Municipal elections across Ontario take place on Monday, October 26, 2026.
If you live in Ontario, wherever you live, it’s an important election.
The Toronto election though matters for the whole country. I understand that many of you who don’t live in Toronto hate this place, I see the comments.
We have a binary choice between the NDP candidate of Olivia Chow and the common sense candidate - a Liberal and not a Conservative - in Brad Bradford.
I interviewed Bradford this week, you can watch it below. I didn’t interview Chow, but her campaign rarely answers basic questions I send in, so that was never going to happen.
If you live in Toronto, I want you pay attention. If you don’t live in Toronto, this still matters.
The reality is, Toronto is Canada’s largest municipality.
We have a population of more than 3 million people.
The city budget is $19 billion - that’s more than the provincial budgets of PEI, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and equal to Nova Scotia.
The city of Toronto has more than 42,000 employees, that’s a small city.
So yes, who is elected the mayor of Toronto matters.
Do we elect someone who continues to hike taxes, who is more concerned with renaming public spaces than making sure basic services work, who claims crime is down when it is not?
These are serious questions.
After months of Chow having a run away lead, things have tightened. Several polls have Bradford out in front.
Then suddenly, a poll paid for by a union representing city workers that has endorsed Chow shows an 11 point lead. The poll is fed to the media but isn’t posted to the pollster’s website, nothing about this poll follows the usual cues of the normally reputable pollster’s course of action.
I’m not buying it.
The race could go either way, but I’m still hoping for Bradford.
I don’t always endorse in elections, but I did here because this is important. The Toronto Sun has also endorsed Bradford and you can read the reasons why here.
Bradford has a long list of serious people, both Liberal and Conservative, who have done the hard work of running governments endorsing him. Chow’s endorsements mainly come fron NDP councillors, NDP MPs and MPPs and unions that represent city workers.
Choose wisely Toronto.
Here’s my interview with Brad Bradford.
"Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers' money ‘investment,’ even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients"
Thomas Sowell