First elected in 2014, it’s no surprise that incumbent Toronto mayor John Tory is a tough opponent but 30 hopefuls are up for the challenge.
in city-wide, provincial and national political dealings is key to getting priorities done in the city.Many of the candidates are unknown and new to city politics but his biggest challenger is arguablyAnother recognized challenger is lifelong Torontonian and motherTory has only participated in two debates held by the Canadian Association for Retired Persons andPenalosa and Climenhaga also participated in those debates, along with a handful of other lesser-known but passionate candidates.
Yan said Tory’s popularity will help the veteran politician lead the race, even if voters don’t necessarily agree with his views. Yan said if elected he would improve housing supply by removing zoning policies in key areas of the city. “I've been working with projects that are dealing with workers that have income insecurity, food insecurity, rental insecurity and I felt like the only way to fix that is to run for office, because there's only so much that I can say as a non-partisan agent,” she added.
“There's a different way to do politics, and I just felt like, despite my odds, someone had to light a beacon and say ‘Yeah, I'm here. I'm listening. I know what you're going through and this is what it could look like if it was given a stage and a platform,’” she said., 37, said his main priorities if elected would be tackling housing affordability and economic opportunities.
His campaign approach has been to listen and appeal to young adults, who are a huge demographic among the voting public. “...I feel in a city as diverse as Toronto there needs to be more representation of various classes and various people. Our city council, not that diverse. And I think that's a problem because when you represent the city people have to kind of see that representation reflected in them,” he told CP24.com.
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