Olivia Chow found herself the target of most of the firepower in the first major debate of the Toronto mayoral race Monday.
The debate, hosted by the Daily Bread Food Bank and moderated by journalist Maggie John, focused on affordability, food insecurity and poverty.so far, found herself lobbing back responses to a range of questions from her rivals in a portion of the debate where they were allowed to ask one another questions.
“Don’t tell me that I don’t know how to read a budget for heaven’s sake,” Chow shot back. “If you actually talked to anyone I worked with at City Hall, which party or which political side they’re on, they will tell you that Olivia Chow knows that budget really well.” She retorted that “people are ‘terrified’ when they lose their homes. They’re terrified when they have to come to the food bank. That’s what they’re terrified about. They’re terrified when the bus never shows up.”
Chow also got in some hits of her own, asking Brad Bradford why he voted to hike TTC farers while also cutting service.Chow also told Hunter that she believes in mixed income communities and that lumping everyone who needs a subsidy into one building is"called ghettos."
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