Mayor Olivia Chow says she will support a motion to grant Toronto police the full funding increase they were seeking for this year after the budget she initially put forward trimmed the increase by $12.1 million.
The Toronto Police Services Board had approved a budget in December that sought a $20 million boost for the police budget this year.
In a statement issued Tuesday afternoon, a day before the budget goes to council, Chow said that she has "had many promising conversations” with other levels of government about the cost of policing in Toronto over the past few weeks. She reiterated that through indirect funding and money set aside for salary negotiations, police are getting closer to $60 million more this year.
“We have 100 consulates in Toronto, we have huge events like Pride Toronto, Carabana, Honda indie. So we have a lot of challenges and the federal government and provincial government said ‘Yeah, we understand that and we'll support you,” Chow said. “So it's just quite recent that we are able to have this kind of very promising dialogue.”
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