The People’s Platform.

Keep Oakville’s small-town feel: no to shoebox towers.

We need to grow, and we will, but smart and responsibly, with infrastructure that keeps pace. Growth on our terms means density where the town has planned and built for it, not shoebox towers dropped onto established streets. Before new units are approved, the roads, water, schools and services they depend on must be part of the same conversation, not an afterthought once the cranes are up.

Hit pause on Midtown: freeze high-density occupancy permits.

In my first 30 days, I will move to freeze high-density occupancy permits in Midtown so the town can honestly evaluate what this growth does to our traffic, our schools and our local infrastructure before approving more units. A pause is not a stop: it is what a responsible owner does before signing off on more of the same.

Palermo Village: growth on our terms, not imposed on us.

The Palermo Village growth-area review will shape northwest Oakville for decades, and it must be decided with the people of Palermo and Westmount, not around them. I will make the review residents-first: village character protected, infrastructure and emergency-service capacity proven before density is approved, and every meeting about it held in the open. What we are stopping in Midtown, we will prevent in Palermo.

Slash development charges on 2–3 bedroom townhomes.

Oakville must be affordable for the next generation, not just the last one. I will move to fully slash the town’s development charges on two- and three-bedroom townhomes: the missing middle that young families can actually buy, and that seniors can downsize into without leaving the community they built. Every dollar cut from these charges is a dollar off the price of a family home, and it steers builders toward the housing Oakville actually needs.

Freeze property taxes for 2027.

Households have carried increase after increase while service quality stood still. For 2027, I will freeze the town’s share of property taxes, and pay for it the honest way: a thorough audit of town spending to identify inefficiency, duplication and gaps. Thirty years of reading balance sheets taught me that there is always waste hiding in a budget nobody has seriously challenged. Before asking residents for one more dollar, town hall must prove it respects the dollars it already takes.

Put Service Level Agreements behind every town service.

In business, a promise without a deadline is not a promise; it’s a hope. I will bring real Service Level Agreement (SLA) policy to town services: published standards for how long a permit, a pothole, a by-law complaint or a service request should take, public reporting on whether we hit them, and accountability when we don’t. Residents deserve to know not just that the town will respond, but when.

No policy made behind closed doors.

Transparency is a rule you either follow or you don’t. Under my leadership, none of Council’s policy meetings will take place behind closed doors. The narrow exceptions the law itself sets out (personnel, litigation, land negotiations) stay narrow, and everything else happens where it belongs: in public, on the record, in front of the people the policy affects. If a decision shapes your town, you have the right to watch it being made.

Within 30 days: declassify the midtown high-rise closed-door records.

Oakville’s mega-density high-rise approvals for midtown were shaped in closed-door meetings, and residents have never been shown what took place in them. Within my first 30 days in office, I will move to declassify and release the records of those meetings, so the town finally sees what was discussed, what was decided, and what was hidden from us. Transparency about the past is where trust in the future starts.

A public progress report at 100 days.

At 100 days in office, I will host a public progress report: every promise on this platform, what has been done, what is in motion, and what has slipped, with reasons, in person, on the record. Accountability shouldn’t wait four years for an election to enforce it.

Establish a public lobbyist registry.

Residents deserve to know who is in the room trying to influence town decisions, and today, in Oakville, there is no way to find out. I will establish a public lobbyist registry: anyone lobbying the Mayor, Council or senior staff registers, and who met whom, about what, is published for any resident to read. Toronto and Ottawa already do this. Sunlight is cheap, and it changes behaviour all by itself.

Put essential and emergency services at the core, front and centre.

Safety is the first service a town owes its people. I will make essential and emergency services a first-priority file at town hall, not only for residents who depend on them, but for the service men and women who deliver them. That means firefighters, paramedics and police have the resources, facilities and respect their work demands, and that response capability grows with the town instead of trailing years behind it.

Licence-plate recognition cameras at every highway entry and exit.

Criminals treat highway towns as drive-in, drive-out targets. Working in partnership with Halton Regional Police and the appropriate provincial authorities, I will push to install licence-plate recognition cameras at every highway entry and exit point serving Oakville: a proven tool for tracking stolen vehicles and giving police the evidence trail they need, deployed with proper privacy safeguards and oversight.

Bring police and community closer together.

The best policing is the kind that knows the neighbourhood by name. I will work with Halton police and residents together, on the same programs and in the same rooms, to strengthen genuine community policing: officers who are a familiar presence at our schools, plazas and community events, and residents who see police as partners rather than strangers. Trust is built before an emergency, not during one.

Free monthly anti-fraud workshops for seniors.

Online and phone fraud is stealing retirements, and it targets our seniors precisely because nobody has shown them the playbook. The town will run a free workshop every month, in plain language and at accessible venues, teaching seniors how the current scams work: grandparent calls, fake bank alerts, phishing texts, crypto cons. One hour a month that can save a life’s savings.

Launch the Senior Shield Task Force.

Education is half the defence; enforcement is the other half. Within 60 days I will roll out the Senior Shield Task Force in partnership with local police: a standing team focused on the financial scams and frauds that target our older residents, working hand-in-hand with the monthly anti-fraud workshops so seniors are both warned and protected.

Recognise and incentivise communities that fund their own patrols.

Neighbourhoods that pooled their own money to hire private community patrols have measurably lifted safety, and today the town gives them nothing back for it. I will create an incentive program for residents and community associations whose private patrols demonstrably raise community safety, coordinated with Halton police so patrols complement real policing, never replace it. When residents invest in keeping Oakville safe, their town should invest back in them.

Replace portables with real school infrastructure.

In one of Canada’s most prosperous towns, children are spending their school years in portable classrooms. That is not acceptable, and it should embarrass everyone who let it become normal. Schools are built by school boards and funded by the Province, so the Mayor’s job is to make Oakville impossible to ignore: aligning town planning and growth approvals with school capacity, and pressing the boards and Queen’s Park relentlessly until portables are the exception, not the plan. Our kids and their schools are our future. We do not compromise on our future.

Monthly career workshops for youth and their parents.

Every month, the town will host young people and their parents with practitioners from a different field: policing, firefighting, medicine, EMS, nursing, business, IT, arts and culture, film-making, news and media, the trades. Not career-fair brochures: real people doing real work, answering real questions. A teenager who has met a paramedic, a founder and a film editor by sixteen makes better choices at eighteen.

An annual Oakville Youth Festival.

Once a year, the town’s stage belongs to its young people: music, sport, art, science, food, ideas. A festival run with youth, not merely for them, giving Oakville’s next generation a reason to build here, perform here and belong here.

Create the Mayor’s Youth Council.

I will establish a Mayor’s Youth Council: a standing group of young Oakvillians who meet directly with the Mayor, so the town hears youth needs from youth themselves and works on them proactively instead of guessing. And the Council will have a second mission: preparing its members to be a bridge between generations, volunteering alongside Oakville’s seniors. The young people who help run this town at seventeen are the ones who will lead it at forty.

Set up the Youth Venture Fund.

Oakville’s young entrepreneurs shouldn’t have to leave town to find backing. The Youth Venture Fund will offer real mentorship, seed funding and career opportunities for local young people building businesses, connecting them with the executives, founders and professionals who already call Oakville home.

Break ground on a multi-sport dome.

Our families and youth athletes are chasing ice time, court time and field time across other towns. Within 90 days I will finalize the location and break ground on a multi-sport dome: year-round covered facilities for the sports our kids actually play, built here, for Oakville.

Fix downtown and Bronte parking with multi-level facilities.

Our two great main streets are being strangled by the same problem: nowhere to park. I will move to build multi-level parking facilities in both downtown Oakville and Bronte: capacity that serves shoppers, restaurant-goers, harbour visitors and local employees, so that “I couldn’t find parking” stops being the reason people take their business somewhere else.

Re-engineer transit: every corner of town to a GO station in 15 minutes.

Oakville Transit routes were drawn for a town that no longer exists. I will re-engineer the network around one simple, measurable promise: from any corner of Oakville, a resident can reach Bronte GO or Oakville GO within 15 minutes. When transit is genuinely faster than circling for parking, people choose it, and every rider it wins is one less car in the queue on Trafalgar or Lakeshore.

Upgrade to smart traffic lights, with the Region.

Too many Oakville intersections still run on fixed timers while traffic idles at empty crossings. I will work closely with Halton Region, which controls most of our major signals, to accelerate the upgrade to smart, adaptive traffic lights that respond to actual traffic in real time. It is the cheapest congestion relief available: no new lanes, just intelligence.

Connect every place of worship to the town bus network.

For thousands of residents, especially seniors and newcomers, the weekly trip to a church, mandir, mosque, gurdwara, temple or synagogue is the most important journey of the week, and today many of them can’t make it without begging a ride. I will review and adjust Oakville Transit routing so that every place of worship in town is connected to the bus network.

Direct connections to the universities our kids attend.

Thousands of Oakville students commute to Western, Waterloo, McMaster and the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus, and today that means a car, or a patchwork of transfers. I will work with Metrolinx and private bus operators to establish direct connections between Oakville and these campuses, so studying nearby doesn’t force a family to buy a third car or a student to leave home.

Make Oakville one of the easiest towns in Canada to do business.

I will work hand-in-hand with the Chamber of Commerce, not once a year at a luncheon but as a standing partnership, to hear local businesses’ concerns and clear the obstacles the town itself puts in their way: slow permits, opaque processes, fees that punish the small operator. The goal is simple and measurable: make Oakville one of the greatest towns in the country for ease of doing business.

Revitalize Kerr Village, Oakville’s most overlooked main street.

Downtown and Bronte get the attention; Kerr Street carries on without it. I will drive the Kerr Village revitalization the town has studied for years but never delivered: streetscape improvements, parking that works, and real support for the independent businesses that give Kerr its character. Three great main streets, not two.

Be the bridge to federal and provincial job investment.

Ottawa and Queen’s Park fund technology corridors, medical facilities and infrastructure projects every year, and towns that show up with a plan win them. As Mayor I will work closely with both levels of government, as a bridge rather than a bystander, to bring job opportunities to Oakville in the technology sector, the medical sector and infrastructure: careers our own graduates can come home to. Working target: 5,000 high-paying local jobs, tracked and reported publicly.

The right kind of growth: MedTech and CleanTech, not hyperscale data centres.

Innovation is vital to our town’s economic growth, but not all growth is created equal. While data infrastructure plays a role in the modern economy, massive hyperscale data centres require enormous land footprints, heavy grid consumption and significant water resources, all while offering very few direct, long-term jobs for local residents.

Oakville deserves economic development that matches our green vision and high quality of life. My focus is on attracting life sciences, medical technology, software development and green innovation hubs. These sectors bring clean, highly skilled jobs, grow local talent and strengthen our tax base without placing undue strain on our environment or municipal infrastructure.

Quarterly women’s entrepreneurship workshops.

Every quarter, the town will convene successful women entrepreneurs and leaders with the women of Oakville who want to build something: practical sessions on starting, funding, and growing a business, plus the network that makes it real. Talent is evenly distributed in this town; opportunity should be too.

Stand with families in their hardest week: $500 bereavement support.

When an Oakville resident passes away and the funeral is held at an Oakville funeral home, the town will provide the family a one-time $500 support payment. It will not touch the grief, but it says, at the hardest moment a family faces, that their town stands with them. A community is measured by how it shows up in difficult times.

Create the “Mayor’s Being Human” fund.

I will create a non-profit funding forum called Mayor’s Being Human, dedicated to the local organizations doing the quiet work that keeps Oakville smart, clean and green: the volunteers cleaning creeks, tutoring kids, planting trees and feeding neighbours. They stretch every dollar further than any government program; they deserve a fund that backs them.

An Oakville Peace Committee: every faith, every community, every month.

I will establish an Oakville Peace Committee with a representative from every place of worship and community group in town, meeting monthly with the Mayor and town staff. Its job is to work proactively, addressing social tensions and community concerns before they become incidents, and making sure every community in Oakville knows it has a seat at the table and a direct line to town hall.

A dedicated seniors counter at the town office.

For many seniors, a simple errand at town hall (a tax question, a permit, a service request) means queues, kiosks and portals that were never designed with them in mind. The town office will have a dedicated counter for seniors, staffed by people with the time and patience to handle any day-to-day matter in person, start to finish. Growing older in Oakville should never mean being left on hold by it.

Guarantee Canada Day at Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park, forever.

Some traditions are the community. I will immediately restore and fund our beloved Canada Day celebration at Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park, and then make sure its future is never questioned again, by establishing a dedicated task force of local residents, youth, emergency services, town staff, local businesses and the Chamber of Commerce to permanently secure and elevate it, year after year.

Proudly celebrate Christmas, and every festival, to its fullest.

The town will enthusiastically honour traditional celebrations by officially recognizing Merry Christmas in place of generic “Happy Holidays” phrasing, while ensuring every local cultural festival, of every community in Oakville, is celebrated to its fullest. Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah, Christmas, Lunar New Year, Vaisakhi: a town proud of all its traditions doesn’t water any of them down.

Meet monthly with our Indigenous community.

Reconciliation is a working relationship, not a plaque on a wall. I will hold a standing monthly meeting with representatives of our Indigenous community to make sure the town is genuinely aligned with them: on land and water, on culture and heritage, and on every town decision that touches both. Alignment you check every month, not once a term.

Hire Indigenous representation onto town staff.

Perspective changes decisions only when it is in the room where decisions are made. I will hire a member of the Indigenous community into the town’s staff force, in a real working role rather than a symbolic one, so that Indigenous knowledge and perspective are part of how town hall does its daily work, not something consulted after the fact.

Stand for the land acknowledgement.

At every town-supported event where the land recognition statement is read, we will stand. It is a small act, and that is exactly the point. Respect is built from small acts kept consistently, and a town that stands for the words it reads is a town that means them.

Protect our green fabric, and pioneer the Tech Fast Resort.

Oakville is known for its green climate fabric: the creeks, the tree canopy, the trails and the shoreline. I will keep it that way, and actively promote businesses that help us stay green.

And one idea I would love to champion: a Tech Fast Resort, a technology-free retreat where no wifi, no internet and no phones are admitted. On the same premises: meditation and yoga clinics, and programming built in partnership with our elders and Indigenous communities, showcasing and teaching the roots and culture of this land. A place where Oakville offers what almost nowhere else can: genuine quiet.

Protect Glen Abbey golf course, permanently.

Oakville fought for years to save Glen Abbey from development, and won. As a Glen Abbey resident, I will make sure that victory is never undone: the heritage designation defended without hesitation, and any future attempt to pave over our town’s green crown jewel met with the full weight of town hall from day one, not after the lawyers are already in the room.

Get serious about stormwater and creek flooding.

Oakville’s older neighbourhoods sit along creeks that modern storms are testing harder every year, and a flooded basement is a family disaster that never makes a press release. I will accelerate stormwater infrastructure upgrades and creek maintenance in our established neighbourhoods, and put a resident-facing basement flooding prevention program behind them: fixing the pipes before the storm, not apologizing after it.