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city-wide — Mississauga's Climate Change Action Plan has two goals. The emissions goal has a number and a date; the goal to increase the City's capacity to withstand and respond to climate events has neither, though the plan reports on it each year against suggested indicators. A Stormwater Advisory Committee, whose citizen members the Council elected on 26 October 2026 will appoint, advises Council on stormwater and flooding; the committee recommends and Council decides. The riverine flood lines that decide which properties lie in a flood hazard area are drawn by the conservation authorities, which are redrawing them and which merge into two new regional authorities on 1 February 2027 or a later date set by regulation. The City's own Official Plan shows flood hazards for illustration only.
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?
ward-5 — 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.
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?
city-wide — Mississauga's climate plan commits the city to reducing emissions 40 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050 against 1990 levels, and in June 2025 the City opened a public consultation on an update that would explore stronger, more ambitious targets more closely aligned with the IPCC's 1.5-degree recommendations. Five months later Ontario repealed its own statutory duty to set emissions targets at all, publish them, prepare a climate change plan, publish it, report on progress, or publish the reports — six mandatory duties, removed by the first schedule of a budget bill, in force on Royal Assent on 2025-11-27. Nothing in that repeal changes what Mississauga may do. What it removes is the published provincial reference point a municipality could measure a provincial decision against. Council received a deputation on the plan update's Engagement Update on 19 November 2025; the province carried second reading on the repeal five days later, third reading the day after that, and it was in force eight days after the Council meeting. The Act that created those duties in 2018 had three days of Standing Committee consideration, was reported as amended, and carried on a recorded division three months after First Reading; the schedule repealing them went to no committee at all; after three days of second-reading debate and a time-allocation motion, its second- and third-reading votes came on consecutive sitting days, 24 and 25 November 2025.
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: 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?
city-wide — A governance future decided above the city — the province announced full dissolution of Peel, reversed it, announced the dissolution of its Transition Board without confirming whether the reports or studies the Board used to inform its December 2024 service-transfer decision would be made public, and then legislated that the head of the region Mississauga sits inside is appointed — by the Minister, or failing that by the regional council. Every step had a mechanism; none of them was put to Mississauga residents to decide.
To: allWill you commit to building ward-level advisory authority and participatory budgeting into any future governance model?
city-wide — Bill 97, whose merger provisions took effect on Royal Assent on 24 April 2026, merges the three conservation authorities with Mississauga members — Credit Valley, Conservation Halton, and Toronto and Region — into two new regional authorities on 1 February 2027 or a later date set by regulation. For Mississauga's territory their members are appointed by the Region of Peel, as they already are: Peel's council appointed four Mississauga councillors to Credit Valley, two to Toronto and Region and two to Conservation Halton, on terms ending 14 November 2026 or until successors are appointed. Over the old authorities and the new ones sits the Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency, in force since 27 November 2025, which may direct authorities on budgeting, procurement, training, asset management and strategic planning and may set fees, including in respect of its directions. Its board is appointed entirely by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and the Minister may direct it by an instrument the Legislation Act's regulation-making rules expressly do not apply to.
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: 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?
city-wide — A city-wide program whose 2026 projects landed in five of eleven wards — with the selection criteria stated in the City's recap but not how locations were weighed against them, while the first round of a parallel road-safety fund was to be split equally across all eleven and the City said so.
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?
city-wide — A penalty ladder whose new top rung, enacted in June 2026 but not yet in force, will need a unanimous vote of the very colleagues being asked to use it — and the commissioner who would climb it leaves in January 2027, with no successor appointment found as of 2026-10-13 and no settled answer to which council chooses one.
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: 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?
city-wide — Powers that let one office act without a council vote — held since 2023, used here for committees and senior appointments, used for the budget once and declined for it since, and — by a provincial regulation taking effect November 15, 2026 — extended to the chair of Peel Region, an office Bill 100 provides shall be appointed, by the Minister or by the regional council. No Mississauga nomination, mayoral or ward, was affected.
To: allUnder what specific circumstances would you use, or support using, strong-mayor powers to act without a council vote?
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?
city-wide — Mississauga's value-for-money auditing sits with Internal Audit, which reports to the Audit Committee and, administratively, to the City Manager — the head of the administration it audits. Council was offered an Auditor General who would report directly to Council, priced by staff at about $2M, and added two staff to the existing model instead.
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: 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?
city-wide — The committee that shepherds the city budget was replaced by mayoral decision and is now charged with advising the Mayor — and on January 28, 2026 council shortened its own window to amend the budget.
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?
city-wide — Three times in three years a Mississauga housing decision has turned on another level of government — once through federal money with conditions attached, once over whether a field the province occupies is the City's to regulate, and once by a provincial regulation exempting developments outright from a by-law Council had already passed.
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?
city-wide — Mississauga pays about 62% of Peel Regional Police's cost because a Regional by-law divides it by weighted property assessment — a by-law that takes effect only if Mississauga's own council consents, which it did in February 2026, on a 10–0 General Committee recommendation, while asking the province to change the formula. If the Region delegates again for 2027, as it has each year since 1998, that consent vote falls to the council elected on October 26.
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?
city-wide — Council has now imposed the data-centre pause it ordered drafted in July, but the planning rules its review will recommend for every future data centre have not been written. Council has voted on what the review must consider, not on what the rules will say.
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?