{"id":25829,"date":"2026-06-24T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=2e764ecce2fb3e646bb44566ab4d2c79"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:22:00","slug":"time-for-doug-ford-to-face-reality-cupe-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=25829","title":{"rendered":"Time for Doug Ford to face reality: CUPE Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Only three weeks into his 21-week summer break, Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s popularity is crashing. But his response hasn\u2019t been to reverse any of his government\u2019s disastrous decisions or listen to the concerns of ordinary Ontarians.<\/p><\/a><\/a>

\nInstead, he cries \u201cfake\u201d at a recent poll that finds him to be Canada\u2019s least popular premier<\/a> and casts slurs on the methodology of a professional polling firm.<\/p>

\n\u201cThis time Ford has not only borrowed from the Trump playbook; he\u2019s stolen one of Trump\u2019s favourite phrases as well,\u201d said newly elected CUPE Ontario President Yolanda McClean.<\/p>

\nFord\u2019s behaviour isn\u2019t new; it\u2019s part of an established pattern of denying reality and gaslighting the rest of us. Ford had the same reaction to three public opinion polls carried out by Abacus Data for CUPE Ontario, the province\u2019s largest union, over the past nine months. Those surveys found:<\/p>