Mike Layton

One condo resident in Broadview North asked her about her ward switch.

I'm very proud of the work I did in University Rosedale, and I was committed to retaining it, but when Mike Layton came in at the last minute with the full backing of the NDP and the mayor, it was really clear, Sachs replied.

Any good lawyer has to know when to fight and when to pivot, she continued, adding people in Ward 14 encouraged her to run because of her climate advocacy and for being Ontario's last environmental commissioner.

The resident said that her loyalties lie somewhat...

Doy.

So University Rosedale was shaken open, like, what, last month? Two months ago in August? After Mike Layton announced that he was going to run in the war.

Now, of course, Mike Layton was considering voting for the NDP.

Mike Layton... was considering running with the NDP in one of the by-elections over the summer.

He ended up deciding not to do that.

So then he decided to go run in University of Rosedale.

What happened after Mike Layton decided to run University of Rosedale? Well, a few things happened.

One, Diane Sacks decided that she wasn't going to run anymore in that ward.

So if you have this influx of young people through the high rise condos jumping in everywhere in these wards and you have that issue, can someone galvanize that? But then you juxtapose the fact that the lowest demographic group that shows up the least in election time is young people in municipal elections.

So if you can galvanize even your award if you get a thousand young people to vote to show up to vote that could have an impact um i was thinking of the and i don't know his name there is a a younger gentleman running for council who pulled out i think when mike layton jumped into the race and he's doing something different uh and and was getting buzz like it was getting buzzed that was getting out of toronto And then sadly, he dropped out.

He seemed to be on that, you know, almost like what AOC did a number of years ago when she first ran.

And it would have been fascinating to see if that played out well.

He's got a statue.

Um, I think it's, it's obvious there.

I'm surprised the ward, uh, he picked, I think there was other, there's better words for Mike Layton, but, uh, there's a reason, um, I think a lot of this has to do with 2030.

I think there's some mayoral ambitions of Mike Layton.

And a lot of people in Toronto Danforth really didn't like that.

And at the same moment, Mike Layton, the mayor's stepson, who had even two weeks earlier said that he wasn't going back into politics, announced that after all, with the mayor's backing and the Progress Toronto machine, he intended to take the seat in the University of New Zealand.

I'm an independent.

I don't have a big political machine.

I've seen many a great show at Sneaky D's, shout out to Rusty.

But what was your role, remind us please, your role in saving Sneaky D's?

So the Sneaky D's demolition application came into the city when Mike Layton was counselor in 2020.

And basically nothing happened.

Well, Olivia Chow went out and voted.

She was joined by her, uh, stepson, Michael Layton, and, uh, his wife.

Brad Bradford, joined by his wife, was out doing his advanced poll voting.

And Chris Alexander was letting us know that he would no longer be part of the mayor's race.

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University-Rosedale, uh, where Mike Layton just decided to run.

He's, uh, the mayor's son-in-law.

And the other, the left-wing incumbent decamped and went over to The Danforth.

She [laughs] she put a, a note saying she always felt, like, connected to Toronto-Danforth.

[laughs]

That, that's after Mike Layton decided to take her [laughs] ward in Toronto-Rosedale.

Suddenly she has a, she has a yearning for this other ward.

he kind of ran for university Rosedale.

Unfortunately, he's dropped out now to support Mike Layton who like decided last minute to run.

And, uh, but I'm happy for everyone.

Mike Layton is also a big, uh, transit supporter, but I got, uh, to do a really cool, uh, kind of policy campaign with him to speed up, uh, the 506 Carlton street car.

Uh, we did kind of did like, uh, a policy like press conference launch.

And then we made a few videos about it, got a lot of people talking about it, like a lot of news media reporting about it.