Doug Ford Is Pretty Chill About Canadian PM Stephen Harper Reportedly Calling His Family ‘Losers’

This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.

CTV News man Robert (Bob) Fife recently went on air to note that, despite Rob and Doug Ford showing up to Stephen Harper's campaign event to give him an endorsement yesterday, the prime minister actually thinks Toronto's most notorious political brothers are "a bunch of losers."

On a segment of CTV News' Power Play yesterday, Fife riffed off a discussion of the Ford brothers' visit to a Harper campaign stop on Tuesday by joking about an interaction between himself and Tory staffers last election.

"I spoke to people in John Tory's campaign who were laughing because, when Tory was running against Doug Ford, the prime minister and [his wife] were telling John Tory how much they wanted Doug to lose and that Doug and Rob were a bunch of losers."

The brothers were both contacted by VICE for reply, although only Doug Ford blessed us with a comment.

Before going off about Tory's behavior as mayor (without making any mention of his brother's own mayoral blunders like, ya know, being caught on video doing crack… twice!), Ford described Fife's allegations as "hearsay."

"All I know is I think the world of the prime minister," Ford said. "For the sake of the country, the sake of people in Toronto, it's essential that the prime minister gets reelected."

He also went on to describe Toronto's newish mayor as somebody with "the backbone of a jellyfish."

"John Tory will jump on the bandwagon of any party. He was the leader of the PC party. He'll go where the wind blows. We stick with our core beliefs, we don't waver, we were standing by the Conservatives for the past 55 years with our family, and we are still standing beside the Conservative party."

When asked whether felt about the statement made against him and his brother were valid, Ford once again told VICE that he's "not worried" about John Tory or his comments. "I'm not worried about him, I'm worried about getting the prime minister elected," he said. "John Tory is spineless."

It should be noted that relations between Harper and the Fords has usually been one-way, with the latter making numerous endorsements and shows of support for the prime minister, with little being said the other way around.

Harper did comment on Rob Ford's cancer diagnosis, however (although it's unlikely he wrote this himself), and just today, when he was asked at an event why he was campaigning beside Rob Ford (a known drug-using politician), despite having anti-drug policies, Harper said he was not looking to cast judgement on the Ford family.

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