2022 London, Ont. municipal election: Meet the Ward 2 candidates
But with a lot of new faces coming to the table across the wards, Global News has reached out to all those in the running and emailed a list of five questions on some of the key issues in the city from combating homelessness, addiction and mental health issues to affordable housing and accessible public transit.The responses for every candidate who replies will be shared below.Q1.
The City has also been working with the Vision SOHO group that is breaking ground this week on a 600 unit revitalization of the old South Street hospital lands. These were all things happening before the Forgotten 519 protest, because council already had homelessness on our agenda as a serious issue to tackle.
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But the city does not set monetary policy—that is the federal government—and there are not a lot of things the city itself can do about inflationary pressures. In fact, the city itself has inflationary costs to absorb on our programs and services and we are very much under the same pressures. While we can absorb some of those in the short-term, we do not have the fiscal capacity to do that forever.
What’s more of a priority to me is that we are brutally honest that the way conventional transit service is operated is a huge reason people simply will not use transit. Tasking LTC with a rework of the ‘spaghetti mess’ of transit routes on the map and look at a more functional grid system, look at where “transit on demand” makes more sense than traditional routes, etc., has to be a significant part of the discussion.
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