Rob Ford has always maintained that the “people want subways” and on Thursday afternoon the former mayor was finally proved right.

Well, sort of.

Ford, who is currently undergoing his fifth round of chemotherapy, had his staff deck out his office in a litany of subway-themed Christmas decorations for a competition organized by Ward 33 Coun. Shelley Carroll and when all was said and done a panel of reporters picked Ford’s office as the most festive at city hall.

Included in Ford’s display was a giant subway map created out of colourful garland, which included a downtown relief line and new subway lines for Eglinton and Finch avenues, as well a Charlie Brown style Christmas Tree wrapped in a TTC map and stockings bearing the names of the city’s media organizations — the Toronto Star, which Ford has had an antagonistic relationship with in the past, had a lump of coal sticking out of its stocking.

In winning the competition Ford beat out second-place finisher Coun. Paula Fletcher, who decorated her office in a ‘Festivus for the Restofus” theme and third-place finisher Norm Kelly, whose office included a real life ‘Elf on the Shelf”, in other words a man dressed up as Santa sitting on a filing cabinet.

"It was a real team building exercise," Carroll told CP24. "Every weekend since Remembrance Day more decorations have poppped up, so we decided after inauguration to make it a contest."

The grand prize for the competition was a plate of baked goods courtesy of Carroll and in an email the councillor congratulated all participants on an “excellent job.”

 

 

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