Han Dong

The Mayor and City Council

Safety. People in Scarborough North are checking their driveways at night and their doors before bed. In my first 101 days I will complete a lighting audit of every park, path and street, post the fix dates, and hold the first Ward 23 safety table with 42 Division, plazas, condo boards and Toronto Community Housing, meeting monthly on auto theft and home invasions. I am the only candidate who has worked at both Queen's Park and Ottawa, where the money comes from. I speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and I return calls.

Housing

Scarborough North is a homeowner ward, yet the adult kids cannot leave home and seniors cannot afford to stay. Council changed our housing rules without asking us. In my first 101 days I will launch a ward-wide housing consultation and publish the report, and open a housing clinic in my ward office for rent-geared-to-income and benefit applications. Next: safe, legal basement apartments, repairs funded in Toronto Community Housing units, new homes along Sheppard, Steeles and McCowan near transit, and tax increases tested against inflation.

Cost of Living

One commitment also within my main platform: no tax or fee increase above inflation gets my vote. For most of Scarborough North the bill that keeps climbing is the property tax bill the City mails you, and seniors on fixed incomes feel it first. Before the 2027 budget vote I will hold a Ward 23 Budget Town Hall and publish a page showing where your money goes. I will use two decades of provincial and federal relationships to bring outside dollars here instead of raising yours.

Safety in Public Spaces

Feeling safe starts with a lit path, someone present and a Councillor who shows up. My first 101 days: a lighting audit of every park, path and street, with fixes funded in the first budget and a completion date posted for each. Neighbourhood Community Officers walking our plazas and parks. A safety and bylaw blitz every quarter on the Finch and Middlefield industrial strip and the plazas on Finch, McCowan and Markham Road. And no changes to a park until the people who use it have been asked - meaningful local consultation is critical.

Getting Around the City

Three things, in order. The Sheppard East subway funded and shovel-ready this term; meetings with our MPs and MPPs start in my first 101 days. A construction start date for widening Steeles east of Tapscott, approved a decade ago and still not built; the staff report requested on the Council record. Faster buses on Finch, Steeles, McCowan and Markham Road that keep every through lane: signal priority, queue-jump pockets, far-side stops and more express buses. Streets redesigned with neighbours at the table, not after the paint is down.

Confronting Hateful and Hostile Behaviour

My parents came to Canada in 1990 with nothing and found their footing in Scarborough. Being welcomed is not a slogan to me; it is why I am here. What I will do: a multilingual constituency office in the ward, open evenings and Saturdays, so a newcomer can report a threat or a slur in their own language and reach a person, not a ticket number. Hate incidents tracked at the Ward 23 safety table with 42 Division, so patterns at plazas, schools and places of worship get acted on. Four town halls a year with every community in the same room.