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Ontario Premier Doug Ford addresses media at the Thorncrest Ford car dealership in Toronto on April 1, 2019.Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /Toronto Sun / Postmedia Network
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“I don’t think it can get worse,” said Quito Maggi, president and CEO of Mainstreet Research, which conducted the survey. “I can’t point to any one thing (to show) how this is going to get better for Doug Ford — certainly not anything in the short term.”
The poll asked people across Ontario if they have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of all the provincial party leaders. Ford had a net -53.5% rating (73.4% unfavourable to 19.9% favourable), lower than Kathleen Wynne’s numbers when her Liberal government was turfed last year, according to Mainstreet.
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“Does it mean he’s doomed to lose the next election? No. These numbers are very bad, but also not unrecoverable in a longer term.”
Ford announced a major cabinet shuffle last week looking to hit the reset button on his government, but Maggi pointed out the shakeup will have little effect.
“Simply shuffling the cabinet isn’t going to give him a 10-point boost in approvals.”
Maggi noting funding cuts announced in April’s budget came as a complete surprise to voters.
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