Guests: Toronto Star Queen's Park Bureau Chief Robert Benzie and Queen's Park reporter Rob Ferguson

Doug Ford looked strong in announcing retaliatory measures planned in response to threatened tariffs from Donald Trump, but then after that threat was put on pause, comments he made privately about celebrating the U.S. president's victory became a problem, and even a potential turning point in the election. Our Queen's Park team explains what's happened and what it all could mean, and also discusses the role the opposition leaders hope health care policy will play in the election, the emergence of highways as a major issue for two of the parties, and what the polls tell us midway through the campaign.

PLUS: Why a winter campaign has campaigns shouting "drill baby drill."

This episode was produced by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston, Sean Pattendon, Paolo Marques and Ed Keenan.