What I promised
These are the promises I made as a candidate in the 2026 election, in writing, before election day. I finished fourth and will not be casting these votes, so the page stays up as the record of what I told Ward 9 and as the test I would apply to the votes council takes.
I will not vote for any increase to the municipal tax rate on an existing home. No exceptions carved out in advance. If council brings forward a rate increase, I vote against it regardless of the reason attached to it.
Source: a standing position, restated across the campaign since September 2026.
I’ve drafted the Pay Accountable to City Taxpayers (PACT) bylaw in the open, on GitHub, since before I was a candidate. Anyone can read every version and see exactly what changed and when. I intended to introduce it at council if elected.
Source: London Free Press candidate survey, July 2026.
I will not vote for a moratorium on AI data centres. I will vote for conditions instead: power generation that adds capacity to the local grid, cooling that does not draw down the municipal water system, and noise and setback rules that protect nearby homes.
Source: Climate Action London questionnaire, August 2026.
The fund held $1.19 million at the end of 2024, with only about $225,000 of it reaching an actual project. I oppose putting a million dollars a year back into that fund on the strength of the emergency label alone. Any new dollar needs a plan that names the result it buys and how we’ll know it worked.
Source: Climate Action London questionnaire, August 2026.
Ward 9 distances and winter rule out walking and cycling as a serious year-round option for most of the trips residents actually need to make. I will judge each project on its own street and its effect on traffic, not on a citywide target.
Source: Climate Action London questionnaire, August 2026.
Council keeps granting exceptions that blow past the London Plan’s own height and density caps. If the citywide height table needs to change, that change belongs in a public Official Plan amendment, not a one-off exception for a single applicant.
Source: Climate Action London questionnaire, August 2026.
Residents should be able to see who is paid to influence City Hall. Guelph, Hamilton, and Burlington already run one without a large new office. I will vote for a mandatory lobbyist registry so meetings that shape planning files, contracts, and bylaws are on the public record.
Source: Climate Action London questionnaire, August 2026.
I oppose a fixed ALPR camera network for London, and I will vote against any procurement, renewal, or expansion that moves the City toward one. Any contract has to make its code available to the City for independent audit, and I will not approve sharing that data with another agency or another country by default.
Source: Panopti.ca candidate questionnaire, August 2026.
London’s senior management has grown faster than the services it delivers. I won’t invent a headcount number to cut without a real review behind it. I will vote for an independent audit, with its findings published in full, then vote the specific reductions that audit actually supports.
Source: CCAL candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Freezing a line still takes a council vote, and I can’t fire a city manager directly. What I control is my own vote: against any budget line where the numbers don’t back up the spending, every time it comes up.
Source: CCAL candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Reinstating a full annual review takes a council majority, not just my vote. What I commit to is how I vote: for genuine annual review and public disclosure of every operating budget line, every time it comes up.
Source: CCAL candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Making the ban permanent and city-wide takes a council vote, not just mine. What I control is my own vote: for a clear, permanent, city-wide rule, not left to each operator’s discretion.
Source: CCAL candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Filing a motion is within a single councillor’s own power. Ontario authorized municipalities to use stop-arm cameras on school buses in 2020, and London has not acted on it. If elected, I will file a motion directing staff to report on the cost and feasibility of a stop-arm camera bylaw.
Source: Public reply to a Longwoods Road resident's concern, May 2026.
Staff can approve contracts up to six million dollars without a single council vote, and council never sees a report on anything under $133,800. Getting to full itemized costing takes more than my own vote. By 2030, I want any Londoner to be able to open any city spending item and see the real cost before the money moves.
Source: London Decides candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Contracts, invoices, and spending details should be published proactively, not surrendered one redacted page at a time after a freedom-of-information request. Any vendor contract that requires basic facts like cost, scope, or performance to stay confidential is a contract I vote against.
Source: CCAL candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
I already built a public concern tracker into this site so residents can write in and see my answer go up publicly. Building an official, city-wide version takes staff and a council vote, not just mine. If elected, I will push for one, with verified-resident logins and optional anonymity.
Source: CCAL candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Council approved a ten-year, 155-action ReconciliAction Plan without a resourced implementation strategy behind it. A ten-year commitment without real metrics is just a longer speech. I will push the next council to finish the metrics and timeline first, and report progress publicly.
Source: London Chamber of Commerce and London and District Labour Council questionnaires, 2026.
I said yes to ongoing dialogue with the London Professional Fire Fighters Association, including station visits and participating in Fire Ops 101, so I can see the job firsthand instead of only hearing about it secondhand.
Source: London Professional Fire Fighters Association Election Survey, September 2026.
The City carries $186.8 million for the Emergency Services Campus in its capital budget and plan through 2033, and taxpayers are entitled to see exactly where that money goes, department by department. If elected, I will push for a full line-by-line breakdown between policing, fire, dispatch, EMS, and HAZMAT. I would also seek a motion directing staff to publish a public reconciliation of the campus budget against the City's published phase figures before the 2027 Class D cost estimates come to council.
Read my Emergency Services Campus answers →
Read my Council of Canadians answer →
Sources: Council of Canadians (London Chapter) candidate questionnaire, September 2026; Emergency Services Campus candidate questionnaire, October 2026.
London holds three of eleven seats on the Board of Health, and council chooses who fills them. If elected, I will use whatever influence my position has to push provincial and health-system dollars toward addiction recovery and treatment that gets people clean. Public drug use is already illegal, and I want it enforced, with real help offered to anyone who wants it.
Source: Council of Canadians (London Chapter) candidate questionnaire, September 2026.
Kains Road and Upperpoint Boulevard are growing with real service gaps, and LTC’s own Route 22 plan is meant to fix that, eventually. If elected, I will raise this directly with the LTC Commission: prioritize the Kains/Upperpoint piece of Route 22, look at a smaller interim shuttle to bridge the gap until then, and pay for either option out of the growth-related revenue that new development in that area already generates, not the general tax base.
Source: Public reply to an Upperpoint-area resident’s transit concern, September 2026.
Woodhull Road was recently brought into the urban growth boundary, and the farms there want the land kept for agriculture. If elected, I will move a motion asking staff to report on what a rezoning would do to the properties and farms around it, and I will push to have that report public before any rezoning request near the area goes to a planning meeting. Since 2024, neighbours generally can’t start an appeal themselves, so I will be at the planning committee whenever the area is on the agenda, and I will help residents get their concerns on the record, in writing and in person, before the vote. If council refuses a rezoning and the developer appeals, I will push council to gather planning and agricultural evidence to defend the decision. A councillor has one vote on a council of fifteen, so the motion and the evidence both need my colleagues.
Source: Public reply to a Woodhull Road resident’s question about supporting the rural community, October 2026.
This pledge applies only if an adequate margin of safety for fluoridation can’t be shown. If that is the case, I will support ending it, and I will go further and bring forward a motion to discontinue it. Under the Fluoridation Act, council can discontinue fluoridation by by-law on its own, so the decision is council’s to make, and the motion needs a majority of council to pass.
Source: Public reply to a resident’s candidate question on water fluoridation, October 2026.
The campaign is over, so no new promises will be added here.