ghetto for Algonquin College. Chiarelli faced tougher competition in 2018, defeating lawyer Emilie Coyle by 1,300 votes. Voters in the ward had called for renewal of city facilities and infrastructure and student housing. Chiarelli campaigned on maintaining roads and infrastructure in the short-term. Chiarelli did not run in the 2022 municipal election. Alleged harassment of staff and police investigation Beginning in September 2019, several former employees have come forward with allegations of inappropriate statements in the Councillor's office. Two complaints concerned Chiarelli asking female staffers if they were comfortable not wearing a bra and one of the women recalled during her interview how Chiarelli described revealing outfits worn by others and asked her what her thoughts were about wearing shirts that showed the side of a woman's breasts. Also, five women claimed they heard Chiarelli making inappropriate comments in the workplace, including a joke repeatedly told about "needing to sanitize one of the office desks because a former employee had had sex on it with another councillor". According to an official complaint filed by someone who interviewed for a position at Chiarelli's office - and an unnamed source contacted by CBC News - Chiarelli described a strategy for signing up volunteers by having women from his office go to bars and flirt and drink with men in order to pressure them into volunteering at the Councillor's office. The complainant said Chiarelli did not explicitly tell her that her job offer was conditional on her willingness to go to bars and flirt with men or on her willingness to not wear a bra and said it wasn't clear if she'd be pressured to do those things once she got the job. By October 23 a total of 13 women had come forward with allegations concerning inappropriate behaviour and comments made by Chiarelli, including asking women to not wear bras to functions. In response, Chiarelli issued a statement denying all the allegations: "This situation has reached a level of seriousness, and has adopted what I can only describe as an apparent ‘mob-mentality’ approach to the inaccurate characterization of past events, where I need to write this to step forward and defend my good name, reputation, and three decades of public service, irrespective of any potential adverse health consequences". In October, Chiarelli threatened to seek a judicial review to stop the Integrity Commissioner from looking into the complaints on the grounds that the