There's an unwritten rule in politics that, despite differences in ideologies, you don't slam other levels of government.

After all, conventional wisdom suggests that to work well with these people, you need to have good relationships with them.

But no one ever accused Toronto Mayor Rob Ford of being conventional.

"If you say you want to go and vote Liberal, then you’re basically just giving a bank robber another gun and say[ing] go rob another bank," he said according to the National Post.

"That’s what it comes down to."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/ahead-byelections-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-says-voting-161954798.html