Safety isn’t a slogan. It’s whether you feel okay letting your kids walk to school, whether the intersection you drive through every day has been fixed, and whether the call you make about a problem house actually gets a response. That’s the standard we’ve been working to.

Over this term, we’ve expanded police presence with 785 new offices in the past 3 years focused on the neighbourhoods that are reporting complaints and criminal activity. We’ve made our roads safer through traffic-calming measures, school-zone improvements, and we’re not done. We’ve held problem landlords accountable and strengthened our by-law enforcement with more officers and an escalating fine structure so the same handful of properties can’t keep eating up our 311 calls year after year.

We’ve taken a different approach to encampments, too. Enforcement alone doesn’t solve homelessness, it just moves it. So we paired by-law action with outreach, connecting unhoused residents to shelter, mental-health support, and addictions services. It’s harder work, but it’s the kind that actually moves the number down. Safe streets and a safe community are built the same way: one block, one call, one neighbour at a time.