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Saving you Time for what matters

The Platform

It's about time for a Milton that gives you time back for what matters.

Our platform is about time.

We listened to Miltonians across every generation and background, and one word kept coming up: time. Time lost commuting because the jobs aren't here. Time lost waiting for buses that don't show. Time lost driving to another town just to find something to do.

Milton has grown - in houses, warehouses, trucks, and traffic. But not in affordability, opportunity or services.

These three pillars give your time back. They are practical, costed, and already proven in other towns. We did the homework - talking to the planners and leaders who delivered these things elsewhere - so we can do the work here.

  1. Transit

    Every 20

    So you have more time for what matters most.

    A bus you can trust, every 20 minutes

    Right now, 1 in 3 Milton buses runs late - or never shows. A quarter of Miltonians are too young to drive. Seniors and people with disabilities don't have a choice. Parents never stop driving. When the bus comes every 20 minutes, transit becomes something you can build a life around.

    Around town in 20 minutes

    Milton Transit reaches just 55% of the town. Whole neighbourhoods have no service at all. We'll expand routes town-wide, starting with the busiest corridors, so getting where you need to go takes twenty minutes - not another car.

    Affordable for the people who ride most

    Free transit for seniors. Free evenings and weekends for youth. Expanded support for low-income riders. Student-first service, with dedicated shuttles and partnerships with high schools, colleges, and universities.

    All-Day GO. Finally.

    All-Day GO has been promised to Milton for 25 years - yet never delivered, while towns with half our ridership move ahead. A mayor can't add train service alone, but a mayor can build the coalition - municipalities, businesses, riders, and our provincial and federal representatives - that makes it impossible to ignore. Hamilton's LRT was cancelled in 2019; an organized coalition brought it back with $3.4 billion in provincial and federal funding by 2021.

    How we pay for it

    Not through property taxes alone. Phased delivery matched to Provincial Gas Tax funding, the federal Permanent Public Transit Fund, and cost-sharing with schools and universities. Brampton secured over $106 million in federal transit funding in 2025; Mississauga secured over $123 million. Milton has already approved seven new buses for 2026. The money exists - it takes leadership that actually applies for it and makes the case to invest in Milton.

    Already done before

    Burlington introduced free senior transit and free youth evenings and weekends - senior ridership rose 41%. Oakville runs frequent service on its major corridors today. Whether you ride or drive, transit is the only long-term answer to traffic.

    It's about time this town valued our time.

  2. Careers

    Close to Home

    So you don't have to leave to make a living.

    Small businesses & startups

    More than half of us leave Milton every morning for work - some of the longest commutes in the region. By 8 a.m., it's a ghost town. Half the town leaves for work, so there's no one left to walk through the door. We'll back small businesses and startups with support on rent, foot traffic, and red tape - so your next opportunity is down the street, not down the 401.

    Offices & retail, not just warehouses

    We keep approving houses and warehouses, not workplaces. Town hall measures economic success in warehouse square footage. We'll measure it in jobs and businesses - and bring office employers to Milton using a Community Improvement Plan, the same proven tool other municipalities already use.

    How the incentive works, in plain terms

    A company builds a new office here. That building creates new property tax revenue that didn't exist before. The Town temporarily rebates part of that new revenue - starting at 100% and shrinking by 10% each year until it ends at year ten. No cheques up front. Nothing gets paid unless the project is actually built. The rebate comes from the new taxes the development itself creates - not from your residential taxes. And when the program ends, Milton keeps the full new revenue, every year, forever.

    Milton Education Village: Innovation Hub

    Milton has 50% more university graduates than the national average, but nowhere for them to go. The current Education Village timeline stretches to 2051. We will fast-track the Innovation Hub with partners, so our talent builds their future at home - the way university towns everywhere seed startups and grow local economies.

    We should not have to spend hundreds of dollars a month and three hours a day just getting to work. It's about time we valued our talent and our time.

  3. Alive

    After Five

    So you don't have to leave to live a life.

    Milton Central: one walkable heart

    One thing came up again and again at the doors: after work, there's just not much to do. A vibrant central square for food, culture, and the arts - community events, seasonal markets, outdoor performances, family programming, year-round. Not another isolated destination: a civic space that strengthens downtown, supports local businesses, and reflects the community Milton has become. A global village, because that's what we are.

    Affordable activities for all

    Families pay thousands for extracurriculars. Public programs have months-long waitlists. Milton spends roughly 30% less per resident than Burlington. We'll lower the cost of play - for kids, youth, and seniors - with affordable programming, youth recreation nights, community tournaments, equipment lending libraries, and better use of the spaces we already have on evenings and weekends. No one should be priced out of joy.

    More parks and places to gather

    Developers build subdivisions with one park for thousands of people. We'll make sure every neighbourhood has parks, stores, and places to gather - a complete community, where you have what you need where you live.

    How we deliver it responsibly

    Build on work already underway (like the Civic Precinct) instead of starting from scratch. Make better use of existing spaces before building new ones. Pursue provincial and federal grants first. Partner with local businesses, sports groups, arts organizations, and service clubs. Invest in phases through the normal budget process.

    Milton shouldn't be a place you just sleep. It should be a place you live a full life with the people you love. What would you stay for?

Safety and Snow Removal

Saving you time shouldn't stop when the temperature drops.

Milton expects seniors, people with disabilities, and parents with strollers to dig out heavy windrows themselves - or pay private contractors $600 or more a season. Burlington, Oakville, and Mississauga residents already get better winter service. So will we.

  • Sidewalk clearing expanded from 250 km to roughly 450 km of the network
  • Free windrow clearing expanded for seniors and people with disabilities
  • An optional, affordable municipal windrow service for everyone else
  • Milton Snow Squad: paid winter jobs for local high schoolers clearing sidewalks in their own neighbourhoods
  • Snow Angels Milton: a volunteer match connecting neighbours with seniors who need a hand

Basic winter service for everyone. Protection for those who need it most. Choice for everyone else. Saving you time, all year round.

What else we're fighting for

Housing

More than 1 in 4 Milton households spend over 30% of their income on housing. A mayor can't set interest rates - but a town absolutely shapes what gets built, how fast, and for whom. Three things:

Milton cannot become a place where you can afford to grow up but not to build a future.

  • Use the tools we already have. Community Improvement Plans and targeted incentives for projects that actually deliver affordable units - as Cambridge and Halton Hills already do.
  • Use it or lose it. Approved projects that sit dormant while families struggle should lose their place in line, so servicing goes to builders ready to build.
  • Build complete communities. Housing tied to jobs, transit, and services - so affording a home here doesn't mean losing three hours a day getting to everything else.

CN Intermodal: Honest Answers, Real Protections

The Supreme Court declined the final appeal in May 2025 and construction is underway.

The federal review panel itself found likely significant adverse effects on air quality and human health, at a site within a kilometre of roughly 34,000 residents, a hospital, 12 schools, and two long-term care homes.

“I do not support this project in this location. This is what happens when government is not awake at the wheel and transparent with constituents - and it's too late to turn back. But I will not mislead residents by pretending a mayor can erase a federal approval at this stage. My commitment is to fight for the strongest possible local protections: full transparency, enforceable mitigation, and getting our fair share - so Milton families do not pay for the risk and cost.”

- Zainab

  • Force transparency. A Milton CN Accountability Office and a public dashboard: monthly reporting on truck counts, noise, air monitoring, complaints, road impacts, and CN's compliance with its legally binding conditions. Residents will not be left in the dark.
  • Negotiate protections in writing. A binding Community Protection and Benefits agreement covering road repairs, truck routing, emergency preparedness, local hiring, noise walls and community mitigation - the same tool used on other major projects.
  • Protect the local interface. Enforced truck routes away from residential streets, protections around schools and the hospital, and updated dangerous-goods emergency plans with fire, police, and EMS.

Groceries: The Milton Fair Food Market

Food bank use in Halton rose 22% in a single year. Families are doing everything right and still falling behind at the checkout.

Guelph - a town our size - built the answer ten years ago: a community food market with sliding-scale pricing. Fresh, local food; you pay what you can afford; those who can pay more help cover those who can't. It feels like shopping, not charity - because access to healthy food is a right, not a handout. Peer-reviewed research found the model cut worry about food access by more than half among regular customers.

We'll bring it to Milton: a pilot market, built with local farmers, FeedHalton, and community partners - funded through federal, provincial, and regional food-security grants, with the goal of becoming largely self-sustaining.

Road Safety- Coming soon

We care about: Education. Taxes. Rural Milton. Waste Management. Safety. And more.

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What matters TO YOU?

This platform was built in living rooms, not boardrooms - and it isn't finished, because listening never is. Tell us what's taking your time.

Share What Matters
  • Time on the 401
  • The bus never came
  • Nothing to do after five
  • What would YOU stay for?
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