Tory announced Friday he will leave city hall after admitting an inappropriate relationship with a political staffer, but has stayed to present the first budget subject to his veto under “strong mayor” powers.
Before the bombshell announcement, this would have been Tory’s time to defend his first, which increases the police budget, raises transit fares and relies on Tory’s ability to negotiate a handout from the federal and provincial governments to cover nearly a billion dollars in COVID-related costs.
Instead, it is unclear what role Tory will play in the process, including whether he will take questions from his council colleagues. He has said that he will remain mayor until his budget is passed and then transition power to deputy mayor Jennifer McKelvie. The “strong mayor” power grants Tory the ability to veto any amendment to the budget unless a two-thirds majority of councillors are in support of it.
“I’m sure it will be uncomfortable for everybody but we’ll have to get through it in the most mature way we can,” Councillor Paula Fletcher said. “Everybody needs to be quite tempered and respectful in this very difficult circumstance the mayor is in, and which he has plunged the city in at budget time.”
Meanwhile, Tory is facing an Integrity Commisioner investigation into the “inappropriate relationship.”
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