Originally Published: 2010-02-07

Mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone.

Voting rights for resident immigrants, strengthening the public transportation network, direct involvement of citizens in municipal affairs. Hours after dispatching with the bureaucratic red tape to officially enter the mayoral race, Adam Giambrone tables concrete proposals and projects with which he intends to build his election campaign – key planks in the platform planned out “over the past two weeks,” he reveals to Corriere Canadese/Tandem.
“What we face,” he says, “are eight and a half very important months for Toronto’s destiny. From my point of view, the election campaign will be based on the challenges of the future, and not on controversies of the past. I’ve been city councillor for seven years. And this has given me the opportunity to understand the workings of City Hall, and at the same time to better understand what the needs of the citizens are. As well, my experience as TTC chair has benefited me greatly.”
According to Giambrone, Toronto doesn’t need temporary band-aid solutions to patch up past mistakes and continue forward, navigating blindly: The city must be able to “develop long-term project,” says.
“We must ask ourselves where we want to take Toronto in the next 10 to 20 years,” he adds, “and more directly, how we want to prepare for events such as the Pan-American Games, or how we want to welcome the millions of visitors who will come to the city in the coming years. We must move ahead with key programs, such as Transit City, which in the long run will truly make a difference.”
The mayoral candidate’s vision includes an improved network of public transportation: the axiom is that an improved transit connections between the various areas of the city will bring with it economic development and jobs.
“And that’s not all,” he says. “We live in a multicultural city, where the quality of life is very high but where, at the same time, 25% of the population lives below the poverty line. One child in three personally experiences this situation. This is unacceptable. We must be able to develop policies capable of attacking the root causes of the scourge of poverty, through investments targeted to individual neighbourhoods, strengthening services.”

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