Sarnia-Lambton's MPP is fully behind the Progressive Conservative Party's choice of Doug Ford as its new leader.
Bob Bailey, on CHOK's The Talk Show with Sue Storr Monday morning, deflected opposition criticism about Ford's past including drug allegations in the 1980s.
"Those are all allegations from the past," says Bailey.
"It's kind of rich for the press and for the Liberals, if they're saying that. They're going to legalize marijuana in the next six months, and the government is going to be selling drugs. Give me a break, I think people want good government. Who hasn't got skeletons in their past, and maybe did things that, if they knew they were going to be in public light 30 years later, they wouldn't have done them?"
The governing Liberals and New Democrats have also panned Ford as a step backwards for the Tories, accusing him of currying favour with the party's socially conservative elements.
Bailey and Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton both are expressing confidence that Ford can lead the Conservatives to victory in the June 7 provincial election.
The two MPPs supported Caroline Mulroney in the controversial leadership contest
