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This page contained his City Hall contact information.\u00a0 Then it was blank.\u00a0 Now it has an email address<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rob Ford has been a candidate for mayor for just over 24 hours.\u00a0 Here are his apparent transgressions thus far:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Commissioning a poll<\/a> (from a mysterious firm even he<\/em> hasn’t heard of) to gauge support for his potential candidacy, prior to registering as a candidate. The Municipal Elections Act<\/em> (MEA<\/em>) states that<\/a> “An expense shall not be incurred by or on behalf of a candidate outside his or her election campaign period,” and that that campaign period<\/a> “begins on the day he or she files a nomination for the office.” As the poll is a service “on behalf of a person wholly or partly for use in his or her election campaign,” it would almost certainly count as a campaign expense<\/a>.\u00a0 (If he hadn’t run, then it likely wouldn’t have mattered.)<\/p>\n

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Breakfast Television hosts Dina Pugliese and Kevin Frankish stunned by the sudden parade passing by their studio Thursday morning. (clip<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The existence of signs<\/a> and a website<\/a> prior to his registration.\u00a0 Even though his family runs a sign-making business<\/a>, the “value of contributions of goods and services” count<\/a> as campaign expenses. Likewise, even if Thirdeye<\/a> designed his website pro bono, there’s still presumably a value to that work.<\/p>\n

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It’s gone now<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 As reported by Toronto Election News<\/a>, using City of Toronto stationery to mail out an invitation to his “Wine & Cheese.” If the night were indeed merely a celebration of his ten years on Council<\/a>, this would be ironic but still kosher. But seeing as it’s now explicitly<\/a> a campaign event (he has even stated that he’ll be unveiling part of his platform there<\/a>), it’s in violation of the section of the Councillor Expense Policy concerning “Use of Corporate Resources during an Election Year” [PDF<\/a>].\u00a0 Itself broadly derived from the MEA<\/em><\/a>, the policy states that the “City of Toronto logo will not be used in any campaign related materials.”\u00a0 When the Integrity Commissioner investigated a similar matter regarding the logo in 2005 [PDF<\/a>], he concluded that the breach was in violation of the councillors’ Code of Conduct, the City’s copyright, and also the “Corporate Identity Program Principles for the use of the City of Toronto Corporate Logo” [PDF<\/a>].<\/p>\n

\u2022 Putting the City of Toronto logo and his City Hall contact info on his campaign site.\u00a0 These were taken down within an hour of the site launching, and after minimal prodding<\/a> on Twitter. (Even though he’s a guy running on a reputation for being responsive, I was still impressed by the speedy deletions<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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