Progress Toronto and Team Tory are both weighing in on council races, hoping for a win for a candidate they can rely on. The race to endorse candidates could change the way the next city council works. Opinion by thekeenanwire
Toronto City Hall isn’t known as a place for parties. Mind you, back in the Rob Ford years, it was sometimes known as a place to, but the generally reliable sedative effect of Mayor John Tory’s leadership style has put a stop to that.parties. That may be kind of changing in this election, but I’ll come back to that in a minute.
I mean that in a good way. Not least because you can actually hear some genuine arguments about things when you have 26 people who answer individually to their own voters rather than to a party boss. The need to line up votes on every issue usually forces the mayor to collaborate, often to moderate, and to participate in a more diverse ongoing discussion with colleagues.
Today, there are five wards where a Tory endorsee faces off against a Progress Toronto candidate. There may turn out to be more if Tory issues more endorsements — and as Progress Toronto announces its list of anti-endorsements of candidates they plan to actively oppose. An equally interesting question is what effect these kind of formalized slates might have on the resulting council.
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