remove him, correct? right. there s no sort of impeachment process at council. it s also important to note that toronto, unlike a city like chicago or new york, it s a different system. it s not a strong mayor system. the mayor is really just one vote out of a council of 45. so he doesn t have veto power or anything like that. the premier could remove the mayor but she probably won t do that for political reasons i won t get into. so it s really up to him to step aside. it would be extremely against his character to do that. do canadians understand how resentful americans are? crack-smoking mayors are an american idea. they are. we came up with this. we ve been totally ripped off. all of a sudden they want to go to canada. toronto underworld? the capital city of the united states was run by a crack smoker for a long time. and he was re-elected in a landslide. to the city council.
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actually shows? sure. it s about a minute and a half long. the man who is obviously rob ford is sitting in kind of a button up shirt. it s open at the top. he s sitting down in front of a white wall in the sunshine. he s jerking, bobbing around in his chair. he s slurring. he s mumbling. his eyes are fluttering. and he smokes from what looks like a crack pipe. he also utters racist and hoe knowphob fo homophobic slurs in the short clip. who is he making slurs gent against? the leader of the federal liberty party, he calls him an fag. so what s the rules that say you can t show this video? what s going on? right. well, it s important to note since the star and gawker reported on the video in may, all summer long we ve been connecting the dots between the mayor and toronto s underworld,
i guess you can say. but the video never surfaced. the people trying to sell it to us, a group of self-professed drug dealers said they wanted $100,000 for it. especially in canada that does not happen. you ve never heard of that happening before. so the star didn t buy the video. so for six months the mayor has been calling us liars. last week the chief of police said that the police service had recovered the video as part of a massive guns and gangs sweep in the north end of the city. they found the video in a deleted file on a computer. so since then it s kind of been pandemonium. the police have it now. it s in connection to a friend of the mayor s who s been charged with extortion. he was trying to get the video back from these drug dealers after the star reported on the story. and it s now part of that court case. the police chief s hands are kind of tied with whether they can release it or not because it could impact the fairness of this trial. can you explain to me, how popul
has he been a good mayor? the job he s done, is the city still working? do you think the city is? the city is still working. yeah, like i said, he is just one vote on council. so there s kind of been this coalition of centrist counselors that have been moving the city forward. the mayor is a populist. he ran on keep taxes low, forget arts funding, environmental funding, keep the water running, keep the roads paved. he has been very aggressive with public sector unions in the wake of the recession people liked him for that. the rest of his record is kind of spotty and his attendance is spotty at city hall. but he s popular. at least before this. we ll have to wait for a big poll to see what the city s feeling. the other surreal thing about this today was actually bring your child to work day at city hall. you saw the mayor giving tours to children at city hall today,