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RSS FeedsEdward Keenan: Jennifer Keesmaat goes looking for Toronto the bold. But does it exist?
(The Star Food)

 
 

14 october 2018 21:45:49

 
Edward Keenan: Jennifer Keesmaat goes looking for Toronto the bold. But does it exist?
(The Star Food)
 


Eleven days before the election to determine who will be Toronto’s mayor for the next four years, candidate Jennifer Keesmaat visited a boardroom in the Toronto Star offices to begin her closing argument. “There is an incredible appetite in this city for us to be a forward-looking city,” she said, describing the time after she left her job as chief planner of the city and before she decided to run for mayor. “People kept coming up to me, on a daily basis, coming up to me and saying, ‘We need someone who believes in the future of this city and is prepared to advance a future vision of this city, who is focused on taking Toronto into the 21st century as opposed to keeping it the same,’” she said.This was about an hour into her 65-minute chat with a group of editors, reporters and columnists from the Star — a closing argument to her visit and the start of one to the electorate. During the hour she had performed well — the format suited her better, it seemed, than the prickly back-and-forth of debates, allowing her to make apparent how deeply she understands most of the policy areas she is discussing, and to outline a bit how her planner-style thinking ties a lot of overlapping issues together in ways that don’t always add up to stand-alone sound bites. She still seemed to struggle to give a straight answer to a simple question at times — her plans to keep the base property tax rate stable with inflation and to leave the Vehicle Registration Tax in its grave had to be virtually dragged out of her after long explanations about the decision-making “framework” she brings to the topics — but what she thinks are her points of differentiation from Mayor John Tory, her primary opponent, became clear enough. Some who will likely vote for her — or would like to — surely wish those differences were greater or more apparent. In a city where property taxes are, on average, lowest in ...


 
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