Ontario Premier Doug Ford told an audience at Toronto's Empire Club that bail needs to be strengthened as criminals have become emboldened.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up a Home Depot shoplifter over the summer.

Ford told an audience at the Empire Club in Toronto that bail needs to be strengthened because criminals have become emboldened.

The premier relayed a story from the summer when he said he ditched his police detail to go to Home Depot to buy plants for his cottage for an upcoming visit from Prime Minister Mark Carney .

Ford says a man walked out of the store with two backpacks, trailed by security guards who claimed he stole something but they stopped following the man because they had been instructed not to do anything in such situations.

So Ford

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