Until union membership decides on its next president in 2021, current vice-president Brian Callanan will step in as interim president. The union later held an entirely symbolic, if stinging, non-confidence vote against Saunders, the man who had been the union’s choice as the Toronto police board searched for a new chief in 2015. Instead, McCormack “chose to handcuff and make himself a barrier to any kind of significant change,” Mukherjee said. But that is precisely his job, said Toronto Councillor Michael Thompson, a former member of the Toronto police board. “McCormack’s stance demonstrated that he believes Toronto officers should be able to get away with just about anything.

Source: thestar July 09, 2020 00:22 UTC