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Heartbreaking is how Ontario Premier Doug Ford describes his meetings on Tuesday with families who lost loved ones in the attack on Ukraine International Flight 752.

“It’s probably one of the toughest, most emotional meetings I’ve ever been in,” Ford said.

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The premier met with family members of attack victims at the regional office of federal Global Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne.

“One family told me they showed up to their home in Tehran with body parts saying, ‘This is your loved one and you’ve got to keep it inside,’” Ford said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Another family told me they ripped signs off their windows just showing love for the people who had passed.

“This is a brutal, ruthless regime,” Ford said.

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While Ford says he stands with the protestors currently taking to the streets in Iran over the plane being shot down, there is little he can do as premier. What Ford can do is work with the federal government to help families who need support.