According to guests he was "red faced and drunk".
Guests at the event included Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson, and Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison, the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy.
The Toronto Star reported that it's "an open secret at city hall that the mayor has battled alcohol abuse."
Don't forget his past DUI and history of drug addiction. Or that time his crack dealer got arrested.
The request to leave the Toronto Garrison Ball came two weeks before Sarah Thomson, a Toronto businesswoman and former mayoral candidate, created a media storm when she accused Ford of groping her butt and appearing to be either intoxicated or high on drugs.
