Editing Rob Ford (section)

===Mayor===
{{Main|Mayoralty of Rob Ford}}
[[File:Rob Ford Trinity Bellwoods Park Toronto 2010.jpg|upright=1.14|thumb|right|Ford at a Toronto Maple Leafs practice in Trinity Bellwoods Park, 2010.]] After the election, Ford had outgoing councillor [[Case Ootes]], a former City of Toronto budget chief, head the "transition team". From his campaign team, Ford named [[Nick Kouvalis]] as his chief of staff;{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=46}} [[Mark Towhey]], who had drafted his campaign platform, as his policy advisor;{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=48}} and [[Adrienne Batra]], his communications advisor, as press secretary.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press |title=Be afraid, Toronto |last=Kives |first=Bartley |url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Be-afraid-Toronto-106404258.html |date=October 31, 2010 |access-date=December 11, 2012}}</ref> Councillor [[Doug Holyday]], who had helped elect Doug Ford Sr., was named deputy mayor.{{sfn|McDonald|2012|p=45}} For the executive committee of City Council, Ford named councillors who had endorsed him in his campaign. For the inauguration ceremony at the first meeting of the new council, Ford had television commentator [[Don Cherry (hockey)|Don Cherry]] introduce him and put the chain of office on him. Cherry garnered some controversy with his remarks. Cherry described how Ford had reversed a mistake of city staff cutting down a tree of a Toronto property owner for no good reason and then billing the property owner, who suffered from Alzheimer's. Cherry added "Put that in your pipe you left-wing kooks" and, in regards to the pink suit he was wearing, "I'm wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything, I thought I'd get it in."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/article/902903|title=Don Cherry rips "left-wing pinkos" at council inaugural|work=Toronto Star|first=David|last=Rider|date=December 7, 2010|access-date=June 12, 2011}}</ref> At its first meeting in December 2010, the council voted to cancel the annual $60 personal vehicle registration tax passed by the previous council. The tax cancellation, a campaign promise of Ford's, took effect on January 1, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|work=680News.com|url=http://www.680news.com/2011/01/01/ford-ends-personal-vehicle-tax|title=Ford ends personal vehicle tax|date=January 1, 2011|access-date=November 10, 2015|last=Pom|first=Cindy}}</ref>
[[File:Toronto new years levee 2012 (2).jpg|alt=|left|thumb|Ford at the annual Mayor's New Year's Levee at Toronto City Hall.]]
During the first year in office, the council mostly endorsed Ford's proposals. Ford privatized garbage pickup west of [[Yonge Street]]. Previously, only Etobicoke had privatized waste removal. Ford's first year as mayor in 2011 saw no property tax increase, and subsequent years' increases were less than the rate of inflation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/posted-toronto/higher-property-taxes-may-be-on-the-way-ford-warns|title=Property taxes could rise 3%, Ford warns|author=Natalie Alcoba|work=National Post|date=July 15, 2011|access-date=January 20, 2018}}</ref> Under Ford, council voted to declare the [[Toronto Transit Commission|TTC]] an essential service. Ford reduced, but was unable to completely remove, the Miller-era land transfer tax.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/03/22/rob-fords-legacy-at-toronto-city-hall-a-mixed-bag.html|title=Rob Ford's legacy at Toronto City Hall a mixed bag|work=Toronto Star|date=March 22, 2016|author=Jennifer Pagliaro}}</ref> During the summer of 2013, City Council endorsed Ford's plan to cancel the "Transit City" transit plan and build the [[Scarborough Subway Extension]] fulfilling one of Ford's main campaign promises.<ref>{{cite news |title=Scarborough subway confirmed by Toronto council |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/08/scarborough_subway_confirmed_by_toronto_council.html |location=Toronto|work=The Star|date=October 8, 2013}}</ref> This project was later approved and received funding both provincially and federally.<ref name="Harper pledges federal funding for Toronto's subway extension">{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/harper-pledges-funding-for-torontos-subway-extension/article14453152/ |title=Harper pledges federal funding for Toronto's subway extension |work=The Globe and Mail |date=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Ottawa will help pay for Scarborough subway">{{cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/22/prime_minister_stephen_harper_says_ottawa_will_help_pay_for_scarborough_subway.html |title=Ottawa will help pay for Scarborough subway |work=Toronto Star |date=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Major transit announcement incoming: Harper expected to boost TTC funding during Toronto visit">{{cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/major-transit-announcement-incoming-harper-expected-to-boost-ttc-funding-during-toronto-visit |title=Major transit announcement incoming: Harper expected to boost TTC funding during Toronto visit |work=National Post |date=June 18, 2015|access-date=April 11, 2021|last1=Ferreira |first1=Victor }}</ref> In later years, Council would reject Ford's transit plans, including not putting the Crosstown LRT underground for its entire route. Near the end of Ford's term, Ford's powers were reduced by Council, spurred by Ford's personal problems, most notably reports of a video showing [[Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal|Ford smoking crack cocaine]].

Rob Ford's brother [[Doug Ford]] was the Toronto city councillor for Ward 2 Etobicoke North in [[Toronto]] from 2010 to 2014, during Rob's term as mayor.<ref>{{cite news|agency=The Canadian Press|title=Facts about the other Ford: A look at mayoral candidate Doug Ford|url=http://www.cp24.com/news/facts-about-the-other-ford-a-look-at-mayoral-candidate-doug-ford-1.2005035|publisher=CP24|access-date=March 22, 2016|date=September 12, 2014}}</ref>