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Rob Ford’s brother, councillor Doug Ford, lashed out at councillors Friday after a nearly unanimous vote Friday in motions aimed at making him “mayor in name only.”

“Democracy’s been trampled all over,” Councillor Ford said as he waded through the sea of reporters gathered outside the mayor’s office.

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By this point in the shlock opera that is the Rob Ford story, it’s a given that the Toronto mayor is, to borrow from Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar on Wayne’s World, not worthy.

He is not worthy of defending. He is not worthy of the benefit of the doubt. He’s not worthy of another chance.

What Mr. Ford is is hard bloody work, and after months of duplicity, he has managed to squander the public trust. And with each new low he attains — the bar is now well below the ground — he exhausts even the residue of goodwill that remained for him even after the last of the trust had gone.