iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 30, 2021 2:00am Ontario Premier Ford (left) greets Prime Minister Trudeau at Queen's Park in Toronto on July 5, 2018. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star) Passage writer Robert Hiltzsees it as a “labour of love for the federal Liberals.” The Trudeau government is “showing its hand: It’s here for them, not you,” he concludes. “The feds are quite transparently taking the side of the port. In none of their statements do they talk about what has precipitated the strike; it’s all about the effect on all Canadians. And, uh, also, other ports are getting business instead of Montreal.”