{"id":15232783,"date":"2026-07-29T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/premier-doug-fords-eastern-ontario-caucus-questioning-high-speed-rail-project\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:34:42","slug":"premier-doug-fords-eastern-ontario-caucus-questioning-high-speed-rail-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/premier-doug-fords-eastern-ontario-caucus-questioning-high-speed-rail-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Doug Ford\u2019s eastern Ontario caucus questioning high-speed rail project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s caucus is openly questioning the viability of Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s proposed high-speed rail line as senior provincial government sources say Ford is reconsidering his support for the project after Ottawa nixed plans to expand the Toronto island airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/business\/premier-doug-fords-eastern-ontario-caucus-questioning-high-speed-rail-project\/article_b446684f-633e-516c-8213-fc48a41390b8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; Canada &#8211; Hamilton &#8211; thespec<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s caucus is openly questioning the viability of Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s proposed high-speed rail line as senior provincial government sources say Ford is reconsidering his support for the project after Ottawa nixed plans to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15232785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15232783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamilton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_.jpg",1620,851,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-620x326.jpg",620,326,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-768x403.jpg",768,403,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-940x494.jpg",940,494,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-1536x807.jpg",1536,807,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_.jpg",1620,851,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-1340x851.jpg",1340,851,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15232783-6a6a08ae77fcd.image_-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hamilton<\/a>","tag_info":"Hamilton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15232783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15232784,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232783\/revisions\/15232784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15232785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15232783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15232783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15232783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}