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Former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders to run for Ontario PCs in June election

Saunders set run in Don Valley West, held by Liberal Kathleen Wynne since 2003

Mark Saunders, Toronto's former police chief, will run for the Ontario PC party in the upcoming June election, the party announced Tuesday.

Saunders is set to run in the riding Don Valley West, which Liberal Kathleen Wynne has held since 2003.

Wynne, the province's former premier who lost the last election to Doug Ford, has already announced she won't run again. Instead, the Ontario Liberals will run Stephanie Bowman, a former board member of the Bank of Canada.

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After a daylong debate, council backed the five-year plan, which depends entirely on unsecured provincial and federal funding. Council also voted to support the controversial police technology ShotSpotter, and called on the federal government to ban the sale of handguns in Toronto.

A hastily drawn plan to combat recent gun violence was approved after a daylong debate at city hall on Tuesday, in the wake of Sunday’s deadly shooting on the Danforth.

Councillors approved the $44-million plan, five-year plan with few major amendments. It included the controversial listening technology called ShotSpotter.

The plan was developed by city staff before Sunday’s violence, and came as Mayor John Tory and police Chief Mark Saunders reacted to a modest increase in the number of shootings this year. (There have been 228 shootings so far in 2018, including Sunday’s violence, compared to 205 at the same point in 2017 and 208 in 2016.) The plan’s entire budget relies on federal and provincial funding that has not yet been approved.

Much of the concern in the council chamber Tuesday focused on ShotSpotter. Tory proposed the implementation of that technology at an earlier Toronto Police Services Board meeting without community consultation. The technology would cost $1.26 million in 2018 and $600,000 in ongoing annual operating costs.

“One of the technologies being submitted, there’s very little information about,” said Councillor Mike Layton ahead of the vote. “There has been no public discussion about this technology. In fact, when I asked very simple questions about how this technology worked, the chief of police didn’t have those answers.”

A motion from Councillor Josh Matlow to eliminate the funding for CCTV cameras and ShotSpotter lost by a vote of 12 to 33. But his request that the equivalent amount of funding, $2.6 million, be added to the plan to implement initiatives in the city’s youth equity strategy approved by council in 2014 was approved unanimously.

Toronto City Council provided approval today for ShotSpotter funding in the city despite concerns about privacy and policing and despite Mayor John Tory being forced to admit that he had met with ShotSpotter lobbyists after claiming earlier that he hadn’t. ShotSpotter is a program that places microphones throughout areas deemed to have a high risk of gun violence, resulting in mass surveillance and an increased police presence.

City Council also approved a motion that will monitor the effectiveness of the program and provide a report back in 2019. They can look forward to results like these in the report, since other cities have already proven that SpotSpotter doesn’t work: