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Gaming out the post-Ford universe

🇨🇦 PROGRAMMING NOTE: This will be the last newsletter until Friday — I’m taking off for Canada Day and the next day (it’s my birthday!). Here’s hoping the powers-that-be gift me a relatively quiet news day.

Premier DOUG FORD is in Utah playing Captain Canada — something that works for him politically amid sagging poll numbers and boos back home. But first: Here’s who y’all think should carry the torch post-Ford.

Of course, the Premier says he isn’t going anywhere and insists his less-than-stellar polling numbers aren’t enough to knock him and the PCs off their pedestal. Still, that hasn’t stopped the speculation about who could take up the mantle.

More than 400 of you voted in our very unscientific, just-for-fun poll gauging potential successors. And the winners (for lack of a better word) are…

• STEPHEN LECCE handily topped the set with 43 per cent

• MONTE McNAUGHTON was runner up, with 39 per cent

• CAROLINE MULRONEY came next, with 29 per cent

• JOHN TORY: 22 per cent

• “FORD FOREVER”: 21 per…