Canadian officials plan to decide whether to move forward with a Toronto Olympic bid after the Pan American and Parapan American Games finish Aug. 15, Toronto mayor John Tory said Wednesday.
“We obviously discussed this morning the success of the Pan Am Games … and that leads to the question not just with respect to the Olympics but there’s a whole host [of events],” Tory said in a Wednesday morning news conference with Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne. “There’s a whole variety of international events and sporting competitions that we’re now in a position to host, which I think is good for Toronto, good for Ontario and good for Canada, and the Olympics is one of those, obviously, about which there’s great discussion, but the time to make any decision with respect to whether to move forward with that is after these Games are successfully completed, and we have another set of Games that are very important, the Parapan, to carry out, and then to sit down and talk about these things together and decide what’s best in terms of what to go forward with, whether it’s an Olympic bid or a host of other things.