Ausma Malik

And returning...

City councillors by a much smaller margin, Nathan Shan, Parthi Kandival, who's actually under police investigation, Osma Malik, and Amber Morley.

Largely a council that will in all likelihood favor Olivia Chow.

It's not going to be hard.

What excites you? What is electrifying about the potential for change tonight? Not just in the mayor's seat, but the fact that there are some incumbents that look like they're in some trouble, more than usual in a Toronto municipal election.

Well, I live in Ward 10, which is the ward that is the incumbent is Osma Malik.

And the person who's running, Ian Cunningham, is putting up a very good fight against her.

It looks like the polls recently showed them neck and neck.

Definitely a young, progressive, left-leaning group.

Asma Malik was one.

Ian Cunningham, by the way, is going to join us at 735.

He is challenging her and making good gains in Spadina, Fort York.

But Jamal Myers out in Scarborough, Asma Malik, Alejandra Bravo became a rookie counselor.

She'd lost running for the provincial NDP.

She's in a race out there with Marco Martins in Davenport.

Polls are tightening in a lot of wards in the city of Toronto, and one especially is Ward 10 Spadina, Fort York.

And, uh, uh, how many of them actually have a chance? And when it comes to some of these far left councillors, they are nowhere to be found in their wards, including right here in Liberty Village.

I thought it was just business owners who don't vote here who, uh, can't get Ausma Malik's attention, but it's, uh, apparently, uh, regular residents as well.

James, do you have a sense of that?

Yeah.

And no city councilor or mayor should be giving lucrative contracts to their best friends for services that don't really bring any benefit to, to the residents of Toronto, renaming things, and, and $5,000 speaking fees.

And when you t- when you tally it all up, it was, it was, between the, what they were getting with the police services and City Hall, we're looking at half a million dollars for Ausma Malik's ca- chief campaign organizer in 2022, and her best friend.

And that is graft, and it's wrong.

And if it's, and if that's happening...

Yeah.

Asma Malik, who is often like doesn't return phone calls.

But what do you make of that? Or is it just people who may have just moved here?

There are several downtowns.

Oh, wait, sorry, one more thing I wanna highlight.

One of the things Brad Bradford has been asking, saying, "If Olivia Chow scored the most money ever from the provincial government, why do we have such a big tax hike? Where is that money going?" Well, one of the places it's going, uh, are to the friends of Olivia Chow and, more specifically, Ausma Malik, uh, the counselor whose ward covers here in Liberty Village, who does not return phone calls, certainly not to businesses.

Uh, and, uh, so she is connected with a consulting company that does DEI, that's diversity, equity, and inclusion.

It's a very controversial thing.

You avoid issues that can be contentious, so is that what people are doing? Uh, the numbers, again, 866-740-4740, and toll-free 866-740-4740, and that is also our text line.

And again, tell me about your reaction to the bike lanes.

Also haven't heard anybody reaction to this freedom of information find in the Toronto Sun about the friends of Ausma Malik and the former, I think, chief of staff in Olivia Chow's office getting upwards of half a million dollars, uh, in contracts.

Now, are you outraged by that, or is that you think...