On Tuesday morning, city ombudsman Fiona Crean released a scathing report that may cost Toronto Community Housing Corp. chief executive Gene Jones his job.

On Tuesday night, Mayor Rob Ford called again for the elimination of Crean’s job.

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As he did in 2012, when he was criticized by the city’s integrity commissioner, Ford argued that the positions of ombudsman, integrity commissioner, and lobbyist registrar should be merged in order to save money.

“(Crean) and the integrity commissioner, the lobbyist registrar -- those three accountability officers cost millions of dollars. And in Mississauga, they have one person doing three jobs. So I don’t think they’re needed. I think there might be one person that could do all three. I don’t know why we’re paying millions and millions of dollars to all three of these accountability officers,” Ford said in a call to the Newstalk 1010 show hosted by Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington.

Ford’s proposal has no chance of success; the provincial City of Toronto Act requires the city to have an ombudsman and integrity commissioner. And the mayor made the same factual error he made when attacking the watchdog officials in 2012: Mississauga does not have anyone doing the job of an ombudsman or lobbyist registrar at all, just a lawyer on retainer as integrity commissioner.

Crean sharply criticized Jones’s staffing practices, finding that he repeatedly violated TCHC policy in hiring and promoting employees. Ford, a vocal Jones supporter, said it is only fair for someone to study the number of staffers employed by the accountability officers.

“I’d like to see the integrity commissioner and all the staff they have - you’ll get a shock,” he said. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

In fact, the integrity commissioner employs only one person, an assistant. The total 2014 budget for the three accountability offices Ford opposes is about $3 million.