Harper should be ’embarrassed’ to do event with Fords, Trudeau says

Former mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug Ford are expected to be in attendance. “I hear Rob say, ‘See no monkey, hear no monkey, ‘ in the creepiest kiddie-talk voice I’ve ever heard”.

“I think our position on these issues is very well known, and the support we’ve had from those individuals from our party is longstanding”, Harper said Thursday while campaigning. The two Fords are extremely popular with conservative members of the party, especially in Etobicoke, disturbingly referred to as “ground zero for Ford Nation” by one adviser to the Harper campaign.

Fife recently went on air to note that, despite Rob and Doug Ford showing up to Stephen Harper’s campaign event to give him an endorsement yesterday, the prime minister actually thinks Toronto’s most notorious political brothers are “a bunch of losers”. The prime minister didn’t shake hands with either of the Fords in public, because campaign scripture dictates that one must not meet with Rob Ford a week before a close election. “That is just completely irresponsible of the prime minister”. Ford was joined by his brother Doug Ford, a former Toronto councilman.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau slammed Harper on Wednesday for embracing the Fords, given his party’s positions on drug use.

Towhey said he eventually did hear Ford’s daughter on the phone, which he said was “the most heartbreaking part” of the call.

He confirmed the Fords will still be at the rally on Saturday and lashed out at Trudeau. “I find it hypocritical”. “What does that say about his base?”

“Monday, every single vote is going to make a difference in the direction of our country and we have got to keep it moving forward”, he told hundreds at a home manufacturing plant in Fredericton, his wife and both children in the audience. At which point bells go off and I ask, ‘Rob, do you have a gun?

“I’d arrested two drunk drivers in my life, and I knew it was essential to witness the act of driving and to have continuity of evidence through to a blood alcohol test establishing the driver over the legal limit”.

Harper shrugged off a question about whether he felt comfortable associating his campaign with the Fords given the allegations in Maclean’s.

Towhey said the the timing of the publication was “unfortunate” because it called back Rob Ford’s troubled past into voter’s minds, but it was not an attempt to sabotage the Conservative party.

Renata Ford remained largely invisible throughout Ford’s scandal-plagued tenure, appearing once by his side in November 2013 when he apologized for an earlier rant in which he alluded to their marital sex life.

“As usual, I’m focusing on policy, not personal matters”.

It sounds pretty bad all right, but by spilling the beans now, Mr. Towhey invites an obvious question: If things were so insane – if the mayor of the city was out of control and he was in charge – why didn’t he speak out?

“We do not respond to unsubstantiated third hand gossip”, said Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash when asked about the latest Towhey excerpt.

A spokesman for Towhey’s publisher said the author wouldn’t be providing any further interviews until October 24.