Mayor Rob Ford

A serial liar so unfit for public office that he become an international joke. Toronto's mayor lies to the press, the police and the citizen's of his city. In my entire life I have never had a reason to call the police, Rob Ford as late as yesterday called the police twice. He has called the police dozens of times like a small petulant child calls his mother. That of course doesn't count the time his mother-in-law called the police on him.

He lied about the existence of the "crack pipe" video. Lied about his drug use and episodes of drunkenness so frequently that fervent supporters look like fools for their unquestioning loyalty. You can't trust anything he has to say.

Ford bungled then transit file so badly that he has set back transit 20-years of planning. He is building a subway through wasteful suburban sprawl, ignoring under serviced areas with massive concentrations of density. This subway built for political gain at the expense of common sense will be destructive to the long term economic well being of Toronto.

When is it acceptable for the mayor of a major city to swear racist expletives at a cab driver while tossing business cards at him? Ford's idiotic habit of leaving his business cards at the scene of his drunken episodes has to be proof of his limited intellect.

Rob Ford's loyal staff have quit or been fired by the manic mayor of destruction. One by one they have left the building after urging the out of control Ford to seek professional help for his addictions.

Mayor Ford is right that Toronto's economy is doing well, but that is in spite of his chaotic leadership. Cutting programs and refusing to seek new areas of revenue will result in a perpetually underfunded transit system that will cost the economy $Billions. When Ford champion Toronto Sun and the Board of Trade call for your resignation you know the jig is up.

Mayor Ford is a train wreck headed for a bad ending. His bad behaviour so sordid and frequent that I made a bet 3-months ago that he would not complete his term as mayor. I may still lose that bet, but only because there is no mechanism short of his own resignation to remove him from office. Yet it is still a good bet.