Toronto Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong says he won't "write off" former PC leader John Tory's chances in politics, insisting he will always have a place in public life should he want it.
Minnan-Wong and a handful of other councillors threw their support behind Tory's 2003 unsuccessful bid for mayor. He finished second behind David Miller.
"I think John Tory is the best mayor Toronto never had," Minnan-Wong said yesterday. "There is a lot of goodwill between the public and John."
The former Progressive Conservative leader was defeated last week by Liberal Rick Johnson in a byelection held in the riding of Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock. Former Conservative MPP Laurie Scott resigned her seat so Tory could run in the riding.
The day after his defeat, Tory announced he was leaving politics. He couldn't be reached for comment yesterday.
A former adviser to Ontario premier Bill Davis and prime minister Brian Mulroney in the 1980s, Tory was seen as premier-in-waiting after winning the PC leadership in 2004.
A former Rogers executive, h
e entered the 2007 election in a dead heat with Liberal Dalton McGuinty, but his hopes were dashed after a plan to extend public funding to faith-based schools proved to be unpopular.
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