NOW Magazine’s offer to send a float plane to Mayor Rob Ford’s cottage this Pride weekend has set off the kind of media storm that usually only happens wehen we have someone naked on our cover.
Everyone from the CBC, the Toronto Star, George Stroumboulopoulos and The Huffington Post have weighed in on the offer I made to the mayor in this week’s edition of NOW to send a float plane to his cottage so he can fly in for this Sunday afternoon’s Pride Parade, expected to attract up to one million people.
We’ve found the mayor’s cottage and a float plane that could have him at Toronto’s Island airport in 45 minutes or less. The parade runs about 90 minutes then it’s back on the plane and the mayor wouldn’t even have to miss the evening BBQ.
We have a Cessna 206 on hold with Cameron Air for Sunday morning in case the mayor says ‘yes.’
We have also hand delivered this offer to the mayor’s office where his assistant has assured us the mayor will read it, just in case he hasn’t read it in his copy of the latest NOW yet.
The NOW article points out that His Worship wouldn’t even have to change outfits to come to Pride. He can hop off his dock and onto the float plane in flip flops and swimming trunks to make the trek to Toronto because half the people at Pride are wearing Speedos or less.
