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Since winning the mayoralty Oct. 27, Mr. Tory has met with senior bureaucrats, officials at city and provincial transit agencies and key city councillors.

On Monday, he said, “there is nothing that I’ve heard in any of these meetings so far and all the briefings that I’ve had — there is nothing that causes me to change the timeline, which is seven years, and to change the intention we have to build without increasing property taxes and to use other means to finance the construction of SmartTrack.”

Mr. Tory must convince city council to approve his transit plan. Although he has not yet met with every councillor, he said Monday has not heard from anyone who is “unalterably opposed” to it.

I wasn’t elected to find reasons not to do SmartTrack

SmartTrack, which promises trains every 15 minutes mostly on two existing GO Transit corridors, is pegged at $8-billion. Mr. Tory told voters he would convince the provincial and federal governments to each foot one third of the bill.

His meeting Monday, held at the Ontario Investment and Trade Centre on the 35th floor of a Yonge Street tower, included the two top officials at Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency, TTC CEO Andy Byford, chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat and city manager Joe Pennachetti. It was the third in a trio of round table discussions held with the mayor-elect’s transition advisory council on his three key issues of housing, traffic congestion and SmartTrack.

Mr. Tory will be officially sworn in on Dec. 2. He said he does not know when he will bring SmartTrack for a vote at city council, but he said he will probably ask for reports next month.