No formal wrongdoing — no personal enrichment, no direct conflict of interest, no technical violations of the rules — in the attempt to install longtime family friend Ron Taverner as OPP commissioner. Perhaps, after Taverner’s humiliating withdrawal from the OPP appointment after months of public protests, Ford still believes he did the right thing. It culminated with Taverner turning down the munificent marijuana job and holding out instead for the more powerful post of OPP chief. “It is my best advice that Mr. Taverner withdraw from the position until this matter can be further reviewed by the integrity commissioner,” Orsini recommended. This month, the government announced a new OPP Commissioner, former York Region deputy chief Thomas Carrique.

Source: thestar March 20, 2019 23:53 UTC