Toronto Mayor Kicked Out of Office for Corruption

toronto's mayor brockport who's in the middle of all this controversy a lot of our canadian viewers as technique tweets begging us to talk about it rapport got elected uh... two years ago and in the last two years he has been one of the most criticize mayors i think in toronto history it's kind of incredible i constantly hear about comments about him from our viewers again emails about him and uh... adjudged the superior court judge has just got made the decision it to remove mirsad port out of office and the reason why he is made that decision is because he has appropriate one of their uh... municipal conflict of interest uh... laws are known as the municipal conflict of interest act now when i loved is that toronto is very very strict about this and i'll give you some out background information so you can understand white cops at this point so back in twenty ten abroad ford sent out letters using official letterhead from his mayor office uh... to lobbyists basically soliciting money from an so they can't find his personal private football organization for high schoolers now from what i understand that this is this football camp organization is the supposed to be a good thing it's charitable work it's close to keep kids out of trouble on it's known as the rapport football foundation now again this is something that he wants to itself this is a private thing and he is not supposed to use official letterhead from his office to solicit money from lobbyists but he did so anyway after he did that at janet lieber who is the city of toronto's integrity commissioner filed a complaint against him after she filed a complaint the council voted to force rob for it to he that money back to the locketts okay and that uh... amount was three thousand one hundred fifty dollars after they made that decision ford did not pay that money back he was reminded repeatedly about the fact that he had to pay that money back to the lobbyists albany refused to do so in fact he asked the counselors to reversed that decision so ad they had the opportunity to vote on that as someone who is involved in this and who has uh... you know i a financial tied to this decision does he's opposed to recuse himself from speaking on the matter and voting on the matter however a key failed to do so he did not recuse himself he gave his speech to the counselors before they made the vote antibodies himself on the situation and as a result uh... that the counselors voted reversed that earlier decision that would have foreseen to pay that money back now when uh... and justice charles hackman found out about that humoral that are ripe for it had indeed broke in add that municipal conflict of interest that and as a result he will have to remove himself from his office uh... however it's also important to keep in mind that the judge did not make a ruling in terms of what he can do after his term is up so his term was supposed to be up on december twenty fourteen uh... after december of twenty fourteen if he decides that he wants to run again he has the ability do that but in the meantime he cannot run for any office for the remainder of this term dekha yeah i i think it makes perfect sense to be allowed to ride in the future i mean at that point but the the population aside i'll i'll previous mcallister thing there's a lot of a canadian politics i don't know and so and i'm sure there's a lot going on that uh... the people who are who have a very strong interest in this they probably know more about what he's done here posing for a very threes is by mouth approaching this from the point of view of an american some comparing this to how we deal with corruption america but also just strategically he made a couple of a reading errors here first off effectively lost his job because of about three grand i don't know if it's american dollars a canadian dollars but either way it's not a lot of money issues paid off first off and secondly in regard to uh... voting with the majority two to reverse earlier decision that ended up winning twenty two twelve anyway so you should have done his research earlier he could have recused himself and still easley one and avoided the impression of a conflict of interest but i do think it's a bit interesting that he said that they that they take it so seriously corruption that's definitely true can you imagine somebody uh... major politician in america losing their position because of something like this is our flight i decided to talk about this story and you know the vast majority of our viewers are in the united states and i'm sure a lot of them are wondering why we made a decision to talk about canadian politics but i think that it's important to discuss what's happening in other countries and compare our own system to outlets a canadian politics or you know what's happening in greece what's happening you know with the financial sector that's all very important uh... so we can learn from those experiences and take away from them so in this case as i'm reading the story i have to be honest idoney broke the law and i i i i i am in favor of the judge's decision but as i'm reading it can't help but think about some of the corruption shot own country and some of the rediculous things that politicians get away with an animal i'd almost beat i'd become desensitized as i'm reading this i might so what's the big deal we had that isn't the right mentality kill someone and stuff like that so we have in america dot so we don't wait for his email invade another country syria private contractors can become wealthy like you know we have seen such horrible corruption in our own country that it makes us desensitized to discuss that so it's a little inspiring to see that they're scared that they care and that at commercial attacks has made this ruling on you know highlighting something that he did industrial equipment i think that you did justin because he did the three thousand dollars thing to do this chat organization that's on the freezing to lose a position but i think in the way that he responded to it is more reason the fact that he refused by exactly and so for that reason makes more sense that they were eventually removed remove them from his position images in the future to run for some other office the allegations that he has a quote they on because about this comes on the left wing politics he says this comes down a left-wing politics the left-wing once the ad if you are not do anything in their power i'm going to fight tooth and nail to hold on to my job if they do for some reason get me out all be running right back if there's a by election a whole be the first name on the ballot selam let me just add talk about that from toronto now has two decisions to make our one decision-making they have two options that decision the first one is to allow a counselor to come in and serve as you know uh... in his replacement until the end of the term or they can do a bio exchange and that would cost uh... toronto about seven million dollars so i guess we'll see what happens with that but in terms of you know the financial situation in toronto it's also important to point out that there was a huge housing boom and as a result they were operating on a surplus of by the end of that twenty eleven so maybe they do have the seven million dollars to dubai election i mean of course it's up to the people of toronto to make that decision um... but ec is not going to be able to outrun anant writing you know and by the way he's obviously unit attempt to appeal but we'll see how that goes so what i want to say about that was that he was saying it is it is a witch hunt um... the thing is the question is is so much more rent but i guess in america that like if the democratic mayor center losses this is because of this i would be best actually like three thousand dollars the loses position but perhaps canada and look and i think more better off having decaying apparently they're they're better view of this but maybe it's like a new york when guiliani stopped the turnstile jumpers might help to ward off other sorts of crimes maybe a few take a zero-tolerance approach to corruption on these old seemingly minor matters it'll stop them from doing much bigger much more important for costly corruption so i guess i salute the canadians in this case yeah