TORONTO

Mayor Rob Ford backtracked Wednesday on his offer to voluntarily share his cellphone records with Toronto Police.

Ford dismissed the idea that he’ll give investigators his phone records without a search warrant — a day after he told the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington he’s willing to share.

“Why would I? Would you give up anything? Why would I give it up without a warrant?” Ford told reporters after presenting a cheque to the Canadian Cancer Society for more than $10,000 from the sale of his Rob Ford bobbleheads.

On Tuesday, Ford told Warmington that police don’t need to get a search warrant.

“I will just give them my cellphone,” he said. “They can take it.”

However, Ford did maintain Wednesday that there was “nothing” to find on his phone.

“You know what, you can have my cellphone records,” Ford said as he pulled out his BlackBerry. “My cellphone records here, I have nothing to hide, you can go through it.

“They are going to be calling a lot of constituents in Toronto because there is thousands and thousands of calls.”

The mayor’s sudden openness to sharing his phone records was surprising given the fact he has been refusing to meet with Project Brazen 2 investigators since they asked to meet with him back in October.

Lawyers representing the Sun and other media outlets will be in court Thursday starting the process to unseal more court documents — including phone record requests — from the ongoing investigation into Ford.

Councillor Doug Ford said he’s not concerned about police wanting his brother’s cellphone records.

“I find it ironic that (Chief Bill Blair) doesn’t want to talk about ongoing investigations and he has one of his investigators go on CP24 and talk about the investigation,” Ford said. “I guess there is a double-standard, there is one for Rob Ford and then there is one for everyone else.”

Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux — the lead investigator for Project Brazen 2 — revealed Monday the investigation into “any criminality involving the mayor or the mayor’s office” was “active and continuing.”

Toronto Police spokesman Mark Pugash declined to comment on Ford’s cellphone records and whether investigators are trying to obtain them.

“We don’t comment on ongoing investigations,” Pugash said Wednesday.

He did confirm investigators are still interested in speaking to Ford.

“There have been a number of requests and those requests still stand,” Pugash said.

— With files from Sam Pazzano