The tension: A largely separated community with long-identified unmet needs, against the growth in the rest of Mississauga — in Malton, residents told CBC News in May 2024, hardly anything has changed in decades, and the community often feels forgotten by the politicians who serve it.
Pearson Airport and industrial lands largely separate Malton from other residential areas of Mississauga. In May 2024, residents told CBC News that hardly anything had changed there in decades, and that the community often feels forgotten by the politicians who serve it. Safety, transit and affordable housing were among the issues they wanted discussed.
The questions below ask what a candidate would commit to, and how residents could later check whether anything changed.
Resolution Options
Ways this tension could be resolved. Each question below tests one of them.
Fund a commitment on Malton's transit and access. A specific, funded commitment this term on Malton's transit and service access to the rest of the city, rather than treating it as a standalone concern. Asked in q1.
Report on Malton separately every year. The City reports Malton's transit service, road and park spending and service levels on their own, year over year, so residents can see whether the gap is closing without taking anyone's word for it. Asked in q2.
Earmark a share of the airport payment. The airport authority pays the City a payment in lieu of property tax, which the City described in November 2021 as calculated per passenger. A defined share would go to Malton, with the annual figure published. A candidate who disagrees is asked to name the principle that should decide where that revenue goes instead. Asked in q3.
Questions you can ask
To: ward-5What specific, funded commitment will you make this term on Malton's transit and service access to the rest of the city, rather than treating it as a standalone concern?
To: ward-5Malton's gaps have been raised for years. Will you commit to the City reporting on Malton separately — its transit service, road and park spending, and service levels — so residents can see year over year whether the gap is closing, without having to take anyone's word for it?
To: allPearson Airport and industrial lands largely separate Malton from other residential areas of Mississauga, and the airport authority pays the City a payment in lieu of property tax, which the City described in November 2021 as calculated per passenger. Will you support allocating a defined share of that revenue to Malton, and publishing the annual figure so residents can see it? If not, what principle should decide where that revenue goes?
2 candidates are on record on this issue. Every candidate in this race is searched the same way. Only candidates who have said something in public on this issue are named here, with a link to the source; the others are counted by race below. The full record for every candidate is on Candidates.
reported on record: Bawa's campaign platform proposes a specific allocation rule: that a fixed percentage of Pearson Airport's payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILT) revenue be "legally locked into a dedicated Ward 5 Infrastructure and Community Fund", on the argument that the ward absorbs the airport's impacts while the revenue flows elsewhere. He also proposes twice-yearly progress reports, quarterly open town halls and Ward 5 business, youth, senior and faith advisory committees. A concrete mechanism proposal on this issue's tension. The fund and the progress reports cover Ward 5 as a whole rather than Malton specifically, and the platform does not say the reports would be City reporting on Malton, which is what our second question asks for. It is a campaign commitment rather than a council action, and his own proposal rather than a response to our question.
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reported on record: Bhogaiah's campaign site says: "I will fight to legally lock a fixed percentage of Pearson Airport's PILT funds into a dedicated Ward 5 Infrastructure and Community Fund to fix our local roads and community centers." PILT is the payment the airport authority makes in place of property taxes. A position on how airport revenue should be allocated to the ward. It covers Ward 5 as a whole rather than Malton specifically, and does not commit to publishing the yearly amount.
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7 other candidates searched 2026-10-09: no public position found yet. 1 more was searched, but their own website could not be read by our tools, so this is not a finding that they have said nothing. Every candidate in this race →
The full story
The record behind the questions, with a source at each claim.
Malton is largely separated from other residential areas of Mississauga by Pearson Airport and industrial lands. In the 2016 Census, 82.5% of Malton residents were visible minorities, against 57.2% city-wide. In May 2024, ahead of the June 10, 2024 vote for mayor, residents told CBC News that safety, transit and affordable housing were among the issues they wanted discussed.
Corrected 2026-09-26. This page said Malton had “a long-documented pattern of being ‘out of sight, out of mind’” and that “nearly 85%” of residents were visible minorities. The 2018 Region of Peel and City of Mississauga report on Malton gives 82.5% (2016 Census), and the quoted phrase was one person’s 2023 remark about Malton’s isolation, made while criticising a school board’s spending, not a documented pattern about the City.
Ward 5: Malton is largely separated from other residential areas of Mississauga by Pearson Airport and industrial lands. In the 2016 Census, 82.5% of Malton residents were visible minorities, against 57.2% city-wide. In May 2024, ahead of the June 10, 2024 vote for mayor, residents told CBC News that safety, transit and affordable housing were among the issues they wanted discussed. The airport authority pays the City a payment in lieu of property tax, which the City described in November 2021 as calculated per passenger.