Stephen Holyday is a Canadian politician who has served on Toronto City Council since 2014 and currently represents Ward 2 Etobicoke Centre.^[1][2] He was first elected in the old Ward 3 Etobicoke Centre during the 2014 municipal election.

Background

Holyday was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is the son of Doug Holyday, who was the previous ward councilor, Mayor of Etobicoke,^[3] and briefly a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP).^[4][5] He and his wife Margaret have three children.^[6]

He graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Science.^[7] From 1999 to 2014, he was a manager at the provincial Ministry of Energy.^[7][8]

Politics

Holyday is a fiscal conservative.^[9] He describes himself as taking "a tough stance against congestion causing initiatives", including the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and the King Street Transit Priority Corridor.^[2] He opposes building new bike lanes and new multi-unit housing in neighbourhoods that consist of single-family homes.^[9]

Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail's architecture critic, called Holyday "furiously anti-development".^[10] He has also been described as one of "three Toronto councillors hopelessly exacerbating the housing crisis" by More Neighbours Toronto.^[11]

Holyday is often an outlier among city councillors, and has been the only dissenting vote on dozens of council votes.^[12]

He endorsed Mark Saunders in the 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election.^[13]

Election results

Both Holyday and John Campbell were incumbents in the 2018 Toronto election because Ward 2 and Ward 3 were merged into a single ward.

References

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