Mayoral Candidate Outlines Plans for Toronto

Phil Taylor hopes to capture Toronto City Hall (background) come election day.

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 The News UpFront: (TOP STORY) as of Wednesday, July 21, 2010
~ A candidate that Filipinos may consider for mayor of Toronto is a communications expert, a seasoned sales, marketing and management professional who is also a book author. Because he is kind, honest and compassionate, Phil Taylor would appeal to thousands of voters belonging to the invisible minority, Filipinos included. His kind of governance, if he wins the race, relies more on the spirit of the law and less on the letter of the law. He vows to be transparent, less bureaucratic and inclusive.
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PHIL TAYLOR PROMISES SERVANT LEADERSHIP
Toronto Mayoral Candidate Vows Honesty, Transparency

By ROMEO P. MARQUEZ


TORONTO - Author Phil Taylor, the latest to join the ever-widening field of candidates for mayor of Canada's largest city, vows servant leadership that's honest, kind and transparent, and governance with less politics and bureaucracy.

 "My vision for Toronto is not based on mere legislation that can all too often overlook common sense, but rather the language of the heart," he said at the unveiling of his five-point "Core Values and Driving Force" in a meeting on Sunday (July 18, 2010) with his supporters.

The English- and French-speaking Taylor became the 33rd aspirant upon filing of his candidacy last week.

The huge number of candidates reflects the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural makeup of Toronto, which is home to an estimated 2.6 million people where half that number is in the "visible minority", meaning non-Caucasian in race and non-white in color.

Phil Taylor greets an unnamed supporter.

Filipinos, about 200,000-strong, is one of the largest in the visible minority group, topped by immigrants from South Asia, the Chinese and the Blacks. Filipinos are ahead of the Arabs, the Latin Americans, the Southeast Asians, the West Asians, the Koreans and the Japanese in the rankings.

It's this huge group of voters that Taylor is tapping to put him in office on election day on Monday, Oct. 25, 2010.

Taylor is a multi-awarded speaker and trainer, an expert in sales, marketing and management and in communications. He's also authored a book,"Set Yourself on Fire!", recently published and released in Toronto.

"Perhaps what we need in this city is less politics and less stringent governing bureaucracies that only lead to confusion, resentment, related laws suits, and high costs of running city to rather an adoption of the spirit of the law in all our affairs rather than a simple dependency on the letter of the law," he said in a press statement.

Phil Taylor at Toronto's financial district.

Consistent with his compassionate stance on governance, Taylor has adopted the song "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green as his campaign slogan so that, he explained, "we can rise up and stand up in front of the world, as the greatest multi-cultural city on the globe, as a living testament, a beacon of kindness and peace that sets the bar for what is right, kind noble, and productive! This is the dream and vision for Toronto!".

If elected, he promises to bring back the meaning of public servant in all the city's operations.

"It is not for the government and its employees to dictate on law abiding, taxpaying citizens, but rather for the people to be served in a manner that is noble, polite and dignified," Taylor said. "This is the task and the perquisite for public service."

The mayor, according to him, "is not appointed to govern, but to serve! The higher the calling, the more servitude is required! The more responsibility given to the leader the more humility and selfless service is required. This principle is particularly true if we are to have a truly unified and cooperative community."

Taylor emphasized that his will be "a government that does not govern, but a public office that undertakes its true calling which is to serve."

"To serve with honesty, integrity and truth in all of its affairs," he added.

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2. Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRYY6xhuOW8&feature=channel
3. Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEX5W6Xgfy8&feature=channel
4. Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWm3_GAw4Kk&feature=channel
5. Part IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q6OMZ53xzA&feature=channel
6. Part V: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4IIek0-_ZE&feature=channel
7.Part VI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQO7om6gPro&feature=channel
8. Part VII: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icDJYp_Fx-c


(This Currents & Breaking News may be posted online, broadcast or reprinted, on condition that the author and the publication be properly credited. By Romeo P. Marquez, Editor, Philippine Village Voice, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Volume 4, Issue no. 25, July 21, 2010).