The Mississauga Issues marketing campaign focuses on getting housing constructed and maintaining Mississauga inexpensive for all.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford introduced a provincial writ with election day scheduled for Thursday, February 27, 2025. With the election lower than a month away and voters on the point of head to the polls, the Metropolis of Mississauga has launched its renewed advocacy marketing campaign, Mississauga Issues.
About Mississauga Issues
The Metropolis’s Mississauga Issues marketing campaign ensures that each one provincial candidates and main political events acknowledge the numerous position Mississauga performs within the province. The Mississauga Issues marketing campaign will give attention to two precedence pillars; getting housing constructed and maintaining Mississauga inexpensive for all. The priorities outlined inside the marketing campaign goal to strengthen the town and guarantee steady funding for ongoing challenges just like the housing disaster, the event of native and regionally related transit and funding shortfalls for main initiatives rebuilding the Mississauga Hospital (The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital). Most of all, the priorities goal to maintain Mississauga an inexpensive place to dwell.
Whereas the Metropolis and the provincial authorities have tackled a number of necessary points collectively, Mississauga is devoted to advocating for the wants of its residents. The 2025 Mississauga Issues marketing campaign focuses on the next priorities:
Getting housing constructed: Leveraging housing-enabling infrastructure
Extending of the Dundas Bus Fast Transit line, to cut back journey instances for about 30,000 new each day riders and enhance east-to-west connections throughout the GTHA.
Increasing transit for all-day, two-way GO Service for the Milton GO Rail hall, which serves roughly 8,000 companies, helps greater than 143,000 jobs, and is projected to serve as much as 94,000 passengers by 2041.
Advance funding and alignment affirmation for the Hazel McCallion Line Extension (Downtown Loop) Mississauga.
A brand new transit facility to assist the enlargement of sustainable public transit in Mississauga, which is essential to extend housing availability in our group and obtain the Authorities of Ontario’s goal of 120,000 new properties over the subsequent 10 years.
Expediting the approval of Mississauga’s purposes to the Housing Enabling Water Methods Fund and the Housing Enabling Core Providers Stream to assist housing improvement initiatives and meet pressing group wants whereas offering flood safety for communities.
Protecting Mississauga inexpensive for all
Addressing the housing disaster calls for with suggestions from our partnership with greater than 30 consultants from Ontario’s main personal and not-for-profit housing builders, who’ve developed actionable options. In July 2024, Mississauga launched a Mayor’s Housing Job Power with personal and non-profit representatives to handle housing provide challenges, constructing on the 2023 Housing Motion Plan with strategic suggestions in improvement charges, constructing requirements, zoning, and inexpensive housing funding.
Supporting predictable funding for Mississauga by signing a brand new deal to offer equitable transit funding, recognizing Mississauga’s standing as a serious financial hub and one of many largest financial centres in each Ontario and Canada.
Advocating a fair proportion deal for the Area of Peel and Mississauga, given the Area at present faces a deficit of $868 million yearly, translating to a $578 per-person monetary hole throughout Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon.
Rethink the quantity anticipated from the Mississauga group for the native share wanted for a brand new regional healthcare facility in Mississauga – the Mississauga Hospital rebuild.
Eradicating the 5% cost in lieu of taxes (PILT) cap for the Larger Toronto Airports (GTAA). This ensures a extra equitable formulation that stops tax will increase on residents and companies.
Investing in options to Mississauga’s meals insecurity disaster by prioritizing funding to assist native meals banks in Mississauga and assist the Groceries and Necessities Profit introduced ahead by Meals Banks Canada, aimed to assist struggling households afford very important prices like meals and shelter.
The Mississauga Issues marketing campaign will run all through the provincial election as a means for residents to interact with the priorities that have an effect on their lives forward of voting day. The Metropolis is encouraging residents to affix the dialog on social media and attain out to native candidates utilizing the #MississaugaMatters hashtag.
For extra info on Mississauga’s provincial election priorities, please go to our Mississauga Issues webpage.
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“Mississauga, Canada’s seventh-largest city, has clear priorities: better transit, get more homes built and make them more affordable for Mississauga residents, and fair treatment from the provincial government. The reality is the rising cost of operating the city and building new infrastructure is increasing much faster than property tax revenues. It’s time Mississauga gets its fair share and a new deal with the provincial government. While we are thankful for the investments that have been made, we need legislative changes and investments to move quickly on housing and the infrastructure that supports it. As Ontario’s second-largest urban economy, our residents deserve their fair share. When our city thrives, the whole province benefits.”– Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish
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