Doug Ford says he is disgusted that a patient detained at a mental health hospital managed to flee.
Ontario's Premier called Zhebin Cong a 'nutcase' saying he feels for the family of Cong's victim who was killed with a meat cleaver.
47 year old Cong was charged with second-degree murder in the death of San Tai Yuan at a rooming house.
Two years later, he was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
Ford called into CKTB's brother station in Toronto Newstalk 1010 saying he wants answers to why a person who murdered someone using a meat cleaver was deemed low-risk to the public and was out on the street for two weeks without the public knowing.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says Cong failed to return from a trip on July 3rd.
Police issued a public notice nearly two weeks later, and say the hospital told them Cong presented a low risk to public safety.
But a review board that assessed Cong's risk found he posed a significant threat to public safety.
Ford says he will be speaking to Toronto police, the review board that assessed Cong's risk, and the hospital, because someone has "dropped the ball on this."