This is a love story.

In May, Ontario Premier Doug Ford implored his ally, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to show the west “some love.”

Ford reasoned that, after a decade of prime minister Justin Trudeau’s fractious relations with some western provinces over environmental and energy policies, it was time for a change in tone from Ottawa.

“I was pretty blunt. I said, ‘You know, it’s time that your government starts showing some love to Saskatchewan and Alberta, because … the last prime minister showed no love, matter of fact, to the contrary,” he said at the time.

Carney did so a few weeks later, hosting a first ministers meeting in Saskatchewan , something that hadn’t happened in the prairie province since 1985.

At the Saskatoon confab, Ford serenaded reporters with a rendition of the

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