Some prominent Toronto mayoral candidates, including city council’s current housing and planning chair, are holding campaign events aimed at raising money from developers. Mayoral candidates asking deep-pocketed homebuilders for campaign donations is not new. However, political observers say large-scale events hosted for municipal candidates by developers — common in provincial politics — have until now been a rarity. Brad Bradford, the housing chair, is appearing Monday evening at a dinner hosted by Al Libfeld, co-founder and president of Pickering-based Tribute Communities, which has multiple condominium projects in Toronto. “Our campaign isn’t going out of our way to court donations from developers, nor do we expect developers will go out of their way to support our campaign,” Matlow wrote in a statement.

Source: thestar April 16, 2023 19:37 UTC