2024.IE16.8

Background

“Fossil fuel companies have a well-documented history of using their immense wealth for advocacy advertising to undermine public support for policies that reduce fossil fuel pollution. Such policies are necessary and urgent to preserve a liveable future for today’s young people. The Pathways Alliance, a coalition of six billionaire fossil fuel companies who produce 95% of tar sands bitumen, has actively advertised for this purpose in Toronto, eliciting a number of public complaints. Another fossil fuel lobby group, Canada Action, has also actively advertised across Canada.”

Source: City of Toronto

Item Description

This item proposes for a “report back by the second quarter of 2025 on a policy to decline fossil fuel advocacy advertising on City assets”.

Source: City of Toronto

Proposed by

Councillor Dianne Saxe