“My heart is full because it's so exciting to be given this opportunity to serve, to work with others, and to grow and to learn, but really to get something done for people,” she said during an interview early Tuesday morning on CP24 Breakfast.
The city’s new mayor already plans to be at City Hall this afternoon to meet with the city manager for a briefing. She’ll also be doing media scrum and photo opportunity there at 2 p.m. “So they got the money, they got the land, they got the building, everything's ready. They just need the approvals shuffled and hit the ground. So we're gonna say, ‘let's get this moving.’”
In the meantime, she said that Toronto would be “coming together” with the provincial and federal governments to make the case for more support so that the property tax increase is reasonable. As for the municipal land transfer tax, she said only two per cent of homeowners would be impacted. She also noted that a federal grant is available for first-time homebuyers to ease that burden.