Toronto Mayor Ousted from Office

and i have not heard a single complaint yet. this guy was just plain embarrassing. the article is worth a read, and while satirical, it links to several articles about the actual incidences.

essentially, while still a city councillor, Rob Ford used city letterhead and "other resources" to request donations for the high school football team he was coaching. city council decided he owed a fine. he refused to pay it.

once he became mayor, the matter came up for a vote. he went and defended his case in person. then he voted on the matter, as mayor, obviously in favour of himself.

the courts decided he was in violation of Canada's Conflict of Interest Act, and should have taken himself out of the vote.

in 14 days, he's outta here, and it's believed the office will be taken over by the deputy mayor. our city seems to be quite pleased to oust a mayor that refused to attend the Pride parade, was caught (and admitted to) reading while driving, wants to eliminate bike lanes, called 911 on a satirical tv show host trying to ask him questions, ordered deportation of minorities after a tragic shooting, gave the finger to a woman for saying he shouldn't be on his cellphone while driving, and said all sorts of stupid, offensive things on record.

see ya asshole!

Finally.

can't wait to see what Rick Mercer or This Hour Has 22 Minutes does with this

Awesome.

you sure this guy was/is Canadian??!?!

Bet he's from Texas .....

Texans ain't got shit on Albertans, bro.

Not that Ford is Albertan, just sayin' is all.

Thank god.

With these charges, will he be barred from seeking office again? Because if so, he'll have nowhere else...





...Toronto.

He's only barred from serving this term; He'll be allowed to run in the next municipal election

yep. he can't run if there's a by-election (as far as i know) because even though he's been kicked out, his term technically isn't up until 2014. but he'll be allowed to run again then.

though hopefully people will have smartened up by then. i can't imagine him ever getting voted back in.

Back the fuck up there... We may be a little hickish by Canadian standards but fuck Texas forever.

Being originally from Toronto and still having family/friends there, I hope this is true. Though I can't say I have a lot of optimism when it comes to people managing to NOT elect idiots/assholes/criminals into public office.

Unfortunately Ford is also appealing the ruling so he is not gone yet. He goes to court on Dec. 5 to ask to have the lower courts ruling stayed until his appeal is heard some time in January. If the stay is granted we could be stuck with him until the appeals court rules on the case which could be sometime next spring.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/11/28/toronto-rob-ford-conflict-motion-court-documents.html

There's a protest being planned for Dec.6 to complain about him being booted. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea if this is serious or satire, but either way it's hiliarous.

How was I so unaware of his shenanigans before reading it here?

This guy is comedy gold.

Source

Wow.

Shame that Toronto has lost it's number one floor show but at least Ralph Klein has a crazy political friend to hang out with now.

And yeah, some Albertans are good. Others... not so much. While I lived there I remember being greeted once with, "Here comes BC boy. Probably gonna tell us how the fags should get married again."

Try and have one conversation about equal rights...

Again, not all, but some.

Seems like a bad time to be a mayor in Canada though. Look at Montreal as well.

He's back.....he won his appeal.....

WAT.

He still acted disgracefully at every single opportunity and then got really lucky. It turns out the integrity commissioner can dole out consequences for raising money in violation of the code of ethics. But as Ford didn't receive the $ and it went straight to the legitimate charity of the football teams (no one is saying the money was mishandled or that the charity isn't legitimate), the specific penalty of paying the money back couldn't be applied. (I think other penalties like a suspension were available, but that is not what the commissioner penalized him with).

So the original penalty couldn't stand, so he didn't owe any money. And since there was no longer any money involved, there could not be a conflict of interest when he refused to step aside on the later vote to eliminate the requirement he pay the money back. Lucky.

I would like to say something like "he's so dumb he doesn't even know when he's not breaking the law", but it looks like most everyone else, including the first trial judge was also wrong. Instead I think of it like getting caught for stealing silverware, but getting off because it turns out it just happened to be plastic cutlery.

What a wanker. So, we're just gonna keep him as mayor until he kills another driver or pedestrian because he's reading while driving? Just checking.