Ward 9 · London, Ontario
I’m fed up. I think you are too. It’s time to do something about it.
We need a council that listens to us, instead of rubber-stamping whatever city staff recommend. Fiscally-responsible stewards of our tax dollars. Government that does less, but does it well.
Does it shrink your tax bill? Does it lighten your load? Does it actually work? If the answer to all three isn’t yes, it doesn’t belong on the agenda.
In November 2025, council voted 9 to 6 to give themselves almost a 40% raise for the next term, while raising your property tax bill more than 25% over this multi-year budget. The fix: a direct-democracy bylaw that ties councillor pay to the property tax levy. Drafted in public. Read it, suggest changes, watch the audit trail.
When the arterials flow, your neighbourhood stays quiet. Wonderland, Wharncliffe, Commissioners, Colonel Talbot. The way Lambeth, Byron, and Riverbend get their streets back is by making sure those roads move vehicles quickly and efficiently, as designed. Every mobility vote gets the same test from me: does it get you where you need to go faster, or jam up traffic and push the spillover into someone’s neighbourhood?
Overnight break-ins keep happening in Ward 9. But a councillor can’t assign patrol cars. What a councillor can do, though, is two real things: fight for police resources that match the documented break-in pattern, and push council’s Police Service Board appointees to make recurring hotspots a strategic priority for the Service.
City Hall keeps adding rules and fees and almost never takes any away. I can’t repeal the pile alone. What I can do is make decisions based on a framework on every regulation that comes to council: does it prevent specific harm, are the costs worth it, would it survive a four-year defence, and does the regulatory environment net grow or shrink? And I’ll keep pushing for a council that subtracts as often as it adds. Let me know about red tape that needs cutting.
My thoughts on Ward 9, and beyond.
May 23, 2026
Council voted nine to six to raise their own pay by close to forty percent for the next term, while raising property tax bills more than 25 percent over this multi-year budget. The two decisions sit in separate rooms. The PACT Bylaw connects them.
Read →May 17, 2026
London is in the worst economic shape of any major city in Canada. Unemployment, insolvencies, mortgage stress. Lagging indicators all. And it's being swept under the rug.
Read →May 10, 2026
Lambeth lost a school in 2010. The City approved 31 townhouses where it stood. Here is what happened, what the staff report says, and what our current councillor did about it.
Read →A little about me
Third generation farmer, technology professional, and lifelong Lambeth resident.
Advocate for fitness and nutrition.
I’ve been involved in past London elections and I follow politics at every level closely.
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