A video showing David Price, one of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s top aides, berating a transit employee and slamming a door at the Georgetown GO station has been posted online.

The video, shot by Marc Surette, the owner of a café inside the station, shows Price getting angry at a station attendant at the ticket counter after he missed a morning train on Aug. 27. Price tells the attendant to “f--- off” and storms out of the station, shoving open the door and damaging it in the process.

The Star first viewed the video in mid-September but Surette did not want to release it publicly due to a Metrolinx investigation looking into the Aug. 27 incident and others.

Last week, Metrolinx announced it had issued Price with an oral caution advising him that abusive behaviour towards its employees will not be tolerated. The provincial transit agency said it had no jurisdiction over the damaged door because the station is owned by Via Rail.

Price, Ford’s former high school football coach and a longtime family friend, was hired in April to be the mayor’s director of operations and logistics, a job that comes with an estimated $130,000-a-year salary.

The Star first broke the news last month that Price was subject to a Metrolinx investigation after it had received complaints about him dating back to November 2012.

When asked at the time whether Price’s behaviour was acceptable for a member of the mayor’s staff, Ford said he does not “comment on personnel issues.”

“It’s actually no one’s business what happens in my office,” Ford said when asked if Price had a future in his office.

Neither Price nor Ford have yet responded to the Star’s requests for comment concerning today’s release of the video.

Surette said he decided to make the video public Friday because the Metrolinx investigation was over and because he was “fed up” with inquiries from media outlets seeking to view it. The Star first viewed the video in September when Surette allowed a reporter to review it several times.

Surette said Price came in to Georgetown station to seek help with his Presto fare card just before the 7:41 train to Union station pulled out. The GO employee on duty told Price he would have to hurry if he was going to catch the train because it was leaving in less than a minute, according to Surette.

Price missed the train and returned to the station and “freaked out” at the employee, Surette said.

On the video, shot with a mobile phone, Surette and one of his customers can be heard commenting on the developing scene in front of them.

“This guy is having a fit on Charlotte, a tantrum,” Surette can be heard saying.

A few seconds later, Price can be heard asking: “Is there another train at 8:03?”

The GO employee confirms this and says she will make an announcement.

“I was on time, you said I was on time for that one,” says Price, referring to the 7:41 train.

“Sir, you were in here at 7:40, less than a minute,” the employee says.

Price, dressed in a dark suit, light shirt and white running shoes, then says something inaudible, turns and starts to walk out of the station.

The employee says, “Here’s your debit receipt, sir, if you want it back.”

“Yeah, f--- off,” Price says as he shoves open the station door, causing it to slam into a window ledge on the outside of the building.

Surette said he then went after Price to confront him about his behaviour in the station’s parking lot.

“I told him that he can’t talk to the attendant like that,” Surette said, to which Price allegedly responded, “Yeah, f--- you, you little d---head.”

Surette said VIA had the door repaired last week.

VIA Rail says it will not conduct its own investigation into the Aug. 27 incident, but has obtained details from Metrolinx.

“We are continuing our inquiries and if it is determined that someone is responsible for causing the damage, then it would be our intention to initiate a claim to recover the cost of the repairs from that individual,” said VIA spokesperson Mylene Belanger.

Video transcript

Surette: “This guy is having a fit on Charlotte, a tantrum.”

Woman: “Pardon me?”

Surette: “He’s going to have a fit on Charlotte.”

Woman: “Yeah, he, I think that was him screaming that…(inaudible)…It left early…”

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Surette: “No.”

Woman: “It had to have, 7:43.”

Surette: “No 7:41. That’s, remember they changed everything a few minutes?”

Woman: “Yes, that’s right, I thought it was 7:45 before.

Surette: “But that’s, he’s one of Ford’s…”

Woman: “Well, sucks to be him. Can I have a tea please?

Surette: “You can.”

(Inaudible)

Price: “Is there another train at 8:03?”

GO employee: “8:03. It’s coming through Kitchener so I’ll make an announcement once…(inaudible)”

Price: “That’s not right.

GO employee: “Pardon me?”

Price: “I was on time. You said I was on time for that one.”

GO employee: “Sir, you were in here at 7:40, less than a minute.”

Price: “Less than a minute…(inaudible).”

GO employee: “Here’s your debit receipt, sir, if you want it back.”

Price: “Yeah, f--- off.” (slams open door) (Phone is put down, inaudible voice for several seconds)

Surette: “Sorry…that’s what I’m talking about.”

Woman: (inaudible)

Surette: “(Some profanity)…That is ridiculous. Did I get all that? I hope.”

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