Ward 1 Electors are looking for change!!!!

There are five candidates vying to represent Ward 1. Therefore, a selection of which candidate is best qualified to argue the case for Ward 1 residents on Town Council must come down to trust, financial leadership and the ability to represent the best interests of constituents. 

I have been listening to you for the last two months and I’ve been making my platform known to you.

To those Ward 1 residents I haven’t had the opportunity to meet yet, you might want to know that I am fiercely independent – if not strident, when it comes to the protection of our families, and that I am entirely independent of any "alliances or camps" which may or may not exist on Town Council.

During the next four years, if I am elected, I can promise this:

I shall not remain silent on your behalf if proposals are introduced to both Town Council and Regional Council if they appear to be detrimental to your family and to your financial interests.

Looking ahead, and looking at the state of the world around us, it makes no sense that our municipal government appears to be intent on perpetuating its fiscal policies that increase taxes each year instead of looking for economies from within.

Our Mayor, dismisses these kinds of overtures as part of an "anti-incumbent movement", but he offers no options, is a ‘late-comer’ to the notion of downtown re-development and has missed the boat entirely in terms of attracting job-creating, tax revenue-producing, clean industry that people of Ajax so desperately want from their local government. You need to find local jobs rather than drive to far side of Toronto to support your families!

Don’t get me wrong. Our Mayor has done an outstanding job in creating a wonderful place to live.

But the Mayor’s vision doesn’t reflect the vision that residents of Ward 1 have for Ajax!

With few exceptions, Ward 1 electors are looking for change – to bring some immediate balance that shifts some of the tax burden from the shoulders of residential taxpayers through a policy of rapid business expansion – even if that means closing deals with businesses via tax holidays as a means of attracting new, high-paying jobs to Ajax.

The social and financial benefits created by those jobs will have spinoff effects throughout our community – better transportation, higher residential housing prices and other consumer-driven investment.

Ultimately, it comes down to trust, financial leadership and the ability to represent the best interest of residents and their families in Ward 1.