The caller identified himself by name as well. So the fact he is an ex police officer can be easily verified(and I have no doubt someone in the media will in case it is false). Again it comes down to credibility. Do we believe a named and credible source? Or unnamed sources reported by the G and M, which happenes to be owned by the Thompson family, as in SARAH THOMPSON, former defeated candidate and discredited sexual hassassment complaintant.
The timing is oh so convenient.
As is the origional Ford accusation, the Godfrey firing, to the casino debate.
The whole thing stinks. So far not a shred of actual proof. Show me a video and I'll change my tune, till then, its a smear campaign.
Strange. finally someone says thing in my mind for the last 2 weeks.
Kathleen Wynne, the new premier, one of the prominent pinkos south of St Clair Avenue, never hided the fact she didn't like a full casino in Toronto.
But she inherited Paul Godfrey from Dalton McGuinty administration. With the blessings from his previous boss, Paul Godfrey delivered privately the OLG commitment $100 M hosting fee to the City of Toronto, the mininum amount the City of Toronto demanded.
All these changed once Wynne become the Premier. She got to keep her downtown pinkos happy and stop casino setting up shops in Toronto.
How did she do that? She instructed Paul Godfrey to create a new formula to calculate the hosting fee 'to treat all Ontario cities and towns identically'.
Finally on Tuesday 2 weeks ago the new hosting fee amount $54 m was announced and hence killed the Casino movement. Paul Godfrey (and his board of directors resigned amass )was fired on Wednesday the next day.
On these very days after Quessn's Park under Kathleen Wynne killing the Casino, when we the Ontarians would have hotly debated this change of heart from the Liberal government (plus debates on $550 m bills in cancelling and relocating the gas plants and secret marriage on Provincial Budget between NDP and Liberals), we had this Rob Ford smoking crack news starting in Ontario by the Liberal supporter newspaper , Toronto Star. (Forget Gawker, nobody in Canada had heard of it before the Star mentioning it.)
Did Toronto Star deliver a favour to their Liberal friends at Queen's Park and took the wind out of the opposition sails? I can't prove it.
But its a very strange and timely coincidence.