Mayor

To: allMississauga's Climate Change Action Plan has two goals. The emissions goal has a number and a date: 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030, 80 per cent by 2050. The goal to increase the City's capacity to withstand climate events has neither: the plan reports on it each year against suggested indicators but sets no level to reach. The 2023 Stormwater Master Plan states its actions without a measurable target or a fixed review date, and the climate plan is being updated. Will you commit to Council adopting a measurable resilience target, with a date, by a recorded vote?

To: allMississauga Official Plan 2051 shows flood hazards for illustration only and leaves the actual line to the conservation authorities, which are redrawing it: Conservation Halton plans to present draft updated mapping for eastern Sixteen Mile Creek, which includes part of Mississauga, in 2027. Will you commit to Council receiving updated flood mapping for Mississauga at an open meeting before the City relies on it, and to the City publishing which neighbourhoods it changes?

To: allThe Stormwater Advisory Committee advises Council on stormwater and flood mitigation; it recommends, and Council decides. Will you commit to Council publishing its reason on the record whenever it departs from a committee recommendation, and to asking the committee for advice before a stormwater decision is made rather than after it?

To: allCitizen members of the Stormwater Advisory Committee serve a term concurrent with Council's and hold office until their successors are appointed, so the Council elected on 26 October appoints the next ones. For the 2025-2026 term its terms of reference allow five to eight citizen members, and five sat in June 2026. Will you commit to filling the citizen seats to the top of whatever range the next Council sets, and to advertising them openly enough that a resident who has never dealt with the City could find and apply for one?

To: mayoralFlood protection is funded project by project: the Dixie-Dundas flood works drew $48.6 million from the federal and provincial governments alongside the City's own budget. The City publishes its planned stormwater projects ward by ward and says they are prioritized on citywide needs and asset management strategies. Will you commit to the City publishing, before the next capital budget, how flood-protection projects are ranked across wards and the criteria behind that ranking?

To: allMississauga's climate commitments were adopted while the province was statutorily required to publish targets and a plan. That requirement no longer exists. Will you support Council publishing a report identifying which of the City's commitments assumed a provincial framework, and which now rest on the City alone?

To: mayoralThe repealed section 5 required the Minister to prepare progress reports on a regular basis. The City's own Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) says "The City will report annually on progress." Will you commit to holding Mississauga to that annual schedule for its own progress against its own targets, with a recorded Council vote required before that schedule is changed or missed?

To: allThe Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) update opened for consultation in June 2025 and had not set a target as of June 2026. Will you commit to a recorded Council vote on the updated targets rather than approval by staff report, and to naming the date by which that vote happens?

To: mayoralIn December 2024 the Province announced that the provincial Transition Board on Peel would be dissolved, without confirming whether the reports or studies it used to inform that month's service-transfer decision would be made public. Will you push for their public release, and for a public City position on Mississauga's governance future?

To: mayoralIf the province reopens Mississauga's governance structure, will you commit to public, ward-by-ward consultation before the City takes any official position?

To: allWill you commit to building ward-level advisory authority and participatory budgeting into any future governance model?

To: allThe Region of Peel appoints Mississauga's members to its conservation authorities, and will appoint the members of the two new regional authorities that replace Credit Valley Conservation, Conservation Halton and Toronto and Region on 1 February 2027, unless a regulation sets a later date. Will you commit to pressing for those appointments to be made at an open meeting with a recorded vote, and to the City publishing what it expects Peel's appointees to defend?

To: mayoralThe Agency may direct conservation authorities on budgeting and may set fees, including in respect of its directions, and those fees are not public money under the Financial Administration Act. An authority's costs are apportioned to its participating municipalities, which for the new authorities means, for Mississauga, the Region of Peel — though the Ministry's guidance says 2027 apportionment will follow existing methods and apply to each authority's current participating municipalities. If a direction raises what Mississauga's residents pay through Peel, or changes a service the City relies on, what does the City do? Name the instrument and who invokes it.

To: allOn the transition date — 1 February 2027 unless a regulation sets a later one — Credit Valley Conservation joins the Halton, Hamilton and Niagara Peninsula authorities in the new Western Lake Ontario Regional Conservation Authority, whose members are appointed by its participating municipalities. By what mechanism would Mississauga state a position on what its watersheds need from the new authority, and would you support Council doing so before the Region of Peel makes its appointments rather than after?

To: allThe 2026 Traffic Calming Program funded projects in five wards. If your ward wasn't among them, what's your specific plan to secure projects in the next round?

To: allThe City says it selected the 2026 traffic-calming projects using speed data, resident feedback and survey responses. Will you commit to publishing how each location was weighed against those criteria, so residents can see why a street was funded or passed over?

To: allOnce the new power is in force, if the Integrity Commissioner of Ontario recommends removing a member of council and council's vote fails, the Act will also bar a reprimand or pay suspension for that breach. Will you commit to voting in favour — or state now the specific circumstances in which you would vote no and block every sanction?

To: allOnce the new power is in force, removal will require a unanimous council vote, so a single member can prevent it. Will you support Mississauga formally asking the province to replace unanimity with a threshold that can actually be reached?

To: mayoralIn 2022 Council required the Integrity Commissioner to report every quarter, rather than once a year, on complaints they decide fall outside their jurisdiction. Will you commit to those reports being published, and to council recording a public response to each one?

To: allThe City's Integrity Commissioner ceases operations in January 2027. No successor appointment had been found as of 2026-10-13, and staff have recommended a term ending June 30, 2030, which would cover almost all of the next council's term. Will you commit to a fixed term that cannot be shortened mid-appointment, and state what term length you think protects the commissioner's independence from the members they investigate?

To: allUnder what specific circumstances would you use, or support using, strong-mayor powers to act without a council vote?

To: mayoralSection 284.11.1(3) already requires a head of council to give every member of council their reasons for proposing a by-law under that power. The regulation requires the written record of the power's use to be made public, but does not say the reasons must be in it. Will you commit to publishing them, in full, on the day they are given to council?

To: mayoralThe Mayor proposed the 2024 budget under the strong-mayor power (MDE-0008-2023); the 2025 and 2026 budgets were prepared as staff-recommended budgets with the power declined, and the 2027 budget has been directed the same way. Will you commit to declining it for every budget in your term?

To: allSince May 7, 2026, Bill 100 has provided that Peel's regional chair shall be appointed, by the Minister by order or else by the regional council, and from November 15, 2026 a provincial regulation gives that chair strong-mayor powers, including a veto over by-laws the chair considers could interfere with a provincial priority. What is your position on an unelected chair holding those powers, and what will you do about it from a Mississauga council seat?

To: allValue-for-money auditing now sits with Internal Audit, whose director reports administratively to the City Manager. An Auditor General would report directly to Council. Name the specific trigger — a dollar threshold, a number of years, a failed audit — that would move you to support creating one, or state plainly that no such trigger exists.

To: mayoralThe City's own report says an Auditor General 'cannot be terminated through the exercise of strong mayoral powers'; for the Director, Internal Audit, it says only that a request for removal 'must be reviewed and supported by the Audit Committee'. Will you commit not to exercise strong-mayor powers over any position that conducts value-for-money audits?

To: allCouncil attached two dates to the audit package it approved in March 2026 — a start date for the new positions and a staff report on the Whistleblower expansion. Will you commit to publishing whether each was met, before election day?

To: allPeel Region has an Auditor General and Mississauga does not, and waste collection transfers to the City on October 1, 2027. Will you commit that services moving from Peel remain subject to value-for-money audit, and that those audits are published?

To: mayoralThe Budget Committee was replaced by mayoral decision in June 2024 and now advises the Mayor; the decision's only reporting line to Council is for items where the Mayor has a pecuniary interest. Will you commit to returning it to Council as a committee that advises Council?

To: mayoralOn January 13, 2026 Budget Committee decided not to shorten council's 30-day budget-amendment period; on January 28, 2026 Council shortened it to 23 days on a Notice of Motion in the Mayor's name. The province's regulation lets council shorten the period one year at a time. If elected mayor, will you commit to not bringing a motion to shorten it in any year of your term?

To: allOntario's regulation gives council 30 days to amend the proposed budget and lets council shorten that period by resolution, one year at a time. Will you commit to voting against any resolution to shorten it during the next term?

To: allIn October 2023 the federal minister's conditions for Mississauga's housing fund application were among the correspondence Council received on the day it voted down a four-unit motion; eight days later he declined the application, and the City's direction changed the next day. Will you commit to Council disclosing in writing, before it votes, any funding condition attached to a land-use decision and what depends on it?

To: allSince January 29, 2026 a provincial regulation has exempted Mississauga developments from this Council's 2022 inclusionary-zoning by-law if they file their applications before July 1, 2027, unless a building permit was issued before January 29, 2026; the regulation sets no end to the exemption for a project that qualifies. What is your position on that exemption, and will you commit to the City publishing a formal response whenever a higher government sets aside a by-law Council has passed?

To: allIn 2026 Mississauga began licensing renovation work to curb renovictions: General Committee recommended it 8-3, over the objection that renovictions are a provincial responsibility, and Council adopted it on consent. State the test you would apply for when Mississauga should regulate in a field the province already occupies.

To: allInside a protected major transit station area, the province now caps the affordability period an official plan policy may require at 25 years, while Mississauga's own 2022 rules say 99 years for ownership and 30 for rental. Which figure applies today — and will you commit to the City publishing, in plain language, what its affordable-housing requirements actually are after each provincial change?

To: allIn each year the Region delegates, Mississauga Council must consent, before the last day of February, to the Region's by-law that splits Peel Regional Police costs by weighted property assessment — about 62% to Mississauga — or the by-law does not take effect. It consented in February 2026, on a 10–0 General Committee recommendation. If the Region delegates again for 2027, how will you vote on that consent, and what would change your vote?

To: allThe Region can change the method only if all three municipalities agree, and Mississauga has instead asked the province to impose a population-based formula. What should decide how police costs are split between the cities, and who should decide it — the three councils, or the province?

To: allThe City's estimate of what the current split costs Mississauga was $86 million a year in the Mayor's November 2024 letter, and $93.3 million for 2025 in its January 2026 budget submission. Will you commit to the City publishing its calculation each year, before the February consent vote, so residents can see the figure being voted on?

To: allOn July 29 Council ordered a review of the City's planning rules for data centres, to end in recommendations such as Official Plan and zoning amendments and site plan guidelines. Will you commit to everything the review recommends, guidelines included, being published in draft for public comment and adopted by a recorded council vote, rather than taking effect as an internal staff document?

To: allWill you commit to the rules that come out of the data-centre review setting published limits on water use and electricity draw — and to actual consumption being reported publicly once a facility is running, not just projected at application?

To: mayoralCouncil passed the Interim Control By-law on September 16, 2026. It ends after a year, or sooner if Council is satisfied the land-use study is complete, unless Council extends it, to two years at most. Will you commit to it not being lifted until the new planning rules for data centres have been through a public council vote — even if that takes the full two years?