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“We have a great waterfront, the problem is, we don’t have anyone running the waterfront. We have the waterfront group…they’ve wasted over a billion dollars… on Sugar Beach, that’s a concrete beach with some aluminium umbrellas,” the councillor says of the popular beach.

“I shouldn’t be laughing at this…” Rob Ford interjects, laughing at the mention of Sugar Beach.

Councillor Ford then blames the federal-provincial-municipal deal for his issues with the waterfront and says Toronto should have a strong mayor system like Chicago. He also speaks fondly of his previous, much-maligned vision for the waterfront, which the mayor nods approvingly of.

Councillor Ford’s plan for the waterfront is best remembered for his desire to have a Ferris wheel, monorail and a “megamall” on the eastern end. It was unanimously panned.

In the third video, Mayor Ford attempts to answer a question from a viewer that asks: “What proof can you offer that your trips to Toronto Community Housing actually make a difference to residents.”

“You know what folks, why don’t you just come with me to any Toronto community…come with me to Malvern, let’s go to Jane and Finch, let’s go to Jamestown, let’s go to the toughest areas in the city and see what Rob Ford’s done,” Mayor Ford said.

“I have cleaned up Toronto community housing. They’ve got my number, I go right in there, I don’t let them live with holes in the walls anymore, no windows and cockroaches and mice running around. Absolutely not. I stick up for the poor people in this city. There’s poor and rich and I stick up for the poor people and these people do not deserve to live how they are living and I’m the one who is cleaning it up. So, go talk to the people in community housing…”

The mayor’s office usually refuses to provide Ford’s schedule to allow the media to check in on his claims of “constituent work.”

Councillor Ford later called “lefty, socialist” councillors “poverty pimps.”

“They try to make it look like they are actually helping those needy people and I’ve never seen any of them in the building,” the councillor said.

The “Ford Nation” videos are made by volunteers, according to the mayor’s campaign. Comments are disabled on the videos.