Standing Up for Mississauga: My Pledges

My Pledge to the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance

Ontario’s Greenbelt protects what communities need to thrive: clean water, local food, farmland, natural heritage, rural communities, responsible growth, and a more climate-resilient future. Because these shared foundations do not stop at municipal boundaries; communities within, beside, and beyond the Greenbelt all have a stake in protecting them. 

If elected to municipal office, I pledge to support Council decisions and policies that protect and strengthen farmland, water systems, natural heritage, and complete communities. I will do this to protect my community and its future. In areas where Greenbelt policies apply, I will uphold the Greenbelt legacy and the values, vision, and objectives reflected in Ontario’s Greenbelt Act and Greenbelt Plan, including the protection of the Greenbelt as a connected system that includes the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Niagara Escarpment. Finally, I will maintain my independence and ability to act in the public interest, making decisions based on the needs of my community rather than the financial interests of campaign contributors.

This commitment is grounded in the Greenbelt’s proven public benefits:

• Water: The Greenbelt provides clean drinking water for over 7 million Ontarians.
• Economy: Greenbelt-connected economic activity contributes $17 billion to Ontario’s GDP and supports more than 247,000 full-time jobs.
• Farms and food: The Greenbelt protects 750,000 acres of some of Canada’s most productive farmland and is home to more than 4,000 operating farms.
• Climate and resilience: The Greenbelt’s natural systems provide nearly three times the ecological benefit per hectare as the rest of Ontario, making these protected landscapes among Ontario’s most effective natural assets for reducing flood risk, absorbing carbon, protecting water, and strengthening climate resilience.
• Biodiversity: The Greenbelt is home to 121 species at risk, representing 42% of all species at risk in Ontario.
• Recreation and tourism: The Greenbelt supports trails, cycling routes, river corridors, green spaces, rural destinations, local food, tourism, and recreation.

My Pledge for a Stronger, Safer Mississauga Transit System

• Prioritize Transit Operator Safety: Support meaningful measures to protect MiWay Transit Operators from violence, harassment, and workplace hazards, and promote a safe and respectful environment for employees and passengers.
• Invest Funding in Reliable Public Transit: Support adequate, sustainable, and long-term funding and financial investment in MiWay service, staffing, vehicles, facilities, and infrastructure so residents can depend on safe, accessible, and reliable public transportation.
• Support Fair and Respectful Working Conditions: Recognize Transit Operators as essential frontline public-service workers and support fair treatment, reasonable working conditions, adequate staffing, and meaningful consultation with workers and their representatives.
• Give Frontline Transit Workers a Voice: Support meaningful and ongoing representation of frontline transit workers in municipal discussions and decision-making affecting public transit, including opportunities for ATU Local 1572 to have representation on advisory bodies like the City of Mississauga Transit Advisory Committee.
• Keep Mississauga's Public Transit Public: Recognize MiWay as an essential municipal public service, support keeping it publicly owned, operated, and accountable as part of the City of Mississauga, and oppose the privatization or for-profit transfer of transit operations.
• Build a Transit-Friendly Mississauga: Support policies and infrastructure that improve transit reliability, accessibility, and connectivity while recognizing the key role transit employees play in the city's quality of life.

My Pledge to The Metamorphosis Network

1. Recognize Provincial Underfunding: Recognize that Community Services in Peel Region have been underfunded by the Province, putting pressure on municipal service providers, non-profit organizations, and people across our community who rely on these services.
2. Protect Local Ratepayers & Support Growth: Share the concerns of business leaders and residents that gaps in provincial funding for affordable housing, childcare, elder care, and mental health care hamper economic growth and place an unfair financial burden on municipal finances and local property taxpayers.
3. Support Non-Profit Advocacy: Support Peel Regional Council continuing its full financial and moral support for non-profit advocacy on provincial underfunding.
4. Advocate at Queen's Park: Join non-profit leaders in going to Queen's Park to raise this funding gap directly with MPPs and relevant Ministers.

My Pledge to No More Noise

1. Automated Noise Enforcement Pilots: Advocating for provincial Highway Traffic Act amendments to allow municipal automated noise enforcement pilots.
2. Modernizing Noise Bylaws: Updating municipal definitions from "unwanted sound" to "unwanted and/or harmful sound" to enable proactive, health-focused enforcement.
3. Section 82 Vehicle Safety Inspections: Shifting enforcement against loud vehicles from court-administered fines to mandatory Section 82 Notice to Inspect safety re-inspections for illegal muffler modifications.
4. Traffic-Calming Street Design: Implementing practical street designs on existing and new roads to naturally reduce vehicle speeds, traffic volume, and noise.