🇨🇦 Ford drops $28.9M on a private jet while Ontario drowns in $13.8B deficit

Doug Ford, the man who once preached about gravy trains and preferred driving to flying on the taxpayer dime, just bought himself a used Bombardier Challenger 650. Ontario's deficit sits at $13.8 billion, debt servicing alone costs $17.2 billion annually, but sure — the premier needs flexible, confidential travel. The province can't fix healthcare or housing, but Ford gets a widest-in-class cabin to tour the landmass twice the size of Texas. The irony writes itself.

This is the conservative populist routine in Canada: campaign against elites, govern like one. Ford's justification — more First Ministers' meetings, Trump tariff lobbying — is bureaucratic theatre. The real message is simpler: the ruling class takes care of itself first, sovereignty cosplay second, voters dead last. No upgrades needed on the jet, but plenty needed for the guy flying it.

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