Somewhere among his booze-fuelled rampages and crack cocaine binging, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford must have lost all sense of irony. How else to explain his absurd call for the resignation of respected Waterfront Toronto CEO John Campbell?

Here we have a mayor who steadfastly refuses to quit despite admitting that he committed criminal acts while in office. A man who rejects any suggestion that he step down, regardless of his substance abuse issues and association with gangsters. A man whose disgraceful antics are mocked worldwide.

According to Ford, none of this should disqualify him from office.

That this man — of all people — would hold a news conference to demand the resignation of a trusted and principled public executive only illustrates Ford’s jaw-dropping lack of perspective.

It gets worse. Ford summoned the media on Thursday to complain about Waterfront Toronto’s use of about $600,000 to build a washroom structure at Cherry Beach. Spending that much on public toilets is part of a pattern showing “blatant disregard for taxpayers’ money,” Ford declared. He demanded that Campbell leave so that the corporation could be “steered in a new fiscally responsible direction.”

Awkwardly for the mayor, Ford was in a position to do some of that steering but was absent from the wheelhouse.

He automatically has a seat on Waterfront Toronto’s governing board. The washrooms in question opened in May 2012. But in the period up to and around that event, from Dec. 2010 to November 2012, the mayor’s chair sat vacant. Ford didn’t bother to attend even a single meeting. Toronto’s self-declared public spending watchdog was too busy with, well, other activities. Now, after the money’s gone, he’s starting to bark.

Ford still doesn’t go to board meetings but at least his seat isn’t empty. Councillor Jaye Robinson has been acting as the mayor’s replacement since 2012.

The final irony in all this is that the cost of installing washrooms at Cherry Beach is entirely defensible. Ford has no good reason to complain. This beach is a remarkable public asset, with some of the cleanest water in the area. It will become part of Lake Ontario Park, a large new green space planned for the waterfront, so washroom facilities of some size and quality are well warranted. Adding to the cost is the fact that this area isn’t hooked up to the city’s sewer system, so a large septic tank had to be installed at the site.

Of course, none of this matters to Ford, who is equally oblivious to his own utter unfitness to serve as Toronto’s mayor. A resignation is indeed in order — but it isn’t John Campbell’s.

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