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WATCH: Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow is interviewed on The Morning Show on March 14, 2014.

TORONTO – Toronto’s mayoral race hasn’t even hit full stride, yet candidate Olivia Chow is already brushing aside talks of dirty politics and campaign tactics that’s expected to heat up in the coming months.

“I think what is great is we’re talking about the issue. I think personality attacks, that’s different,” said Chow in an interview on The Morning Show Friday.

“I’m not attacking the person, I’m talking about the failed policies where we pay more and get less in the TTC, where we have a lot of people unemployed.”

Chow’s entrance into the mayoral election race has already peeked considerable interest from other contenders such as Rob Ford, John Tory and Karen Stintz.

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Earlier this week, the John Tory camp launched a website criticizing her spending habits as an NDP MP and Mayor Ford took a shot at her progressive political views when he suggested Chow “made David Miller look conservative.”

READ MORE: Olivia Chow attacks Rob Ford’s policies, scandals during campaign launch

Chow insists her focus remains on building relationship with all members of council and pushing aside ideological squabbles.

“Municipal goverment, we work as a team. It’s nonpartisan. That’s why I have conservatives, liberals in my team. Let’s move forward,” she said.

Another issue Chow touched on during The Morning Show interview was her support for Scarborough’s light rail transit plan as opposed to city council’s agreed upon subway option.

“Their residents need respect. They need something now. Not four years from now, not 10 years from now.”

READ MORE: LRT vs. Scarborough subway: where do the mayoral candidates stand?

“Previous four years, nothing happened. It was all talk,” she said. “There’s no studies so far, so in the next four years if we do what Rob Ford wants, we will have two years of environmental assessments. Two years of studies, so four years.”

“After the next winter Olympics the shovels won’t be in the ground.”