Ford charged more than $140K in private plane charters last year, records show

Key points

• Send this page to someone via email Premier Doug Ford has charged Ontario taxpayers more than $140,000 over the past year to charter private flights across Canada and the United States, according to publicly available records, revealing a change in habits for the once infamously penny-pinching politician.
• Records show Ford’s penchant for private travel took off immediately after winning the 2025 provincial election campaign, during which the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party chartered planes to Washington, D.C.
• to push back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
• Since then, Ford and his staff have flown on five separate private flights in a single year to various destinations for government business — all of which were chartered by the Ministry of Natural Resources, which was eventually involved in the government’s purchase of the ill-fated $28.9 million jet.
• The chartered flights cost anywhere between $1,800 to nearly $9,000 per person, depending on the...