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Globe editorial: Ron Taverner did the right thing by stepping aside
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Globe editorial: Ron Taverner did the right thing by stepping aside GlobeDebate

Ontario Premier Doug Ford might have been of the hope that the SNC-Lavalin crisis in Ottawa would take the focus off his own ethics challenge in Toronto. Perhaps he thought no one would notice when his government fired a senior police officer who had blown the whistle on the attempted hiring of his close friend as commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.

But to accept the Ford government’s justification at face value, a reasonable person must also accept a mighty series of coincidences leading up to Mr. Blair’s dismissal. In one e-mail from an officer to his superiors, Mr. Ford is quoted as saying, “If [Vince Hawkes] can’t sort this out, then maybe a new commissioner can make it happen.”

In coincidence Nos. 4 and 5, Mr. Di Tommaso was on the board that interviewed candidates for the job, and was intimately involved in the decision to hire Supt. Taverner.

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