I have lived at the same downtown Ward 13 home for eleven years. I see what City Hall decisions look like after the meeting ends. I’m running because I want those decisions to work better in real life.
Too often, people hear that a problem is being studied, reviewed or addressed — while the street still looks the same.
After eleven years downtown, talking with residents and businesses, going to meetings and putting questions in writing, I reached a simple conclusion: watching from the outside was not enough. If I was going to demand accountability, I was prepared to put my own name on the ballot and be accountable too.
Downtown is where I walk, shop, work, talk with neighbours and go home at night. I know the difference between reading about a problem and running into it on the way home. That is why I care so much about whether a City decision actually changes anything.
Lived experience does not make every conclusion right. It does mean the urgency is real — and that I should be able to show the facts, the cost and the result I am asking residents to judge.
I started working at 15. Since then my working life has included hospitality, business ownership, senior management, operations, high-pressure welding and salvage diving. I have been responsible for people, budgets, schedules, customers, deadlines and the day-to-day decisions that determine whether an organization actually works.
Over time, I learned that a title matters a lot less than what you do with the responsibility that comes with it. Show up prepared. Make the decision. Fix what is not working. Be honest when something changes. Own the result.
Through work, travel, business, hospitality, trades, management, plus everyday life, I have been fortunate to spend time around incredible people from very different cultures, religions, faiths, professions, skill sets, backgrounds, plus walks of life. That exposure has been a blessing. I have learned from people whose lives looked nothing like mine, people doing extremely well, plus people going through some of the hardest periods of their lives.
That experience taught me to listen before deciding. It taught me that knowledge comes in many forms. It also made me less interested in labels, more interested in understanding what is actually happening. One moment, one mistake or one difficult chapter should not become the only thing you see about a person.
I have spent much of my adult life managing people, budgets, schedules and day-to-day operations. I have owned businesses and worked in environments where a missed deadline, bad decision or unresolved problem did not disappear into another meeting — somebody had to deal with it.
I have also worked with local and provincial governments. That experience reinforced something important: government is not a private business. There are laws, public processes, competing interests and collective decisions. A councillor cannot simply give an order and make something happen. The job is to understand the file, know who has authority, build support where it is needed, make decisions when Council must decide and explain those decisions to the public.
My faith is personal, but it has influenced how I try to treat people: with dignity, responsibility and respect. I do not expect anyone else to share my beliefs, and I would never impose them on somebody else.
What matters to me in public life is whether you can listen to people who see things differently, disagree without reducing somebody to a label, change your mind when the facts change and admit when you got something wrong.
During this campaign, I have spent time reading City reports and budgets, attending public meetings, making formal submissions, communicating with public bodies, researching issues and developing proposals that residents can read, question and challenge for themselves.
I will not pretend to know everything. I will do the homework, find out who is responsible, keep the issue moving and come back with an answer.
If I am elected, serving Ward 13 and the City of London will be my full-time public responsibility. This is not a part-time title or a side project.
A ward councillor represents the people who elected them, but every Council vote also helps govern the city as a whole. My job would be to bring Ward 13 into that room clearly, while still doing the work required on budgets, services, growth, infrastructure, public safety, housing, and the other decisions that affect London beyond one boundary.
I would put forward proposals, request reports, challenge assumptions, propose budget changes, build support, vote, track what happens next and report back. I do not expect to know everything personally. I do expect to know how to find the answer, identify who has authority, move the file and come back to residents with something more useful than “someone else handles that.”
Accountability and transparency are not campaign words to me. They are habits that come from a lifetime of being responsible for people, decisions, budgets, deadlines and results.
Read the file, know the decision in front of Council, and stay with the issue after the meeting ends.
A resident does not have to agree with me to deserve a serious hearing and a straight answer.
Name the action, the trade-off, who has authority, and the result residents should be able to check.
Explain the decision, track what happened afterward, and say plainly when something moved, stalled, changed, or failed.
The full Plan brings the commitments, First 30 Days, First 100 Days, timing, Council action, and expected results together in one place.
You can meet the campaign, contact me about an issue, volunteer, request a lawn sign, donate, or simply make a plan to vote. If an issue affects your block, your neighbourhood, or London as a whole, I want to hear how you see it.
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