{"id":31888,"date":"2025-08-18T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/pm-carney-premier-ford-meeting-in-ottawa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:06:56","slug":"pm-carney-premier-ford-meeting-in-ottawa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/pm-carney-premier-ford-meeting-in-ottawa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Carney, Premier Ford meeting in Ottawa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are meeting in Ottawa today.<\/p>\n<p>A federal government official says there likely won\u2019t be an announcement coming out of the meeting between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Carney and Ford are expected to discuss affordability, housing and crime, the official says.<\/p>\n<p>The official says the meeting is meant to be \u201ccasual\u201d but offers a good opportunity for the two to touch base ahead of the fall sittings of the House of Commons and the provincial legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The premier is in Ottawa today for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference, which runs until Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has said he plans to urge the prime minister to lower taxes to stimulate the economy in the face of American tariffs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/08\/pm-carney-premier-ford-meeting-in-ottawa-today\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are meeting in Ottawa today. A federal government &#8230; <a title=\"PM Carney, Premier Ford meeting in Ottawa today\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/pm-carney-premier-ford-meeting-in-ottawa-today\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about PM Carney, Premier Ford meeting in Ottawa today\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-31888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}