"It hurts me to say this, but most people — and by that I mean more than 50 per cent - do not believe the video is real," The Star's editor-in-chief, Michael Cooke, told me Monday on CKNW radio.

The newspaper says two of its senior investigative reporters were shown the video by Toronto drug dealers.

"We are working towards obtaining it," Cooke said.

"The people who have this video, they're running scared right now. They're worried about deportation. They're worried about being charged criminally. But the video is slowly making its way to daylight, and when that happens, we'll all be better off."

If the video does emerge, one of the wildest stories ever in Canadian politics and the media will get even wilder. Until then, Ford Nation stays defiant.

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