Chris for Mayor.
For a Better City.
Five priorities for Toronto.
These priorities are the starting point. More detailed proposals will roll out over the coming weeks. Sign up below to see them as soon as they are released.
1. Re-start Toronto’s economic engine.
Amid economic and commercial uncertainties, Toronto has the talent, corporate and financial strength to drive growth across the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Ontario and all of Canada if we incentivize new investment, help companies grow here and raise rates of entrepreneurship and business formation. We need to implement the Toronto Board of Trade’s priorities for budgeting, congestion and zoning and make Toronto the anchor partner for provincial and federal governments in pursuing national strategies.
2. Get Torontonians moving faster.
We must ensure public transit runs faster and on time, while ending chronic delays for new projects. Transit needs to be safer so ridership continues to grow. Toronto desevres a well-designed network of protected bike lanes elevated and separated by curbs from motor traffic and pedestrians. We should build a broad-based consensus about the long-term future of Billy Bishop Airport, make bolder moves to end traffic jams in peak periods and ensure buses, streetcars and LRT move faster.
3. Put housing in reach.
Young Torontonians and new Canadians deserve support to become owners. We should leverage all available federal, provincial and private sector resources to make rental housing more accessible. According to city data, Toronto’s unhoused population peaked in autumn 2024: it has since been on a downward trend. We should accelerate this progress by multiplying pathways to housing, scaling up solutions with integrated services and ensuring every unhoused resident has access to options for housing stability.
4. Strengthen neighbourhoods.
Toronto’s liveability has always been rooted in diverse, distinctive, growing neighbourhoods. We need to make services easier to access in every neighbourhood. Parks, ravines, tree canopy and waterfront should connect, making it easier to walk, while prioritizing neighbourhood needs. Development should follow planning and neighbourhood priorities – not the other way round. Potholes and damaged infrastructure must be fixed, not ignored. We need to empower neighbourhoods to build on their strengths – culture, diversity, education, entertainment, food and more.
5. Be ambitious for Toronto.
We’ve grown. We’ve had recent successes – from the belated Eglinton LRT launch and UHN being rated the world’s best hospital to the World Cup, last year’s World Series and Biidaasige Park -- literally sunlight shining towards us. Toronto is home to one of the world’s top ten stock exchanges, an unrivalled library system, leaders, leading institutions and world-beating firms. But we could be much more. Working together, we should aim to be the most liveable, best-governed, most consistently prosperous city in the world – where diversity enriches us all and points the way forward to an even brighter future.
