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Mike Matulewicz
Candidate for Mayor
In their own words
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Where they stand
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Taxes & spending
What happens to my tax bill, and where does the money go?
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Matulewicz proposes a 5% budget reduction plan and halving council office budgets.
- A '-5% Reduction Budget Plan' for Mississauga: full costed review of every City service and corporate account; corporate overhead (administration, consultants, travel) examined before front-line services.
- Council cuts its own budget first: halve the Mayor's and every Councillor's discretionary office budget, end year-to-year carryover of unspent money, ban elected officials giving public money as personal donations.
- Hire an independent Auditor General; publish budgets, contracts, expenses and FOI answers by default; share watchdogs across Peel cities so no single mayor can fire them.
- Argues 'free' services still cost taxpayers (e.g. free senior transit ~$1.7M/yr in forgone fares); demands published cost and payer before any service is stamped 'free'; warns tax freezes without plans mean bigger hikes or hidden cuts later.
“I can read a police or municipal budget like a McDonald's menu: I know where the beef is and where the fat is hiding. I can judge the operational value of a police budget!”
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Source: Mike Matulewicz for Mayor — Get_Ready_Ontario (campaign site) · October 17, 2026
Confidence:High
Matulewicz says his priority is recovering Mississauga's $500-million share of the provincial funding shortfall.
- Wants to make back the $500-million shortfall the City of Mississauga faces due to the gap in provincial funding (Peel residents get $578 less per resident annually in provincial funding than the Ontario average; cumulative shortfall $868M/year).
- Campaign priorities: improve emergency services, affordability, homelessness, public safety and housing; informed by his years in the Toronto police department.
- On homelessness: 'You never forget when you have to go into a cardboard box, or a tent or a blanket,' he said of being assigned to oversee family disputes and the homeless.
“Homelessness is not a crime—and it's cheaper to house a person than to police them.”
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Source: Mike Matulewicz's grassroots campaign to be Mississauga mayor highlights many big issues facing his city (The Pointer) · October 14, 2026
Confidence:High
Emergency services
When I call for help, will it come fast enough?
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.
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“Let our officers focus on crime. Give the calls that were never police work to trained civilian staff instead.”
Source: Mike Matulewicz for Mayor — Get_Ready_Ontario (campaign site) · October 17, 2026
Confidence:High
Transit
Can I get where I need to go without driving?
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Government
Will decisions be made in the open, and will anyone answer for them?
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Roads & infrastructure
Will the things I use every day actually get fixed?
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.
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“City has no transit funding tool of its own.”
Source: Mike Matulewicz for Mayor — Get_Ready_Ontario (campaign site) · October 17, 2026
Confidence:High
Economy
Will our main streets and local jobs thrive?
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.
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“Every dollar of wages is paid by the federal and provincial governments, not by Mississauga taxpayers.”
Source: Mike Matulewicz for Mayor — Get_Ready_Ontario (campaign site) · October 17, 2026
Confidence:High
Environment
Is the candidate protecting the nature we live in?
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Healthcare
Will there be a doctor and a hospital when we need one?
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Growth & development
How fast should we grow, and who decides what gets built where?
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Social & community services
Who looks after the most vulnerable residents?
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Active transportation
Can I walk and bike safely around town?
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Arts & culture
Does the candidate value what makes this place feel alive?
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Data centres
Should energy-hungry data centres be welcomed here?
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?'
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“Data centres are power and water plants, not warehouses.”
Source: Mike Matulewicz for Mayor — Get_Ready_Ontario (campaign site) · October 17, 2026
Confidence:High
Water & waste
Is our drinking water safe and our waste handled?
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Bylaw enforcement
Are the rules fair, and are they actually enforced?
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