Mark Saunders is leaning on his decades of experience in public service when making his pitch for why he should be Toronto’s next mayor.
He reminisces about relying on the bus to take him from Jane and Finch to Scarborough to get to work when he started as a cop. He still takes transit today, including riding the subway downtown for meetings, and notes how it has changed and why people are concerned about the many random attacks over the last year.His decades of experience as a police officer, though, also tells him that a cop isn’t always the answer to every problem.
Saunders was one of the first people I called after John Tory resigned, and he said at the time he was receiving a lot of calls, lots of people asking him to run and that he was thinking about it. Asked straight up what the deciding factor was in jumping into the race, he credited his wife Stacey’s support.Article content
He describes the city as being at a tipping point, especially when it comes to crime and disorder and feels he has the skills needed to stop Toronto from going over that tipping point.
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