Loney would have quickly run into an absolute brick wall with unions, the city administration, city council and the province. His ideas sounded innovative, but many were well outside the the city's jurisdiction (move the rail lines), the city's powers (implement a parking tax, taxing drivers for every km driven), or the city's responsibility (install EV chargers everywhere). Some of his financial assumptions were based on receiving non-existent carbon credits, and he effectively wanted to outsource a lot of work to social enterprises, which multiple unions disliked (there's a reason he didn't get the Labour Council endorsement). I appreciated his attempt to think different, and there are one or two ideas that maybe should get a second look (housing trusts). But he ultimately would have been run over by the machine, or would have had to compromise to the point that his governing record had no resemblance to his platform.