Chow held off a late-campaign surge from Councillor Ana Bailão, and now assumes the strong-mayor powers granted last year by the province
Olivia Chow won election as mayor of Toronto on Monday, taking on the leadership of a city facing a housing affordability crisis, concerns about public safety and troubled finances.
“She’s going to have to learn how to operate as a mayor,” he said. “Getting things done is really hard, actually, so I think that’s going to be the big challenge.” Monday’s vote was triggered by the February resignation of Mr. Tory. Only months earlier, he had cruised to re-election and, had he finished his third term, he would have become Toronto’s longest-serving mayor. Instead, he resigned after acknowledging an affair with someone on his staff.two issues: affordability, as the city had become increasingly out of reach for many, and public safety, after a series of high-profile violent incidents on transit and elsewhere.
Toronto faces a budget crisis after years of leaders who focused on keeping taxes low, followed by a pandemic that blew massive holes in municipal revenues. The city is short $1.4-billion for last year and this year, and is seeking provincial and federal support that has not been forthcoming. The city is also facing a shortfall of nearly $50-billion over the next decade for its operating and capital expenses.
This mayoral by-election race was unusual in part because it happened in isolation. There were no city councillor or school trustee candidates on the ballot, just a record 102 mayoral candidates. Most of them, such as the person who promised to make his dog Molly honorary mayor, had no realistic path to victory.
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