Jane Pitfield

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BackgroundEdit

A graduate of Queen's University, she worked for several years with Procter & Gamble. In 1989 she founded Concerned Citizens of Leaside to oppose a large development project. She is also the author of Leaside, a history of the neighbourhood.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She is married to Robert H. Pitfield, a former senior executive with the Bank of Nova Scotia and now Executive Chairman of the Board, TravelEdge Group.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They have four children, three daughters and a son. Her uncle-in-law is Ward C. Pitfield, Jr. (1937-2017), who was chairman of brokerage firm Dominion Securities. Another uncle-in-law, Senator Michael Pitfield, was clerk of the Privy Council under former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

As of 2017, Pitfield was attempting to attract government funding to create a greenhouse in Gaultois, a small Newfoundland community.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PoliticsEdit

School trusteeEdit

In 1994, she was elected as a school board trustee in East York's Ward 4.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref group="nb" name="trusteeelection">In this election two trustees were elected per ward. Results for ward 4 were: Ruth Goldhar 3,534; Jane Pitfield 3,318; Bob Brown 2,009; Stuart Koskie 1,156; Thomas Irwin 923.</ref>

City councillorEdit

In the first post-amalgamation election in 1997, she ran for city councillor in Ward 1, East York but came third behind winners Michael Prue and Case Ootes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref group="nb">In this election, two candidates were elected in each ward. Results were: Michael Prue 22440; Case Ootes 8608; Jane Pitfield 6926; Michael Tziretas 6349; Elizabeth Rowley 5707; Bob Dale 4709; George Vasilopoulos 4275; Paul Fernandes 3156; Paul Robinson 2885; Hortencia Fotopoulos 663; Edward Wigglesworth 368.</ref> It was later decided, however, that the East York ward was too large for only two councillors. A by-election was held to elect a third councillor and she won this race.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In May 1999 she became chair of the East York Community Council.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In November 2000 she was elected in a reorganized council in the riding/ward of Don Valley West.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref group="nb">The 2000 election reduced the number of councillors from 57 to 44. Councillors were elected on the basis of two per federal riding boundaries. Joanne Flint represented the other part of the Don Valley West riding.</ref>

During the 2003 term of office she served as chair of the Works Committee. In 2004, she proposed a 9% water rate increase in early 2004, a higher figure than city staff had recommended. Following intervention from the office of mayor David Miller, the increase was reduced to 6%. Pitfield justified the proposed increase by saying, "This is not to be thought of as taxation. It's a user fee. If you want to pay less, you can use less."<ref>Vanessa Lu, "Price of water to rise but by how much?", Toronto Star, 4 February 2004, B3; Vanessa Lu, "Decision on water rate reversed", Toronto Star, 5 February 2004, B4.</ref>

A Globe and Mail report from March 2005 indicated that Pitfield canvassed for Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader John Tory during his provincial by-election campaign in Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey.<ref>"City councillors past, present turn out to help Tory get elected", Globe and Mail, 18 March 2005, A11.</ref>

After the 2003 election, Miller called in councillors to pick committee chair heads. Pitfield said she did not get a call. "So I called him", she said. She asked to be chair of the works committee, and was appointed. In the mid-term committee chair shuffle, Pitfield left the works and budget committees and joined the audit committee and co-chaired the aboriginal affairs committee.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

2006 mayoral raceEdit

On November 29, 2005, Pitfield announced that she would run against mayor David Miller in the 2006 municipal election.

Pitfield promised to hold off on future tax increases and adopted the slogan, "Always think like a taxpayer".<ref>"Jane Pitfield to take on Miller", CTV Toronto, 29 November 2005, 19:52 report. CTV.ca</ref> Pitfield also stated that the Mayor should be known as the "Billion Dollar Man" for increasing the city's spending by $1.3 billion since he became mayor in 2003.<ref>Royson James, "Fed up with Dave? Meet Jane", Toronto Star, 6 May 2006, B01.</ref> Miller responded by observing that Toronto's share of the new spending was only $275 million, with the remainder coming from the provincial and federal governments.<ref>Jeff Gray, "Pitfield vows to fight tax hike", Globe and Mail, 29 March 2006, A13. Pitfield was unable to provide the specific increase in municipal spending when questioned by reporters. </ref> He later added that most of the spending "is new investment we've secured from provincial and federal government to meet the needs of our city in public transit, in housing, or the 58 new child care centres that we've opened in Toronto this month alone, in Toronto's poorest neighbourhoods".<ref>John Spears and Paul Moloney, "Candidates battle over tax cuts", Toronto Star, 2 October 2006, E9.</ref>

Pitfield's campaign team included Michael Marzolini, pollster and strategist for former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien, and John Foden, Public Affairs consultant. Ontario PC Party treasurer Vic Gupta, who was deputy campaign manager for John Tory's 2003 run for mayor, was on Pitfield's campaign team but bowed out in June 2006, and became lobbyist for the Toronto Port Authority.<ref>(National Post August 31, 2006)</ref>

In September 2006, Pitfield voted in favour of a bid by Toronto City Council to purchase a landfill site that she had previously spoken against. She claimed that she voted yes in error and admitted to being embarrassed by her mistake. She indicated that she would try to have her vote changed in the official records but wasn't able to reopen the debate to change her vote.<ref>(Toronto Sun, Toronto Star September 21, 2006))</ref>

On September 29, the National Post released a survey conducted by Ipsos-Reid that suggested Pitfield was a stronger challenger to Miller than many people believed. The poll showed that of decided voters, 55% would support Miller, while 40% would support Pitfield. In the "absolutely certain" voter category, 51% would support Miller while 46% would support Pitfield.<ref>James Cowan, "Poll reveals 'horse race'", National Post, 29 September 2006, A01.</ref> On the same day, former Liberal Party of Canada President Stephen LeDrew also entered the contest.

Her platform to be mayor included a public housing program focused on home ownership for low-income families. She accused Miller of being soft on crime and called for a police helicopter, a weapons court and restrictions on bail for individuals with outstanding violent crime charges. She was in favour of incinerating Toronto's garbage as part of a waste-to energy scheme, as opposed to transporting it by road to Michigan,<ref>Jane Pitfield to take on Miller in 2006 Template:Dead link Template:Cbignore, CTV.ca. November 11, 2005.</ref> and set a 60% diversion rate for recycling. She supported building two kilometres of subway per year.

Miller won the contest by a significant margin.

2006 resultsEdit

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After mayoral attemptEdit

In 2008, Pitfield was elected president of the Caledon Heritage Foundation. She and her family own a 19th-century house in Caledon which they are in the process of restoring.<ref>Former Toronto councillor elected president of Caledon Heritage Foundation. Caledon Citizen. May 15, 2008. Caledoncitizen.com Template:Webarchive</ref>

In 2008, she published a book called Leaside which chronicles the foundation and growth of her local neighbourhood called Leaside.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

2010 municipal electionEdit

In January 2010, Pitfield announced that she would run for councillor in East York, Ward 29, to replace Case Ootes following his retirement.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was defeated by newcomer Mary Fragedakis by nearly 2,500 votes.

2010 resultsEdit

Total	17,769	100.0
2010 Toronto election, Ward 29
Candidate	Votes<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	%
Mary Fragedakis	7,430	41.8
Jane Pitfield	4,966	28.0
Jennifer Wood	4,269	24.0
Chris Caldwell	885	5.0
John Richardson	138	0.8
Mike Restivo	81	0.4

Pontiac WardenEdit

In 2017, Pitfield was elected Warden of the Pontiac Regional County Municipality under her maiden name Jane Toller.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She moved to Pontiac, becoming a local business person (operator of Pontiac Conference Centre)<ref>https://art-life-you.ca/2017/10/15/meet-the-candidates-for-warden-mrc-pontiac/ Template:Dead link</ref> and president of Tourism Pontiac.

Her great-great-grandfather, George Bryson, served as Warden of Pontiac from 1862 to 1863.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Pitfield has also owned and operated the Gaultois Inn on the south coast of Newfoundland since 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2017 resultsEdit

Total	7,653	100.0
2017 Quebec municipal election, MRC Pontiac
Candidate	Votes<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	%
Jane Toller	3,597	47.0
Raymond Durocher	1,366	17.8
Linda Davis	1,045	13.7
Charlotte L'Ecuyer	828	10.8
Pierre Frechette	817	10.7

2021 resultsEdit

Prefectural candidate	Vote	%
2021 Quebec municipal election, MRC Pontiac
Jane Toller (X)	3,301	52.69
Michael McCrank	2,964	47.31

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