Peter Handjis

The Mayor and City Council

In my private/professional life I have been a vetted volunteer for the Alano Club (a drug and alcohol organization that provides help and guidance to those who desire to break away from substance use and offered short term midterm affordable housing upon completion of a drug treatment facility teaching residents there how not to slip back to substance use introduction to job skills) and have volunteered over time with several community outreach groups giving back to communities across the city. As your Mayor I desire to continue with this work.

Housing

1: introduce a motion to levy a moratorium on private equity not buying up residential homes and apartment buildings in the city. If you think affordability is currently an issue right now?. Private equity will push rents further upwards making renting even further a burden on any current stock and will push real estate asking prices substantially higher. As your Mayor I will convene all council members to expedite smaller commercial buildings to be rezoned from office space to fresh rentals.

Cost of Living

My immediate response: to have our public transit safer and cleaner to encourage car owners to leave the car at home Monday to Friday that would increase revenues. To do this from the beginning as your Mayor for the homeless and open drug use that currently occurs to show our less fortunate a path towards drug and alcohol treatment at a to be designated city facility that will be staffed by health care professionals to be in a safe environment instead of bringing them to hospital emergency rooms

Safety in Public Spaces

As your Mayor: to introduce a motion to have a bylaw specific to the downtrodden and decilate enter a city run substance use facility whereby providing a professionally managed facility to help those who are strung out due to substance use on a voluntary basis NOT an involuntary manner as proposed by the Premier recently. I believe in offering a kind hand and kind heart that will reduce substantially what is occurring across the city. This approach will free up our police to go after the real bad people who are blatantly commiting crimes openly

Getting Around the City

As your Mayor: for the car owners; to instruct traffic management to reset signal timings back to 2019 standards resulting in better traffic flows saving millions of dollars as opposed to bringing so called "smart technology" to the traffic management infrastructure. For public transit: integrating more short turn opportunities for street cars that have been lacking for over 50 years. To have specific pedestrian only flows would need consultation from the public and from council members. We can thrive with bicycle only areas too rest assured.

Confronting Hateful and Hostile Behaviour

Every city dweller and tourist visitor should feel safe as they go about their daily life here. I strongly believe in free speech of the utmost. I also strongly believe that demonstrations of what is being voiced should be carried out in a very peaceful, respectful, responsible manner and ahere to the public interest at all times. As your Mayor I will not tolerate the sudden closure of city streets and city sidewalks to the point of encumbering the vehicle and pedestrian traffic flows for your chosen position of demonstrations. Get a permit.