Opinion: The new mayor is being dealt a bad hand from the start. We need a mayor who can rally the city and council to fight for Toronto’s interests.
I don’t mean a “Strong Mayor” in the Doug Ford sense of the word — someone armed withI’m talking mostly about a strong mayor in the plain-English sense of the term — someone with a clear mandate to get things done. And, crucially, to rally the city and council to fight for Toronto’s interests.
unless there’s a very big surprise they’ll elect a new mayor with something like 30 per cent of the vote. What kind of leverage will the new mayor have with Ottawa and, especially, Queen’s Park? Everyone knows the city is in a very deep fiscal hole, $1.5-billion deep to be precise, and it’s not going to be able to dig out on its own., Chow was challenged to explain how she plans to press the city’s case for financial support with Ford. She pointed out he has 12 MPPs from Toronto, including five ministers, and suggested she might mobilize people to pressure them.
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