Somewhat unheralded in all the coverage of the Fords’ efforts at winning over the media following Wednesday’s transit defeat is this fantastic interview that aired on the Friday edition of Humber College’s student newscast. In it, Doug Ford shows this latest setback hasn't affected his famously intemperate way with the media by using his fluffy student interview as a way of publicly picking a fight with John Davies, Humber’s president.

The video is below. The good part starts at about 2:30, when the interviewer tells Ford that Davies supports above-ground LRT for Finch Avenue.

For those who may not want to watch, here are the money quotes:

I know John. I have the utmost respect for John. I just wish John would sit down with us. He never called us. Never communicated. So really right now John is making his decision based on talking to one group of folks.

And later, as Doug Ford stares directly into the camera:

John, please, before you make decisions, sit down and get two sides of the story. You know us well enough, you know our cell numbers. Give me a call and maybe once you get the other side of the story before making decisions ... maybe you should sit down the mayor and sit down with myself, and maybe you’ll take a different approach before gettin’ out there, and just, gettin’ out there. I'd better stop where I’m at, there.

Under the Transit City plan for Finch Avenue, which council reaffirmed its support for on Wednesday, Humber College is supposed to get a street-level LRT that would run on Finch between its north campus and the yet-to-be-built Finch West subway station. The line could be completed, according to Metrolinx estimates, four years from whenever construction starts.

Under the Ford plan, which applied all of the available provincial transit funding to burying most of the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT, Finch West—and by extension Humber College—would have been very fortunate to get a bus lane.

And so when Doug Ford refers to the “other side of the story,” one has to wonder whether the tale he’s referring to is nonfiction, or sci-fi.

(Thanks to Matt Elliott for unearthing the interview and posting it to Twitter.)