After Mayor Rob Ford admitted last month to having used crack cocaine, he said he had “nothing left to hide.”
But some city councillors say the mayor continues to lie to Toronto residents, as newly released court documents allege Ford may have used other hard drugs on different occasions.
The uncensored documents also allege Ford tried to buy the video allegedly showing him smoking crack.
“I’m just stunned,” Coun. Adam Vaughan said. “I don’t expect him to tell the truth…it’s astonishing his capacity to distort reality.”
Speaking to reporters, Coun. John Parker said: “You walk around carrying too many secrets that are shared with too many unsavoury characters, you put yourself in the position that no one would want to find themselves in.”
The allegations against the mayor, laid out in the Information to Obtain, or ITO, document, have not been tested or proven in court.
Meanwhile, Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong, who was among those calling on Ford to step down, said the mayor should come clean about the scope of his alleged drug use.
“Cocaine, heroin, all these other illegal substances – the mayor has to give a full disclosure of what his involvement is with those drugs and with those gang members,” Minnan-Wong said.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said Wednesday he doesn’t think it is “appropriate” for him to comment on the information in the ITO.
“Our job is to put it before the courts. We’ve done that job and courts have done what they’ve seen fit to do with (the documents),” he said.
As Ford left his office Wednesday evening, reporters asked him whether he tried to buy the alleged crack video, and whether he had used other hard drugs like heroin.
The mayor did not respond. He laughed as he stood in the elevator waiting for the doors to close.
Ford's lawyer, Dennis Morris, told CP24 that the latest allegations are “basically innuendo and hearsay piled upon innuendo and hearsay.
“As far as I’m concerned, there is some political agenda behind this,” he said.
Morris also said that police should be “made accountable” for spending resources and money on what he called “the most microscopic investigation in police history.”
Although council has stripped Ford of most of his powers and he remains mayor in name only, the latest allegations have resurrected calls for him to fully step aside.
With a report from CTV Toronto’s Natalie Johnson
