Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Toronto's newly elected mayor on Thursday, but did not find time to meet with the Ontario premier, despite her request in an open letter earlier this week.
Harper met with John Tory at Pearson International Airport on Thursday, where the pair discussed traffic and transit issues.
"I viewed yesterday as a positive day," Tory told reporters at Toronto City Hall on Friday, explaining that he felt he'd taken steps to enhance his ability to solve problems in the city.
Tory said he took Harper through the Smart Track plan, which would bring an additional 54-kilometre subway line to Toronto, stretching from Toronto Pearson International Airport to Unionville in Markham.
In addition to the transit plan, Tory said he and Harper discussed ways of bringing jobs and affordable housing to Toronto.
"I came away from it satisfied that it was a very productive and constructive meeting."
The prime minister was in Mississauga to meet with the Retail Council of Canada for a pre-budget discussion. Though he was in the Toronto area, he did not make time to meet with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.
When asked, Tory said he and Harper did not discuss the premier. They were focused on Toronto, he said. The pair did discuss where transit funding would come from, but said they did not talk about Wynne.
"I've got my job to do and I'll be trying to use in a productive way the relationships I have, and to hopefully make the partnership between all three governments work better," Tory said.
Wynne released a letter she wrote to Harper on Twitter on Thursday, in which she requests a meeting to discuss "specific issues" she said she'd raised in previous letters.
She wrote that six of her cabinet ministers had contacted their federal counterparts requesting meetings ahead of the federal government's next budget.
"However, as vital as ministerial co-operation is, it is no substitute for leadership and collaboration at the top," she wrote in the letter dated Dec. 11.
Harper has not met with Wynne in person since Dec. 5, 2013. In the past, he and Wynne have argued over pension plans, federal infrastructure funding and the Ontario deficit.
