Globe editorial: The next time Ontario hires a top cop, the Premier has to stay out of it GlobeDebate
Little things sometimes reveal the big picture. Consider this nugget from Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake’s report into the Ford government’s attempted hiring of Toronto Police Superintendent Ron Taverner as commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.
The Finance Ministry was responsible for the new Ontario Cannabis Store, or OCS, and Mr. Orsini was writing to ask that the OCS create an executive job for Supt. Taverner. The suggested job title was “President of Community Affairs”; the suggested salary was $270,000, plus 10-per-cent bonus pay. Mr. Orsini also told Finance to make the offer to Supt. Taverner immediately – by noon that very day.
The Ford government meddled in that hiring process, too, including changing the job requirements to produce the desired result: the appointment of Supt. Taverner as the province’s top officer. Nevertheless, Mr. Wake’s conclusion has a certain logic to it. Mr. Ford has spent months denying any hand in the search process; denying that the choice of his crony was anything other than a coincidence; denying that rewriting the job qualifications to make Supt. Taverner eligible to apply was done at his behest; denying he’d been involved.But at one point in this stream of implausible denials, the Premier did say something revealing.
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