From the Esquire article - so this is what Doug Ford is up to:
Doug Ford will not be returning to the council. He plans to run for a provincial seat, for which elections will likely come this summer, and from which he will try to legislate fundamental changes to Toronto’s municipal government: a smaller council, and a strong-mayor system more like Chicago’s, like New York’s. Soon after, if all goes according to the Ford family plan, the mayor will be returned triumphantly to his office. The polls remain divided, but most show that he maintains a decent statistical chance of victory. Certain of his supporters have remained loyal, and they always will. “People bring up stuff twelve or thirteen years ago that I did for ’em,” he says. “I’ve done a lot of things and I don’t even remember doing it, but to them—they couldn’t believe that I’d actually come to their front door.” No mayor has been in more living rooms.