Does it shrink your tax bill? Does it leave you freer? Does it actually work?
If the answer to all three isn’t yes, it doesn’t belong on the agenda.
01
You pay more, they earn less
Council voted itself almost a 40% raise for the next term.
Property taxes have risen about 7.5% per year over the current term.
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.
Read the bylaw →
02
Roads that actually move
When the arterials flow, your neighbourhood stays quiet.
We don’t need more stoplights, lower speed limits, and band-aids that
push gridlock onto residential streets. Coordinate the signals.
Publish travel-time data. Restore limits where there was no safety case to drop them.
03
Safe at home
Door handles pulled. Overnight car break-ins. Property invasions.
Council votes the police operating budget and appoints the majority of the Police Services Board.
Two real levers, used together, to put Ward 9’s break-in clusters back into the patrol rotation.
04
Your land. Your call.
Cut a dying tree, build a backyard shed, light an evening fire.
Each one needs a permit and a fee. Each one feels small.
Stacked together they describe a city where the person whose name is on the deed has to ask permission
for ordinary things on their own land. Government has a real role. This isn’t it.