Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. May 4th, 2026

Special constables are getting the power to arrest people for drug use on public transit. The Ford government has been cracking down on this issue, and it will continue to do so through a regulatory change that is aimed at cleaning up subways and buses across Ontario. Should OC Transpo special constables be granted such powers? Will these powers properly address open drug use in public transit spaces? Kristy Cameron puts those questions to CTV public safety analyst and former OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis. Then, she sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Shifting gears to provincial politics, Doug Ford dropped by the University of Michigan campus today to deliver a grad commencement speech. The university’s President thanked Ford for fostering strong relations between the Great Lakes Region, while the latter did mention the ‘tariff’ word. More specifically, the risks associated with tariffs in a testy trade war. Is the Premier of Ontario spending more time in the United States than he should? We dig deeper in Hour 3 with our Political Heat Panel.