As your Mayor, I’ll be committed to harnessing the tremendous potential of our economic and population growth to ensure that everyone benefits, not just a few. I will prioritize practical, smart decision-making so that we all share in the success.
I will focus on building a just, equitable, healthy, and welcoming community because those are the municipalities that truly thrive. I will work to foster safe and secure neighbourhoods where everyone feels protected and valued.
I’m dedicated to transforming how HRM operates, even when it means challenging the status quo. By embracing change, we’ll become more nimble, efficient, and better equipped to achieve our goals and serve our communities effectively.
- Create a Mayor’s Council to address racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism and create accountability by working directly with community leaders.
- Guarantee access to high-quality library services by providing Halifax Public Libraries with adequate resources to ensure that HRM has a library system with appropriate staff and infrastructure to meet community needs.
- Ensure recreation services keep pace with population growth by developing a strategic plan for recreation by increasing capital and operating funding to deliver much-needed services.
- Save money and police resources by establishing 24/7 civilian staffing for by-law enforcement.
- Address concerns that rural and suburban communities are not being heard at City Hall by holding mayor’s office hours in these communities on a monthly rotating basis.
- Support a reparative process to address the harms done to, and loss of intergenerational wealth by, the residents of the African Nova Scotian community by supporting the establishment of black-led community land trusts and by returning control of the Africville lands to former residents and descendants.
- Support equity and inclusivity by continuing to implement the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Task Force on the Commemoration of Edward Cornwallis and the Recognition and Commemoration of Indigenous History.