John Tory exits the mayor’s job. As Tory secretly sought more strong-mayor powers and asked voters to trust him, he had been acting in ways inherently untrustworthy. StarEditorial
after the Star’s revelation of his affair with a staffer, something so rarely seen these days that many apparently didn’t know what to make of it.
Tory spoke of standards, acknowledged that he had broken trust. He accepted personal accountability and consequences. The idea that Tory could have polled his way out of that decision, retracted his resignation and remained in office was a proposition so cynical it would have done harm to the city and repudiated much of what the outgoing mayor had stood for during his long career in and around public life.
There is a reason that politicians are called “the honourable” or “your worship.” It’s because the hope abides that — though they be mere mortals and prone to all the usual lapses of humankind — honour will be their north star, that their conduct will be exemplary.Just because other leaders have committed egregious sins and toughed it out to cling to office did not justify Tory doing so.
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