In finding that Mayor Rob Ford must be removed from office, Justice Charles Hackland has scored the Mayor for what he called his “stubborn sense of entitlement” and a “dismissive and confrontational attitude” toward the Toronto’s integrity commissioner. There was just too much information to the contrary for Mr. Ford to maintain that he had made an inadvertent error in speaking at the conflict of interest hearing at City Council earlier this year, the judge said. At issue was Ford’s participation in a Council vote on repaying money he had solicited for a private purpose using City letterhead when he was a councillor. The judge disqualified Ford from running again during this term of office and put his declaration on hold for 14 days to give the city time to make plans to deal with the situation. The Mayor can appeal the ruling.
