Toronto Mayor John Tory says federal funding that was announced on Monday for municipalities is not enough, but a good start.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government is rushing out $2.2 billion in expected infrastructure funding to cities struggling with coronavirus-related financial concerns. “It’s a good-faith down payment almost where what they’re saying is they’re going to advance some money that was already in the budget,” Tory said in an interview with Global News. “But I think the prime minister himself indicated this morning it was not meant to be responsive to the ask we’ve made which is for other money to take account of what we’ve lost through people not riding transit, house deals not being done that cost us