Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford is trying his utmost to make the threat of tariffs the entire focus of the election campaign. The other party leaders are trying their utmost to shift the narrative away from tariffs to other big things at stake for Ontario voters.

On a freezing February morning, members of the union that represents thousands of Ontario health-care workers lined up gurneys near Queensway Carleton Hospital in an effort to shine a spotlight on Ontario’s strained health system during the province’s brief winter election campaign.

Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie says now that U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to pause his threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods for at least 30 days, Ford has lost his excuse for this election. She says the Feb. 27 election should be about both protecting the province and fixing the public health-care system.