The war over Toronto's fiscal health has Mayor David Miller engaged in skirmishes with Ottawa, Queen's Park and on the streets of Toronto.
The province must pay its bills for social programs Toronto is forced to deliver.
Ottawa must help with a national transit plan and share its wealth of tax revenues with cities. Just one cent from the 6 cents per dollar collected in GST would give Toronto $450 million a year.
And Torontonians will have to pay a little more.
But of all the battles that need to be fought at some point, Miller's top priority might be convincing his own council to line up behind him – especially in light of July's council vote that had a slim majority of council reject his tax plan and threw the city's finances into chaos.
Councillors Anthony Perruzza, Adam Vaughan and Peter Milczyn give insight into the varied interests Miller must balance.
Vaughan voted with the mayor but wants Miller to be more active in pushing a strong, made-in-Toronto recovery plan.
Perruzza, a New Democrat, voted against Miller because he thinks the public wasn't with the mayor's plan.
And Milczyn says before new taxes are implemented, the city and councillors need to clean up a lot of the issues that anger residents.
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