Nadine Spencer has been removed from the Toronto Police Service Board .
City council passed an urgent motion, without debate, on Thursday to rescind Spencer’s appointment to the board of the largest police service in the country.
Earlier this month, a CBC Toronto investigation discovered three seemingly fabricated, or misrepresented, employees on the websites of marketing companies owned by Spencer.
At that time, in a series of email statements provided through her lawyer, Spencer “categorically” denied that her employees were fabricated.
CBC’s findings on Spencer’s company, BrandEQ, came after some members of the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) raised concerns about how BrandEQ received more than $1.1 million in contracted work from the charity over the course of the six years Spencer was either president of BBPA’s board of directors, or its CEO.
In a written statement to CBC Toronto at the time, Spencer said she’s proud of the work she did at the BBPA to lift up others in her community, and “any suggestion I did so to benefit myself is false, and frankly, absurd.”
Spencer was appointed to the Toronto Police Service Board by city council in spring 2023. Until her removal, she was one of seven board members in charge of overseeing the budget and operation of the service.
CBC Toronto has reached out to Spencer for comment but has not yet received a response.
More to come.