Mayor John Tory got his first chance to pitch his SmartTrack plan directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Tory had an hour-long meeting with Harper on Thursday night at Pearson airport after the PM’s two events in Mississauga.

It was Tory’s first official meeting as mayor with the prime minister and he described it as “very positive” and “constructive.”

Shortly after council voted to push ahead with the first steps of Tory’s SmartTrack plan, the mayor quietly slipped away from City Hall and headed to Mississauga.

“We spent a good deal of the time talking about transit and talking about SmartTrack,” Tory told the Sun in an exclusive interview following the meeting. “We also talked about jobs and employment and housing but I would say the main focus of the meeting was on SmartTrack.”

Finance Minister Joe Oliver — who met with Tory last week about SmartTrack — was also at the meeting.

“We had a good discussion about it,” Tory said. “(Harper) certainly asked me a lot of questions about all of the different issues we talked about.”

During the meeting, Tory said he showed Harper maps illustrating the employment clusters at either end of SmartTrack and how he believes it will help connect people to jobs.

“It was a very important meeting for me to introduce in some depth — beyond just a name and beyond sort of a concept — what SmartTrack was and more importantly, why it was important to Toronto and how it could get done in a much shorter period of time than other projects that are on the books,” Tory said.

The mayor’s meeting with Harper comes as Premier Kathleen Wynne continues to demand a meeting with the prime minister. The Ontario Liberal leader and the federal Conservative leader haven’t had a face-to-face meeting in more than a year.

Wynne publicly released another letter to Harper earlier in the day Thursday requesting a meeting. Tory and Wynne met and discussed SmartTrack along with other issues on Dec. 1 — the new mayor’s first day in office.

During his meeting with Harper, Tory said he didn’t get into “arranging meetings” between Wynne and the PM.

“We talked about Ontario but it is not my job, obviously, to arrange meetings between other orders of government. I just arrange my own,” Tory said. “(The Prime Minister is) very optimistic — he’s a great believer in the future potential of Toronto and Ontario.”

Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford met a handful of times with Harper during his term. The two also went fishing together at least twice.

But he doesn’t have any angling trips scheduled with the prime minister, Tory said.

“There are no fishing trips planned,” he said.

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