Don Valley North

Additional housing should be planned to preserve Toronto's unique neighbourhoods, ensuring services like transit, parks, services and schools are available. As-of-right housing will be disruptive to neighbourhoods: development should be intentional and planned.

Yes, with a strong focus on affordable housing. Increasing supply can help address Toronto’s housing shortage, but new development should also consider existing communities, infrastructure, transit, and local services.

Toronto needs more housing but I oppose blanket, one-size-fits-all upzoning that disregards meaningful community input, neighbourhood character, infrastructure capacity, transportation, the protection of green spaces.

Yes, when a suitable indoor space is available and meets the person’s accessibility, safety, and household needs, with appropriate alternatives and support arranged. The transition should be handled respectfully and with compassion.

Once appropriate indoor accommodation meeting their accessibility, safety and household needs is available, the City must require them to leave the encampment within 48 hours and restore the park for safe public use.

Road pricing is only an option if it is fair, equitable and regional in scope. Any such system would need to be developed in partnership with other levels of government, and should be publicly owned and publicly operated so all the revenue will make its way to transportation improvements.

No. I would not support introducing congestion charges or road tolls. Residents already face significant costs, and I would instead focus on improving transportation through better use of existing resources and reducing waste in the City’s budget.

Toronto residents already pay enough. City Hall should reduce congestion by better coordinating construction projects and more reliable public transportation. We should fund transportation improvements through responsible spending, including ending sole-source contracting, rather than new fees.

Toronto cannot afford to defer critical infrastructure repairs, but we should prioritize finding efficiencies and making full use of existing revenue tools while pressing the provincial and federal governments for their fair share of infrastructure funding.

Toronto's residents cannot afford any more taxes during the current affordability crisis.

No, Toronto should first eliminate waste, end sole-source contracting, and prioritize essential repairs within its $18.9-billion budget while seeking fair funding from the provincial and federal government.

Transparency is required for accountability

Toronto must publish clear, project-level budgets, schedules, contract details and performance updates so taxpayers can track every dollar, identify delays, and hold City Hall accountable for the results they’re paying for. Every citizen deserves to know how their tax dollars are spent.

We need to invest more in crisis prevention, mental-health response, addiction treatment and youth intervention while maintaining our current levels of investment in the enforcement and public-space management that keep our communities safe.

The City should address the root causes of a lack of public safety.

All of these are important and can all be used to address public safety. Safe parks and streets is very important in DVN, and mental health trained teams are crucial for many reasons.

Increase sufficiently to recruit, properly train, and retain police officers and TTC Special Constables, restore visible neighbourhood and transit patrols, and ensure frontline personnel can enforce the law safely, professionally, and effectively.

Toronto should permit these tools to combat crime and locate dangerous offenders, but require strict privacy safeguards, limited data retention, independent audits and transparent public reporting to prevent misuse.

We need to make the service we have right now much more reliable than it is today. That will improve our ridership and help us generate expansion. We also need to get the Sheppard Subway expansion built!

Many residents struggle to access transit due to lack of rapid transit.

Until the TTC is reliable and safe across the city, the ridership will not go up. This has to be a priority including safety doors.

Our priority should be moving people and essential goods efficiently. If we get passenger capacity and essential access right, general traffic and parking will follow.

We always must have good access for emergency vehicles. I don’t believe there has to be a choice for cars and parking over pedestrians, especially in Don Valley North. There are innovative solutions to serve everyone.

We need to build more affordable and supportive housing people can actually afford. That means working with other levels of government and non-profit partners to build homes, create jobs and invest in the infrastructure our communities need.

Affordable housing will make it easier for the City to address other issues facing its residents.

Toronto should prioritize accelerating responsible construction of single family and multi-unit housing units, including affordable housing. We must streamline approvals and reduce costly delays while protecting neighbourhood infrastructure and protecting sensitive ecological areas.

Toronto’s primary job is to enable housing by approving enough homes and removing unnecessary barriers to construction. But a city of our size should also use every tool available from regulation to public land and partnerships to make sure we are building the homes our residents need.

Toronto should enable the private sector to build affordable housing by accelerating approvals, reducing costs and coordinating provincial support services, not expand City-owned housing or use grants and non-profits as indirect owners.

Scattered growth will reduce existing congestion and transit overload.

We must do this without sacrificing green space and ravines, which are valuable resources and spaces for Don Valley North.

Toronto should reduce development fees, streamline approvals, eliminate unnecessary red tape, and reduce excessive municipal barriers that increase the cost of every new home.

A professional project management approach will streamline execution and provide data to challenge changes.

Toronto should end sole-source contracting, require competitive procurement, and publicly track the city’s and contracted companies’ budgets, schedules, and performance to prevent delays and cost overruns.

We need to continuously strengthen Toronto’s project management capacity so major projects are delivered on time, on budget and with clear accountability to taxpayers.

Toronto should use competitively procured private-sector delivery more often when it provides better value and measurable results, with strict standards, transparent contracts, and clear public oversight.

Raising property taxes will prejudicially affect fixed-income families, many of whom are seniors/long-term residents of a neighbourhood.

We don’t need to choose between raise taxes or cut services. We need a Core Service Review to ensure City Hall protects essential services and eliminates wasteful spending, sole-source contracting, and demands better value from its $18.9-billion budget.

Toronto should rely primarily on economic growth and a broader tax base created by new homes and businesses, not higher tax rates or new fees on residents.

Toronto should first complete a transparent, citywide infrastructure audit, prioritize safety-critical repairs, and redirect savings from waste and sole-source contracting toward the most urgent work.

We've demonstrated that Toronto is a willing partner, but as the city we are left to operate the asset so we need new funding arrangements.

We can do both Partnership & Advocacy. Toronto should pursue a constructive, results-focused partnership with the provincial government, while firmly advocating for fair funding and clear accountability on shared priorities.

We've learned over time that every mayor has had to work with Council to build support for major priorities. The tools to lead on administration, budgeting and housing are already available under the City of Toronto Act, but building consensus sets these up for success.

Strong mayor powers should be used sparingly to advance urgent citywide priorities, not to bypass Council, silence local representatives, or override meaningful public consultation.

We need reasonable development for DVN not over-builds. Also restoring public safety and reliable core services should receive attention so Don Valley North residents receive the clean parks, safe streets, dependable transit, and well-maintained infrastructure they already pay for.

Voters should judge me on whether Don Valley North is measurably safer, cleaner, and better maintained without making taxpayers pay more for City Hall’s wasteful spending.

Toronto should restore safe streets and transit, reliable core services, accountable spending, and respect for taxpayers.

The City should promptly restore public order, transportation and access to homes, hospitals, schools, workplaces, and places of worship through consistent, lawful enforcement.

Toronto should improve project coordination, accelerate approvals, expand skilled-trades capacity, and use transparent competitive procurement.

Toronto should prioritize clean, safe, accessible, and well-maintained streets, parks, sidewalks, and public spaces. Don Valley North has many wonderful green spaces that need protection and maintenance, and sidewalks everywhere need attention.

Toronto should support arts, culture, and nightlife by removing unnecessary barriers, simplifying permits, and enabling private investment and sponsorship, along with making sure property assessments don’t force venues to close.