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Amidst media reports that he misled voters about his wife\u2019s allegedly Jewish ancestry and then mischaracterized John Tory\u2019s stint on a U.S. corporate board, Doug Ford continues to duck questions about whether he is prepared to provide proof that he actually donated over $400,000 of his councilor salary to charity since taking office in late 2010. If Ford did contribute his entire pay packet for the term, he would have received a $120,000 tax credit.<\/p>\n

Despite the sums involved, the two leading mayoral candidates declined to challenge Ford, whose polling numbers have been rising, to make a full disclosure.\u00a0Ford, for his part, has remained silent on the issue, not surprisingly. Spacing yesterday contacted Ford\u2019s spokesperson Jeff Silverstein, as well as his campaign office and Mayor Rob Ford\u2019s chief of staff Dan Jacobs, but no answer was forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Ari Goldkind, who has been participating in debates but is highly unlikely to win the race, took the strongest position on the disclosure question: \u201cMr Ford should release proof of same, as a matter of credibility, as he has made these remarks in the public realm, for public purposes,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n

By contrast, John Tory\u2019s spokesperson Amanda Galbraith said the campaign had no comment on the matter, even though it issued a press released yesterday morning accusing Ford of making \u201c21 false or misleading\u201d statements during a radio interview and then \u201cnot being honest\u201d about Tory\u2019s stint at Rogers Communications.<\/p>\n

Jamey Heath, a spokesperson for Olivia Chow, in turn, said the campaign would \u201cprefer\u201d if he disclosed the information but added that it\u2019s not the most important issue in the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruth is an important issue,\u201d he said in an email. \u201cAnd Doug Ford lying about helping regular people when he voted to cut bus routes, abolish free recreation programs for our poorest kids, saying only subways are good and that we should say no to ready-to-go LRT’s or, indeed, John Tory saying taxpayers aren’t going to fork out massively for his scheme should all be issues. That’s what I mean when I say donation records aren’t the biggest issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford\u2019s claim has been repeated often in the media during the last four years, but no information about which organizations, if any, received the funds has ever surfaced. (Critics have said the gesture devalues public service, and creates a political advantage for elected officials\u00a0who can afford to do without the salary.)<\/p>\n

According to the National Post<\/a>, he first pledged to donate his entire salary, then set at about $100,000, to charity on October 26, 2010, shortly after the election.\u00a0 He told the Toronto Sun<\/a> that he would “donate it back into the community and different community organizations.”<\/p>\n

“When I was door knocking,\u201d he continued, \u201cI was up in Rexdale, I was going into government housing…I thought, ‘Man, there (are) so many people that need support\u2026\u2019 It’s just something I want to do to help out the community.”<\/p>\n

In an August, 2012, council debate over a salary increase, Ford said some, but not all, of his council colleagues deserved raises. As The Globe and Mail reported:<\/p>\n

“The mayor’s brother, who already donates his salary to charity, said he plans to reject the raise too. But the Ford brothers, who inherited a successful printing company founded by their father, don’t rely on their political salaries to `make ends meet,’ budget chair Mike Del Grande pointed out. `The Ford brothers are in a very different situation and it’s magnanimous of them to not take it [the raise] or donate their salary.’\u201d<\/p>\n

During a December, 2013, debate about a subsequent increase to council salaries, Mayor Rob Ford said he\u2019d donate the additional amount to charity\u00a0while Doug Ford, in an interview with the Toronto Sun, re-iterated his claim to be contributing\u00a0the total amount to charity. Since then, he once showed up at a Toronto Community Housing complex with a stack of $20 bills and distributed them to children in the building.<\/p>\n

He again repeated the promise, this time in the context of the mayoral race, during his interview last week with CBC Metro Morning host Matt Galloway.<\/p>\n

At present, there is nothing in either council\u2019s code of conduct or provincial legislation that would compel a public office holder to reveal such information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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