Another "Only in Canada" moment has Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford & Council Speaker Francis Nunziata dancing with each other to Bob Marley's "One Love", only moments after being at each other's throat about an apology.
Anyway...one thing is for sure... Rob Ford does love his Reggae!
It was nice to see the Mayor and Michael shaking hands and finally making peace, ...but I love the way Michael looked at his hand afterward, as if just shaking hands with the mayor left something slimey on his own hand.
Ok... From the Huffington Post...
Rob Ford's Day At City Hall:
Two Apologies, A Joke About Getting Arrested, And A Dance BreakAlright, let's bring everyone up to speed about what's happening in Canada's biggest city.
On Tuesday morning, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was asked to apologize for suggesting, a day earlier, that members of city council were "corrupt." Though he retracted his remarks, Speaker Frances Nunziata said he needed to formally apologize.
"How about, 'I am so sorry,'" the mayor said sarcastically. "Is that as good as I apologize? Or, 'So sorry?' Which one do you want, Madam Speaker? Like, 'Super, super, super, super, super, super, super sorry? So sorry?'"
A little while later, Ford, who is currently under police investigation, pretended to be led from council chambers in handcuffs.
Incidently, the mayor's partner in crime, (figuratively) Giorgio Mammolitti seen in the above picture, subsequently got tossed out of council chambers. Oh what a circus, Toronto City Hall has become these daysA little while later, Ford apologized to Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale, saying he never meant to imply the journalist was a pedophile during a televised interview with Conrad Black.
Seems Toronto Star reporter wanted an apology from Ford, over his referring to him as a peophile in his interview with another media pariah Lord Conrad Black, who gave up his Canadian citizenship in order to accept the British title of Lord. The former media magnate saw himself raked through the mud by many of the newspapers he used to ownA little while later, Ford danced.
The mayor, Nunziata and a few others busted some moves Tuesday afternoon in what The Globe and Mail called a holiday dance break.
Around the same time, Dale confirmed that Ford's apology didn't go far enough because the mayor didn't retract anything and instead "blamed the media for its reasonable interpretation" of his remarks.
"His statement today didn't come close. I'm proceeding with a defamation lawsuit," Dale wrote on Twitter.
A little while later, Postmedia columnist Andrew Coyne tweeted the following:
"The mayor is a nine-year old. A 300-pound, crack-smoking, gangster-hanging, smut-talking, compulsive-lying, staff-bullying, nine- year old."
"It's like the plot of Big crossed with Scarface."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/17/rob-ford-dance-apology-arrest_n_4462004.htmlRed bold are my own remarks.
For full raw footage, see:
http://www.citynews.ca/2013/12/17/raw-video-mayor-ford-councillors-dance-at-city-hall/