Opinion: The sad fall of John Tory. Tory is a relic of a bygone era, which is both admirable and led to a crisis where he has promised to resign, writes robinvsears.
Toronto’s expected-to-retire mayor is, by contemporary political standards, a relic. Mostly that’s a good thing. Promising to resign when you are not compelled to is a relic of the standards of another era. So is thinking that you can carry on affairs with those who report to you.
Tory may have had a mild exterior, but it often concealed a churning internal debate about this or that issue or misbehaving colleague. He erred on the side of conciliation and compromise. Sometimes it hurt him badly. He was never naive, though, about the hard culture and sometimes bad, even corrupt, behaviour of many in politics. Walking one day past the enormous hole in the ground that was to become the CBC headquarters, we were puzzling about the rise in municipal corruption in the Toronto suburbs. I said I found it very hard to align with our mostly corruption-free federal and provincial political cultures.
His star turn as the pandemic leader was a revelation of a different Tory facet: when your friend, your family, your community is in crisis, you step up. You overcome the temptation to push decisions down the road. You are decisive and confident. You demonstrate that your 18-hour days are helping to defeat an existential crisis. He did that well.
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