Toronto mayor told the Toronto Sun that he will run in city's October mayoral election despite admitted crack cocaine use

No one is saying where Rob Ford is, and the Toronto mayor gave no indication of his whereabouts during a phone call allegedly from rehab with a Toronto Sun reporter this week.

“I feel great,” Ford told the Sun in an interview that ran on Wednesday. “Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid.”



Ford insists he will run in Toronto’s October mayoral election despite admitted crack cocaine use and a year of scandals including making offensive comments about his fellow politicians and bouts of public drunkenness.



“On October 28, there will be no need to change the locks,” Ford said. “There will be no need to clean out my office because I am coming back.”



He said there is no set date for his return to his government duties, but “guaranteed” he will be on the October ballot and that his brother, councillor Doug Ford, would not be.



Ford said he decided to go to rehab on 29 April, a day before he made the public announcement of his plans. “I told Dougie, ‘I am going away’ and then started looking up rehab and treatment centres,” Ford said. The Globe and Mail said on Tuesday that Ford was denied entry into the US on the following night.



Ford did not answer questions related to that query or any other question that indicated where he was being treated or what country he was in. Ford did say that his companions at the facility include a professional athlete and “a captain of industry.”



Ford’s announcement that he was seeking help came the same day Canada’s The Globe and Mail newspaper said it had seen a new video of Rob Ford smoking what a self-described drug dealer in the video called crack cocaine.



Ford denied he had smoked crack-cocaine in 2013 after a drug dealer tried to sell news reporters a video of the mayor allegedly committing the act. Police later said they had such a video, which has never been released to public, and Ford admitted to using the drug while in a “drunken stupor.”



He did not refer to these allegations in the interview from rehab but called alcohol “the worst drug.”



Toronto city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti said on Tuesday that people deserve to know Ford’s whereabouts. “I think that, based on the mayor’s behaviour over the last number of years, because of the amount of opportunity he’s had to come forward and tell the truth and hasn’t on different issues,” Mammoliti said. “I would say to you right now that at the very least the city should know the city that he’s in for treatment, and with some verification that he is in fact being treated. And then I’d ask everybody to just leave him alone and let him be treated.”