The city’s integrity commissioner has been asked to investigate whether Toronto Mayor John Tory was in a conflict of interest over ActiveTO vote.
Mayor John Tory is facing an integrity complaint over his connections to telecom giant Rogers, the Star has learned.
“Any time that it appears that somebody hasn’t kept to the high level of integrity that we expect from our politicians, they should face the consequences for it, and this is a really important case of that,” he said.The mayor has denied any wrongdoing.
Tory’s office said Tuesday it had yet to receive a copy of the complaint, but stated the mayor wasn’t in a conflict. Peat said that while the issue is before the integrity commissioner Tory’s office won’t be commenting further.Tory has sat on the advisory committee of the Rogers control trust since 2010. The trust is made up mostly of Rogers family members and controls more than 90 per cent of voting shares in the communications company, enabling it to make major leadership and transaction decisions. Tory is paid $100,000 a year for his role on the committee. Last year his salary as mayor was about $197,000.
There’s no indication Tory would face the strictest penalties if he were found to have breached the Act in this instance. The events faced opposition as the city opened up this year, and on June 6, nine days before council was set to vote on how to proceed with ActiveTO, Shapiro pennedto the mayor asking him to vote against closures on Lake Shore West. Shapiro wrote that the Jays’ return to the Rogers Centre was “an important part of Toronto’s pandemic recovery,” and ActiveTO “drastically impacts fans’ ability to access the ballpark.”, prompting Tory to come to his defence.
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