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One Hundred Thousand Voices.

This Is Why It Matters.

I am running for Mayor of Mississauga with no signs, no advertising budget, and no donors.

An impossible mission.

I have one ask. One hundred thousand votes.

Not because one hundred thousand votes guarantees the seat.

Because one hundred thousand votes , cast for a zero-dollar campaign built on substance , sends a signal that no government at any level can ignore.

This is not a long shot.

It is a proof of concept."Strong communities are not a luxury.

They are how we get through what is coming.

"Mississauga is a city of 800,000 people.

At the last mayoral election, fewer than 150,000 residents cast a ballot.

One hundred thousand votes for an independent candidate with no advertising would represent a larger expression of community will than most funded campaigns achieve.

Think about what that number means.

Every person who votes does one thing:

tells every politician they will elect,
every MPP, every MP, every minister:
that Mississauga residents are paying attention and
that hollow promises will not be accepted in silence.

A vote is not just a ballot.

It is a message in an envelope that lands on every desk in Queen's Park and on Parliament Hill.

I spent 34 years with the Toronto Police Service, as a detective, supervisor, and planner of front line operations.

I have written federal policy submissions addressed to the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Defence, and the Chief of the Defence Staff.

I did not do that for publicity. I did it because I believe the problems pressing on our communities require exactly that level of serious attention.

Mississauga families are being squeezed from every direction.

Trade disruptions are threatening up to 500,000 Ontario jobs.
Emergency wait times in local hospitals run six to twelve hours.
More than one in five Canadians has no family doctor.
Pensioners who spent forty years paying off their homes cannot afford to stay in them.
Food banks in Mississauga are reporting demand they have never seen before.

These are not abstract policy problems. They are the daily lives of our neighbours.

As Prime Minister Mark Carney has stated “The world has changed.”

All levels of government must adapt and change to this new reality.

I am proposing seniors and home owners struggling to pay their municipal taxes and bills, have their taxes deferred copying the successful British Columbia model that assist those in need. So they can stay in their homes and afford food and other necessities.

I am proposing a Community Response Unit , 305 trained workers handling the calls that should never go to a police officer. Job creation with significant community benefits.

I am proposing asking the province for a gas windfall tax of 2 cents per litre as Victoria and Montreal now receive to support their public transit systems.

I am proposing municipal medical clinics, already proven in British Columbia, that bring doctors back to the communities that need them.

I am proposing a city that practises anticipatory governance , that sees trouble coming and moves before it arrives.

I am proposing new housing with a ceiling cost of $500 to $600K for middle income families.

I am proposing promoting Mississauga as the research and training hub for Canadian Armed Forces, and for Community Response Unit, Canadian research and training hub. Building the economy of the city and region.

These proposals are costed. They are documented. They are not slogans.

They will be published next week as I develop this site.

One hundred thousand votes will not guarantee I take the mayor's chair.

It will guarantee that every elected official in this province understands that Mississauga residents have organized, they have spoken, and they will not be managed with talking points.

In Colwood, British Columbia, a small city of 20,000 people, one mayor decided to run a medical clinic because the province would not. He ran it himself, as a city program. Within weeks of announcing, 100 doctors applied from across Canada, the United States, and Britain.

He did not wait for permission. He moved.That is what mayors can do, when they take ownership, of the community’s needs.

One hundred thousand voices. That is the currency this campaign accepts.Stay tuned, more to come.

Michael Matulewicz

YOUR VOTE IS THE ONLY CURRENCY THIS CAMPAIGN ACCEPTS.

$500 million dollars ......ANNUALLY ... the province has failed to provide City of Mississauga for the past 2 decades, $10 billion dollars of owed funding.

100,000 of your votes, based not on campaign dollars, slogans or poles, just on you demanding your fair share of the taxes you've payed returned to your community.

It is the only way to improve the health, safety and prosperity of our communities without tax increases as presently predicted.

Michael Matulewicz,

Mayoral Candidate 2026

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Canada's strength is its communities.

Not its military installations. Not its intelligence agencies. Its communities.

When communities are strong, everything else follows.

When people feel safe in their neighbourhoods — when emergency services arrive, when no one goes hungry or homeless or forgotten, when health care and social supports are present and working — communities become resilient.

They become places worth protecting and worth belonging to.

They produce people who invest in their neighbours rather than turning against them.

They close the door on criminal recruitment, radicalization, and the politics of blame.

The promise that drew people to Canada — a safer life, a fair chance, a country that includes rather than excludes — is not a sentiment. It is a public safety strategy.

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Mississauga has been asking for fairness for decades.

Your 100,000 votes will get it done.

More funding for police. More beds for mental health. More paramedics. More fire coverage. More affordable housing.

The requests are documented. The appeals are on record. The answers from Queen's Park have been inadequate — year after year, government after government.

Here is what it costs you today.

For every dollar you pay in property taxes, only 37 cents comes back as city services — roads, parks, fire stations, libraries, transit.

The Ontario average is 76 cents.

SOURCE: City of Mississauga 2025 Budget · The Pointer, November 2024 · Metamorphosis Network Independent Analysis

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The true cost of doing nothing.

Mississauga's share of the provincial funding annual shortfall is just under $500 million.

That is not a new problem. It has been documented, appealed, and ignored for over two decades.

$10 billion.

At $500 million per year, over twenty years Mississauga has been shorted an estimated ten billion dollars in community funding it was owed and never received.

That is a generation of services that were never built, never staffed, and never delivered to you.

Based on Metamorphosis Network / Blueprint ADE analysis · City of Mississauga budget submissions · The Pointer, 2024

Imagine Mississauga with ten billion dollars returned to its community over those twenty years.

Paramedics arriving faster. Mental health beds available when families needed them. Fire stations fully staffed.

Affordable housing built. Community programs funded. Roads repaired.

A hospital expansion that did not have to be turned away. That is not a fantasy.

That is what fair funding looks like.

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That is what every other comparable community in Ontario already receives.

We are not asking for more than our share. We are asking for exactly our share.

And we are done asking politely.

We have one option left.

Not another appeal. Not another report. Not another delegation to Queen's Park that returns empty-handed.

One hundred thousand Mississauga voters saying the same thing at the same time.

That is a force that cannot be outspent, ignored, or dismissed.

This campaign accepts no donations. No lobbyists. No consultants.

What established parties spend millions trying to manufacture — public opinion — already exists here.

It does not need to be bought.

It needs to be counted.

Politicians respond to one thing reliably. ... Votes.

When Mississauga receives fair provincial funding, the math is straightforward.

Municipal taxes reduce by 8 to 15% annually.

Police, fire, ambulance, mental health, and social services improve — not because we spend more, but because we finally receive what we have already paid for.

No new taxes. No cuts. Just fairness.

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This is not my campaign!

It is our campaign!

To end the decades long neglect of our communities essential services.

Our communities don't have adequate health care, ambulance services, police services, fire services, and families that are hungry and homeless.

To speak on your behalf without fear or favour, armed with facts and the knowledge that I speak for 100,000 of my neighbours.

TOGETHER, we can do this. Foreword this web site, talk to your neighbour, use your social media #getreadyontario.com, there are several pages of ideas at the end of this web site. Have some fun. It's your democratic right.

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First about you,” my community" Erin Mills Mississauga.

In my brief and humble political efforts to improve the safety, health and prosperity of our community, I’ve been overwhelmed by the kindness and support of my neighbours new and old.

You breathe life into and make real, our true Canadian values everyday.

For that I am eternally grateful. Mike

MICHAEL MATULEWICZ — MISSISSAUGA MAYORAL CAMPAIGN 2026

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Our community. Our problem. Our solution.

City of Mississauga

Community Response Unit. "CRU"

In full partnership with Peel Regional Police,

305 members of the CRU

answering 911 calls for help,

that do not require a police officer response.

Every day in Mississauga, people in mental health crisis, housing distress, medical need, and social emergency dial 911. A police officer arrives. Not because their situation is criminal. Because there is no one else to send.

That is not a policing failure. It is a community infrastructure failure. And it is costing residents in delayed response times, inadequate care, and a police budget that grows every year to absorb problems that do not belong to it.

40%

The Peel Regional Police Chief's own budget submissions confirm that approximately 40% of calls for service are not criminal in nature.

They are health calls. Social service calls. Wellness checks. Housing crises. Mental health emergencies.

Highly trained police officers, spend the majority of their time attending service calls that could be handled more appropriately, more effectively, and at significantly lower cost by trained social /health care workers.

SOURCE: Peel Regional Police budget submissions · House of Commons Economics of Policing Report

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For example..

Toronto's Community Crisis Service handled 6,827 calls in its first period of operation. Only 2.2% required any police attendance. Seventy-eight percent of mental health crisis calls were resolved entirely without police , faster, more appropriately, and at a fraction of the cost of a police response.

SOURCE: City of Toronto Social Development Division · Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2026

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Mississauga already has the legal authority to act.

To fully partner with Peel Regional Police and address the 40% health and social assistance calls.

No new legislation is required. No provincial permission is needed. The legal framework exists today, and it places this authority squarely with the City.

The Municipal Act, 2001 — Section 11 A municipality may provide any service or thing it considers necessary or desirable for the public. Municipalities hold direct jurisdiction over the health, safety, and well-being of persons.

A city-run community crisis response service is a direct and lawful exercise of this authority.

The Community Safety and Policing Act, 2024

This legislation in force as of April 1, 2024 requires every municipality in Ontario to prepare and adopt a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, identifying community risk factors and strategies to reduce them.

A municipally controlled alternate response unit is not just permitted under this Act. It is its logical and intended fulfilment.

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Ministry of Health — Mobile Crisis Response Teams

The Ontario Ministry of Health has already developed a Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team framework in partnership with the Ministry of the Solicitor General.

The model is built. The funding structure exists.

Mississauga does not need to design a new system.

It needs a Mayor willing to pick up the phone and deploy it.

What the Mississauga Community Response Service looks like.

A city-controlled, non-police community intervention unit.

It routes health and social service calls away from the police dispatch system and toward appropriately trained civilian responders.

It operates alongside, not instead of, the existing police service.

It does not replace any existing position or cut any existing service.

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How a call is handled:

A resident calls 911 or 211 reporting a mental health crisis, wellness check, substance use situation, or social service need.
The call is triaged by dispatch. Where no immediate criminal threat or violence is present, the call routes to the Mississauga Community Response Service — not to a police unit.
A trained civilian team — social workers, mental health workers, crisis counsellors — responds. Directly. Promptly. With the right tools for the situation.
Police remain available and are called only when genuinely needed. Their time, budget, and capacity are protected for the calls that actually require law enforcement.

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The Chief of Police identified the problem.
The legislation authorizes the solution.
The province has built the framework.

What has been missing is a Mayor willing to lead.

The city does not do this alone. It convenes and leads.

The Mississauga Community Response Service brings together partners that already exist, already have mandates, and already have funding — but have never been coordinated under a single city-led framework.

Peel Regional Police Operational partner.

Shares dispatch data and co-ordinates triage.

Their budget pressure is relieved , not increased.

Trillium Health Partners Clinical partner. Mental health crisis workers, follow-up care, and hospital diversion support.

Region of Peel Social Services , Housing, income support, and long-term case management for residents in chronic crisis.

Ontario Ministry of Health, Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team framework and provincial co-funding already available.

Community Non-Profits Over 100 organizations in the Peel Metamorphosis Network already doing this work , underfunded and under-coordinated.

211 Ontario.... The existing non-emergency community helpline becomes the front door for non-criminal calls, reducing 911 volume immediately.

The city provides the structure.

What this means for every Mississauga resident.
Faster response — the right team arrives for the right call. Not a police officer managing a situation outside their training. A crisis worker who does this every day.
Better outcomes , mental health crises de-escalated.
Families kept together. Residents connected to housing, health, and support , not just a police report.
Lower costs , police budget pressure reduced. Social service calls handled by social service workers.
The 40% problem addressed at appropriate cost.
City control , Mississauga owns this service. Directs it. Funds it. Measures it.
Accountable to residents — not to a regional board or a provincial ministry.

This is what taking ownership of our community needs looks like.

Not another letter to Queen's Park. Not another report waiting on a provincial decision.

A Mayor who looks at the problem, looks at the authority, looks at the partners — and says: we start Monday.

Our community. Our problem. Our solution.

YOUR VOTE IS THE ONLY CURRENCY THIS CAMPAIGN ACCEPTS.

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Our community, Our problem, Our solution

SHORTAGE OF AMBULANCES

People in Mississauga have waited on roadsides, in driveways, and on kitchen floors for ambulances that were understaffed, delayed, or trapped at hospital offload.

In Mississauga, we do not stand by while people suffer.

Long before there was an Ambulance Act, long before there were licensed operators and regulatory frameworks, human beings carried each other to safety.

That instinct , to act, to help, to refuse to stand by while someone suffers , is not a legal principle. It is the foundation of what a community actually is.

This is not a policy position.

It is a moral commitment.

And it starts the day this Mayor takes office.

The cost of inaction is measured in lives.

People in Mississauga have waited on roadsides, in driveways, and on kitchen floors for ambulances that were understaffed, delayed, or trapped at hospital.

Time waiting for an ambulance is critical.

Survival from cardiac arrest drops by 7 to 10 percent for every minute that passes without CPR or defibrillation.

In Peel, up to 23 ambulances are short of what the service needs.

Up to 17 ambulances sit idle every day due to unfilled shifts.

SOURCE: Toronto Paramedic Services Audit 2024 · Peel Region Budget Documents 2025 ·

National Institutes of Health Emergency Medical Research

Peel paramedics earn up to $30,000 less than police officers and firefighters at comparable risk.

The Mississauga ambulance dispatch centre has had documented performance failures for nearly 20 years.

The Province has not acted.

SOURCE: SecondStreet.org 2025 · The Pointer January 2025 · Peel Regional Council Staff Report February 2024

Your voice and 100,000 of your neighbours will make a difference and demand, community health needs are a priority and are the first priority of every level of government not the last.

Hire more paramedics and purchase more ambulances to ensure every resident having a medical emergency gets the help on time, without delay.

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