Mayor’s resignation is a chance for a troubled city to make a fresh start
The tragedy is obvious. Mr. Tory summoned reporters on Friday night to say he was resigning after having an affair with a former staffer, “a serious error in judgment on my part.” His career in politics is over, his sterling reputation stained. It’s difficult even to imagine what those close to him must be going through: his wife, his children, his grandchildren.
The Rob Ford scandal gave him a last shot. Running against Rob and then, when an ailing Rob stepped aside, Doug Ford, Mr. Tory finally prevailed, becoming Toronto’s 65th mayor in 2014. He seemed just what the doctor ordered. Smart, earnest, moderate and fanatically hard-working, he promised to return sanity to the city after the tumult of the Ford years.
The end came not because he stole from the public purse or failed to do his job but because he had an extramarital relationship with someone who had worked for him, a lapse that he will have all his days to rue. Once the affair was exposed, he announced right away that he would step down, said he was deeply sorry, asked the city integrity commissioner to review the matter, and admitted he had acted “in a way that did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man.
Mr. Tory stayed too long in the mayor’s chair. By rights, he should have called it quits at the end of his second term, as he had said he would. Instead, he ran again in October.
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