Juan_Lennon416
Senior Member
Even if Ford was at City Hall with the protesters, there is pretty much nothing Ford could have done.
That said, I am not sure why you bring it up here.
I'm not surprised.
You implied that ford cutting the ribbon at the autoshow is a good thing because the autoshow brings money to the city
If you'd actually thought about that,
then you would have to agree that skipping out on pride, an event that bring much more money to the city then the autoshow, is really hypocritical of him...and his supporters. Understand?
Seeing how you had taken my omission of Pride
What's up with Adam Vaughan and Rob Ford?
..."A number of journalists, reporters and activists have remarked that Mayor Ford has inspired a new level of civic interest and engagement about what happens at City Hall. It's true. "....
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1a10871f85524323ab2487471&id=d8eac38748&e=3afaff0026
I'm sure that Adams comments are meant as a backhanded compliment.
probably ... i wasn't really into municipal politics until we got a buffoon like Frod
probably ... i wasn't really into municipal politics until we got a buffoon like Frod
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s legal team says it cost more than $116,000 to fight his conflict-of-interest case, and after winning his appeal they are asking the citizen who launched the lawsuit to pay up.
As is normal in Canada’s loser-pays court system, Mr. Ford’s lawyer, Alan Lenczner, has filed his client’s legal bill with the Ontario Divisional Court, where the mayor won a reversal of a lower-court ruling that had ordered him out of office for violating conflict-of-interest rules.
The bill for $107,070 in legal fees and $9,335.12, including HST, for expenses such as photocopying, transcripts and phone bills, covers both Mr. Ford’s initial court fight, his request for leave to appeal, and his appeal. In all, two lawyers and two articling students were involved.
In his submission to Divisional Court, Mr. Lenczner says the costs are “entirely reasonable” noting that lawyer Clayton Ruby, acting for Paul Magder, the citizen who filed the conflict complaint against the mayor, had asked for $150,746 in costs for just the initial fight before the Ontario Superior Court. Mr. Ruby has not submitted his costs for the Divisional Court case.
Mr. Lenczner argues that his costs are within Mr. Magder’s “reasonable expectation” since Mr. Ruby states in his court submission that his client was bearing the risk of having to pay his opponent’s legal bills. Plus, Mr. Lenczner says, Mr. Ruby was acting pro bono, meaning Mr. Magder will not have to cover his own legal costs.
Mr. Magder “understood even before the inception of his Application that, if he was successful, his lawyers would receive costs from Ford which they would keep in their entirety. He also understood that, if he was unsuccessful, he would have to indemnify Rob Ford for his costs on a partial indemnity basis but not be required to pay his own lawyers,” Mr. Lenczner’s submission reads.
The Divisional Court could agree with the submitted bill, or it could disagree and order Mr. Magder to pay a smaller amount.
In Mr. Magder’s lawyers’ initial cost submission after the initial lower-court win, his lawyers justified their $150,000 bill by highlighting the “siginificant research” required on the “somewhat vague” Municipal Confli ct of Interest Act, and that Mr. Ford’s “long tenure on City Council” meant sorting through “a large amount of materials” relating to the mayor’s “previous conflicts of interests.”
They also blamed the mayor for drawing things out by raising issues of jurisdiction and whether the city was overreaching its authority late in the proceedings, contesting a move to have Mr. Ford testify.
Mr. Magder, lawyers also blamed Mr. Ford’s inconsistency during the proceedings, which required extra legal research to be undertaken: “The respondent suggested in his sworn affidavit that City staff had an obligation to advise him of conflicts of interests. It was later conceded... that staff were under no such obligation.”
They also said Mr. Ford “failed to recall many important facts during his out-of-court cross-examination” such as whether he received training or guidance on conflict of interest issues, his discussions with city staff, and why he once previously declared a conflict-of-interest at council.
Ah, but the fun is just beginning.It is interesting. It's as if since the major wringers have been gone through, the spectacle and tension have died off, and we're just left with this...guy. It seems unlikely that he's going to do anything different than what he's already done, and what he has done is rather unimpressive and dull, when you remove all the fury and bluster. So there's him and his trail of petty favours and inert goings-on. Not much to bother keeping up with.
If he tries to pull more fast ones, there'll be news, but I think Toronto's over the shock, then the dismay and worry, and just doesn't want to waste energy bothering with him anymore.
In an email to allies, Rob Ford's office says it'll begin coming up with a "long-term Transportation Strategy" in the next few months.
When Ford first mentioned this, a while ago, TTC Chair Karen Stintz knew nothing about it.
Begin?!?!
as I said earlier, Magder is going to wish he'd never heard of chaleff-freudenthaler.Ford is asking for legal fees from Magder: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ees-from-citizen-who-sued-him/article8964766/