Protester gets on Ford Fest stage in Etobicoke at annual Ontario PC event

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 13, 2025 10:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

A protester made it onto the signifier astatine a Ford Fest lawsuit successful Etobicoke organized by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party connected Friday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford was speaking successful Centennial Park, erstwhile the protester confronted him and was rapidly ushered disconnected the stage.

The yearly lawsuit this twelvemonth was billed arsenic a solemnisation of the party's 3rd consecutive bulk provincial authorities win. In February, Ford led the enactment to triumph in a drawback wintertime predetermination fought amid the spectre of U.S. tariffs.

The protester shouted astir Grassy Narrows arsenic they were pulled disconnected stage. Ford accused the protester of spray coating "everything" and putting up stickers "all implicit the place" connected Thursday night.

"That's not what the radical want. We unrecorded successful a peaceful state and we're going to proceed to build... That's what we're going to do," Ford told the crowd.

Grassy Narrows First Nation, a northwestern Ontario community, has faced decades of mercury contamination. The poisoning has impacted an estimated 90 per cent of the colonisation of Grassy Narrows, besides known arsenic Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek.

Earlier, Ford thanked Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow for renaming Centennial Park Stadium after his precocious member and erstwhile Toronto politician Rob Ford. The stadium, renamed successful May, is present called Rob Ford Stadium.

"It was Mayor Chow that named that stadium aft Rob. I'll be forever, everlastingly grateful. So erstwhile you spot her, conscionable convey her. She is truly amazing," Ford said.

The premier besides highlighted his government's work connected infrastructure, citing advancement connected transit lines, the operation of 2 caller Catholic schools and a caller assemblage centre successful Etobicoke 

Ford and his chap premiers are travelling to Boston for meetings Monday with U.S. governors successful states with beardown commercialized ties to Ontario.