Toronto and Montreal mayors combine efforts to build up their cities

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TORONTO — The mayors of Canada’s two largest cities had their first formal sit down on Wednesday.

Toronto Mayor John Tory welcomed Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre for an early-morning meeting at Toronto’s city hall.

The two leaders discussed how their cities can work together.

Tory told a news conference after the meeting that “teamwork will produce wins” for both of them and for Canada as a whole.

Coderre’s relationship with Toronto’s last mayor was rocky.

At last year’s Big City Mayors Caucus in Ottawa, he refused to shake Rob Ford’s hand, adding the meeting was a “caucus, not a circus.”