'A serious ethical lapse': Doug Ford, councillors react to Tory resignation, affair
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a number Toronto city councillors have responded to John Tory’s abrupt Friday resignation announcement.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a number Toronto city councillors have responded to John Tory’s abrupt Friday resignation announcement.
Tory's decision to resign comes after he admitted to engaging in a relationship with a staffer at the office “in a way that did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man,” the mayor said during an abruptly held news conference Friday night.
On Saturday morning, Ford thanked Tory, whom he referred to as a friend, for his “many years of public service” and wished him “nothing but the best in the days, weeks and months ahead.”
“John will be remembered as a dedicated and hard-working mayor who served as a steady leader during the most difficult days of the pandemic,” Ford said. “He united Toronto behind an optimistic vision for the future and I will miss working with him to see it come to life.”
Toronto city councillors Shelley Carroll and Diane Saxe also issued statements Saturday.
“At a time when our city is facing so many challenges, we need stable leadership,” Carroll wrote. “I respect Mayor Tory’s decision to step down and appreciate his apology to the people of Toronto.”
Saxe called the relationship a “serious ethical lapse unbecoming of the office of the mayor, and further, one that will cost Toronto taxpayers millions for a byelection.”
