Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she isn’t looking for a fight with the federal government, even as relations grow strained over housing policy and refugee shelter funding.
On Thursday, a joint press conference with Chow and federal Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson was scrapped with no reason offered.
It came only a day after Chow sent a letter to councillors warning that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government had agreed to cover only 26 per cent of Toronto’s estimated costs for housing asylum seekers in the city’s shelter system this year. It's a move that city staff said would leave the municipality $107 million short.