Toronto’s mayor, decided couple of years previously vowing to smash replica Altiplano watches through political niceties and recover fiscal sanity, discovers Monday morning whether that hard-charging type may eject him right out of office.

Rob Ford will learn his destiny at 10 a.m. with the release of Justice Charles Hackland’s ruling on Ford’s so-called conflict of interest.

The possibilities are a legal Rubik’s cube that has area area watchers rotating the possibilities and wondering who, by lunch, will soon be leading Canada’s biggest city.

“There’s never been a brouhaha with this scale in an important Canadian city,” said John Mascarin, a specialist on public legislation at Aird & Berlis LLP who's watching the Ford case closely but isn't immediately involved.

The simplest scenario is that Hackland principles Ford did not contravene the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act when he elected at authority to absolve himself of the necessity to settle $3,150 to lobbyists from whom he had improperly solicited donations for his personal soccer foundation.

Ford would remain mayor and, Mascarin said, the Toronto homeowner who produced the problem would haven't any right of appeal.

Much harder would have been a discovering that Ford did break the work. Hackland might just scold the mayor, without any real penalty, if he finds the breach was inadvertent, one of judgment or the amount required insignificant.

If these loopholes don’t apply, but, provincial legislation decrees the judge must order the mayor’s chair vacated. He could also bar Ford from working for re-election for as much as seven years.

Judges have removed mayors of smaller municipalities, Mascarin said, but are understood to be loath to oust a elected official.

Centered on what he found at Ford’s hearing, Mascarin feels Ford is responsible and the exceptions don't affect him.

“Hackland is just a very strong-minded judge. He does not shrink from hard decisions,” Mascarin said. “I’m finding it hard to see how the MontBlanc Elegance watches judge lets him off the hook, but we won’t know till we see the judgment.”

If Hackland orders the mayor removed, it is very nearly certain his attorney, Alan Lenczner, can immediately launch an with the Divisional Court and ask it to stay Ford’s eviction from office until after the appeal is concluded.

That may see Ford stay in office for months, or a year, or more, although with a over his head. The following civic selection is in October 2014.

If Ford’s ejection was not easily put on hold, town council would have to get on with the business of selecting who’s the chef. Initially, at the very least, it'd be Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday, who'd have all of the abilities except account on community councils.

Council might then need to officially declare the chair vacant at an emergency meeting named with 24 hours’ notice. There is a regularly scheduled council meeting, with a full plan, Tuesday and Wednesday and launch of the city’s 2013 budget process on Thursday.

Midway through Ford’s four-year term, councillors would have the discretion to either employ certainly one of their very own, by majority vote, as a nanny mayor or induce a mayoral byelection that would cost $7 million.

Holyday, a staunch fiscal conservative, said he'd rather spend the money than risk a being chosen by council to undo Ford’s agenda of cost-cutting, contracting out and delivering city unions to heel.

Ford’s staff have been secretly telling associates that, if their employer is pushed out, the program is replica Bamboo watches have Holyday part of with a hand on the tiller, at least until the city elections office can manage a byelection.

Yet another Ford ally, Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong (Ward 34, Don Valley East), said: “In the eventuality that council is confronted with the decision of selecting a new mayor, I’m of the view that, if there is significantly more than couple of years left in the mandate, council should go to the folks and ask them.”

Glenn De Baeremaeker, a centre-left councillor often at odds with Ford, claimed the mayor’s opponents aren't planning “a construction coup.”

If council appoints a nanny mayor, Holyday is the logical choice, claimed De Baeremaeker (Ward 38, Scarborough Centre ).

“If we don’t have a mayor as of Monday afternoon, we’ll have to let the dirt settle and see what happens,” he said. “I can easily see plenty of people, including myself, unwilling to spend $7 million on a byelection because the mayor did something stupid and foolish.”