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    The Ontario Greens responded to five questions from Toronto Mayor John Tory. They committed to: 1) Supporting Toronto's housing plan and providing $48M annually for supportive housing; 2) Providing COVID relief funding to cover Toronto's costs and easing the financial burden on municipalities; 3) Completing four priority transit lines and continuing to invest in transit; 4) Partnering with Toronto on its safety plan; and 5) Creating a more robust public mental health system with increased funding and expanded services.

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    The Ontario Greens responded to five questions from Toronto Mayor John Tory. They committed to: 1) Supporting Toronto's housing plan and providing $48M annually for supportive housing; 2) Providing COVID relief funding to cover Toronto's costs and easing the financial burden on municipalities; 3) Completing four priority transit lines and continuing to invest in transit; 4) Partnering with Toronto on its safety plan; and 5) Creating a more robust public mental health system with increased funding and expanded services.

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    The Ontario Greens responded to five questions from Toronto Mayor John Tory. They committed to: 1) Supporting Toronto's housing plan and providing $48M annually for supportive housing; 2) Providing COVID relief funding to cover Toronto's costs and easing the financial burden on municipalities; 3) Completing four priority transit lines and continuing to invest in transit; 4) Partnering with Toronto on its safety plan; and 5) Creating a more robust public mental health system with increased funding and expanded services.

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    PO Box 1132 Station F

    Toronto, ON M4Y 2T8


    May 25, 2022

    John Tory
    Mayor of Toronto
    ​Office of the Mayor
    City of Toronto
    100 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2
    416.397.CITY (2489)

    RE: Correspondence from Mayor John Tory

    Dear Mayor Tory,

    Thank you for sending your letter and your questions to the Ontario Greens. We appreciate the
    opportunity to speak on these issues and we would welcome the opportunity for conversation and
    collaboration in the future. I am happy to provide responses to your questions on behalf of Mike
    Schreiner and the party.

    Sincerely,

    Madeleine Crist
    Office Manager
    Green Party of Ontario

    1. Will you commit to supporting the City's HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan, and to providing
    $48 million annually in ongoing operating funding for supportive housing beginning in 2023?

    Ontario Greens support Toronto’s HousingTO Action Plan and would provide operating funding to
    support it.

    We would build 60,000 permanent supportive housing units over the next decade, through innovative
    partnerships with public, private, and non-profit housing organizations and deploy temporary and
    permanent supportive modular housing projects on provincially owned land as quickly as possible.

    We would also increase annual funding for women’s shelters as well as safe and accessible transitional
    and supportive housing options for women and their families and increase funding for culturally
    appropriate transitional housing. Overall, we would provincially fund 50% of shelter and community
    housing costs while allowing municipalities to maintain management control.

    2. Will you commit to providing the City with relief funding to cover its remaining $875 million in
    COVID-19 operating budget impacts, principally for TTC revenue impacts and extraordinary
    shelter costs?

    admin@gpo.ca 888-647-3366 www.gpo.ca


    PO Box 1132 Station F
    Toronto, ON M4Y 2T8
    Ontario Greens will ensure consultation and collaboration with municipalities in which we communicate
    frequently about issues they face. We understand that they are under great financial pressure and have
    committed to try to ease that burden. We will restore the 50% provincial cost-share for transit
    operations and support electrification plans for all municipal transit systems as well as uploading 50% of
    shelter and community housing costs back to the province from municipalities. We will give municipal
    governments the autonomy to implement revenue tools to fund critical infrastructure needs and
    services.

    The Ontario Greens would also ease some of the financial burdens from municipal infrastructure costs
    through the creation of a dedicated $2B per year Climate Adaptation Fund for municipalities.

    3. Will you commit to completing the four priority transit lines outlined above and working with
    us to continue our transit progress?

    Ontario Greens will commit to completing the four priority transit lines. We would also work closely with
    the city to continue transit progress through a number of key steps:
    ● Prioritizing public transit in all transportation planning decisions
    ● Restoring the 50% provincial cost-share for transit operations in order to reduce fare increases
    for users and increase transit ridership
    ● Triple the number of dedicated bus lanes by 2025.
    ● Electrify Ontario’s transit system as quickly as possible, including by adding 4,000 electric and
    fuel-cell buses by 2030.
    ● Ensuring transportation decisions are evidence-based, without political interference, and include
    consultation with planning experts throughout the planning process

    4. Will you commit to partnering with the City on our SafeTO Plan, including providing funding
    assistance?

    Ontario Greens believe that collaboration and consultation with municipalities is essential to have a
    thriving Ontario. We are committed to making Toronto safer for its residents, which includes partnering
    with the city on the SafeTO Plan. Ontario Greens will address some of the underlying causes to further
    improve the safety of Toronto communities including:
    ● Developing a 3 digit dedicated crisis response line and health-focused crisis response teams to
    respond to mental health and substance related calls
    ● Working with the federal government to decriminalize drug use, expanding safe consumption
    sites, and including mental health and addiction care under OHIP
    ● Ensuring that court mental health workers are available through Ontario to divert individuals
    living with a mental health and/or substance use issue out of the justice system and into mental
    health and addictions services and supports
    ● Increase upstream investments in the social determinants of health, such as social isolation,
    housing insecurity, and poverty to prevent substantial, long-term healthcare costs and severe
    disease.

    admin@gpo.ca 888-647-3366 www.gpo.ca


    PO Box 1132 Station F
    Toronto, ON M4Y 2T8
    5. Will you commit to creating a more robust provincial mental health care system? Please be
    specific about new initiatives and funding you would implement and cover.

    A major plank of the Ontario Green platform is focused on improving the state of mental health care in
    the province, and treating it the same way we treat health care. For more details, see our comprehensive
    plan to improve support for mental health and addictions, “Building a More Caring Ontario”.

    The following commitments are including in our plan to increase access to publicly funded mental health
    care:
    ● Provide an immediate budget increase of 8% to community mental health sector to increase
    publicly funded care
    ● Invest to increase mental health spending to 10% of Ontario’s healthcare budget
    ● Include mental health and addiction care under OHIP by offering services provided by
    psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals
    ● Expand access to publicly funded mental health and addiction treatment beds
    ● Fully integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and
    walk-in clinics, and include mental health and substance use as part of regular check-ups

    We want to create an accessible mental health care system:


    ● Invest to ensure core mental health and addiction services are available in all regions of Ontario
    ● Establish clear pathways to navigate our mental health care system and navigators to connect
    people to appropriate treatment and services
    ● Implement a wait time reduction strategy for services
    ● Create 24/7 mental health mobile crisis response teams, crisis centres, and short-term
    residential beds
    ● Invest in expanding services for youth who face service gaps again out of youth system of care
    and invest in Youth Wellness Hubs province-wide

    To expand addiction services we will:


    ● Increase the number of consumption and treatment sites throughout Ontario, and expand the
    availability of harm reduction programs
    ● Expand care options for people with complex needs:
    ● Conduct a needs assessment for acute and community-based mental health and addiction
    services by region, and make investments in acute care beds as needed
    ● Recognize suicide as a public heath priority and invest in evidence-based prevention strategies
    that support the individual needs of people

    admin@gpo.ca 888-647-3366 www.gpo.ca


    PO Box 1132 Station F
    Toronto, ON M4Y 2T8

    admin@gpo.ca 888-647-3366 www.gpo.ca

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