Our Priorities

A Real Plan to:

  • Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community. It feels like everyone knows someone that’s experienced a break-in or car theft, or a business impacted by vandalism. On behalf of local businesses, I stood with Councillor Carolyn Parrish in pushing for a full police station for Malton. As your next Councillor for Ward 5, I have a real plan to:

    • Work with federal and provincial partners to tackle auto theft

    • Track police response time to identify gaps in service

    • Crack down on road racing and stunt driving

    • Protect neighbourhoods by enforcing bylaws against illegal rooming houses

  • Everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Yet it has become too hard for many – seniors can’t downsize with dignity, youth feel trapped at home, and many worry about their mortgages. The housing crisis impacts us all. I fought at city council for a motion to build more homes for families. As your next Councillor for Ward 5, I have a real plan to:

    • Cut the red tape, make it easier to apply for second units and offer property tax rebates for registration

    • Make it faster to apply for and get new housing approved

    • Encourage and support ‘gentle density’ such as multi-plexes and garden or laneway units

  • For five years I’ve loved working for our community with the Malton BIA and Councillor Carolyn Parrish. Together we’ve improved public spaces through landscaping and art, delivered the best Canada Day celebrations in the city and brought a public Diwali celebration to Ward 5. We’re a community with big dreams. As your next Councillor for Ward 5, I have a real plan to:

    • Support the non-profits that have creative ideas to improve our community

    • Create a Residents Association to increase our voice at City Hall

    • Organize a Youth Council out of the Jonathan Davis Centre

    • Focus on the basics: street cleaning, graffiti removal and park maintenance

    • Grow and improve free local festivals such as Canada Day and the new Diwali Festival

    • Complete the $3-million replica Avro Arrow project I’ve been spearheading since 2019

  • Gridlock costs us in both quality of life and economic productivity. Time stuck in traffic means time lost with loved ones. If you’re on the road instead of serving customers and clients, it means reduced profits and growth. In my role with the Malton BIA, I fought for investments in critical infrastructure such as the Goreway Bridge. As your next Councillor for Ward 5, I have a real plan to:

    • Work with MiWay to prioritize safe stops, reduce overcrowding and increase accessibility

    • Fight for increased Go Train frequency and station upgrades in our community

    • Ensure milestone projects like the Goreway Bridge are completed on time

  • Too many families are living paycheque to paycheque, one emergency away from disaster and not able to offer their children the quality of life that we deserve in Mississauga. This is not only unfair but limits the potential of our community. As your next Councillor for Ward 5, I have a real plan to:

    • Fight to defer property taxes for low income seniors

    • Offer $10/day city-run camps and programming for low income families

    • Enhance our parks to create safe, affordable green spaces for all

Housing Platform

In a rich and prosperous country like Canada everyone should have the right to an affordable place to call home. Housing that is safe, affordable, and meets the needs of them and their family.

Yet we’re in a housing crisis, and it’s being deeply felt here in Mississauga. It’s impacting all aspects of our society. Seniors feel they cannot afford to downsize with dignity. Families worry about paying their mortgages. Youth wonder if they will ever be able to leave the family home and move out on their own. Too many people are homeless, and many more are precariously housed.

And if we want Mississauga to be a place where people choose to grow their families, where companies can find the top talent to grow their business, we need to make this a more affordable place to live. We can’t keep losing our young people. I’ve experienced this personally. My son moved out West because Ontario was just too unaffordable. We need to do better.

Solving the housing crisis will take cooperation and hard work by all levels of government. And in Mississauga, we need to step up and do our share. We don’t want to be gatekeepers – we want to leverage provincial and federal housing funding and make Mississauga a place people are proud to call home.

That means making better decisions. It means being more courageous. It means having the political will to work with builders and developers, with non-profits and co-ops, with the non-vocal majority that want to say YES to housing too many projects that would have been a small part of the housing solution have been held back by planning bureaucracy, fear of loud opposition voices and a default setting of demonizing builders. 

It’s time to start finding more ways to say YES. When I am elected Ward 5 councilor, I will push to:

  • Make multiunit houses as-of-right on all streets, mid-rises as-of-right on all major roads and high rises as-of-right near transit stations. It’s just common sense.

  • Review each housing application with an eye to finding a way to say YES - too often, shadow studies, parking minimums and other arbitrary requirements delay projects that could be shovels in the ground.

  • Partner with co-ops, non-profits and developers to unlock parcels to land to build affordable housing now. Builders who say YES to including certain thresholds of affordable housing in a development should be given the opportunity to build more densely, making affordable builds even more financially attractive.

  • Ensure that everyone who lives in our community can give real input into proposals that will add meaningful amounts of local housing. Too often consultations are set at times that only those with lucrative, flexible jobs can attend to express opposition, while those working hard to pay for housing cannot attend to tell planners YES.

And we cannot take a one size fits all approach to housing. Housing means single family homes and multi-generation homes. It means apartments and condominiums, whether it's towers or fourplexes. It means affordable housing and co-ops. It means student housing for youth and assisted living for seniors.

Housing needs to be an ecosystem. And if we want to remain an economically prosperous city where people want to live and businesses want to locate, we need to say YES to the housing ecosystem.