Canadian Press Ontario Premier Doug Ford should focus on his province instead of travelling across the country to campaign for Andrew Scheer, federal minister Dominic LeBlanc said.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford should pour cold water on the rumour that he wants to get into federal politics instead of stoking the flames, a federal Liberal minister suggested.

"You get a four-year job, and you're 10 per cent into it, and you're already looking to upgrade? I can't imagine that that's very constructive," Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told journalists at Queen's Park Thursday.

A reporter had asked whether Ford's rumoured "national ambitions" complicate the relationship between governments.

You get a four-year job, and you're 10 per cent into it, and you're already looking to upgrade?Dominic LeBlanc

"I was surprised that Mr. Ford was campaigning for Andrew Scheer with the conservative leader in Alberta," LeBlanc said. "If I was worried about a problem with my children's education in a public school in Ontario, or I was on a waiting list in a hospital, I might find it more useful to see the premier here worrying about those issues than see the premier in Alberta."

He said Ford was "campaigning" in Alberta because the premier recently held a "Scrap the Carbon Tax Rally" in Calgary with that province's conservative leader, Jason Kenney. Ford also went to Saskatchewan to meet with Premier Scott Moe on the issue.