Rob Russo

The other problem in this instance is what is Doug Ford's brand?

His brand is he is a man of the people.

He isn't a man who reclines into the comfort of Corinthian leather on a Challenger jet.

And there's videotape of him in 2019 bellowing how proud he is of himself for not taking a jet like this.

So you could have made an argument.

You could have made a legitimate argument.

It wasn't made, and it shouldn't have been made by this premier, particularly at this time.

I edited that story by the great Jennifer Ditchburn.

That was way down in copy, the $16 glass of orange juice.

And it was that paragraph, rather than the fact that she hired a limo driver to take her one kilometer down the road to switch to a non-smoker.

It was that paragraph that grabbed people's attention.

Look, we should all hope that our babies grow up to be Bombardier brokers, given what's happening today.

There's going to be a commission on the sale and a commission on the resale.

There are a couple of things about this that I think are noteworthy.

Number one, the Premier apparently is a very nervous flyer.

It's one of the reasons why he didn't want a turboprop, because they can pitch and yaw and do a bunch of things that...

jets don't do uh and the other thing that i think is noteworthy is um cory tonight is not there he's in british columbia uh trying to get another candidate uh elected leader of the conservative party there and a lot of people think that he was the guy who would stand up and say no this can't happen well have you ever seen a government flip-flop that fast

Apparently it's because it wasn't just the opposition that was braying about this and complaining about this.

It was conservatives.

Conservatives let him and his office know immediately that this was the wrong thing to do.