Mourners pay tribute to late judge who tackled police corruption
Hundreds of mourners, including many legal luminaries, gathered at St. James Cathedral on Wednesday to pay tribute to George Ferguson, the late Ontario judge who produced a sweeping report aimed at ridding the Toronto Police Service force of corruption.
During her tribute Wednesday, family friend Jane Avery noted Ferguson, born in 1923, won the Toronto skating championships as a teenager before he contracted polio at 14. “It was the only trophy he ever won,” said Avery, adding his “prized possession” was in the church.
He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1948 and worked as a defence lawyer before turning his focus to the labour-relations field until his appointment to the bench in 1976. He stepped down from the former Ontario Court (General Division) in 1998.
Ferguson wore leg braces, and later used a wheelchair, but had a life philosophy that you “adopt a bridge player’s attitude” and “deal with the cards you’re played,” Avery told mourners.
He was also remembered Wednesday for his influential report into police practices.
Former Toronto Police chief Julian Fantino commissioned Ferguson to review service practices following allegations of corruption against members of the drug squad. Their long-delayed trial is set for later this year.
“My report . . . does not pull any punches. It is not intended to gather dust,” Ferguson, then 81, said in 2004 after his report was made public.
Ferguson made 32 recommendations. He called for officers to undergo mandatory drug tests, as they do in New York City, before they are promoted or transferred to “sensitive or high risk” units such as the drug squad or the emergency task force. The police union immediately dismissed the idea as a non-starter, and it was never adopted.
However, 27 of the recommendations have been implemented, either wholly or partially, Jerome Wiley, counsel, office of the Toronto Police chief, said Wednesday. The report’s biggest achievement, Wiley said, was that it led to an overhaul of the way confidential sources are managed, leading to greater accountability.
The Ferguson Report was also cited in a 2009 Supreme Court of Canada decision which requires that previous misconduct of a police witness or investigator must be disclosed to the defence in a criminal proceeding.
“He was a remarkable individual who, despite his physical disability — and who suffered a lot of pain — never let you know it,” said Wiley who attended the hour-long service. “He always looked on the bright side. In 30 years, I never heard him complain.
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You have all encountered the recent story of the 95-year-old woman reportedly forced by TSA to remove her adult diaper before boarding an aircraft. The comment thread on that post by Jonathan Turley brought out two kinds of posters: the nut-cases who thought it was great that the TSA applied its criteria to literally everybody, and the human beings who understand the futility, absurdity and cruelty of forcing a near-centenarian to disrobe merely to board an aircraft. The latter commenters usually had stories of their own. Here is one of them, from “Rick L.”; I am posting his entire comment to make sure I do not leave out anything:
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This happened at my local airport and people are really annoyed locally because we are both a tourist area, and an area with a lot of retirees, mostly former military. The airport is actually on Eglin AFB and uses the Eglin runways.
We have a lot of people with metal in them, as well as on them with so many veterans who have picked up shrapnel or who have internal rods or plates. The body scanner should be able to show what is necessary.
The particular victim was actually returning to her home to die among her ancestors and be buried in the family plot. She didn’t need this crap, and no one is safer because of it.
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