Ward 13 Candidate
Support for small businesses and commercial recovery.
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The candidate proposes small-business support, addressing empty storefronts, commercial activity, permitting, and downtown economic recovery.
"Small-business support, empty storefronts, commercial activity, permitting, and downtown economic recovery."
Focus on downtown recovery and local business conditions.
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The candidate aims to address vacancies, local business conditions, and public space management to facilitate neighborhood recovery.
"Vacancies, local business conditions, public space management, cleanliness, safety, and neighbourhood recovery."
Support for businesses and local economy.
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The candidate proposes providing support for businesses navigating construction impacts and holding owners of vacant buildings accountable.
"Businesses, Storefronts, and Local Economy.Support for businesses navigating construction impacts and vacant-building accountability."
Support for small businesses and commercial recovery.
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The candidate proposes small-business support, addressing empty storefronts, commercial activity, permitting, and downtown economic recovery.
"Small-business support, empty storefronts, commercial activity, permitting, and downtown economic recovery."
Explore downtown vacancy and ownership audit options.
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The candidate commits to exploring options for auditing downtown vacancy and ownership within the first 30 days of being elected.
"Downtown vacancy and ownership audit options explored."
Explore downtown vacancy and ownership audit options.
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The candidate commits to exploring options for auditing downtown vacancy and ownership within the first 30 days of being elected.
"Downtown vacancy and ownership audit options explored."
Create a coordinated pathway for housing and support.
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Evolution: Shifted from exploring vacancy audits to specific accountability for owners and a coordinated pathway for housing/support.] The candidate proposes a public discussion on a coordinated pathway connecting stabilization, treatment, mental-health support, supportive housing, daily structure, life skills, and long-term housing.
"London needs a serious public discussion about a coordinated pathway connecting stabilization, treatment, mental-health support, supportive housing, daily structure, life skills, and long-term housing."
Hold owners of vacant buildings accountable.
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The candidate advocates for accountability regarding vacant buildings as part of downtown revitalization and business support.
"Downtown revitalization requires safe public spaces, access, open businesses, maintained streets, vacant-building accountability, housing pathways, and visible results."
Combining compassion with public safety initiatives.
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The candidate advocates for a balanced approach that integrates compassion with public safety measures.
"Safe StreetsCompassion and public safety together."
Protecting public spaces and helping people.
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The candidate aims to help people while simultaneously ensuring the protection of public spaces.
"Housing & DignityHelp people. Protect public spaces."
Initiating a public safety accountability report.
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The candidate commits to initiating a public safety accountability report within the first 30 days of being elected.
"Public safety accountability report initiated."
Protecting public spaces and helping people.
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The candidate aims to help people while simultaneously ensuring the protection of public spaces.
"Housing & DignityHelp people. Protect public spaces."
Establish clear enforcement standards and monthly reporting.
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Shift: Moved from general 'compassion' and 'accountability reports' to specific enforcement standards, monthly reporting, and street disorder actions.] The candidate proposes clear enforcement standards, monthly reporting, and coordinated follow-up on repeat problem locations to ensure safe streets.
"Safe Streets. Real Accountability.Clear enforcement standards, monthly reporting, and coordinated follow-up on repeat problem locations."
Coordinated action and public reporting on street disorder.
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The candidate advocates for coordinated action, follow-up on repeat problem locations, and public reporting that reflects residents' experiences regarding public safety and street disorder.
"Residents deserve clear standards, coordinated action, follow-up on repeat problem locations, and public reporting that reflects what people are experiencing."
Initiating a public safety accountability report.
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The candidate commits to initiating a public safety accountability report within the first 30 days of being elected.
"Public safety accountability report initiated."
Request written public-safety and enforcement standards.
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As part of the first 30 days, the candidate plans to request written public-safety and enforcement standards.
"Request written public-safety and enforcement standards"
Combining compassion with public safety initiatives.
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The candidate advocates for a balanced approach that integrates compassion with public safety measures.
"Safe StreetsCompassion and public safety together."
Provide quarterly updates on tax spending.
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The candidate commits to creating a framework to provide quarterly updates on where residents' taxes are spent.
"Quarterly Where Your Taxes Went update framework."
Provide quarterly updates on tax spending.
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The candidate commits to creating a framework to provide quarterly updates on where residents' taxes are spent.
"Quarterly Where Your Taxes Went update framework."
Establish a Ward 13 issue tracker.
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The candidate commits to launching a live tracker where residents can report issues that are then tracked and followed up.
"Ward 13 issue tracker live and accepting reports."
Provide plain-language vote explanations for council decisions.
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The candidate intends to provide clear, simple explanations for every council decision to ensure transparency for residents.
"Plain-language vote explanations for every council decision."
Implement a 'Reading the City' accountability project.
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A project to review public records, spending, and infrastructure, then explain them in plain language to residents.
"Reading the City is the research and accountability side of the BISSON13 campaign. It reviews public records, City reports, spending, and infrastructure — then explains them in plain language."
Create a public dashboard for measurable results.
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The candidate proposes using a public dashboard or reporting framework to track progress on specific goals and metrics.
"Real Result Name the measurable outcome: timeline, reporting dashboard, quarterly update, responsible department, or public metric residents can actually track."
Provide plain-language vote explanations for council decisions.
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The candidate intends to provide clear, simple explanations for every council decision vote.
"Plain-language vote explanations for every council decision."
Proposal for a coordinated recovery campus.
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Refinement: 'Issue tracker' became 'concern-intake system'; 'Reading the City' project removed/replaced by 'vacant-property review' and 'coordinated recovery campus'.] A proposal to study, cost, and bring a coordinated recovery infrastructure into the public process.
"Go Recovery Campus"
Provide plain-language reporting on city votes.
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Create a project to provide residents with clear information on council votes, costs, and responsibilities.
"Reading the City"
Abandoned Promise: Taxes
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Quarterly updates on tax spending were removed from the new policy list.]
Establish a public-accountability system for city decisions.
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Pivot: Shifted from specific administrative trackers (Ward 13, 'Reading the City') to community services (washrooms, health, and addiction recovery).] The candidate proposes a system called 'Living Reality' to connect resident experience, evidence, and candidate proposals with Council decisions and results in real-time.
"Living Reality is the BISSON13 public-accountability system. It connects resident experience, verified evidence, candidate proposals, draft motions, public feedback, Council decisions, implementation, delays, and results in one place."
Provide public washrooms and community access.
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The candidate aims to address public facilities, including operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, and safety for public washrooms.
"Public Washrooms / Parks / Community AccessPublic facilities, operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use."
Improve health and mental health community supports.
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The candidate focuses on mental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes.
"Health / Mental Health / Community SupportsMental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes."
Address addiction and recovery pathways.
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The candidate proposes focusing on treatment access, recovery infrastructure, harm reduction, enforcement boundaries, and measurable outcomes.
"Addiction / Treatment / Recovery PathwaysTreatment access, recovery infrastructure, harm reduction, enforcement boundaries, and measurable outcomes."
Launch a 'Reading the City' accountability project.
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A project to review public records, spending, and infrastructure, explaining them in plain language to residents.
"Reading the City is the research and accountability side of the BISSON13 campaign. It reviews public records, City reports, spending, and infrastructure — then explains them in plain language."
Establish a Ward 13 concern-intake system.
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Launch a system to intake and follow up on specific concerns from Ward 13 residents.
"Launch a Ward 13 concern-intake and follow-up system"
Conduct a vacant-property review.
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Begin work to review vacant properties within the ward.
"Begin vacant-property review work"
Abandoned Promise: Housing
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Policies regarding downtown vacancy audits, owner accountability, and coordinated housing pathways were completely removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Taxes
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Policies regarding quarterly tax spending updates were completely removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Safety
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: All policies regarding public safety accountability, enforcement standards, and compassion-based safety initiatives were completely removed.]
Establish a Ward 13 issue tracker.
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Removed: The policy to 'Create a public dashboard for measurable results' was completely removed.] The candidate commits to launching a live issue tracker for Ward 13 that accepts reports from residents.
"Ward 13 issue tracker live and accepting reports."
Establish a public-accountability system for city decisions.
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Removed specific commitments regarding Ward 13 issue trackers, plain-language vote explanations, 'Reading the City' project, and vacant-property reviews.] The candidate proposes a system called 'Living Reality' to connect resident experience, evidence, and candidate proposals with Council decisions and results in real-time.
"Living Reality is the BISSON13 public-accountability system. It connects resident experience, verified evidence, candidate proposals, draft motions, public feedback, Council decisions, implementation, delays, and results in one place."
Provide public washrooms and community access.
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The candidate intends to address public facilities, including operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use.
"Public Washrooms / Parks / Community AccessPublic facilities, operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use."
Improve health and mental health community supports.
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The candidate aims to address mental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes.
"Health / Mental Health / Community SupportsMental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes."
Establish recovery pathways and infrastructure.
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The candidate proposes addressing addiction through treatment access, recovery infrastructure, harm reduction, enforcement boundaries, and measurable outcomes.
"Addiction / Treatment / Recovery PathwaysTreatment access, recovery infrastructure, harm reduction, enforcement boundaries, and measurable outcomes."
Abandoned Promise: Housing
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Previous commitments to vacancy audits, owner accountability, and coordinated housing pathways have been removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Taxes
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Previous commitments to quarterly tax spending updates have been removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Safety
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Previous commitments to public safety accountability reports, enforcement standards, and compassion-based safety initiatives have been removed.]
Establish a public-accountability system for city decisions.
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The candidate proposes a system called 'Living Reality' to connect resident experience, verified evidence, and candidate proposals with Council decisions and results in one place.
"Living Reality is the BISSON13 public-accountability system. It connects resident experience, verified evidence, candidate proposals, draft motions, public feedback, Council decisions, implementation, delays, and results in one place."
Provide public washrooms and community access.
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The candidate aims to address public facilities, including operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use.
"Public Washrooms / Parks / Community AccessPublic facilities, operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use."
Improve health and mental health community supports.
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The candidate focuses on mental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes.
"Health / Mental Health / Community SupportsMental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes."
Provide real-time tracking of city hall motions.
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The candidate aims to build a public system where residents can see problems, review proposed responses, provide feedback, and follow motions in real time.
"I want to build a public system that works in real time—so residents can see the problem, review the proposed response, provide feedback, follow the motion, and understand the result before the file disappears into another meeting cycle."
Provide plain-language reporting of city decisions.
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The candidate commits to explaining complex city hall actions and reporting back to residents in plain language.
"I will do that work, explain it in plain language, bring forward the action, and report back."
Incorporate voluntary public feedback into the record.
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The candidate intends to allow residents to support, question, or reject proposals as part of a public record.
"Voluntary public feedback — not a scientific poll or a binding vote."
Abandoned Promise: Housing
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Policies regarding downtown vacancy audits, owner accountability, and coordinated housing pathways were removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Taxes
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Policies regarding quarterly tax spending updates were removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Safety
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Policies regarding public safety initiatives, enforcement standards, and accountability reports were removed.]
Abandoned Promise: Economy
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Policies regarding small business support and downtown recovery were removed.]
Establish a public-accountability system for city decisions.
Details:
The candidate proposes a system called 'Living Reality' to connect resident experience, verified evidence, and candidate proposals with Council decisions and results in one place.
"Living Reality is the BISSON13 public-accountability system. It connects resident experience, verified evidence, candidate proposals, draft motions, public feedback, Council decisions, implementation, delays, and results in one place."
Provide public washrooms and community access.
Details:
The candidate aims to address public facilities, including operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use.
"Public Washrooms / Parks / Community AccessPublic facilities, operating hours, maintenance, accessibility, safety, and community use."
Improve health and mental health community supports.
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The candidate focuses on mental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes.
"Health / Mental Health / Community SupportsMental-health access, community supports, crisis response, service coordination, and public outcomes."
Provide real-time public tracking of city hall actions.
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The candidate aims to build a public system where residents can see problems, review proposed responses, provide feedback, and follow motions in real time.
"I want to build a public system that works in real time—so residents can see the problem, review the proposed response, provide feedback, follow the motion, and understand the result before the file disappears into another meeting cycle."
Provide plain-language reporting of council decisions.
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The candidate commits to explaining complex city hall decisions and actions in plain language for residents.
"I will do that work, explain it in plain language, bring forward the action, and report back."
Incorporate voluntary public feedback into the public record.
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The candidate intends to allow residents to support, question, or reject proposals, with their responses becoming part of the public record.
"Voluntary public feedback — not a scientific poll or a binding vote."
Abandoned Promise: Housing
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Removed all policies regarding downtown vacancy audits, owner accountability, and coordinated housing pathways.]
Abandoned Promise: Taxes
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Removed all policies regarding quarterly tax spending updates.]
Abandoned Promise: Safety
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Removed all policies regarding public safety initiatives, enforcement standards, and accountability reports.]
Abandoned Promise: Economy
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[PIVOT DETECTED: Abandoned: Removed all policies regarding small business support and downtown commercial recovery.]