To Crisanti, a personal friend of the Ford family, the confirmation of his allegiance shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. He credited the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford, Doug’s brother, with helping him win election to council for the first time back in 2010. He’d publicly said so the previous Friday, when he introduced Doug on stage at the annual Ford Fest barbecue. Crisanti’s terrain was Ward 1, the northernmost part of Etobicoke; Ford’s was Ward 2, straight south. Both voted in July to hire 100 new Toronto police officers as a means of combating crime and gun violence.

Source: National Post October 15, 2018 15:45 UTC