Bradford says Chow's letter to the Prime Minister never mentioned crime. We read all four pages. He's right.

He said to go read the letter. We did.

The 20 July video that produced his False-rated claim about Chow’s record also contained a narrow, checkable one:

“Mayor Chow penned a four-page letter to the Prime Minister outlining her priorities. In four pages, there was not a single sentence about bail reform, bail compliance, auto theft, organized crime, community safety. You can go and read the letter.”

Chow published the letter herself

On 14 May 2025, the day after Carney’s cabinet was sworn in, her office posted it to X as four page images, each 612 by 792 pixels, the exact proportions of a US Letter page. All four pages are archived below, so this check doesn’t depend on that post staying online.

What’s in it: four sections, all of them asks for money

• Build Affordable Homes Faster. The Housing Accelerator Fund, the Apartment Construction Loan Program, rent supplements, non-market housing, and the City’s own $230 million in development-charge relief.
• Get People Moving. The Eglinton East and Waterfront East LRTs, with Toronto offering a third of the cost and asking Ottawa and the province to match it.
• Fair Deal for Toronto. Revenue tools described as “outdated, disconnected from economic growth”; a share of GST or federal gas tax; the cost of sheltering refugees without guaranteed funding.
• Fight Rising Costs. Grocery prices, food bank use, and universal school morning meals by the 2026/27 school year.

It closes: “Toronto is ready to lead. Let’s partner together and get to work.”

What’s not in it: any of the five things he named

No bail. No auto theft. No organized crime. No community safety. No mention of policing, the Toronto Police Service, or crime of any kind, on any page.

He said four pages: it is four pages. He listed five subjects: none appears.

Context that doesn’t change the rating

The letter was a fiscal ask to a newly sworn-in federal government rather than a policy platform, and every section requests federal spending. And bail is federal jurisdiction: Ottawa’s bail and sentencing reforms targeting auto theft, extortion and organized crime became law in June 2026 with or without a paragraph from Toronto’s mayor.

A reader can decide for themselves whether crime belonged in the letter. What is not in dispute is what the letter says.

Why this is True while the record claim is False

Same video, two claims, two ratings, deliberately. One letter omitting a subject is a fact about that letter, and he described it exactly. It carries no weight against the wider claim that Chow declined every chance to act on public safety, which is contradicted by the record, including a safety motion Bradford himself moved.

Accurate criticism is still accurate. If Chow wanted crime raised with the Prime Minister, this was a place to raise it, and she didn’t.

The ruling

We read the document he pointed to, all four pages. He described it correctly.

True.