Lord Mayor travels to Toronto for summit addressing 'hate and extremism'
The Lord Mayor has travelled to Toronto today to attend a summit decided to address “hate, extremism, and polarisation” at a local level.
As part of the upcoming Strong Cities Network Sixth Global Summit, running from December 9 to 11, Lord Mayor Councillor Ray McAdam is travelling to the Canadian city. As a global network of over 230 cities and sub-national governments, Strong City is an independent, apolitical organisation.
Accompanying the Lord Mayor is Social Democrats Cllr Cat O’Driscoll. Both local representatives will be speaking at the event.
Dublin City Council has connections to Toronto as the Lord Mayor already met with Toronto Mayor Olvia Chow in July of this year. He welcomed her at Mansion House as part of a trade and cultural mission. He will also meet with Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario.
Speaking of the trip, Lord Mayor McAdam said he is honoured to be addressing the summit and looks forward to meeting Mayor Chow once again:
“I am looking forward to leading this delegation to Toronto and am honoured to be addressing the Strong Cities Summit and to support Cllr. Cat O’Driscoll in her address to the Summit.
I hope that our appearance at the Summit strengthens Dublin’s commitment to fighting all forms of hate, extremism and polarisation. We have already shown through our commitment to the EuroCities Leipzig declaration that in protecting democracy, and local democracy as the frontline of that battle, Dublin will stand as a bulwark against disinformation and online prejudice.
I am also very much looking forward to visiting Mayor Olivia Chow. Toronto is a place close to my heart, and I hope that my visit will strengthen and deepen the ties between our two cities. We had some very interesting discussions during her visit, and I hope to continue and develop these during my visit.
We have seen with the recent Canada-Ireland Economic Report how our economic ties have developed into “strong foundations for a deeper relationship”. I hope that my visit further emphasises this strength.
During An Taoiseach ’s visit to Canada in September, he announced the Canada-Ireland 180 landmark cultural initiative to be held in 2027, commemorating 180 years since the Famine migration of 1847. We will use this visit to explore areas of possible collaboration between our two cities to mark this momentous initiative.”
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