The premier released her mandate letters to each of her Ministers a couple of weeks back, essentially their marching orders. For MTO:
-Your tasks will include: "Developing customer-focused solutions to integrate fare and service. Your goal is to create a seamless and transparent fare system across the GTHA."
You could take that to mean on the low end, ensure Presto works and make zoned fares across the multiple agencies, or to the extreme and say Metrolinx will absorb the other agencies. Regardless, I think the fare issue will be addressed sooner rather than later.
As for SmartTrack, Tory will win the election, and then have "negotiations" with the province. The result will be that the Eglinton spur he talks of will be scrapped, because the planning is already there to extend the Crosstown west to the airport, and it will integrate with an existing line. He can say he tried, but the province assured him Crosstown will cover that segment. The rest is covered under GO RER or REX or whatever you'd like to call it. As a part of their downtown relief study, currently underway as I understand it, they're looking at both an eastern downtown relief line AND the existing GO corridors as ways to alleviate passenger traffic. Again, he'll say the province has studied 'x' and this is the best way to go forward. Smart politics on his part. He just has to defend the poorly conceived western edge of Smarttrack until the election is over.