JOHN TORY

Mayor, City of Toronto, Canada
@JohnTory

John Tory is the 65th mayor of Toronto.  Among Tory’s top priorities are tackling transit and traffic congestion. He has responded to Toronto’s transit crisis by getting on with the Scarborough subway and beginning work on the SmartTrack line: a surface subway that would provide all day, two-way service across the city and help relieve the congested Yonge subway. In 2004, Tory was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and in 2005, as PC leader, he served as leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park. In the 1980s he served as principal secretary to Premier Bill Davis and as associate secretary of the Ontario Cabinet. The early years of his career were spent practicing law in Toronto, where he was later elected a managing partner of one of Canada’s biggest firms. He was a founding board member and chair of the Greater Toronto Civic Action Alliance. He is a recipient of both the Paul Harris and Mel Osborne Awards from the Rotary and Kiwanis organizations respectively and was named a life member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. Moreover, he is the recipient of an African Canadian Achievement Award and the Harry Jerome Award.  Recently, Tory was awarded the Order of Ontario for being a “consummate champion for the Greater Toronto Region.” As a lawyer, talk show host, businessman, member of Provincial Parliament, leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park, and now as mayor, he has long believed that the diversity of Toronto is its strength. He is dedicated to bringing the city together as One Toronto.