When Matt Spoke started working on Project Ontario, he thought Premier Doug Ford and his team would welcome new policy ideas and might even move to implement them.

Instead, the premier called the group of disaffected conservative voters “yahoos,” saying they “sound like a bunch of radical rights.”

Spoke said he’s had harsher feedback from people working for the premier, as he and his group get more vocal with their criticism of the seven-year Ford government.

“We received very hostile, negative feedback from folks within the government and party … we’ve heard worse from people around the premier,” Spoke said in an interview on Focus Ontario .

“The original idea was just let’s publish what we think the government should be doing on important files like housing or like health care or l

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