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Rob Ford
improperly voted in a city council inquiry into whether he should repay
donations he had solicited for his sport charity, a judge in Ontario, Canada,
ruled on Monday.
He is the
first Toronto mayor removed from office, the Toronto Sun reported.
Mr Ford can
appeal against the decision and remains in post during the process. He is not
barred from running again.
Ethical
rules 'broken'
The ruling
to eject Mr Ford from office stems from a city council inquiry into whether Mr
Ford, as a city councillor, improperly used his staff in 2010 to send out
appeals for donations for a football charity he had founded, CBC News reported.
Toronto's
integrity commission subsequently ruled Mr Ford had broken ethical rules for
councillors and ordered him to repay the donations.
"His
actions were not done by reason of inadvertence or a good faith error of
judgment," Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland said on Monday.
In
February, Mr Ford voted on a Toronto council measure to reject the commission
findings. The measure passed and the council took no further action.
A Toronto
resident then complained Mr Ford should not have been allowed to weigh in on
the measure in the council because it pertained to his conduct. That complaint
launched the current court case.
In September,
Mr Ford testified he had never read conflict of interest rules and said he had
done nothing wrong.
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