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Bhatti would accelerate approvals, push purpose-built rental and affordable housing, and make better use of city-owned land.

• Wants housing ordinary working families can actually afford.
• Would accelerate approvals, encourage purpose-built rental and affordable housing.
• Make better use of city-owned land; work with other governments on supply.

Confidence:High

Tedjo proposes a city housing corporation and tripling missing-middle supply by 2037.

• Create a Mississauga Housing Corporation to identify underused municipal and private properties and partner with builders/non-profits so affordable housing is a requirement of new builds.
• Goal of tripling the supply of family-oriented missing-middle housing by 2037; expand the Gentle Density Housing Incentive Program to sixplexes; upzone all main roads to allow 6 storeys as-of-right (mixed-use/residential).
• Make housing approvals among the fastest in the GTA by resourcing planning staff with expertise and technology.
• Replace the lodging-house licensing system with a Safe Occupancy Certificate based on actual safety standards plus a publicly searchable Safe Occupancy Registry, closing a legal gap for renters reporting unsafe conditions.

Confidence:High

Jilani: growth goes where pipes exist; fee breaks to rental and family-sized homes, not luxury condos.

• Build Where the Pipes Already Are: infrastructure-first growth.
• Developers sitting on approved land lose approvals/servicing capacity.
• City fee breaks to rental and family-sized homes, not luxury condos.

Confidence:High

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Proposes a 'three strikes and you're in' approvals process to end endless back-and-forth between developers and planning staff.

• After a third developer submission addressing staff requests, both parties meet behind a closed door with red pens out — nobody leaves until it's done.
• Says it has never actually had to be used in the last two years, because everybody knows that's the end result.

Confidence:High

Damerla would speed small-home permitting and expand co-op and non-profit housing.

• Professional Engineer's Seal pilot for small residential projects (garden/laneway suites, small homes, additions) to cut permitting duplication while keeping safety and zoning reviews.
• Work with federal/provincial governments to expand co-op and non-profit housing and help first-time buyers; compete aggressively for senior-government housing dollars.
• Push a healthier mix: townhomes, semis, family-sized condos, rental housing, smaller senior homes, co-op/non-profit housing.
• Concentrate major intensification near transit corridors and growth areas with infrastructure to support it; protect established neighbourhood character; demand complete communities.

Confidence:High

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Jilani pledges zero increase to the City's share of residential property tax, funded by cutting senior management waste.

• City Tax Freeze, Paid for at the Top: zero increase on City's share of residential property tax.
• Funded dollar for dollar by cutting senior management and waste, not front-line services.
• Value-for-Money Audit: independent auditors through the $790M net operating budget line by line.

Confidence:High

Vasquez would publish a plain-language Total Tax Bill every budget cycle so residents know what they're paying.

• Legible plain-language Total Tax Bill every budget cycle.
• No headline number hiding the real increase.
• Yearly honest account of what's achieved and what isn't.

Confidence:High

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Parrish says she has already saved taxpayers $45 million via Peel service downloads.

• Says she has already saved taxpayers $45 million by moving roads ($30M) and waste ($15M) services from Peel Region (heavily subsidized by Mississauga) to the three municipalities.
• Publishing an estimated-savings table: e.g. a $1M assessed home would save ~$742.60/year under her full plan.
• Next target: a fair Peel police budget split, worth what she estimates at ~$106 million more per year for Mississauga taxpayers.

Confidence:High

Damerla would freeze the city-controlled share of property taxes for 2027 and cap future increases at inflation.

• Freeze the City-controlled share of residential property taxes for 2027 (excluding Region-to-City transfers of roads/waste, offset by lower regional taxes), with no cuts to City services.
• From 2028, hold city-controlled increases to inflation unless residents get demonstrable service improvements.
• Create an independent Auditor General to investigate waste and report directly to the public, plus a confidential Fraud and Waste Hotline; cites Toronto's AG finding ~$342M in savings 2021-2025.
• End severance payments when elected officials voluntarily resign, retire, don't seek re-election, or resign to run for another office.

Confidence:High

Fang pledges to protect taxpayers' money and axe property tax during his term.

• Protect taxpayers' money.
• Axe property tax during term.

Confidence:High

Elliott would repeal the 3% property tax increase and cut wasteful spending to bring real tax relief.

• Cut wasteful spending.
• Repeal the 3% property tax increase.
• Reallocate existing municipal resources more efficiently.
• Prioritize essential services over 'vanity mega-projects' like the $500M arts centre.

Confidence:High

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Tedjo's safety plan focuses on resourcing police and modernizing crime-fighting.

• Cites rising car thefts, home invasions, violent crime and dangerous driving, and higher insurance costs for residents.
• Plan: give police the resources they need, modernize how crime is fought, prevent crime before it happens, make every neighbourhood safer.
• Bring action and accountability on crime to the Region of Peel.

Confidence:High

Jilani's auto-theft plan: a city matching grant for neighbourhoods that hire licensed security patrols.

• 2,838 vehicles stolen in Mississauga in 2025; 2,100+ more across Mississauga & Brampton H1 2026.
• Neighbourhood Patrol Matching Grant: City matches cost of licensed security patrols.
• Patrols publicly report incidents/response times; renewed only if they deliver.
• Fund youth mentorship to cut off gang recruitment.

Confidence:High

Crombie would return to the Peel Police Services Board and back frontline policing on home invasions, auto theft and extortion.

• Return to the Peel Police Services Board, which incumbent Mayor Parrish quit during the 2025 police-budget fight.
• Back frontline police tackling home invasions, auto theft and extortion.
• Reduce unnecessary police paperwork so officers spend more time protecting the public.

Confidence:High

Parrish wants the Peel police cost split moved from 62/38 to 50/50 over three years, asking the province to phase in the change.

• Mississauga taxpayers cover 62% of the Peel Regional Police budget vs Brampton's 38%, despite similar populations; she calls the assessment-based formula unfair since 1974.
• Took the funding formula directly to Premier Doug Ford, asking the province to even out the split over a three-year transition so Brampton isn't hit with a sudden tax shock.
• Frames the fight as about splitting the bill fairly, not the size of the police budget; notes her late father, Constable Edward Janozeski, served 37 years with Toronto Police.

Confidence:High

Damerla wants an independent review of the Peel police funding formula and a mental-health crisis task force.

• Demand an independent review of the Peel Police funding formula (Mississauga pays ~62%, ~$93.7M more than a population-based share in 2025, projected $104M in 2026); push a population/service-demand-based formula with provincial help for the transition.
• Work with Peel Police on targeted CCTV at major road intersections for investigations — strictly a policing tool, no automated traffic tickets, with privacy rules.
• Three-pillar crime plan: modern policing + technology, justice-system reform advocacy (faster trials, stronger action on repeat offenders, bail reform), and value-for-money audits of police spending.
• Establish a Mayor's Task Force to improve mental-health crisis response, building on Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Teams (CMHA crisis worker + specially trained officer).
• Push the Province for a practical e-bike/e-scooter licensing and registration framework to make enforcement possible.

Confidence:High

Fang would establish a $10 million Reward Fund to reward residents who help fight crime.

• $10 million Reward Fund to recognize residents who help fight crime.

Confidence:High

Matulewicz would create a civilian Community Response Unit for non-crime 911 calls.

• Community Response Unit (CRU): 305 trained civilian responders to handle ~4-in-10 911 calls that aren't crimes (wellness, mental health, noise, minor crashes), freeing police for real crime.
• Removes no officers or dollars from the police budget; costs ~$27.4M/year (~$38/resident); designed to qualify for existing federal/provincial grants.
• Notes Peel Regional Police's budget plan growing toward $1.2B by 2029, and questions what each candidate's real plan is to control those costs without weakening neighbourhood safety.
• Points to his own record: 'the only candidate who has actually planned and executed large scale front line police operations' in Canada's largest city police service.

Confidence:High

Crombie: Mississauga can't wait 15 years for better transit — buses that come frequently, trains that move quickly, connections that work.

• PRE-WINDOW: campaign-authorized release datelined October 22, 2026 (EIN Presswire); verified never extracted — zero hits for the quote phrase or 'Moves 2.0' in baselines, all Oct 20-23 run files and all import files.
• The quote anchors Mississauga Moves 2.0 transit-service commitments folded into the expanded First-100-Days release: MiWay every 15 minutes on major corridors, Airport Workforce Transit Network, Milton Line capacity plan, Traffic Flow First program.
• NEW ISSUE for Crombie: she has no transit row in baselines or any run/import file.
• Copyright budget: 40 words from the release, under the 50-word per-work limit.

Confidence:High

Jilani promises a monthly Transparency Dashboard showing exactly where every tax dollar goes.

• Performance-Driven Leadership: tie executive pay to published service targets.
• Customer Service Mandate: strict wait-time targets for every municipal service.
• 100% Digital, End to End: every city service online with live tracking.

Confidence:High

Vasquez pledges multilingual City Hall communication: materials and consultations in the language residents are comfortable in.

• 'City Hall In Your Language' initiative.
• Readable materials, one-on-one consultations, direct communications in residents' language.
• Annual plain-language report on achievements and misses.

Confidence:High

Damerla proposes a One Mississauga Dashboard to publicly track services, projects and 311 requests.

• Create the 'One Mississauga Dashboard': one public hub to track city services, projects, budgets, 311 requests and performance.
• Connect phone and online 311 systems so a reference number works regardless of how a resident first contacted the City.
• Independent Auditor General would publicly report results of waste/fraud investigations while protecting whistleblowers; good-faith reporters protected, not punished.

Confidence:High

Elliott would end closed-door meetings between developers and City Council so the public is present and heard.

• End closed-door meetings between developers and City Council.
• Public always present and heard in municipal planning decisions.
• Accountable management over 'spend-baby-spend' policies.

Confidence:High

Bhatti backs expanding MiWay where demand exists, improving frequency, and connecting underserved communities.

• MiWay must be more reliable, accessible and responsive.
• Support expanding the network where there is demonstrated demand.
• Improve frequency and connect underserved communities.

Confidence:High

Jilani would put compounding penalty clauses on city construction contracts for missed deadlines.

• Brutal Penalty Clauses: compounding penalties for missed deadlines.
• Road Occupancy Accountability: escalating daily fees for digging up roads past deadline.
• Dig Once Policy: coordinate utility/water/transit work before one permit.
• Traffic Flow Mandate: audited traffic-mitigation plans with construction permits.

Confidence:High

Vasquez's Year 1 would be a maintenance-and-review year: inspect water, sewer, road and transit systems before spending.

• Year 1 as mayor: maintenance and review, not spending.
• Commission independent honest inspection of water, sewer, road, transit systems.
• Build a real plan from findings, with residents at the table.
• Infrastructure and MiWay first; sewer network failing (32% of inspected stormwater facilities needed intervention in 2024).

Confidence:High

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Parrish highlights the School Streets pilot creating car-free, walkable space around a school at pickup time.

• Backs the School Streets pilot at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Elementary School: a car-free street during afternoon pickup, creating safe, community-friendly space for walking and cycling to and from school.
• Also championed the decade-long push (since 2017) for the full-size Avro Arrow replica installed at Paul Coffey Park in Malton.

Confidence:High

Damerla's OFF We GO transit plan focuses on reliability, 15-minute service and express buses.

• 'OFF We GO' transit plan: On Time (transit-priority signalling, better MiWay/GO coordination), Frequent (more 15-minute MiWay service, all-day two-way GO on the Milton Line), Fast (express buses, queue-jump lanes, GO feeder pilots).
• Fast Track higher-order transit: Derry, Eglinton and Dixie corridors; fight to bring the subway into Mississauga if extended to Sherway Gardens; push earlier electrification of the Lakeshore GO line as a 'surface subway' with two extra stops.
• Extend MiWay's transfer window from 2 to 3 hours in 2028; push the Province to assume Hazel McCallion LRT operating costs; hold Metrolinx accountable for construction delays.
• Maintain existing car lanes on busy roads; add bike lanes only where safe, useful and connected, without removing car lanes; use technology and traffic management.
• Four-Day Pothole Guarantee for major city roads, with public tracking through the One Mississauga Dashboard.

Confidence:High

Fang would resolve the issue of snow removal in front of residents' homes during his term.

• Resolve snow removal in front of residents' homes during the term.

Confidence:High

Matulewicz advocates a 2-cent-per-litre gas levy to fund transit, pitched to the province rather than as a new property tax.

• Proposes a small 2-cent/litre gas levy for transit: ~$8M for the city, ~$16M for Peel; notes it works in Victoria and Montreal.
• Frames it as advocacy to Queen's Park, not a unilateral promise, and as a dedicated transit funding tool that adds no new property tax.

Confidence:High

Jilani would cut approval times for employers bringing real jobs, growing the business tax base.

• Cut approval times for employers bringing real jobs.
• Grow business tax base to take pressure off homeowners.

Confidence:High

Vasquez wants City Hall to work at the speed of business: calibrated development charges, single-window permitting.

• Calibrate development charges so they don't kill smaller rental/commercial projects.
• Single-window permitting process.
• Licensing/procurement workshops to help local businesses bid on city contracts.

Confidence:High

Crombie's platform offers targeted tax deferrals for tariff-hit businesses and 15-day payment for local suppliers.

• Provide targeted tax deferrals for tariff-affected businesses.
• Pay qualifying local suppliers within 15 days.
• 'Buy Canadian' procurement and fast-track investments that protect and create Mississauga jobs.

Confidence:High

Damerla's economic plan centres on tariff-hit business relief and a fast-track lane for manufacturers.

• Tariff Response Express Lane: faster site-plan/building-permit approvals, one City contact, and an Industrial Retention Team for tariff-hit manufacturers investing or retooling in Mississauga.
• Explore property-tax deferrals for qualifying tariff-hit businesses; defer development charges for affected manufacturers expanding/retooling; pay qualifying local suppliers within 15 days.
• Use city purchasing power to support Canadian and local businesses; explore Community Improvement Plans tied to real investment and job creation.
• First-year Health Innovation & Incubation Hub to commercialize health innovations locally ('Invent it here. Test it here. Fund it here. Build it here.'); Mississauga Global Investment Summit.
• Small business: cut average city business-permit processing times by 50%, publish timelines, create a Red Tape Feedback Portal, modernize outdated zoning/parking rules.

Confidence:High

Matulewicz proposes a 1,000-job Youth Corps and full funding for women's shelters.

• Mississauga Youth Corps: ~1,000 paid 12-month jobs a year for ages 18-21, no degree/experience required, city-brokered placements across city departments, colleges and tech firms; paid by federal/provincial grants at zero cost to taxpayers (~$27.5M in wages, ~$40M in local activity).
• Food security: 503,705 food bank visits last year (~1 in 3 a child); city land, waived fees and matched donations to help locals win existing federal/provincial money.
• A safe bed for every woman fleeing violence: fund shelters like fire and ambulance — in full; press the province to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.
• Community Land Trust for permanently affordable homes: city gives surplus land instead of selling it; rent tied to income (~30% of earnings) for those who can never afford market rent.

Confidence:High

Damerla proposes a Clean Parks Guarantee with six times more seasonal by-law officers and published cleanup performance.

• Introduce a 'Clean Parks Guarantee': increase proactive seasonal by-law officers from 4 to 24 in summer, focused on known problem parks.
• More frequent scheduled garbage collection at litter hotspots; administrative penalties for littering/illegal dumping where legally available.
• Hold large park users/permit holders accountable; publish park issues and cleanup performance on the One Mississauga Dashboard.

Confidence:High

Vasquez backs a moratorium on unreviewed hyperscale data-centre approvals until grid-capacity and air-quality studies are done.

• Moratorium on unreviewed hyperscale data-centre approvals.
• Pending grid-capacity and air-quality studies.
• Small businesses shouldn't wait months for permits while billion-dollar projects skip the line.

Confidence:High

Expects the city's one-year data-centre pause to be overturned for legal reasons; 'a little disappointed in it.'

• Says the pause will likely be overturned on legal grounds.
• A city study on water use, noise and other concerns was due just after the election; hopes it settles concerns so projects can proceed.

Confidence:High

Matulewicz says data centres belong outside city limits, citing non-stop noise, health impacts and property values.

• 'Data centres belong outside city limits!' — calls them power and water plants, not warehouses.
• Cites non-stop noise affecting residents' health, daily lives and property values.
• Questions why city council still can't say NO: 'Money (tax revenue) or your community? Which did the city choose?'

Confidence:High