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Avi
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Campaign Priorities

Learn about the issues that matter most and the practical solutions Avi is committed to delivering.

01

Property Taxes and Responsible Spending

A Brampton property-tax bill includes City, Peel Region and education portions. Brampton Council decides only the City portion. I will focus on what the City controls while pressing the Region and Province to control their costs.

02

Jobs, Business and the Future Economy

Brampton has a talented workforce, but too many residents commute elsewhere. The City’s 2025 Housing Needs Assessment, using 2021 Census data, found that about 49 per cent of workers travelled at least 30 minutes to work and 86 per cent travelled by car, truck or van. This costs family time, adds traffic and takes daily spending outside Brampton.

03

Health, Families and Quality of Life

Brampton’s population has grown faster than many of the facilities residents depend on. Better facilities means more than new buildings. It means safe, clean and accessible community centres, libraries, parks, sports fields, transit facilities, fire services, health-supporting spaces and public places that are properly maintained and open when people need them.

04

Safe Brampton

Safety means children can walk home, seniors can use transit stops after dark, businesses can close without fear and dangerous conditions are addressed early. Peel Regional Police delivers policing, while City Hall influences lighting, roads, by-laws, fire prevention, property standards, parks and recreation. The Mayor must bring them together.

05

Roads, Transit and Fair Auto Insurance

A Brampton trip may use a City road, a Peel road and provincially controlled Highway 410. Peel controls many major roads, including parts of Bovaird, Queen, Airport, Dixie and Steeles.

06

Housing and Strong Neighbourhoods

Brampton needs more housing choices supported by roads, transit, water, schools, parks, health services, emergency response and jobs.

07

Clean, Green and Prepared

I will establish response standards for illegal dumping, graffiti, dangerous debris, recurring litter, damaged signs and serious property complaints. High-priority health and safety problems should receive immediate attention. Verified dumping and graffiti complaints should receive an initial action or clear response within 72 hours whenever operationally possible.

08

Open City Hall and the Resident Passport

Residents Deserve an Answer I will introduce one basic service standard: Every request should have an owner, a reference number, an expected response and a clear way to escalate an unresolved problem.

09

A Brampton Respected Around the World

Brampton is close to Pearson airport, major highways and a large market. It has 250 cultures, 171 languages and strength in food, arts, sports, entrepreneurship and industry. My goal is to make Brampton a recognized destination for investment, business, culture, food, sport, education and talent.

Avi Dhaliwal

For more than three decades, I have lived, worked, raised my family and built a business in Brampton. I am running because residents deserve a safer, better organized, more affordable and more respected city.

Hello i’m

Avi Dhaliwal

My plan is practical: lower property-tax pressure, create jobs close to home, retain employers, improve facilities and roads, make transit follow demand, control spending and publish clear results.

  • Reduce pressure on the City-controlled portion of residential property taxes
  • Create and retain local jobs while growing the commercial tax base
  • Provide targeted City property-tax relief for qualifying small strip-plaza businesses
  • Build Brampton into a centre for AI, advanced industry and skilled employment
  • Improve health, recreation, transit, roads, parks and neighbourhood facilities
  • Make neighbourhoods, roads, parks, plazas and transit stops safer
  • Fix problem intersections and coordinate a serious response to Highway 410 congestion
  • Fight for fair treatment of responsible Brampton drivers
  • Build housing with roads, transit, schools, parks, health care and jobs
  • Keep the Peel Memorial redevelopment visible and moving
  • Improve cleanliness, recycling, trees, shade and emergency preparedness
  • Give residents clear answers, service standards and public progress reports
The First 100 Days

Start With Work Residents Can See

The first 100 days will establish clear responsibility, public baselines, honest jurisdiction and measurable action.

  • ✔ Establish the Mayor’s Jobs and Investment Office
  • ✔ Begin direct meetings with employers at risk of leaving or considering expansion
  • ✔ Launch the independent spending and performance review
  • ✔ Convene the Safe Brampton Action Table
  • ✔ Convene the 410 Relief Table with invitations to provincial and regional partners
  • ✔ Convene the Mayor’s Health Care Table
  • ✔ Publish the structure of the public promise and service tracker
  • ✔ Assign responsibility for every campaign commitment
  • ✔ Release a ward-by-ward list of traffic, road, lighting, dumping and cleanliness priorities
  • ✔ Begin the AI and advanced-industries employment-land review
  • ✔ Release the plan for Brampton Works
  • ✔ Audit business-approval delays and unresolved job-creating projects
  • ✔ Publish plain-language explanations of City, Regional and provincial responsibilities
  • ✔ Release the qualified Brampton-resident opportunity framework
  • ✔ Publish the first employer-retention meeting schedule
  • ✔ Set initial service standards for road hazards, dumping, graffiti and complaint escalation
  • ✔ Open registration for the first Resident Passport pilot group
  • ✔ Identify neighbourhoods for expanded Opportunity After 4 programming
  • ✔ Publish the assumptions and limits behind the four-year tax-pressure target
  • ✔ Present the commercial-growth framework
  • ✔ Bring the Welcome Home Grant and targeted senior-relief proposals forward for public, financial and legal review
  • ✔ Bring the Small Business Relief Plan forward for legal, financial and public review
  • ✔ Launch the Brampton Works pilot
  • ✔ Publish the first AI and advanced-industry site and partnership plan
  • ✔ Announce Pride Corridor locations
  • ✔ Hold the first rotating City Hall Watch town hall
  • ✔ Begin the first neighbourhood emergency-preparedness exercise
  • ✔ Release the transit-crowding, industrial-shift and access review
  • ✔ Publish the first Mayor’s public scorecard
  • ✔ Release the first employer-retention and investment-pipeline report
  • ✔ Publish initial intersection and road-safety priorities
  • ✔ Announce the first Brampton Global Week plan with measurable economic goals

After 100 days, residents should be able to answer:

  • ✓ Who is responsible?
  • ✓ What was the starting point?
  • ✓ What action has begun?
  • ✓ What will it cost?
  • ✓ What decision is still required?
  • ✓ When is the next public update?

That is how confidence begins to return.

What Brampton First Means - It means dealing with the Region, Province and federal government from one position: Brampton deserves a fair share and a Mayor prepared to make the case.

A Connect Plan - More commercial investment creates jobs and strengthens the non-residential tax base. Jobs close to home reduce commuting pressure.

Residents Before Politics - City Hall should act where it has authority. Where another government decides, the Mayor should lead the advocacy and keep residents informed. Unlawful, unaffordable or unrealistic ideas should be identified plainly.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

The target applies only to the City-controlled residential portion—not the entire bill—and depends on recurring savings, commercial growth, Council approval and protected services. Assumptions will be published; debt, delayed repairs or shifted charges will not count as savings.

The proposed two-year Welcome Home Grant would support eligible long-term owner-occupiers, not investors. It would reflect the City portion, require a principal residence and five-year commitment, include a value cap and repayment rules, and undergo legal, financial and public review. It must be funded without disadvantaging existing residents.

A qualifying strip-plaza business with annual gross sales below $750,000 and fewer than five employees on payroll would receive annual relief equal to one-twelfth of the City-controlled property-tax portion for four years. If the business rents its location, the landlord would have to pass the full benefit to the eligible tenant as a rent credit within 12 months and provide proof. The program would require legal and financial review and City Council approval.

A blanket non-resident ban could conflict with employment rules, collective agreements, merit-based hiring and specialized recruitment. Qualified Brampton residents will receive a fair first chance through local recruitment, apprenticeships, entry-level pathways, lawful selected interviews and public reporting.

No. Employees deserve expectations, training, fair evaluation and lawful due process. Strong performance should be recognized; persistent underperformance and failed programs must be addressed fairly.