With the one-year anniversary of John Tory being elected Toronto’s mayor, inevitably, comparisons between him and former leader Rob Ford are being made.
In 2014, Tory’s election centered on key issues such as the Gardiner Expressway, SmartTrack, and taxes. When Ford served his first year in office in 2010-2011, the agenda was quite different.
Tory built his campaign on city unification, upgrading transit and housing and ending the “circus” at city hall, while Ford wanted to improve the TTC and bring more transparency to city council.
With such differing agendas, the question remains: how do the two compare?
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While each politician has garnered both fans and their critics, both Ford and Tory have also succeeded and failed in keeping campaign promises.
The key difference is that Tory, unlike Ford, still has time to prove himself. While it hasn’t been declared that Ford will face off against Tory again in 2018, there is some foreshadowing that Toronto will once again witness a historical mayoral election.