Ottawa mayor asks, ‘Could Rob Ford antics happen here?’
Posted February 10, 2014 5:59 am.
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Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is coming to the national capital — well, sort of.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and the city’s integrity commissioner, Robert Marleau, will preside over a gathering at Carleton University on Monday to evaluate Ottawa’s ethics code.
The event is titled, “Could Rob Ford’s Antics Happen in Ottawa?”
Ford has become an international celebrity and the subject of fierce media scrutiny for admitting to having smoked crack cocaine — likely in a “drunken stupor” — and marijuana, and to having consumed too much alcohol on occasion.
