Ward 7 · Mississauga, Ontario
Issues
What I will do and won't do — on the record, before the vote.
Every major spending decision should answer three questions
Taxes
Will Do
- →Scrutinize every budget line before approving increases.
- →Demand transparent reporting on how tax dollars are spent.
- →Vote against increases that lack clear resident benefit.
- →Correct the tax calculation formula so residents are billed accurately and fairly.
- →Require that every major spending decision publicly answers: What are we paying? What are we getting? Did it work?
Won't Do
- ✕Approve blanket tax increases without accountability.
- ✕Support spending that bypasses public consultation.
- ✕Accept "we always do it this way" as justification.
- ✕Allow a flawed funding formula to continue overcharging Mississauga taxpayers.
- ✕Ignore structural billing errors that cost residents money year after year.
Traffic & Roads
Will Do
- →Push for timely road repairs and maintenance schedules.
- →Advocate for traffic calming in residential areas.
- →Hold the City accountable to its own infrastructure timelines.
Won't Do
- ✕Accept years-long delays as normal.
- ✕Approve developments without traffic impact studies.
- ✕Ignore resident complaints about unsafe intersections.
Housing & Development
Will Do
- →Require developers to meet community benefit commitments.
- →Ensure new density comes with matching infrastructure.
- →Support affordable housing that is actually affordable.
Won't Do
- ✕Rubber-stamp development applications without scrutiny.
- ✕Allow density without services to match.
- ✕Let developer timelines override resident concerns.
Infrastructure
Will Do
- →Document and publicly track outstanding infrastructure deficits.
- →Prioritize aging infrastructure before new amenities.
- →File formal deputations when City commitments are missed.
Won't Do
- ✕Accept deferred maintenance as a budget strategy.
- ✕Stay silent when capital projects are quietly cancelled.
- ✕Treat infrastructure failures as acceptable.
Peel Police Funding
Mississauga currently funds approximately 62% of the Peel Regional Police funding allocation while Brampton funds approximately 38%. The City of Mississauga has stated that the current allocation effectively results in Mississauga taxpayers contributing more than $90 million per year toward what the City considers Brampton's policing share. George Tavares wants the historic funding difference independently examined to determine the actual financial impact on Mississauga and whether any adjustment, credit, reimbursement or recovery is justified.
62%
Mississauga share
38%
Brampton share
$90M+
Annual amount the City of Mississauga says taxpayers effectively contribute toward Brampton's policing share under the current allocation
$837.3M
2026 Peel Regional Police operating budget
Will Do
- →Formally challenge the current Peel Police funding allocation at Regional Council.
- →Demand an independent review of the funding formula.
- →Examine population, calls for service, policing demand and other measurable factors.
- →Determine how much Mississauga taxpayers have paid because of the current allocation.
- →Determine whether any past imbalance justifies a financial adjustment, credit, reimbursement or recovery.
- →Make the calculation and supporting information public.
- →Fight to return savings from a fairer funding formula to taxpayers rather than automatically creating new spending.
- →Connect future police budget increases to measurable public safety results.
Won't Do
- ✕Accept the current 62% versus 38% allocation simply because it has been used historically.
- ✕Claim money is legally owed to Mississauga before an independent review establishes the facts.
- ✕Approve major police budget increases without examining what residents receive in return.
- ✕Confuse supporting police officers with automatically approving every spending request.
- ✕Stay silent if Mississauga taxpayers are carrying an unfair share.
See the Record
Independent Auditor General
Who checks the numbers matters. Financial auditing tells residents whether money was properly accounted for. Value for money auditing asks another question: Did taxpayers get the result they paid for? Mississauga needs strong independent oversight.
Will Do
- →Renew the push for an independent Auditor General for the City of Mississauga.
- →Ensure the Auditor General operates independently from the departments and programs being examined.
- →Require independent value for money audits of major City programs, contracts and capital projects.
- →Publish audit findings and management responses.
- →Track whether audit recommendations are actually implemented.
- →Use Peel Region's independent Auditor General to examine Regional spending affecting Mississauga taxpayers where the office has jurisdiction.
- →Push for independent examination of Regional cost sharing arrangements where Mississauga taxpayers may be carrying an unfair burden.
- →Follow the money across departments instead of allowing administrative boundaries to prevent proper scrutiny.
Won't Do
- ✕Treat internal auditing as a complete substitute for independent oversight.
- ✕Allow the department being examined to determine the limits of independent scrutiny.
- ✕Commission reports and then allow recommendations to disappear.
- ✕Use auditing to attack individuals or settle political disagreements.
- ✕Assume that because money was properly recorded, taxpayers necessarily received good value.
Accounting tells us where the money went. Value for money auditing asks whether we should have spent it that way.
Hazel McCallion LRT & Transit
Ward 7 has carried years of construction disruption. Better transit matters. So does delivering it properly.
Will Do
- →Demand a clear public timeline for completing construction, testing the Hazel McCallion Line and beginning passenger service.
- →Push for regular public progress reports showing completed work, remaining work and reasons for delays.
- →Demand practical traffic management during the remaining construction.
- →Protect pedestrian and customer access to Cooksville businesses.
- →Push Metrolinx and the City to address construction related impacts on local businesses.
- →Improve connections between the LRT, Cooksville GO and MiWay.
- →Measure the finished system by reliability, travel time, ridership and connections.
Won't Do
- ✕Accept vague construction updates.
- ✕Treat construction disruption as someone else's responsibility.
- ✕Allow local businesses to lose access without demanding practical solutions.
- ✕Accept a completed project as successful if the transit service does not work properly for residents.
Public Safety & Bylaw Enforcement
Residents should be able to see the result of public safety spending in their neighbourhood.
Will Do
- →Push for visible policing and enforcement around Cooksville Four Corners, Cooksville GO, parks, transit stops and repeat problem areas.
- →Bring police, City bylaw officers, residents, businesses and community organizations together to address specific Ward 7 safety concerns.
- →Push for faster action on abandoned vehicles, neglected properties, illegal parking and recurring property standard problems.
- →Demand stronger enforcement where unsafe scooter use blocks sidewalks or creates pedestrian safety problems.
- →Support appropriate mental health, addiction and housing outreach while maintaining safe public spaces.
- →Measure safety programs using results, not simply the amount of money spent.
Won't Do
- ✕Assume a larger budget automatically means safer streets.
- ✕Accept programs that cannot demonstrate results.
- ✕Allow residents to be passed between police, bylaw and City departments without someone taking responsibility.
- ✕Move a problem from one location to another and call it solved.
Local Services & Ward 7
Municipal government is a service organization. Residents should know who is responsible and when a problem will be fixed.
Will Do
- →Track recurring Ward 7 service issues and whether they have been resolved.
- →Push City departments to work together when a resident's problem crosses departmental responsibilities.
- →Protect access to businesses affected by major construction.
- →Demand clear responsibility for construction signs, pedestrian routes, loading access, cleaning and communication.
- →Support parks, recreation, libraries, seniors programs, youth services and community facilities based on demonstrated local need.
- →Judge City services by the result residents receive, not simply the size of the budget.
Won't Do
- ✕Accept residents being passed from department to department.
- ✕Ignore neighbourhood problems because they are not large capital projects.
- ✕Create new programs without identifying what problem they solve.
- ✕Forget that residents pay for these services and deserve measurable results.
Hold Me To It
These positions are being published before the election for a reason. If elected, residents should be able to return to this page and compare what I said with how I voted. That is accountability.
Residents deserve proof before promises.
Vote Like It Matters.
SEE THE RECORD