Fired deputy OPP commissioner launches $15 million wrongful dismissal suit against Premier Doug Ford - 2019-09-13
Fired deputy OPP commissioner launches $15 million wrongful dismissal suit against Premier Doug Ford September 13, 2019,
A former deputy Ontario Provincial Police commissioner has filed a $15 million wrongful dismissal suit against Premier Doug Ford, his departed chief of staff Dean French, and senior bureaucrats for his firing in the wake of the Taverner affair.
Brad Blair — who sounded the alarm over the hiring of Ford friend Ron Taverner as OPP boss and exposed the premier's push for a travel van with a $50,000 customization that included a reclining sofa, minifridge and television — launched the legal action Friday in Ontario Superior Court of Justice, six months after his termination last March.
"The impact of the firing has quite frankly traumatized me," Blair, choking back emotions at times, told a news conference at Queen's Park with his wife, Danielle, and lawyer Julian Falconer.
- 2019
- Andrew Scheer
- Brad Blair
- Canada
- Dalton McGuinty
- Dean French
- Doug Ford
- Federal election
- Ford government
- Ivana Yelich
- Julian Falconer
- London
- Mario Di Tommaso
- New York
- News article
- Ontario
- Ontario New Democratic Party
- Ontario Provincial Police
- Ontario Superior Court
- Police Services Act
- Queen's Park
- Rob Ferguson
- Ron Taverner
- Sara Singh
- Steve Orsini
- Sylvia Jones
- Thomas Carrique
- Toronto
- Toronto Star
- Vince Hawkes
- York Regional Police
