“I imagine we’re all here for the ‘yahoo’ summit?” quipped one attendee at the Project Ontario launch Tuesday evening at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum of very fine ceramics, as he pressed the elevator button for the third floor.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has branded this amorphous new conservative group with the scarlet Y since it heaved into view in June , and has called them “far right” as well. By Monday, on the eve of the launch, Ford either hadn’t bothered looking into the group, or hadn’t changed his mind, or just thought such vocabulary was the best way to discredit them — which it might actually be, but that doesn’t speak very well of Ford.

“I don’t even know who these guys are. They sound like a bunch of radical rights,” he told reporters in Hamilton .

It’s very dumb, whateve

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