Justin Trudeau says there are lots of questions surrounding Toronto’s potential Olympic bid but said a Liberal government would be ready to work with Canada’s biggest city to host the sporting event.

And he said that would happen against the backdrop of improved relations between Ottawa and Toronto.

“We are certainly there to be the partner that the municipality and even the province needs on investing in housing, transit and other infrastructure that is needed for the extraordinary and growing city that is Toronto,” Trudeau said during a campaign stop in the city Wednesday morning.

“We have to have a federal government that one again engages with Toronto, understands how important Toronto is and actually does a much better job of responding to the needs and concerns,” he said.

Toronto, fresh off hosting the Pan Am Games this summer, is mulling a potential bid for the 2024 Summer Games.

Trudeau said the Olympics represent an opportunity to showcase Toronto as an “extraordinary” city and Canada as an “extraordinary” country.

“There are of course a lot of interest and advantages in that,” Trudeau said.

“But there are an awful lot of questions that need to be answered about what that bid would look like and I look forward to seeing concrete proposals,” said Trudeau, who was in Toronto to unveil his party’s housing strategy.

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