Queen's Park Observer

Queen's Park Observer

Queen's Park hits a boiling point

And SSW drama

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Sabrina Nanji
May 06, 2026
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THE GLOVES ARE OFF

The temperature at Queen’s Park is rising.

NDP Leader MARIT STILES refused to apologize for suggesting DOUG FORD could one day face prison time over the Greenbelt scandal — and the Premier is accusing her of going full Trump mode.

He said: prison talk crosses the line. She said: That’s rich from a government under RCMP investigation.

The Trumpian charge is especially spicy because Ford has faced versions of that accusation himself for years — he regularly bashes the media, plays into the us-versus-them routine, once likened then-Oppo leader ANDREA HORWATH to “nails on a chalkboard” and did nothing to stop “lock her up” chants about ex-Premier KATHLEEN WYNNE at his election rallies in 2018.

Hot heckles: Government House Leader STEVE CLARK also flipped the script under questioning from NDP Leader MARIT STILES in the morning’s debate, accusing her of invoking “dangerous American-style Trumpian rhetoric that, quite frankly, has no place in this Legislature.”

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