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Five priorities for Toronto

Priority 1: Restart Toronto’s Economic Engine

Toronto already has what other cities are trying to build. The world's best hospital. A top ten stock exchange. Leading research universities. Billions in investment capital. The most diverse talent pool on earth.

And still we underperform. We are a bigger, better city than the one we've been acting like, and everything we need is already here. It just sits in separate buildings, not working together. That's not a money problem. It's a leadership problem.

We will connect them.

    • Adopt the Board of Trade priorities on budgeting, gridlock and zoning as city policy

    • Build the research to jobs bridge between hospitals, universities and the financial sector

    • Set a startup formation and growth target and report on it quarterly, in public

Priority 2: Get Torontonians Moving Faster

Your commute is the test of whether this city works. It is a test you can measure.

The TTC is not broken. It is not managed. So, the work starts on day one. Real fare enforcement, so the system belongs to the people who are there to ride. Stations kept clean and safe. Ridership rises. Revenue rises with it. Then fares come down for the people who need it most.

The city is not moving because there is a series of connected decisions nobody made. Construction that drags on, signals timed for a city half our size, and every rider the TTC wins back is one less car in front of yours.

Protected bike lanes, designed with neighbourhoods rather than imposed on them, and never at the cost of the car commute. Built once. Built right.

    • Get Toronto working, the first thirty days pledge. Three commitments, a date on each, a cost on each

    • A transit safety and performance standard measured and published monthly

    • A public delay ledger for every transit project, promised date beside actual date

Priority 3: Put Housing in Reach

Housing affordability is about supply. Toronto's zoning is a maze, and our approvals are among the slowest in Canada. More supply. Prices moderate. People stay.

More than half of this city rents. That's a majority. City Hall works for renters too.

For our unhoused neighbours, stable housing with supports works better and costs less than shelters. Supports means the real thing: mental health care and substance use treatment attached to the housing, not a referral and a waiting list. The evidence is in. We will do it.

    • The Toronto Renter Strategy: affordability targets, anti-displacement protection, standards enforcement

    • Faster approvals: a clock on every permit, published for every application

    • Pathways to ownership for young Torontonians and new Canadians

Priority 4: Strengthen Neighbourhoods

Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods. Leafy streets. Great parks. Local libraries and rinks. Main streets full of life. Neighbours who look out for each other.

This is drifting. Potholes sit. Parks go untended. Some streets always dirty, and too often, it fixes fixed depending on who you know at City Hall. That's not a money problem. It's a management problem.

Neighbourhoods will lead their own planning, and development will follow it. And everyone will feel safe on the walk home, in a city known for its welcoming public order and its real care for those in need.

    • The basics contract: ward by ward service standards with response time targets, tracked in public

    • Parks and public space: a cleanliness and safety standard, measured and published

    • Scale up the Toronto Community Crisis Service into a Toronto Community Support Service with a broader mandate to help people in need and support strong neighbourhoods

Priority 5: Be Ambitious for Toronto

The people running this city look at Toronto and see something smaller than it is. A mid-sized city with mid-sized problems. It isn't. Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America and the economic engine of this country. We have been led small.

I see a city that is underperforming, and underperforming can be fixed. Ambition attracts talent. Apology repels it. When a neighbourhood thrives, it lifts the city. When Toronto works, it drives the country.

We will lead the city we actually are.

    • The institutions strategy: our hospitals, universities and exchange working as one advantage

    • The talent case: make it plain to every young person that their career will move forward here and their sector or industry will thrive here

    • Toronto as anchor partner to Ottawa and Queen's Park on every national strategy

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