Even faced with the possibility that budgets for the new Toronto wards could potentially increase after Premier Doug Ford slashed the size of council from 47 to 25 this summer, he said there will be efficiencies to City Hall regardless.
"I go back to the endless amounts of trees we killed by the paperwork for 47 councillors, nothing got done," Ford said Wednesday at Queen's Park. "It was totally disfunctional, nothing could get done."
After being sworn in next Tuesday, council will have three options to mull over and vote on.
First, they could keep remaining staffing budgets in place, which would result in just over $7.4 million in savings.
However, council could take the existing office and staffing budgets for 44 councillors and redistribute across the smaller wards, which would see budget increases.
But then there's the option of doubling salary and staffing budgets to reflect the larger ward sizes, which would carry an additional cost of over $1.2 million to taxpayers.
Ford said even with this possibility, the smaller size of council will be worth it alone.
The PC government has previously estimated the smaller council will save $25 million over the next four years, and Ford said Wednesday the big win will be on transit.
"David Miller couldn't build transit, Rob Ford could save $1.16 billion, couldn't get transit going," Ford said. "(Mayor) John Tory God Bless Him, he hasn't got a shovel in the ground yet."
Speaking at an event Wednesday about the options, Tory said his eye will be on services.
"I will just say this: the number of people being served has not changed," he said. "There are now fewer people to serve them so I think those people will at least need the same amount of help that will allow them to provide the same amount of service, if not better."
"I just know that the service requirements have not gone down and therefore we need proper resources in place to make sure we can still serve people properly in the City of Toronto," he said.
Ford said he looks forward to working with his municipal counterpart.
"The mayor knows it's the right thing, now he only needs 13 votes to actually get transit built," he said. "John Tory and I are going to do great things."
With files from Hayley Cooper and CTV NEWS Toronto