Community Safety

Community safety initiatives

A mayor leads the files that matter most. I answer for the whole city, but some files are too important to hand off and hope for the best. Four carry my name, my time, and my accountability: community safety, infrastructure, housing, and transit.

I will take the Mayor’s seat on the Toronto Police Service Board myself.

The board sets police priorities, hires and holds the Chief accountable, and approves the largest single budget in the city. That is not a table to send a stand-in to. As a member I’ll push for policing that reduces harm: real accountability, spending justified line by line, and community safety built with neighbourhoods, not imposed on them. If a decision affects a community, that community is consulted first.

Everyone deserves to feel safe: on their street, in their park, and on the TTC. Gun violence and the drug crisis are tearing at neighbourhoods, and I won’t look away.

1. Guns & trafficking

Focused, accountable policing through the Police Services Board against illegal guns and gun trafficking. Disrupt supply with police and partners.

2. Violence interruption

Expand proven violence-interruption and youth outreach that reaches kids before crews do. Keep young people in recreation and community centres, not on the corner.

3. Drug crisis: safety & health

Treat the drug crisis as both public safety and public health: more treatment and harm-reduction where it saves lives, more enforcement against traffickers, and crisis workers so overdose and mental-health calls get the right response.

4. Safer TTC

More staff and lighting, well-kept public spaces, and results for every safety dollar, not just a bigger budget.

5. Protect children & end trafficking

Resource human-trafficking and child-exploitation units through the Police Services Board, strengthen the city’s End Trafficking strategy and survivor supports, and require anti-trafficking training and reporting in hotel, rideshare and short-term-rental licensing.

6. What I’ll fight for

Courts, bail, firearms law, border guns and major drug prosecutions are provincial and federal. I’ll press for tools and funding that hold violent offenders accountable and support victims.

Housing accountability supports safer neighbourhoods too. Neglected buildings and opaque rental conditions hurt communities. See the Toronto Rental Registry plan for maintained, accountable housing.

Honest budgets · Community safety

Police funding must buy safety, not waste.

I will not hand the Toronto Police Service a huge budget that isn’t used effectively. Every resident deserves to feel safe, and every tax dollar for policing should show results: lower gun violence, faster response where it matters, safer TTC, and real accountability through the Police Services Board.

Context: Toronto’s 2026 police operating budget is about $1.70 billion gross / $1.43 billion net, roughly a $94 million (7%) increase over 2025. That’s a large share of city spending. Size alone is not a safety plan.

Results, not blank cheques

Fund what works. Demand clear outcomes for overtime, hiring, and specialty units, results for every safety dollar, not just a bigger budget.

Accountable through the Board

I take the Mayor’s seat myself, not a stand-in. That board sets priorities, hires and holds the Chief accountable, and approves the city’s largest budget. I’ll push for policing that reduces harm: real accountability, spending justified line by line, transparent reporting, no access-for-donors culture, and community safety built with neighbourhoods, if a decision affects a community, that community is consulted first.

Safety is more than policing

Violence interruption, youth outreach, crisis response, treatment, and community centres prevent harm before a cruiser is the only tool left. Fund prevention alongside enforcement.

Safe streets. Honest books. Power back to the people.

Community safety initiatives · Full plan

Freeze and Reinvest

Read the full plan: Freeze and Reinvest: A Community Safety Plan for Toronto.