York Regional Police have confirmed to Global News that Premier Doug Ford will be taking part in the York Region Pride parade in Newmarket Saturday afternoon.
The announcement comes after Ford faced criticism for saying that he will not be participating in the Toronto Pride parade on June 23.
Ford said he made that decision because of the ban on uniformed officers in the parade.
At the time, the premier said he would still be attending Pride events throughout the month, though did not specify which events.
It is expected that Premier Ford will be marching alongside uniformed officers during Saturday’s parade in York Region.

Said Big Doug: “I am doing this to show what a tolerant and enlightened guy I am …but hey, if one of those sausage jockies gets too close, I’ll shove his squirt gun right up his balloon knot!”.
Even if he takes it up the butt from each and everyone of them they’ll still hate his guts.
Or so the media will have you believe. All these polls of Ford being hugely unpopular came at the run-up to the recent NDP Leadership Convention. That’s important to note. The media knows the Libs have ZERO chance in the next election, so they are pushing for another NDP government in Ontario. I’m feeling pretty good right now.
The only thing the media can have me believing is that ive beem lied too.