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Priority 5 · Jobs & OpportunityBuild the Future Here
Toronto cannot become more affordable without a strong economy.
Opportunity that stays here
One of the world's best places to build, create and grow.
Toronto should be a place to build a company, start a career, develop technology, manufacture products, conduct research, create art, make films, build infrastructure, open a small business and turn an idea into a job.
Artificial intelligenceAdvanced manufacturingRoboticsConstruction technologyLife sciencesClean technologySkilled tradesCreative industriesFilmMusicCultureTourismSmall businessInfrastructureTransportationEntrepreneurship
Toronto should not simply consume the technologies and products of the future. We should help build them here.
Business & Opportunity Growth
From learning a skill to building prosperity for generations.
Toronto should become an AI-native city: a city where residents, workers, students, entrepreneurs and institutions know how to work with intelligent tools, build with them and govern them responsibly.
Give a person a fish and they eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and they eat for a lifetime. Teach a person to teach a robot to fish—while protecting the environment—and that person and their communities can eat for generations.
The goal is not AI for its own sake. The goal is a city where more people can create value, adapt to change and build a better future here.
The Opportunity Ladder
No one should have to guess how to enter the future economy.
Toronto should make the path easier to see.
AI. Robotics. Trades. Digital tools. Infrastructure. Creative technology.
Projects. Simulations. Challenges. Real equipment.
Demonstrate what you can do. Build a portfolio. Earn qualifications.
Paid experience. Placements. Apprenticeships. Entry-level opportunities.
Technician. Specialist. Supervisor. Professional. Entrepreneur.
Start a company. Create a product. Hire people. Train others. Build the next Toronto idea.
The future should create more ladders into opportunity—not fewer.
What the Future of Work Can Look Like
People + skills + technology.
The future of work is not simply people versus machines. Toronto should help people become more capable in the work they already do—and create pathways into the work that comes next.
FROM TORONTO TO THE WORLD — AND BACK AGAIN.
Toronto should help build valuable things—not simply buy them.
Our first responsibility is to improve life here. But when Toronto workers, researchers, creators and businesses develop something genuinely valuable, the opportunity should not end at the city limits.
A better construction system developed here can find customers elsewhere. A better robotics system can grow into a Canadian company. A better infrastructure solution can become Canadian expertise. A Toronto idea can become a global business.
That growth can create:
- more Toronto jobs;
- stronger Canadian companies;
- more investment and research;
- more advanced manufacturing and skills;
- more opportunities and stronger demand for Toronto talent.
Toronto should also work with the best innovators in Canada, the United States and around the world. We do not need to invent every component ourselves. If somebody has already built the best tool, use it. If Toronto can build something better, build it here. If working together produces a better result, work together.
The goal is greater opportunity and prosperity for Torontonians.
BETTER TORONTO↓Better ideas and technology↓More Toronto skills and jobs↓Stronger Canadian businesses↓Larger markets and partnerships↓More experience, investment and learning↓Better solutions come home↓AN EVEN BETTER TORONTO
Then repeat.
Toronto’s Greatest Advantage Is Our People
Technology gives us reach. Our people give us the advantage.
Technology can be purchased. Toronto’s human network cannot.
LanguagesSkillsIdeasBusiness experienceProfessional relationshipsCultural knowledgeFamily connectionsGlobal relationships
That gives Toronto an extraordinary ability to understand and work with people across different markets and communities. We should never reduce someone to where they came from.
What do you know?What can you build?What would you like to contribute?
Our diversity is part of what connects Toronto to the world.
Students & Early Career
Your first opportunity should be possible in Toronto.
Expand paid experience, internships, co-ops, apprenticeships, project-based placements, mentorship, startup connections and pathways from learning to local work.
Small Business & Main Streets
Cleaner streets. Faster service. Stronger neighbourhood economies.
Support predictable permits, construction coordination, practical loading, student placements, useful technology adoption, e-commerce, tourism, local procurement and attractive public spaces.
Learn. Build. Launch.
Turn civic innovation into a skills pathway.
Project Six can connect civic challenges to portfolio-building in coding, design, data, mapping, resilience and problem solving—with supervised pathways into education, placements and careers.
The public direction is clear. Detailed design, costing, safeguards, partner commitments and implementation milestones will be released in stages as they are verified. Before residents are asked to approve or fund a major commitment, the campaign will publish the authority, cost, protections, partners and measurable next steps.
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Help build opportunity that stays in Toronto.
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