John Tory officially filed his documents to run for mayor of Toronto on Monday morning. While addressing media outlets soon after filing his nomination papers at city hall’s elections office, he vowed to build a downtown subway relief line, keeping taxes low and to “get the city working together.” Mr. Tory has often highlighted the need for new taxes to pay for transit expansion, but he refrained from explaining how he plans to pay for the relief line.
Instead, Mr. Tory stated that all details of his financial plans will “be revealed in due course,” and promised to eventually release a complete financial plan. Giving a sneak peak of his financial plans, Mr. Tory alleged that he does not plans on scrapping the subway extension to the Scarborough RT that was approved by council this term. He explained that “we’ve decided on building a Scarborough subway, we’ve got to get on with that. I’m saying let’s build a Yonge St. relief line at the same time.”
Mr. Tory alleged that “let’s not do what we’ve done for years in this city, which is sit around looking at the one we’re building now and saying ‘isn’t that great’ and then wait 10 years to get on with the next one. I’m saying get on with it now. We need it now. People are like sardines in the subway and on the buses and trying to get around the city. And that’s about people living in the suburbs and getting to and from work and so on.”
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