What we witnessed this week from Doug Ford and Wab Kinew wasn’t leadership. It was political theatre that cost Canadians jobs, credibility, and common sense.

Ontario’s premier decided it was a good idea to spend over $75 million of taxpayer money on a television commercial featuring a manipulated video of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The goal, apparently, was to take a stand against American tariffs and score political points with Canadian voters by pretending to channel Reagan’s words.

But the plan backfired in spectacular fashion.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation publicly stated that the Ontario government had not asked permission to use or alter Reagan’s 1987 speech. The clip Ford’s government used was cut and edited, removing key sentences and twisting Reagan’s mess

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