Weeks after a barbecue with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford hosted Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak at his family home Friday night.
The two talked privately before mingling with other partygoers in Ford's mother's backyard.
Ford said he asked Hudak the same questions he had put before the other provincial leaders in previous meetings.
"I asked the exact same questions I asked Mr. McGuinty and Ms. Horwath," Ford said.
"I asked Mr. Hudak about child care, about Toronto community housing, about subways."
Hudak told reporters the meeting was an "update on where things stand on the city's finances."
"There's a lot of mess to clean up from the previous David Miller regime," Hudak said.
This was second time Ford entertained a politician at his family's suburban home.
Early in August, Harper made a surprise appearance at the Ford homestead where he put in a campaign plug for Hudak. The speech was caught on camera and subsequently posted on YouTube.
In recent weeks, Ford has met with provincial leaders to discuss what their party is willing to offer the city.
Ford met with Ontario New Democratic Leader Andrea Horwath at his City Hall office on Wednesday.
The closed-door meeting focused on a number of issues including making public transit more accessible, the provincial NDP leader said.
Horwath said after the appointment that her party pledges to ease the operating cost of transit for cities across the province in half on the condition that transit systems freeze fares for four years.
And in mid-August, Ford met with Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty at Queen's Park to discuss funding for the Sheppard subway line.
