A platform built together, for better.
This is a work-in-progress, inviting you to have a seat at the table. No one elected official decides the fate of our city, and no decision should be made alone. As Councillor, I am here to work collaboratively, without lobbying or coercion, for all residents in this city (yes, residents always first). That includes kids, teens, students, families, workers, seniors, educators, community leaders, businesses, NGOs and also the tourists and visitors to our city. The ideas you see so far are but a sample of my values (broadly, committed to safety, justice, accessibility, environmental and fiscal sustainability) and the goals I hope to achieve in the near and long-term. There will be much more to come, and evolve, as we learn together about the challenges and opportunities to implement policy at City Hall. The more we work as a team, with logic, care, respect and trust, the more we can achieve.
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Homes for People, Not Profit
Housing should be a basic human right, not a speculative game. We can build vibrant, affordable neighbourhoods without giving away our green spaces to luxury high-rise developers.
- City-Led Affordable Housing: Build non-profit and municipally partnered affordable housing directly on public land with a new municipal development corporation.
- Enable Gentle Density: Streamline approvals for multiplexes, and co-ops using pre-approved plans to support seniors, students, and young families.
- Protect Tenants: Enforce a strong Anti-Renoviction Bylaw, establish a municipal Rent Bank, and enforce adequate heating and cooling standards to stop landlord exploitation.
- Safe Rental Housing: Enforce strict unit safety rules while reducing permit fees and fast-tracking approvals to bring basement units up to code quickly and safely.
- Unlock Homes: Implement an AirBnB and Vacant Homes Tax to discourage speculation, short-term listing and keep housing for residents.
Fast and Frequent Transit & Safe Neighbourhood Streets
Moving around Ward 8 must be safe, smooth, and affordable whether you drive, ride transit, walk, or cycle.
- Better Public Transit: Accelerate MiWay frequency, express routes, and signal priority without placing the burden on riders through steep fare hikes. Implement fare-capping.
- Transitway Extension: Extend the Transitway west with dedicated stations at Ridgeway Drive, Ninth Line, and Churchill Meadows Terminal.
- Vision Zero Safety: Install raised crosswalks, speed cushions, and traffic-calming measures on residential streets to protect children and seniors. Remove right-turns on red lights.
- Safe Active Networks: Build physically separated and connected multi-use trails and bike lanes on boulevards, hydro corridors, and parks without removing car lanes.
- Fix Existing Roads: Focus road budgets on quality, safety, and complete street designs over expanding lanes that increase traffic congestion.
Upstream Crime Prevention & Measurable Public Safety
True public safety comes from caring for our neighbours and addressing root causes, not relying solely on reactive enforcement.
- Diversify Police Budgets: Reallocate funding toward civilian mental health crisis teams, youth centres, and community-based health supports.
- Empower Volunteer Networks: Partner with Safe City Mississauga’s 200 Team Leads and 8,000 active Neighbourhood Watch members to conduct CPTED community safety audits.
- Compassionate Care: Respond to public drug use with healthcare, harm reduction, and supportive housing rather than criminalization.
- Free Community Space: Provide free access to meeting rooms and community spaces for community care workshops that are free and public such as cooking classes, intergenerational learning activities, emergency response, neighbourhood watch meetings, and tactical urbanism.
- Supportive Housing First: Expand low-barrier shelter capacity and rapid rehousing instead of executing costly, force-based encampment evictions.
A Local Economy That Works
Tax dollars should stay in Mississauga to support local workers, small businesses, and reliable, publicly delivered services.
- Taxpayer Accountability: Establish an independent Auditor General to review municipal budgets line-by-line to eliminate bloat and waste.
- Support Main Street: Expand IDEA Mississauga as well as artist, community group and small business grants while reforming city procurement to buy local first.
- Protect Public Services: Stop the privatization of municipal services — including water — and keep tax dollars reinvested in public workers.
- Strict Guardrails on AI Data Centres: Enforce strict regulations against noise and energy-guzzling AI facilities, eliminating tax giveaways.
- Close the Funding Gap: Fight funding shortfalls to help balance the books — Peel Region receives $868 million less annually ($578 less per resident), our GTAA funding formula is outdated and we subsidize Brampton’s growth —to fund social services.
- Expand Learning and Activity Hubs: Invest in sports, community centre and library operating hours; expand newcomer resources, public gathering spaces, and the “library of things”, such as repair hubs.
Resilient Parks & Climate Action
Decades of suburban sprawl have paved over nature. We must protect and expand our remaining green space, tree canopy, and Credit River valley.
- Expand Tree Canopy: Double Mississauga’s tree-planting targets and distribute free native trees, shrubs, and wildflower seeds to residents.
- Food Security: Launch a backyard garden program, urban farming initiatives and support creation of a food security hub with free and expanded space for Foodbanks Mississauga and partner agencies.
- Rebuild Erindale Park Trails: Prioritize repair of the Culham Trail; formalize fishing areas, expand sports facilities and develop proper signage and connections to UTM and surrounding communities.
- Modernize Park Amenities: Upgrade local parks with equipment rentals, washrooms, public art, water fountains, signage and better connectivity.
- Accelerate Climate Action: Pursue green building retrofits, district energy, and paved-surface reductions funded through upper-government grants, business partnerships and philanthropy.
Nurture and Invest in Anchors
Our core commercial and educational hubs require proactive city planning, transit connectivity, and community-focused investments.
- Better Living and Moving at UTM: Advocate and partner to build affordable student housing on and off campus, expand MiWay service and the bus terminal, improve walk/bike links, and add a GO Transit route.
- Ridgeway Plaza Solutions: Establish a local BIA, install street furniture, trees, and wayfinding, and implement a 5-year traffic flow plan.
- New Civic Square: Explore acquiring vacant land at Ridgeway to build a structured parking garage and a Celebration Square-style public park.
- Mall Modernization: Work with landlords to improve public realm, mobility and access at South Common and Sheridan Mall and maximize local retail, commercial and non-profit occupancy at an affordable rate.
- Zoning Reform and Neighbourhood Counsel: Work with local residents, businesses and community leaders to review City policies on zoning and design to ensure neighbourhood retail, commercial, and public spaces are protected and grown – prioritize affordable mid-rise over luxury high-rise.