A report said the premier didn't break the rules — but those rules don't apply to his chief of staff.
Ford was cleared of wrongdoing. Wake found that he didn't breach the Members' Integrity Act, the law that sets out conflict of interest rules for MPPs. But French is on staff — he's not elected. So it doesn't apply to him.
Orsini said French ordered him to arrange a job for Taverner at the OCS. French said he only"recommended" the police officer for the position.2. French recommends Taverner for OPP commissioner Di Tommaso was on the committee because he's deputy minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. But he didn't land that job until, according to Orsini's interview, French suggested the previous deputy minister be replaced.
Orsini said that French called him on Oct. 23, 2018, to ask why the requirements were"so restrictive." "I have always believed in the integrity of having a separate committee of talented individuals meet with candidates, and to provide Cabinet with their professional opinion on who best should be the new commissioner of the OPP," French wrote.But Wake wrote in his report that"the point is that the Secretary believed that Mr. French had a sufficiently close relationship with Mr. Taverner that he had to recuse himself.
Orsini and French both said that they met to discuss postponing. Orsini told French he would resign if the government didn't let Taverner delay taking the job.
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