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The late mayor Rob Ford was infamous for giving out his home phone number and answering his cell phone at all hours of the day or night.

He returned well over 100,000 constituent phone calls in his 10 years as a city councillor.

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Thousands more after being elected mayor.

Older brother Doug, now Premier of Ontario, appears to have picked up where Rob left off.

A long discussion on the social media platform Twitter offered a peek into the premier’s late-night phone habits.

“So it’s midnight and I just got off the phone with Doug Ford,” begins a tweet from Toronto resident Daniel Enright.

“He gives out his cell number and after a friend of mine got laid off today, I thought I would shoot him a text.”

At 11:18 pm, the Premier of Canada’s largest province texted back: “Daniel aare (sic) you still up. Do you have a minute for a call ?”

Enright had a minute. Ford called him. They chatted.