prime minister Mark Carney says the US President Donald Trump seems afraid to do World Series argue with him as Toronto Blue Jays to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I think he's afraid to make a bet. He doesn't like to lose,” Carney joked Thursday when reporters asked him about a possible bet as he stopped by Jays practice at the Rogers Center.
“He hasn't called yet, he hasn't called my bet yet, so I'm ready,” Carney said. “We are ready to make a bet with the USA”
Earlier Thursday, Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford predicted the Blue Jays would win the World Series in six games, although neither plans to attend in person just yet.
Ford said at the end of a press conference at the nuclear power plant with Carney that he'll be watching Friday's game from his man cave. because he doesn't want to pay exorbitant ticket prices.
“By the way, these ticket collectors will pay for this,” he said. “We're going to get to them, but I'm going to sit (in) the cave and watch the game.”
Carney said he would be in Asia to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, so he joked that he would have to find an “Asian man cave” to watch from abroad.
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“It’s going to be a great series, but we have depth and fire,” he said. “For some reason, I ended up with the world's worst time travel experience.”
Carney also joked during the press conference that the U.S. has paused trade talks with Canada because “they're afraid” the Blue Jays will win the World Series.
Ford's comments followed speculation Wednesday that he wanted to look into ticket sales after Blue Jays fans complained about sky-high resale prices shortly after World Series tickets went on sale.
The Ford government in 2019 repealed part of the previous Liberal government's law that capped ticket resale prices at 50 per cent above the original face value.
Ticketmaster said it understands concerns about high World Series ticket prices but does not set those prices.
“With so many Blue Jays fans trying to get their hands on World Series tickets, it is easy to understand why there is frustration over the limited supply of tickets and rising resale prices,” the company said in a statement Thursday.
“But it's important to know that Ticketmaster does not set or control ticket prices, especially resale prices, which rightfully receive so much attention.”
The cheapest resale tickets for Friday's game on Ticketmaster were $1,105 Thursday afternoon for general admission, or $1,457 and up for fans who want their own seat.
Ontario's opposition parties are calling on the premier to take action.
“The resale value of these tickets is out of control, and that's why I was glad to hear the premier say he might be willing to reverse his terrible decision when he first came into government to end fan protections and actually look at bringing back the legislation,” NDP Leader Marit Stiles said.
Liberal parliamentary leader John Fraser said Ford's reversal of changes made by the former Liberal government was a mistake.
“The World Series is already sold out, so it's kind of hard to put that genie back in the bottle,” he said.
“But the genie would have been in the bottle if the prime minister had not repealed the law that we passed here when we were in government to improve the situation, to make it easier for people to get tickets.”
When the Tories scrapped that proposed rule in 2019, they said it would be unenforceable, but Fraser said that doesn't mean they shouldn't try.
—With files from Rihanna Lim and Global News.
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