These are my priorities today, but they will continue to evolve as I listen to residents and learn more about what is happening across Ward 10. The conversations I’ve had are already helping me identify where residents want greater attention, accountability, and action.

As councillor, I want Council decisions to be guided by evidence, sound planning, fiscal responsibility, and the long-term public interest. Just as importantly, I want residents to be able to see what happened after a decision was made: Did the solution work? Did conditions improve? If not, what are we going to do differently?

1. Safe, welcoming, and compassionate neighbourhoods

Community safety is about more than responding to emergencies. It is about creating neighbourhoods where people feel safe walking home, raising a family, running a business, or simply using a park or public space.

That includes practical responses to homelessness, addictions and mental health challenges that protect public safety while treating people with dignity. I support the direction established in Greater Sudbury’s Roadmap to Ending Homelessness: working toward a system where homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring, with greater emphasis on prevention, rapid re-housing, supportive housing and coordinated services.

Housing is essential, but housing alone is not enough. For people experiencing significant mental health, substance-use or other complex challenges, the right supports need to be available alongside housing so that people can remain successfully housed. Otherwise, we risk failing both vulnerable residents and the neighbourhoods in which that housing is located.

I will champion stronger coordination between the City, housing providers, health and social-service partners, Indigenous organizations, police and community organizations. I also want to see greater emphasis on prevention: helping people remain housed before they reach a crisis, rather than relying primarily on emergency responses after homelessness occurs.

And I will push for accountability. The Roadmap gives us a framework and measurable outcomes; Council's responsibility is to make sure we are actually making progress. Are fewer people becoming homeless? Are people being housed more quickly? Are they remaining housed? Are health and community outcomes improving? Where results are falling short, we should understand why and adjust our approach.

Ending homelessness is not something the City can accomplish alone. It requires sustained partnership and investment from the provincial and federal governments, health and housing systems, Indigenous partners, community organizations and others. But the City can lead by bringing those systems together, advocating for the resources Sudbury needs, investing strategically, and transparently reporting whether our collective efforts are producing results.

2. Housing that is attainable — and fit to live in

Sudbury needs more housing: attainable homes, rentals, gentle density, student housing, seniors' housing, supportive housing and community housing. But our responsibility cannot end once someone receives a set of keys.

Residents have raised concerns with me about conditions in existing housing, including pests, building maintenance and security. Reducing housing waitlists matters, but so does the quality, safety and dignity of the housing people are already living in.

I will advocate for stronger oversight and accountability for municipally supported and community housing, including clearer mechanisms for residents to report persistent problems and understand how and when they will be addressed.

As we add housing, I will also ask whether growth is being planned as a complete community: Can residents safely walk to a bus stop? Can a senior get to groceries or an appointment without a car? Are there parks, trees and services nearby? Can children safely move through their neighbourhood?

Good housing policy is also good transportation, infrastructure, health and community planning.

3. Reliable infrastructure, safer streets, and better mobility

One of the clearest messages I am hearing across Ward 10 is concern about road and pedestrian safety: speeding vehicles, streets with nowhere safe to walk or cycle, sidewalks that abruptly end, and uncertainty about whether measures introduced to solve a problem are actually working.

I will push for a more systematic approach to road safety: identify problem areas using resident experience and data, implement appropriate measures, and then measure the results and report back to the community. Installing a sign, speed hump or other intervention should not be considered the end of the job. We need to know whether it actually made the street safer.

I also want us to think more broadly about mobility.

Ward 10 has some very walkable areas, but the network is incomplete and does not provide enough realistic options for different ages, abilities and circumstances. Sidewalks, trails, cycling infrastructure, roads and transit should function as a connected system rather than individual pieces.

If we want more people to take transit, walk or cycle, those choices need to be safe, convenient and competitive. We have to provide practical alternatives. That means looking at transit frequency and travel times, safe routes to bus stops, sidewalk gaps, cycling connections, accessibility, winter maintenance and how different modes connect.

Better mobility also supports affordability, independence for seniors and youth, public health, access to employment, and a stronger local economy.

4. A vibrant downtown and strong local economy

I will champion a downtown that serves residents, businesses, arts and culture, students and visitors — a place that feels safe, active, clean, connected and worth investing in.

Revitalization requires more than individual projects. It means thinking about housing, public spaces, transportation, safety, businesses, events and services as parts of the same system.

I will support efforts that bring more people and activity downtown, strengthen local businesses, improve the public realm and make better use of underused spaces. I also want residents and businesses to see clearer measures of progress so we can understand which investments are producing results and which need to change.

5. Protect our natural assets and build a climate-ready, Prepared Ward 10

Ramsey Lake, Lake Nepahwin, Bethel Lake, Bennett Lake, Lake Laurentian, Bell Park, Junction Creek, urban trees, wetlands and green spaces are not extras. They are infrastructure that protects our health, homes and quality of life.

The extreme snowfall event in March 2026 exposed vulnerabilities in Sudbury’s preparedness. Heavy snow followed by rain made conventional plowing ineffective in some areas, normal winter-maintenance timelines were suspended, and crews were still working to restore access days later (greatersudbury.ca). For seniors, children, people with health or mobility challenges, and residents without other transportation options, the impacts were particularly significant.

Events like this will happen again, and we need to be better prepared. I will champion stronger emergency and climate preparedness, including learning from major events, identifying vulnerable infrastructure and populations, and ensuring lessons learned translate into measurable improvements.

Preparedness is also fiscal responsibility. The average cost of repairing a weather-related flooded basement in Canada is approximately $43,000, and areas of Greater Sudbury qualified for provincial disaster assistance following flooding in April 2026 (intactcentreclimateadaptation.ca) (ontario.ca). Investing in prevention today can avoid much greater costs tomorrow.

I will also champion practical ways to help residents protect their own homes. I would ask the City to explore a Home Resilience Incentive Program, providing a tax, utility or other financial incentive for measures that reduce flood and climate risk, such as backwater valves, improved drainage, rain gardens, permeable surfaces and shade trees. Kitchener already provides homeowners with stormwater fee credits of up to 45% for eligible measures that reduce runoff (kitchener.ca).

I also want to make home energy improvements easier and more affordable. Sudbury has a goal of improving the energy efficiency of its existing building stock by 50% by 2040, and its new CHIRP program helps residents navigate available retrofit programs (greatersudbury.ca). I will work with City staff to review whether local permit requirements for straightforward energy retrofits can be streamlined while maintaining appropriate safety standards.

For lower-income residents, I will work with Greater Sudbury Utilities and community partners to increase awareness of programs such as the Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP), which provides eligible households with ongoing electricity-bill credits (gsuinc.ca).

Finally, I will champion greater use of green and low-impact infrastructure — trees, regenerative vegetation, rain gardens, naturalized drainage, permeable surfaces and wetlands — to reduce flooding and extreme heat while creating healthier, more attractive neighbourhoods.

Climate preparedness should be practical: protect people's homes, reduce costs, keep vulnerable residents safe, protect our natural assets, and make sure Sudbury is better prepared for the next emergency than we were for the last one.

How I will approach the job

Across these priorities, there is a common theme in what residents are telling me: they want follow-through.

I believe municipal government should be able to answer some straightforward questions:

What problem are we trying to solve? What evidence informed the decision? What will success look like? Did the investment actually work? And what will we change if it didn't?

That applies whether we are introducing traffic-calming measures, investing in downtown revitalization, improving community housing, expanding transit, repairing infrastructure or protecting natural areas.

My values remain simple: listen first, act with integrity, make evidence-based decisions, respect taxpayers, protect vulnerable people, and build a healthier and more resilient Sudbury for the next generation.

Ward 10 deserves leadership that is collaborative, prepared and grounded in both compassion and practical results. I’m ready to bring my experience home to serve this community.