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On Monday, city council took the unprecedented step of stripping embattled Mayor Ford of many of his powers, and transferring them to Mr. Kelly for the remainder of the term. Now, it’s the deputy mayor, not Mayor Ford, who will chair the agenda-setting executive committee and 60% of the mayor’s office budget goes to the deputy mayor now.

In an interview with CP24 Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Ford suggested the deputy mayor betrayed him.

“He didn’t support me, so we’ll leave it at that,” Ford said.

Mayor Ford says he only has 25% of the office budget now of previous mayor David Miller.

“I’ll still function, if I have to bring in volunteers, I’ll still function,” he said.

Mayor Ford also repeated his call for a snap election, which the province has ruled out. While Ford has called council’s move “illegal”, Ontario Municipal Affairs Minister Linda Jeffrey has said the motion was legal and the province would be treating Kelly as in charge of City Hall.

The interview came just as Sun News announced it has cancelled the Ford brothers’ show Ford Nation, after a single episode. The pre-recorded one-hour show show took about a dozen hours to record and edit, according to reports.

Additionally, a senior Conservative cabinet minister called for Ford to step down.

“I will say as an elected official that I think Mr. Ford has brought dishonour to public office and the office of mayor and his city,” Jason Kenney, the employment and social justice minister, said Tuesday as he left the House of Commons.