In Ontario, Canada, voters have elected a new conservative government, led by Doug Ford, brother of the infamous former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, who died of cancer in 2016 after battling drug and alcohol addiction while in office. Doug Ford, who many have compared to Donald Trump, saw his Progressive Conservative Party win the most votes in provincial elections. Speaking on Democracy Now! earlier this week, journalist Naomi Klein called Ontario’s election the most important of her lifetime.
Naomi Klein: “And what’s really, really worrying about this is that he’s running on this platform to cut taxes in various ways—to cut corporate taxes, to cut individual income taxes, to do away with Ontario’s cap-and-trade policies. So it’s a plan to blow a massive, multibillion-dollar hole in the budget. But he has refused to say how he will pay for it.”
Click here to see our full interview with Naomi Klein about Ontario’s election.