TORONTO

Mayor Rob Ford has some advice for Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath - force a provincial election.

Ford went on his Newstalk 1010 radio show Sunday and urged Horwath to topple the Liberal government over the budget.

"(Horwath) should just say 'no'," Ford told listeners. "The taxpayers want an election."

"People want to go to the polls - let 'em go to the polls."

The right-wing mayor has spent the last few weeks making no secret of his belief that there needs to be a provincial election this spring.

"Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of Liberal friends," he said.

"I think people have had enough," he added.

Councillor Doug Ford - the mayor's brother and radio co-host - accused Wynne of being "terrified" of an election.

"The people are fed up, enough is enough," Ford said on the radio.

Ford - who has said he will run for the Progressive Conservatives in a May election - slammed the Liberals.

"They bought the last election with these gas plants," he said.

"There is a great team waiting to jump in office and straighten this ship around."

Speaking directly to listeners in Scarborough, Ford urged them to help the Fords out by dumping the Liberal MPPs that represent ridings in the suburb.

"Don't re-elect one incumbent MPP out there," he said.