Former Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion endorses Doug Ford and Conservatives
Published May 18, 2022 at 2:25 pm
Hazel McCallion, whose clout continues to be sought long after her days as mayor of Mississauga, has won the support of Doug Ford and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives.
A video that has just surfaced shows McCallion calling Ford “a people’s premier that is putting Ontario first” and is accompanied by campaign slogans to re-elect the Conservatives in the upcoming provincial election.
“He’s a real leader who is saying yes to building Ontario for the future,” the 101-year-old former mayor says about Ford.
Focussing on the theme of getting things done, McCallion says she has seen politicians come and go and that real leaders get things done.
“Real leaders don’t show up with problems, they show up with solutions,” she says about Ford. “They don’t find excuses to delay and say no. Real leaders say yes.”
McCallion, who was mayor of Mississauga from 1978 through 2014, has claimed that she has no ongoing commitment to any political party and instead looks at the issues when making her choices.
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She endorsed Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals in the 2014 provincial election and Justin Trudeau at the federal level in 2015. She switched and threw her support behind Ford and the Conservative in time for the 2018 Ontario election.
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