Reconciliation

Trust and justice with Indigenous peoples

Toronto is built on Indigenous land, traditional territory of many nations, covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties. A land acknowledgement matters. Restoring trust and justice takes action.

Reconciliation measured in action, not words, in city land, naming, hiring, and genuine partnership with Indigenous communities.

We can’t get ahead by violating human rights. That is the moral floor.

A wealthy country where First Nations still boil drinking water is a political choice about whose life is endangered.

Land is our greatest wealth, once land and waters are damaged, money cannot buy them back. Homes and lands are not for sale.

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1. City land

Use city land decisions as reconciliation in practice, partnership on how public land is held, shared, and developed, not as a one-time announcement.

2. Naming

Names on streets, places, and city spaces should honour Indigenous peoples and history, decided with communities, not imposed on them.

3. Hiring

Indigenous people should see themselves in city hiring and leadership, real pathways into city work, not token representation.

4. Genuine partnership

Work with Indigenous nations and urban Indigenous organizations as partners, listen first, fund Indigenous-led priorities, and follow through.

5. Honour the treaties

Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties. City decisions should respect those relationships, not treat them as history only.

6. Honest about power

Many tools of justice sit with the province and Ottawa. Where city hall can act, I will. Where it can’t, I’ll fight openly, and say the difference.

Read the full land acknowledgement · See the full plan

Land, water and Treaty: a moral floor

Neskantaga First Nation has lived under one of Canada’s longest boil-water advisories. No Ring of Fire mine or northern road should go ahead without the free, prior and informed consent of the First Nations affected, and Bill 5 and Bill C-5 powers must not be used to sidestep treaty duties.

I’ll fight for: lasting clean water for every First Nation, and consent before extraction.

City Hall delivers: Toronto keeps its own reconciliation commitments on city land, naming, hiring and partnership, and the mayor’s voice tells Queen’s Park and Ottawa that Toronto will not cheer extraction built on undrinkable water.