Olivia Chow

“Scarborough Centre Review – Our Scarborough Centre,” and its potential impacts on the Atlantic Packaging Inc facility at 333 Progress Avenue, including the possible conversion of vital employment lands.

Procurement of new Canada-made transit vehicles.

Lobbying for a housing policy that furthers the goal of addressing availability and affordability of housing while supporting employment and employment lands in the City of Toronto”.

Lobbying for policies about infrastructure development to support the present and future use of electric vehicles, and to support the City’s use of Canadian-made electric vehicles.

Proposed Amendment to Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 510-5, expanding the number of designated retail businesses operating with ‘tourist area exemption’ status, to expand the number of retailers allowed to open for business on statutory holidays.

Adoption of a policy or resolution supporting the provision of passenger rail service in Canada by publicly-owned Via Rail as an important component of economic development

Lobbying for a resolution or decision supporting producers of Canadian news and other content, including by way of stopping all City of Toronto advertising on Meta and Google, all in support of the federal government's policy as reflected in Bill C-18.

Discussions with City officials regarding investments in technology, R&D, economic development, etc. Specifically: enterprise networking, data centre, collaboration tools, cyber security, smart cities, IoT.

Cisco CSR initiatives: Cisco Networking Academies, Connected North, working with TPL, TESS, Digital Literacy Day, TDSB initiatives, etc

Discussions with City officials regarding digital readiness.

Discussions with City officials regarding digital readiness.

Cisco CSR initiatives: Cisco Networking Academies, Connected North, working with TPL, TESS, Digital Literacy Day, TDSB initiatives, etc

Discussions with City officials regarding investments in technology, R&D, economic development, etc. Specifically: enterprise networking, data centre, collaboration tools, cyber security, smart cities, IoT.

Requesting that the city avoid increasing the Toronto parking levy as part of the 2025 budget.

Toronto's COVID-19 response for small businesses.

Lobbying to adopt a construction mitigation program, including direct financial compensation to significantly impacted businesses, to be attached to major infrastructure related construction projects

Lobbying to maintain Toronto's small business property tax sub class and for commercial property tax rates to stay at or below current levels (property tax reductions where possible).

Discuss the upcoming 2023-2024 winter snow road maintenance season and identify and implement changes to improve upon last year’s winter season in relation to the nine current snow removal contracts between the City of Toronto and Snow T.O.

Provide winter maintenance services to all infrastructure types for the City of Toronto

Provision of winter maintenance services to all infrastructure types for the City of Toronto

Matters pertaining to the protection/enhancement of employment lands, including the lakefront/port area; storm water resource management; supporting efforts to strengthen Toronto as a place to invest and create jobs.

To make Toronto a more competitive jurisdiction in North America for re-investment and investment in manufacturing and job creation. Issues lobbied include land use, water, transportation, energy, etc.

Encouraging the development of more non-profit housing co-ops through Open Doors and other city programs.

Municipal Accommodations Tax (MAT), Tourism promotion to support Toronto Hotels, Regulations that impact the ability to support the hotels.

Helping the Greater Toronto Hotel Association become a stakeholder so they can input on the impact of the new revenue tools

Measures impacting economic development and prosperity of Toronto and region including taxation and budgeting, housing and land use planning, enhanced government services and technology adoption, enhancing business competitiveness and red tape reduction.

Measures to improve transit and transportation in Toronto and the region, including transit governance reform, regional transportation network, fare integration, funding sources and methods, planning and operations issues.

The design and construction of a Yonge Street Express Subway from Downtown Toronto to Richmond Hill