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“Shame on him (Doug Ford),” he shouted to the crowd, many of whom yelled “shame” in response like a pack of lemmings.

“When you reduce Torontonians’ capacity to shape their future … it reduces Toronto to nothing more than Doug Ford’s little kingdom.”

Dog-whistling to the granola-eating gray hairs, he also pontificated that Ford cut council because he’s a “sore loser” who’s getting back at Toronto for not winning the mayoralty.

(Sore loser? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.)

Vaughan, arrogant as ever, picked up where Cressy left off. He claimed that once Ford takes the politicians away, he’ll start taking away boards like the Library board, the parking authority, TCHC and the Board of Health.

“It’s about wiping out responsible government in Toronto,” said the man who was equally adept at propaganda as a councillor.

“We’re going to counter the Ford revolution with the Toronto revolution … the Fords will not defend your neighbourhood,” he added.

Since Vaughan by his presence had clearly solved all the federal issues related to Toronto, I kept looking for a cheque in his hand from his boss, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for the $53-million the feds still owe the city for resettling “irregular migrants.”

But I really trembled in my seat when Layton, who helped push Jennifer Keesmaat to run for mayor, told the crowd the provincial PCs “need to know who they’re messing with.” Oooh scary!

All the petulance aside, I really have to marvel at the gall of a man (Cressy) who is so taken with his own importance and so tone deaf to all but a few special interests that he would actually mention that neighbourhoods need to have say considering how he’s rammed respite shelters, safe-injection sites, the King St. pilot and the Bloor St. bike lanes into unsuspecting neighbourhoods and left the residents and businesses there to deal with the fallout.