In March 2012, Crisanti was one of five councillors removed from the TTC board. He had been one of five councillors on the board who had voted to terminate the services of the TTC General Manager Gary Webster.[citation needed]
Andy Byford was hired as Webster's replacement.[3] 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 the city council on March 5, 2012 before the end of their appointed term as a result of a motion by the Chair of the TTC Board, Councillor Karen Stintz.[4][5]
Crisanti was re-elected as councillor for Ward 1 in the 2014 municipal election,[6] and he was re-appointed to the TTC board after the election of Mayor John Tory.[7] Under Byford's leadership the TTC subsequently won the 2017 American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) award for Transit System of the Year.[8]
Deputy mayor
Crisanti was named a deputy mayor of Toronto by John Tory on December 1, 2014.[9]
On September 8, 2017, at the "Ford Fest" BQQ event where Doug Ford 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 Rob Ford and I’m here today because of the Fords and I want to thank them.”[10] As a result of Crisanti's statement, which was interpreted as support for Doug Ford's candidacy for mayor in the 2018 municipal election, John Tory removed Crisanti as deputy mayor, replacing him with Stephen Holyday.[11]
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 Doug Ford. 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.[12]
2022 election
Crisanti was elected as councillor for Etobicoke North in October 2022, the first time since 1997 the north Etobicoke ward elected a councillor not a member of the Ford family.[13]
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