Intoxicated and slurring his words, Mayor Rob Ford had security guards bring an unknown woman to his deserted city hall office on Easter Monday, the day of the building’s annual power shutdown.

Two hours later, Ford was still so unsteady that he could be “seen stumbling and even falling on the ground” in the parking garage, a security guard said in an incident report. Ford, struggling, had to be physically helped into his Cadillac Escalade by guard Mike Toolaram.

Councillor Doug Ford waited behind the wheel. He had come to the building at 9:40 p.m. to pick his brother up.

The Star obtained the incident report, and some of the associated surveillance footage, via freedom of information law. Notably, the city kept secret the name of the security guard who wrote the report — on the grounds that “the disclosure could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of a law enforcement officer or any other person.”

No explanation was provided for that claim. But the incident occurred just over a month after Ford showed up at city hall on St. Patrick’s Day weekend and allegedly made an intoxicated threat to “get” the security guard who had reported his intoxication at city hall on the same holiday two years prior.

The new information about the April 21 incident adds to the public understanding of the events leading up to Ford’s ongoing leave of absence, which he announced nine days later.

Ford was filmed smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine on April 26. On April 28, he was recorded making lewd and racist remarks at an Etobicoke bar. On April 5, he made a late-night visit to city hall with two strangers he had just met on the sidewalk after a Maple Leafs game, at which he was warned by security for being “belligerent.”

Soon after that incident, Ford told reporters that he comes to city hall at night “all the time.” He added: “I can do whatever I want. It’s my office.”

The narrative offered by the Easter Monday security report began at 7:50 p.m., when an unidentified woman buzzed the security desk from an employee entrance and said she was there to see the mayor.

The building is empty every Easter Monday except for security guards and a smattering of other workers: the city shuts down the power for electrical maintenance. City officials believe the electricity was back on by the time the woman arrived, but almost nobody was around.

The guard who received the woman’s intercom call knocked on the door of the mayor’s office. He was greeted there by Ford and Toolaram.

“I had asked the mayor if he was expecting a visitor by the name of (redacted) at which point he replied by saying ‘bring her up,’” the guard wrote. “The mayor appeared to be intoxicated as he was slurring his words, red in the face, and sweating profusely.”

The woman left at 8:40 p.m., the guard wrote. Security footage provided in response to the Star’s records request did not include images of the woman.

At 9:40 p.m., Doug Ford buzzed the security desk from a different entrance. He said he had forgotten his employee access pass and needed to be granted entry.

Security footage from 9:50 p.m. showed Toolaram and the two Fords walking toward the garage. The mayor pointed forward with his left hand and nudged his brother’s back with a clipboard he held in the right.

Ford got into the Escalade at 9:52 p.m. About 20 seconds later, though, he opened the door and leaned over. Toolaram returned to his side; Doug Ford, his campaign manager, remained behind the wheel, his hand briefly on his forehead.

The door stayed open for one minute. The camera, obstructed by the door, zoomed in on Ford’s feet, which twisted unevenly on the garage floor. Ford, who was neither standing straight nor sitting, appeared to be guided back into the vehicle by Toolaram.

Doug Ford started driving at 9:55 p.m., but the Escalade came close to scraping the low ceiling of the garage. Ford then reversed and turned around.

“They were instructed by Toolaram to exit via EMPLOYEE IN as the vehicle was too large to make it down the TAXI OUT ramp,” the guard concluded. “At approximately 2155HRS the vehicle was off-site and driving south on Bay St.”

The security report did not describe the mayor’s state upon his arrival that day. It also did not say what time the mayor arrived. The power appears to have remained off in parts of the building until late afternoon.

“Staff are encouraged to use alternate city locations if they need to do some work. Staff will likely not be turned away by security, but they will not have the ability to use computers etc. Typically staff stay away since they know this,” facilities operations manager Linda Kelland said on Monday.

Easter Monday is at least the second instance in which Ford had an unknown woman in his office on a holiday. His former communications director, Isaac Ransom, told police the mayor was drinking in his office on St. Patrick’s Day of 2012 with a woman who “may have been an escort or prostitute.”

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Ford angrily rejected that suggestion. “It hurts my wife when they’re calling a friend of mine a prostitute,” he said in November. “Alana is not a prostitute. She’s a friend, and it makes me sick how people are saying this.”

Doug Ford and the mayor’s chief of staff, Dan Jacobs, did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday afternoon; Jacobs is working for Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly as the mayor seeks treatment in Muskoka for what he says is a problem with alcohol.

Doug Ford says the mayor plans to return to the city on June 30 or July 1.

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