PC leader Doug Ford, who last week triggered the Feb. 27 Ontario vote 15 months early, emphasized he is still able to do the job during the election campaign.

Trump was in his first term as U.S. president and the two men had so much in common. They both enjoyed bullying reporters who dared ask tough questions. Trump famously called the media “the enemy of the people.” Ford called his least favourite reporters “a bunch of liars” who simply “want blood.”