Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak clearly has Ford fatigue.

Despite his wariness of the controversy engulfing Toronto city hall, Hudak still won’t rule out Councillor Doug Ford running for his party in a provincial election expected next spring.

“My answer on these questions hasn’t changed. The party has a process for determining who candidates will be. We don’t know when the election is going to be,” he told reporters Tuesday at Queen’s Park.

“But look, a lot has happened in the last few weeks and I suspect a lot more is going to happen in the weeks ahead. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” Hudak said at a news conference dominated by questions about Mayor Rob Ford.

The Tories — on a permanent state of election readiness since last spring with nominated candidates in nearly all of Ontario’s 107 ridings — have been keeping Etobicoke North open for the mayor’s councillor brother.

In an interview Monday with Peter Mansbridge on CBC’s The National, Rob Ford noted Hudak hasn’t reached out to him.

“I don’t really know Tim Hudak that much,” said the mayor, who has admitted to using crack cocaine, buying marijuana while in office, and is under police investigation for his links to an accused drug dealer.

When Mansbridge asked if Hudak was “deliberately not calling him,” Ford replied: “I can’t talk for Tim.”

Doug Ford, at his younger brother’s side during the interview, pointedly did not mention Hudak, but singled out federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty as “a true friend.”

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