not on your side.
The PC campaign defended the video in a press release.
“The Prime Minister’s images being the Prime Minister are systematically used in political social content; However, by abundance of caution, the video was republished without a campaign brand, “said a spokesperson.
Ford spent Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to try to convince the Donald Trump Administration to back up prices during a trip that scrambled the boundaries between the campaign leader and the outgoing Prime Minister.
The head of the PC held meetings with several republican and senators congresses, and also attended a cat by the fireside and the reception of networking funded by taxpayers.
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The decision to travel during a election The controversy, with Ontario Liberals, the NPD and the Greens suggest that Ford could use taxpayers’ resources to campaign.
The conservative progressive campaign financed the flights and the Ford hotel, but has not paid all the events while he was there, said a PC spokesperson. The integrity commissioner said that the trip could go ahead given the threat of prices “provided that the activities are not then used for supporters”.
The PC campaign said that the trip was in accordance with the previous previous one and that the other Prime Ministers of Canada had supported Ford’s decision to preside over their group and lead them to Washington.
“The integrity commissioner was not concerned about the Prime Minister’s trip to Washington, DC in his role as Prime Minister and President of the COF,” they said.
“This occurred at a time when Canada faced significant financial challenges that required a full commitment from each province and chief, similar to the pricing threat to which we are faced with the United States.”
The quantity of Ford obtained in its role as Prime Minister of Ontario to DC is not clear.
Ford, as well as the other 12 -ministers in office of Canada, obtained a meeting in the White House with one of Trump’s staff. The event on Wednesday afternoon did not include Trump himself.
When Ford emerged from the event, he said that the Prime Ministers had a “positive conversation” with a “senior official”, but refused to say who.
British Columbia Prime Minister David Eby said the meeting was with deputy chief of staff James Blair and presidential staff Sergio Gor. He said that the two men had agreed to share a message that the Prime Ministers were ready to engage and that Canada would not become the 51st state.
“To be clear, we never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state,” said Blair in a post short time after the meeting. “We only agreed to share the comments of Prime Minister Eby.”
He described the meeting as “pleasant” and repeated a warning that Canada must take Trump “at its nominal value”.
Global News’ Washington office sent questions to the Trump administration last week by asking if Trump was aware of the Ontario elections and if the provincial chief would make a difference in his pricing plans.
The White House did not respond.
Ontario liberal leader Bonnie Crombie Ford’s trip had been a failure.
“It looks like a photo opportunity-I can go up to the White House and take my photo too,” she said. “The only work it has done to protect is his.”
Ford has also met a number of senators and congresses to discuss prices and work with Ontario. The leader of the PC has published images with the representative Rob Wittman, the representative Lisa McClain and Senator Kevin Cramer.
The last two have already shared support for Trump’s pricing strategy.
“I am not an expert but I think that at 10 to 15 (percent) a universal rate works, I think that in many cases, the nations themselves absorbed it,” said Cramer during an appearance February 7 on Fox News.
“What he understands as a business guy, as a negotiator, is the lever effect. As I say to my Canadian friends that I like it, they are our neighbors. I speak to many of them every day, there are 41 million people, we have 341 million people. (Trump) includes this lever effect. »»
Global News sent questions to the three Republicans asking if they still supported prices and if meetings with Ford had changed their minds. They did not respond before the publication.
Ontarians go to the polls on February 27.
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