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Premier Doug Ford phoned in to a talk radio show Thursday on NewsTalk1010 to say he’s “disgusted.”

“What is the family thinking of the poor victim that got chopped up with a meat cleaver by this nutcase and then they let him loose out on the streets,” he said.

Ford said he would be speaking with Toronto police, the review board and CAMH.

“Someone’s going to be answering because if you’re calling this low risk, what is high risk?” he said. “These crazy, crazy people that want to go around chopping people up, they’re out on the streets.”

Toronto Mayor John Tory called on the provincial government to launch an independent review.

“I believe such a review could work with CAMH and the Ontario Review Board to address issues related to Mr. Cong’s disappearance from the facility and the city, but there are other questions which go well beyond that and which require answers if the public is to be confident that this kind of thing won’t happen again,” Tory said in a statement.

He said important questions include when the police were notified, what they were told, did Cong have a passport, and how did he manage to leave the country given his status.

If you're calling this low risk, what is high risk?

A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale didn’t answer a question on whether the federal government was looking into how Cong left the country.

“The recent passage of our Entry/Exit legislation will require airlines to share their passenger manifests in advance, enabling law enforcement to better respond to the outbound movement of known high-risk travellers before their actual departure,” Scott Bardsley said in a statement.