For Mayor of Toronto · 2026Skilled trades and apprenticeships
Major housing and infrastructure programs should create paid pathways into construction, maintenance and advanced manufacturing.
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Priority 5 · ProposedJobs and Opportunity That Stay Here
A city cannot remain affordable if opportunity keeps leaving. Housing, transportation, education, newcomer integration, public procurement, small-business support and technology adoption should reinforce good local work.
Toronto Skills + Productivity Compact
Connect learning to real projects and real work.
Toronto should bring Ontario, Canada, colleges, universities, school boards, labour, employers and community organizations together around pathways tied to actual housing, infrastructure, climate, service and creative-economy work.
Students and early-career residents
Expand paid placements, internships, civic projects and applied learning linked to the work Toronto is already doing.
Newcomer pathways
Improve credential navigation and connections to local opportunity so Toronto benefits from skills already present in the city.
Small-business productivity
Help local operators adopt useful technology without pushing them into expensive, confusing or vendor-locked systems.
Public-service and civic technology
Create practical pathways into public service, accessibility, data, design, maintenance and community problem-solving.
Arts, film and creative work
Treat Toronto’s creative economy as part of the jobs strategy, not decoration.
Opportunity promise: people should be prepared to benefit from change—not left alone to absorb it.
Students for the Next 50
Invest in the people who will live most of Toronto’s next fifty years.
Student affordability is a housing, transportation, jobs and city-building issue. Toronto should work with upper governments and institutions to strengthen general student support, expand paid learning and connect major city-building projects to real opportunity.
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