Now that the federal election is over and a major reason Justin Trudeau is still prime minister is that all 25 Toronto ridings went to the Liberals, it’s time for him to pay some bills.

For example, the ever-increasing costs of caring for the thousands of refugee claimants who keep coming to Toronto after crossing into Canada at unmanned border crossings — a direct result of Trudeau government policies.

As of last month, 2,678 refugee claimants occupied 37% of all the beds in the city’s emergency shelter system.

Caring for them is expected to cost $75.4 million this year, to which the feds so far have contributed $45.4 million, leaving an outstanding tab of $30 million.

To take some of the pressure off Toronto, the Trudeau government has contributed another $17 million to transfer refugee claimants from the city to Peel, Durham and Hamilton.

In 2017 and 2018, the federal government provided $26 million to Toronto to help defray its refugee-related emergency shelter costs — $43.1 million short of what Toronto spent.

Trudeau also made a slew of promises to Toronto and other Canadian municipalities during the federal election, pledging billions of dollars for public transit, affordable housing, subsidized daycare and policing.

On public transit, Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor John Tory have all now committed to funding the province’s proposed Ontario Line from Ontario Place to the Ontario Science Centre, including a link to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, although the project must still be approved by Toronto council.

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Trudeau pledged $250 million over five years to municipal police forces across the country to fight gun crime.

That, at least, is a positive step, as opposed to Trudeau’s promise to ban AR-15 rifles, which aren’t the problem in Toronto when it comes to fighting violent urban gun crime.

As for the weapon that is — illegal handguns — Trudeau has promised to give municipalities the power to ban or restrict handguns, as if the thugs who aren’t deterred by the Criminal Code will somehow be cowed by a new municipal bylaw.

With wall-to-wall Liberal MPs elected in Toronto’s 25 federal ridings, there should be a strong internal lobby within the Trudeau government to argue for the city’s interests in Ottawa.

The concern is that if past practice is the best evidence of future behaviour, it won’t be long before Trudeau starts trashing Ford again — at the expense of both provincial and Toronto taxpayers — as he did during his entire election campaign.

In the real world, Trudeau has no excuse to renege on the promises he made to Toronto during the election.

After all, if he doesn’t follow through, the only way his political support in the city can go in the next federal election is down, given that every one of its 25 federal ridings are now represented by Liberal MPs.