In a nutshell, it would be to help organise and empower the working class by removing the obstacles we face in that pursuit. The troubles we face today - in housing, poverty, employment, debt, climate change, mental health, healthcare, hate, crime, et cetera - are all symptoms of the system that produced them: rabid capitalism. I will centre on guaranteeing decent housing and basic needs for all so we can stop focusing on bare survival, and can instead begin to build towards a much-needed revolution for an equitable society free of repression.

Housing is a basic human right, and all levels of government - including the City - have failed to uphold it. The City spends more money criminalising homelessness and poverty than it would cost to house and provide for every homeless person. Rents are unaffordable for nearly half of Toronto renters. This means people are driven from their communities into unsafe living conditions, the shelter system, and extreme debt. This perpetuates the exploitation of the destitute, debt-enslaved working class. For details on solutions, do visit my website.

Climate change is upon us. We must continue to reduce our GHG emissions - become carbon-negative even - but must also begin to adapt to a new climate reality. For example, we can: - retrofit existing infrastructure such as covering exteriors of buildings with green life - paint roads and sidewalks white to reflect heat - rapidly transition to green energy on an urgent basis We should install: - shades over sidewalks - cooling/misting fountains at regular intervals - resilient anti-flooding structures Also see my plan for mass transit in Q4.

The hallmark of a free society is governing and complying by consent - not the threat or use of force. The police do not make our communities safer nor address the root causes of crime - of which poverty is a prime driver. By eliminating poverty as outlined above, we can eliminate most crime. We must demilitarise the police and cut its budget by at least 50% and, instead, fund our communities to reduce poverty and mental distress. What remains of the police should focus on violent crimes and corporate fraud, as opposed to criminalising poverty.

Definitely! Municipal taxes have been rising unnaturally due to speculation and gentrification. This has made living in the city, even as a homeowner, unaffordable for families that have called Toronto home for generations. These taxes should be cut, deferred, or frozen for small businesses and primary residence homeowners. Big businesses and banks should be taxed more for the privilege of doing business in our city. Vacancy taxes should kick in upon three months of vacancy, and increase monthly up to and including expropriation within 3 years.

Toronto must transition into a car-free city in order to address road safety, air quality, and chronic traffic congestion. We cannot simply ‘ban’ cars, nor make them costly and inconvenient. We need to make alternative modes of transport: - easier - quicker - cheaper or free - all around better That requires: - greatly expanding public transit service - developing bike and e-vehicle infrastructure - making high-traffic areas easily walkable Until then, we can redirect police to traffic management, and set up *temporary* pedestrian bridges.

To support children, youth and families with child care and educational programs. An emphasis on science, engineering, technology and mathematics, as well as promoting enrolment in extracurricular activities and community outreach programs.

Increase residential density in well served transit corridors, especially along subway lines. Allow home owners to invest in their own properties by removing bureaucratic barriers to decrease the complexity of adding rental units in their home or backyard.

Lobby the provincial government focus on developing the next generation of zero greenhouse gas producing nuclear plants. Naturalize and plant trees in areas surrounding industrial lands, hydro corridors and highways.

Use community groups to study the implementation of a reasonable cycle and transit network that improves the commute for everyone. Create cycling paths through parks and hydro corridors. Study intersections and roadways to find efficiencies especially during rush hours.

City Council should focus on effectively managing the resources, infrastructure and services that are currently in place before making a case to increase taxes. The campaign promises of 2014 were the promises of 2018 and are now the promises of 2022. In Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, the campaign promises of 2003 are the same in 2022, which is outright ridiculous and an abject failure.

Improving access to social services to help people make better decisions in their lives, as well as building a supporting community, will go a long way in the type of policing required in the future. Additional resources should be utilized primarily for increased officer training. Programs specifically tuned to positively engage with youth should be of the outmost importance. The efficacy of new or innovative programs shall only be determined after robust data analysis, or after a successful pilot project. Policing should be free of politics

Addressing the affordable housing crisis, which also fuels our homelessness emergency, by working with all levels of government, community groups and others to build more affordable housing; make developers include more affordable housing in their projects; stop illegal evictions, including renovictions; and strengthen short-term rental rule enforcement to prevent the loss of the affordable housing stock we currently have.

We need to accelerate HousingNow and the modular housing initiative. We need to encourage the federal and provincial government to add to HousingNow any suitable, surplus lands they have in Toronto. Our Inclusionary Zoning policy needs to be strengthened and expanded. We have to be more diligent about fostering affordable housing on the waterfront, for example by maximizing affordable housing on Villiers Island. The amount of affordable housing also needs to be increased in the provincial government’s Transit Oriented Communities.

Toronto should be climate leader; and I will continue to fight to: fully fund the City’s TransformTO climate plan - so we meet our goal to be net-zero by 2040; invest in programs & subsidies to help homeowners, condo and apartment buildings to make the needed retrofits to meet our climate goals; invest in local green infrastructure projects at every scale to adapt to the ongoing challenge of climate change; expand electric vehicle on-street charging stations; and protect and expand our tree canopy.

Along with the provincial & federal government, we should improve funding for the TTC to expand service and improve reliability. We should implement Transit Priority Signals where appropriate; and heed the advice of the people who work in TTC operations on how to improve the TTC. Road safety must continuously be improved to foster more active transportation - cycling & walking. We also need to do a better job of traffic management & road safety around construction sites, especially for major infrastructure projects like the Ontario Line.

We should always be striving to make taxes fairer. For example, we should strengthen our tax rebate program for low-income Seniors. As well, we should use special taxes, like the Vacant Home Tax, to foster solutions to our city’s challenges, like the affordable housing crisis. The Toronto Public Library, for example, runs some great programs for Seniors and we need to make sure those are properly funded. That goes for similar programs from other City agencies like Toronto Public Health's dental clinics, etc.

We need to continue to further develop and fully fund the Community Crisis Support Service Pilots, which have been designed in consultation with the Black, Indigenous, and other communities. We also should explore how those programs might integrate with the new 9-8-8 crisis line being developed by the federal government – expected to launch in November 2023. That service will be designed to help people in Canada struggling with mental health crises.

If elected I would be one vote and one voice attempting to convince a majority at Council to help our business community to come back from the pandemic. Some present members of Council forget a healthy business community provides jobs and revenues Toronto needs to support all of the other ambitious programs they propose to support all communities. We're almost 2 Billion Dollars in debt and some of the frivolous spending must be stopped.

Toronto needs a mixture of people who choose to buy and those who genuinely choose to rent which will provide a more permanent foundation to count on for future economic support. A less fractious approach is needed from our municipal government in their approach to Provincial and Federal bodies for support to achieve recognition of mutual vested interests.

Being honest with our citizens is my main goal. Torontonians have a home front crowded with different garbage cans for different purposes. They separate and compost and use discretion when they buy and discard. I would say thanks for their effort not continuously berate them for not doing enough in 'Little Canada with 38 million people when China with 1.4 Billion people announces they will increase coal production and use by more than 100 Million Tons of Coal a year.'

Show some empathy for our citizens and stop the freebies. Present Council Members are all on the 'Sunshine List' and don't need freebies to ride the TTC, park vehicles, or tickets to sporting events, etc. Honorariums are nice but call into question the sincerity of those who volunteer.

We should not be judging our Police Services by a foreign tragedy that makes for sensational news as has happened too often at Toronto City Hall! If you beat an even tempered dog long enough eventually it will bite and refuse to do anything you ask it to. The voices of reason are not the loudest that too often are lacking in sincerity and the veracity of their intent.

Our citizens need and deserve a more sincere consultation process that allows their views and not the poor interpretations of their views to form the basis of decisions presented for adoption at Council. Toronto has a large waterfront that is not being fully utilized. Australia and other countries make beneficial use of their waterfront access to allow a working populace to come to our city for work and leave without bringing their cars with them.

Top priorities will be home ownership, help with increasing shelter beds, Business Recovery, and community safety. - Housing: building a way for the homeownership - Shelters: Working with charities to increase beds for the homeless and helping them find their way out of homelessness. - Business Recovery: Helping the business with experts on how to help the business increase traffic and staff. - Community safety: helps with community crisis support service, it allows non-police models to take care of cases of mental health checks.

The population growth rate is about to double.I will be working with charities like Habitat humanity and corporations like Toronto Community Housing Corporation to find ways to increase the number of home ownership and affordable housing in the Toronto- Danforth area. We have a lot of millennials and families that are further away from home ownership than ever before. We plan to look into ways with different solutions to increase the amount of home ownership like co-ownership, down payment assistance, rent to own, etc.

We will be working with the community to see how we can make things more accessible and easier for them and implement a solution based on what we gather from the community.

Safety for the community is the number one priority and we will be working with police on their community initiative. Community Crisis Support Service is one of the initiatives that allow non-police models to take care of cases of mental health wellness checks as well as other alternatives to policing response. We can make sure these initiatives and others continue to get funding.

We will be listening to the community on what they want to see changed by having a town hall meeting every quarter. Some of the areas we want to focus on are • Children's Services • Seniors Services and Long-Term Care • Shelter, Support & Housing Administration • Toronto Employment & Social Services