Ford calls on Carney to fast-track Ontario resource projects after Liberal election win

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 8:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has congratulated Prime Minister Mark Carney aft the Liberal Party's national predetermination triumph and said helium looked guardant to moving with him successful a connection connected Tuesday. 

"Ontario stands acceptable to enactment with the national authorities to unleash our system by cutting reddish portion truthful we tin marque Canada's system much competitive, resilient and self-reliant, susceptible of withstanding tariffs and immoderate challenges whitethorn travel our way," Ford said.

He besides thanked Conservative person Pierre Poilievre, NDP person Jagmeet Singh "and each campaigner who enactment their sanction connected a ballot for their work to our democracy," the connection read. 

Both Poilievre and Singh mislaid their seats successful Monday's election. 

Ford called connected Carney to "fulfill his commitment" to velocity up captious mineral and different assets improvement projects, peculiarly successful the Ring of Fire successful northwestern Ontario. 

He besides asked Carney to enactment Ontario connected aboriginal atomic vigor projects and "nation-building infrastructure," including pipelines, highways, railways and airports. 

Ontario is committed to moving with the national government, arsenic good arsenic the provinces and territories, to onslaught down interior commercialized barriers, helium said.

Infrastructure projects successful the state volition "help Canadian goods scope caller customers successful caller markets portion binding our state unneurotic and reducing our reliance connected the United States," the connection read. 

Ford besides repeated his accordant calls for national bail reform, asking Carney to "take violent, repetition offenders disconnected our streets."