It’s always good to know scandal isn’t reserved for the federal politicians. In this story Toronto Mayor David Miller has requested the services of the ethics commissioner with regard to the disbursement of $400,000 in contracts to the employer of his campaign chairman. Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong was the one who noted the name in the contract bid.
| Mr. Minnan-Wong said yesterday that city staff had shown him Northstar’s confidential bid information. He said Mr. Laschinger’s name appears three times within the first 15 pages.
Stephen Tile, Northstar’s president, said Mr. Laschinger’s name appears only in lists of staff that worked on previous government contracts for the firm, which Northstar was obligated to provide. He said Mr. Laschinger’s name and links to the mayor “did not come up” in any conversations with the city staff evaluating the contract or in the oral presentation his firm made to win the work. |
This looks to me like a classic case of name dropping. Let’s see what the Ethics Commissioner comes up with.