1. For Families & Neighborhoods

Keeping life affordable, neighborhoods safe, investing in the community services families count on every day.

• One honest tax bill, every year. Mississauga collects only about 37 cents of every property-tax dollar; the rest funds Peel Region and education. Ana Luisa will publish a single, plain-language "total tax bill" figure every budget cycle, not a headline number that hides the real increase. No resident should have to be cut off at a council meeting for asking what they're actually paying.
  

• Cap what the city controls. Commit to holding the city-controlled portion of the tax rate at or below inflation, backed by multi-year budgeting instead of convenient election-year dips, so families can plan.
  

• Find the savings before asking for more. A comprehensive yet cautious spending review of city hall, with an independent auditor general reporting directly to residents, not council-appointed and not defeatable by a mayor who doesn't want the scrutiny.
  

• Invest where families feel it. Direct savings from that review into local parks, community centres, and MiWay service reliability: the everyday services families rely on, not consultants and senior-staff overhead.
  

• Safer neighborhoods, using the tools the city actually owns. The mayor does not run Peel Regional Police; that's a Police Services Board decision. Ana Luisa will keep her seat on that Board and fight the police budget from inside the room, while funding what the city does control outright: streetlighting and CPTED design, by-law enforcement against chronic nuisance properties, a real Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, and mental-health co-response teams that keep low-risk calls off overstretched policing.
  

2. For Small Businesses & Local Jobs

A City Hall that works at the speed of business: cutting unnecessary red tape, encouraging local innovation, and keeping Mississauga's economy thriving.

• A published service standard for permits. Every site-plan and permit application gets a public, tracked timeline, so a local business owner knows exactly how long approval takes and can hold the city to it, not wait in an opaque queue.
  

• A single-window permitting process so small businesses aren't shuffled between departments to get one project approved.
  

• Procurement that rewards local firms, not default consultant spending. The same efficiency review that funds family services also frees up dollars currently going to outside contracts.
  

• Big developers don't get to skip the line
  small businesses have to wait in. Ana Luisa supports the council moratorium on unreviewed hyperscale data centre approvals until grid-capacity and air-quality studies are done, because residents and small ratepayers shouldn't quietly subsidize billion-dollar companies' infrastructure while a local shop waits months for a permit.
  

• Calibrated development charges that make purpose-built rental and job-creating small commercial development pencil out, rather than a one-size-fits-all fee structure that favours only the largest players.
  

3. For Seniors & Long-Time Residents

Protecting neighbourhood character while ensuring our city stays accessible, safe, walkable, and financially responsibly managed for the future.

• Growth on our terms, not imposed from outside. The city has real zoning and Official Plan authority: pre-zone density near transit stations where it belongs, so established, low-rise neighborhoods aren't the default release valve for growth targets.
  

• Financially responsible, on the record. The same multi-year budgeting, tax-rate cap, and independent auditor general that protect families also protect seniors on fixed incomes from unpredictable, election-timed tax swings.
  

• Walkable and accessible by design. Sidewalk and crossing investment, senior-accessible MiWay service, and winter maintenance standards treated as core infrastructure, not the first line cut in a tight budget year.
  

• A city hall that explains itself. Longer, genuinely independent integrity commissioner terms (not renewable at the mayor's convenience), and a commitment to using strong-mayor veto powers sparingly and publicly, with contested items debated openly at committee: the opposite of the "shut it down" moments residents have watched from the current mayor.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

4. For Newcomers & Diverse Communities

Building an inclusive city where everyone, no matter their background, has equal access to good jobs, safe housing, and responsive representation at City Hall.

• Housing access, not just housing targets. Faster, published site-plan timelines; city-owned land partnered with non-profit and affordable housing builders; development charges calibrated to actually deliver purpose-built rental: the levers a mayor genuinely controls, used for supply that newcomer and working families can afford.
  

• Good local jobs. Economic development and permitting that treats new Mississauga small businesses, often newcomer-owned, as a priority, not an afterthought behind larger developers.
  

• Representation that shows up in the room, not just at election time. Ana Luisa has spent her career doing this work directly: as a property manager helping newcomers navigate housing and paperwork in a system that isn't built for them, and as the first Dominican in Ontario licensed to officiate marriages, a trusted figure in the Spanish-speaking community for years. She knows what "responsive" City Hall actually needs to look like because she's been the one bridging that gap long before running for office.
  

• Transparency in every language residents actually use. City communications and consultation that reach diverse communities directly, not as a translated afterthought.

My Proposal

For Mississauga

Mississauga residents are telling us clearly what's wrong. 46% say the city is headed in the wrong direction. The top concerns, in order, are affordability, property taxes, housing, crime, and traffic.

My proposal addresses all five.

A Mississauga
That Works for
Every Resident,
Every Neighborhood, Every Generation

Together, We Can
Make Mississauga Better.

Ana Luisa Vasquez for Mayor
Transparent • Responsible • Action-Oriented