We Lead With Action in Ward Karhiio

I’m committed to being your advocate and providing steady leadership rooted in the relationships we have built. 

By leading with action, we create a stronger, more connected Ward Karhiio and Edmonton.

My Platform

In my first term as your City Councillor, I have advocated for affordable housing, safer communities, better infrastructure, climate solutions, and strong city services. Alongside our Ward Karhiio community, I intend to see this work through over the next four years.

I am focused on practical, realistic actions we can take in the areas we have power over as a city.

Growth and prosperity

  • Provide affordable, diverse and accessible housing choices for people of all walks of life by following through on the City’s affordable housing commitment, and carefully planning for housing in both existing and new neighbourhoods.

    • Thoughtful long-term planning for annexed land. 

    • Ensure existing neighbourhoods have the amenities they need.

    • Uphold accountable infill: changes to your neighbourhoods deserve accountability measures. I will advocate for a stronger Construction Accountability Program for infill compliance, and Infill Liaison Team. 

    • Continue implementing the City’s affordable housing commitment and investments for low-income and hard-to-house Edmontonians. 

  • Expand our non-residential tax base by improving support for business development and attracting more economic and industrial investment to Edmonton.

    • Accelerate the Industrial Investment Action Plan. 

    • Form a Business Development Unit, leveraging all tools in the toolbox, to attract and retain economic opportunities.

  • Ease the way for businesses in Edmonton by speeding up municipal business processes–specifically in commercial permitting.

    • Ensure the business and non-residential (commercial, industrial, institutional) building permit system is as efficient as our residential housing building permit system, including automation where appropriate. 

    • Increase capacity for Business Friendly Edmonton to support more businesses.

Vibrant, safer, sustainable communities

  • Support safety and violence prevention by coordinating wrap-around support for youth and the most vulnerable Edmontonians.

    • Convene players and coordinate support from different agencies to advance wrap-around support for those with the most interactions with services (justice, social service, outreach, housing, healthcare).

    • Support youth safety and prevent violence through upstream support.

  • Support the arts, culture, and attractions that make Edmonton the place we love by increasing funding for key local arts, culture and tourism organizations.

    • Increase funding to the Edmonton Arts Council so that it can adequately support festivals, arts and culture organizations, and artists. This in turn supports vibrancy and the local economy.

    • Ensure a predictable and stable funding formula for Explore Edmonton to drive the visitor economy, vibrancy, and local businesses and communities.

  • Ensure we balance recreation and nature for the long term by carefully managing all of the natural spaces that Edmontonians care deeply about.

    • Ensure our river valley can balance recreational and ecological uses.

    • Make sure Edmonton is prepared for future wildfires and other climate change impacts, including implementing the wildfire prevention and response strategy.

A city that works for everyone

  • Ensure Edmontonians in both mature and newer neighbourhoods can access public transportation by expanding the fleet of buses and closing gaps in service.

    • Improve transit service in mature areas like Mill Woods and in newer neighbourhoods. 

    • Convert on-demand transit to conventional bus services. 

    • Buy more buses and complete our transit garage to house those buses.

    • Close the remaining transit service gap.

  • Maintain our infrastructure to keep up with city growth by taking care of our existing roads and facilities, renewing roads in rapidly growing areas and rethinking how we deliver infrastructure projects to get the most out of every dollar spent.

    • Southeast Edmonton is experiencing a higher than average growth rate and our roads and infrastructure are under pressure. We need to take care of what we already have, renew and expand arterial roads in areas where there is more growth, like Parsons Road and Ellerslie Road as well as 66 st (between 23 ave and Ellerslie). 

    • Rethink how we plan and build new infrastructure projects. Get partners to the table earlier in the process, and work together holistically to get the most out of every infrastructure dollar.

  • Support more stable and efficient delivery of public service by changing how we budget so that service keeps up with the demands of our growing city, and empower Edmontonians by facilitating creative ideas from the community.

    • Change how we budget for public services to ensure the provision of public service aligns with population growth, inflation, and service demand.

      1. Adjust budget/funding model to align with population growth and inflation.

      2. Stabilize the city's financial base - close the financial gap.

    • Facilitate and partner on small-scale community-led actions for local impact (e.g., benches, little libraries, boulevard gardening)

    • Visit workers to learn about day-to-day service delivery, identify policy gaps and ideas firsthand, and directly connect residents with city services