Invest in Youth

Each commitment is marked Deliver (a mayor can do it) or Advocate (it needs the province or Ottawa, and I will press for it).

#	Commitment	What it means	Type
1	Permanent funding, not pilots	Move proven youth programs into the City’s base budget so they no longer end with a three-year grant	Deliver
2	Year-round safe spaces	Turn vacant City buildings and empty storefronts into youth hubs open evenings and weekends, in every district including Scarborough, Etobicoke and North York	Deliver
3	Paid apprenticeships with City crews	Youth learn trades on real work: infrastructure repair, building retrofits, flood protection and tree planting, by strengthening the City’s own crews	Deliver
4	Free transit	Fare-free TTC for everyone means no young person misses school, work or a job interview over a fare	Deliver (phased)
5	A first job and a first business	Local-hiring priority for youth on City projects, plus seats in neighbourhood incubators with mentors from colleges and local businesses	Deliver
6	A real seat at the table	A formal role for the Toronto Youth Cabinet: youth consulted before decisions that affect them, with a public report on what changed	Deliver
7	Prevention first	As mayor I will take my own seat on the Police Service Board and push resources toward violence interruption and mentorship	Deliver
8	Homes and learning	Tenant protections for young renters, longer library hours and digital access, and pressure on Queen’s Park to restore cut OSAP grants	Deliver / Advocate

Toronto needs an engineer.
Here’s the whole plan.