LUCAN, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Boris Johnson will do a "great job" as Britain's next prime minister.
Ford praised the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party at a news conference in Lucan, Ont., this morning.
He says Johnson is "a no-nonsense type of person" who will "get the job done."
The premier says he would like to meet Johnson if he ever travels to the United Kingdom.
Johnson overwhelmingly defeated rival Jeremy Hunt in a vote of party members.
The committee plans to deliver a special report to the prime minister on the subject this year.
Drought levels have been raised already for parts of the province and Dave Campbell, with the B.C. River Forecast Centre, says the current forecast points to drought conditions provincewide in the coming weeks.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says conservative premiers are playing games with national unity by threatening the country's future if they don't get their way on an environmental-assessment bill.
Chief Const. Del Manak said he was travelling on a highway in his unmarked police car when he noticed the driver of a Ford Mustang ahead of him toss the lit butt.
The bodies of two men have been recovered from Osoyoos Lake in British Columbia's southern Okanagan, following a high-speed collision between two power boats.
Federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the money would support an additional 24 projects under Ottawa's Coastal Restoration Fund to help restore habitats along Canada's shorelines.