After winning Toronto’s mayoral byelection, Olivia Chow now faces what could be a far tougher challenge: winning support for her agenda from Premier Doug Ford.
The premier made it patently clear during the campaign that he did not want Toronto’s next mayor to be Chow, who spent 14 years as a left-leaning city councillor and eight years as a New Democrat MP.
“If Olivia Chow gets in, it’ll be an unmitigated disaster,” Ford said just last week. “Businesses are going to be fleeing Toronto. Businesses are terrified. Therefore, the workers should be terrified.”
Earlier in the campaign, Ford said Toronto would be “toast”
