Vincent Crisanti ( , ; born 1953) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent

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following the 2022 municipal election. He previously represented a former ward by the same name from 2010 to 2018.

Political career

Early runs and 2010 election

Crisanti ran unsuccessfully in the 1997 municipal election for councillor in Ward 5, Rexdale Thistletown. Crisanti ran again in both the 2000 municipal election and the 2003 municipal election for councillor for Ward 1 Etobicoke North losing both times to

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; the first time by only 97 votes. Crisanti successfully ran a fourth time for councillor for Ward 1 in the 2010 municipal election defeating Hall by 509 votes.

Toronto Transit Commission board

On December 8, 2010 he was appointed to the

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(TTC) board by council. Crisanti was one of five councillors removed from the TTC board by council in March 2012. He was one of five councillors on the TTC board who voted in 2012 to terminate the services of the TTC General Manager Gary Webster.

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was hired as Webster's replacement. As a result of the decision to terminate Webster, the five councillors who supported Webster's termination and his replacement by Byford, including Crisanti, were removed from the TTC board by council on March 5, 2012 before the end of their appointed term as a result of a motion by Councillor

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, who was Chair of the TTC board. Crisanti was re-elected as councillor for Ward 1 in the 2014 municipal election, and he was appointed again to the TTC board after the election of Mayor

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. Under Byford's leadership the TTC subsequently won the 2017 American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) award for Transit System of the Year.

Deputy mayor

Crisanti was named a deputy mayor of Toronto by

on December 1, 2014. On September 8, 2017, at the "Ford Fest" BQQ event where

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announced his candidacy for mayor of Toronto in 2018, Crisanti was quoted as publicly saying “If anybody out there doubts the power of Ford Nation, just come here tonight … I got first elected in 2010 with the support of

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and I’m here today because of the Fords and I want to thank them.” As a result of Crisanti's statement, which was interpreted as support for Doug Ford's candidacy for mayor in the 2018 municipal election,

removed Crisanti as deputy mayor, replacing him with

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2018 election

Crisanti stood for re-election to Toronto City Council in the 2018 municipal election in the newly expanded Ward 1 Etobicoke North, created as a result of the Toronto ward boundary changes imposed by the Ontario government of

. The new Ward 1 had the same boundaries as the federal and provincial ridings. In the campaign, Premier Ford announced his support for his nephew Michael Ford, to whom Crisanti would lose.

Electoral history

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crisanti, Vincent 1953 births Living people Canadian people of Italian descent People from Etobicoke Toronto city councillors