Mike Matulewicz
When Did We Decide This Was Ok?
When did our community, the seat of all levels of government, quietly surrender its right to have its essential needs met?
When did the interests of political parties become more important than teachers, nurses, doctors, police officers, affordable housing, good jobs, and food on the table?
When did the promises made to us become slogans, repeated endlessly, paid for with our own tax dollars, and forgotten the morning after election day?
Who decided that too few ambulances was acceptable, that your neighbour could wait thirty minutes for help that should arrive in eight?
Who decided that too few police officers, too few teachers, too few family doctors was simply the way things are?
Who decided that only the wealthy deserve the best education and the best health care, and that everyone else should be grateful for what's left?
Who decided it was acceptable for our most vulnerable neighbours, people with the greatest need, to live in tents on the streets of one of the wealthiest cities in the world?
Who decided that children in struggling families should go hungry, and carry the shame of poverty as though it were their fault?
You did!
Not because you are indifferent. Not because you don't care.
But because you were told, again and again, that nothing can be changed, and somewhere along the way, enough of us believed it.
They are counting on that. They are counting on our apathy.
They will say a zero-dollar campaign cannot work.
That one person's vote doesn't move anything.
They are wrong.
One hundred thousand votes will change everything.
This campaign accepts no donations.
No obligations to anyone except the people of Mississauga.
One hundred thousand votes , can change Provincial Government priorities.
Community and our families are first, politics is a distant second.
We are not alone, these questions are being asked in all Ontario Communities.
Votes are the only way to address the essential services shortage by the province.
The municipality can’t fix this, but you can with your vote.
If City of Mississauga can do it, so can many more cities and that is how Provincial Governments change.
That moment begins in October.
As the old saying goes, “ If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the ……………!”
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WHEN DID WE DECIDE THIS WAS OKAY?
You paid your taxes. You followed the rules. You raised your family here.
That was the deal.
Has the government kept its promise of a safe, healthy and prosperous community?
THE FUNDING GAP IS REAL
For every dollar you pay in taxes, Mississauga receives about 37 cents back in services. The Ontario average is 76 cents.
That gap is $500 million every year, for 20 years.
You paid for the shortfall twice — once in taxes, again in services that never came.
That is a broken deal.
WHAT THIS CAMPAIGN IS
My name is Michael Matulewicz.
I spent 34 years with the Toronto Police Service, as a detective, supervisor, and planner of front-line operations.
I am running for Mayor of Mississauga.
No signs. No donations. No obligations to anyone except you.
I am asking for one hundred thousand votes.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW
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Emergency wait times in local hospitals run six to twelve hours.
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More than one in five Canadians has no family doctor.
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Food banks in Mississauga are reporting demand they have never seen before.
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Seniors who spent forty years paying off their homes cannot afford to stay in them.
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Trade disruptions threaten up to 500,000 Ontario jobs.
These are not policy problems. They are your neighbours' lives.
WHAT I AM PROPOSING
1. Recover the $500 million provincial shortfall. If successful, this could reduce your taxes by 8 to 15 percent while improving health, police, and city services. Money owed to you.
2. A Community Response Unit. 305 trained community professionals responding to the 40 percent of 911 calls that do not require a police officer. Better outcomes. More time for police to focus on crime.
3. Tax deferral for seniors. Based on the proven British Columbia model. So that seniors can stay in their homes and afford food and other necessities.
4. Municipal medical clinics. Already working in British Columbia. A city-run clinic in Colwood, population 20,000, attracted 100 doctors from Canada, the United States, and Britain within weeks of opening. We can do this.
5. Affordable housing. The city leases land at carrying cost only. Developers build homes for $500,000 to $600,000. Existing home values are not affected.
6. A gas windfall tax of 2 cents per litre to support public transit, as Victoria and Montreal already receive.
7. A prepared city. A city that sees problems coming and acts before they arrive. Not after.
8. Mississauga as a national training hub for Canadian Armed Forces, doctors, nurses, and cyber specialists. Building the local economy while serving the country.
THE SIMPLE TRUTH
World problems always arrive at your kitchen table.
Trade disputes raise your grocery bill.
Energy prices raise your heating costs.
A broken health system means you wait alone in an emergency room.
A strong, prepared community costs less than a broken one.
Prevention is not expensive. It is the opposite.
Strong communities are not a luxury. They are how we get through what is coming.
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