There was a reason why potential mayoral hopefuls like former Toronto Sun columnist/editor Anthony Furey, former Ontario minister of finance Rod Philips, former Ontario minister of citizenship and multiculturalism Michael Ford (the nephew of Premier Doug Ford), former deputy mayor Ana Bailão, former federal Liberal cabinet minister Marco Mendicino and former Toronto mayor John Tory stayed out of this race. A crowded field of centrist to centre-right candidates in the June 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election had benefited Chow. They weren’t going to let the same thing happen again. Bradford became the consensus candidate to defeat the incumbent mayor, and the others either declined to run or coalesced around his candidacy. If they weren’t pleased with the direction of the city in four years’ time, they could always run against Bradford in 2030.
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