Upbeat but quiet-spoken Doug Ford in Monday TV rounds

Doug Ford did the round of Toronto television news shows Monday, smiling his way through suggestions that the PC party is fractured and insisting it will sweep the province in the June general election. “I’m predicting right now this is gong to be the biggest majority this province has ever seen. We are going to win more seats than anyone ever has,” he told Cynthia Mulligan on City. Ford demonstrated a style known to journalists and others which runs beneath his loud image. He softly pressed on past Mulligan’s contention that the “knives are out” and agreed engagingly that a cartoon making fun of him was indeed funny. “Everyone in the province is frustrated,” he stressed. “They do not want Kathleen Wynne back … They want a change. We are going to bring a change and make this province the most prosperous province in the entire country.” On CP24, he talked of a “big tent” Progressive Conservative Party. The big tent is a tenet of getting-elected-101.  “I’m going to bring a whole new dimension to this party,” Ford said. “We have a big tent. I want the NDP voters, I want the Liberal voters, I want the Green voters to come on board and join the PC Party because we have a big social heart, but we’re staunch fiscal conservatives. The only way we take care of people is by taking care of our finances.”