Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says police are welcome to his cellphone records because he has “nothing to hide.”

“They can go through it; there’s, you know, nothing here,” he said Wednesday afternoon at Toronto City Hall.

He was responding to reporters’ questions about a Toronto Star report that detectives are continuing to seek search warrants for cellphone and other records connected to Project Brazen 2, the ongoing investigation of Ford and others.

The Star reported Wednesday that police went before a judge three weeks ago to request a search warrant for Rogers cellphone records and records for the OnStar device in his car.

“They can come, they can check my OnStar, they can check my cellphone, they’re going to find out how many people I call,” Ford said. “They’re going to be calling constituents in Toronto, because there’s thousands and thousands of calls.”

A reporter asked Ford if he would “give it up without a warrant.”

“Why would I? Would you give up anything?” he said.

Councillor Doug Ford says he is not worried at all that police might be looking at his brother’s cellphone records.

“I find it ironic that the Chief (Bill Blair) doesn’t want to talk about ongoing investigations and he has one of his investigators go on CP24 and talk about the investigation. So is there a double standard? I guess there is a double standard. There’s one for Rob Ford, and then there’s one for everyone else.”

He was referring to Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux’s TV appearance on Monday. Giroux, who was in charge of Brazen 2, was on the show to discuss his latest G20 case when the host asked him about the Ford investigation. Giroux indicated it was still active.

On Tuesday, the Star applied to a Superior Court judge to lift the sealing orders on the court documents, a process that could take weeks or months.

Police, in a series of requests on dates that include Jan. 14 and Nov. 29, are seeking additional records connected to the Ford investigation. The Star does not know which records specifically are sought with these two applications, although the Jan. 14 request does relate to Rogers.

A source with knowledge of the ongoing investigation said police already have call information and GPS data for the OnStar device in Ford’s Cadillac Escalade dating back to early last year. In addition, police have been seeking call records for Ford’s two cellphones during the time the mayor was under police surveillance, the source said.

The Project Brazen 2 investigation began in May after the Star and Gawker published a description of a video showing Ford smoking crack cocaine and making racially charged and homophobic comments. The investigation to date has led to an extortion charge against Ford friend Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, and to drug charges against Lisi and two other men.

Ford was also asked Wednesday about another incident involving police — this one in Vancouver, where he received a jaywalking ticket last weekend. He admitted he might have been jaywalking but suggested an officer singled him out.

He said he and his friend and ex-aide, David Price, received $109 tickets.

“They have a job to do, if that’s their job out there. I’ve never seen, and I have a lot of friends on the force … they don’t give out jaywalking tickets. I’m just perplexed by it.”

Councillor Doug Ford, who is running his brother’s mayoralty campaign, also said he feels the mayor was targeted.

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“If his name was John Smith, he wouldn’t have ended up getting that ticket. He got that ticket because his name is Rob Ford.”

“The police officer had to call her supervisor for a jaywalking ticket. They waited over 20 minutes for a supervisor to come — over a jaywalking ticket? You’ve got to be kidding me.”

With files from Paul Moloney, Kenyon Wallace and Kevin Donovan

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