Committee hardball, polling pain, garage gambit

And a cross-partisan love-in

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POLL WATCH — Premier DOUG FORD has hit an all-time low.

That’s the upshot from the latest survey from the Angus Reid Institute, which puts his approval rating at 21 per cent — his worst level since first taking office and a brutal ten-point slide since March. Countrywide, he’s at the bottom of the Premiers’ pack.

The obvious drag on his numbers is the jet fiasco, but the not-so-obvious issue runs much deeper: Ford’s moves have chipped away at the man-of-the-people brand he’s created for himself, and coupled with FOI carve-outs and the cellphone records fight, it’s wearing his government’s political capital thin.

It’s been “a quarter marked by both economic pressure and self-inflicted wounds.”

“His government has continued to frame its agenda around protecting Ontario from U.S. tariffs, but that message has competed with a budget that is projecting years of deficits, as well as persistent affordability and health-care challenges. Mos…