Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that he is “really excited” with the prospect of having a “strong progressive as mayor of Toronto” following Olivia Chow’s byelection win.
The former NDP MPP was elected with roughly 37 per cent of the vote on Monday, beating former deputy mayor Ana Bailão by about 34,000 votes in a race that was closer than many polls predicted.
But he said that having “a strong progressive partner for Canada’s biggest city” in Chow “is a good thing.” “I know she will be a real partner on a lot of things we agree on, whether it is standing up for minorities and fundamental freedoms, whether it is women’s rights or LGBTQ2S+ rights or whether it is investing massively in housing and in accelerating the processes so we can solve the very real challenges so many people in the GTA and indeed around the country are facing on housing,” Trudeau said.
Chow, for her part, campaigned on building 25,000 rent-controlled homes over 8 years on city-owned land, an initiative that would require a significant federal investment.
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