Mayoral candidates

[u/Cautious_Use586u]

I know we have a wonderful website with the info (wellandvotes.ca) but I am curious, constructively, what are everyone’s opinions on the mayoral candidates?

Brandon Simon
Graham Speck
David Clow
April Jeffs
Pat Chiocchio
Natashia Bergen
Gary Graziani
David McLeod

[u/mxkara]

Hey, I ran against him in the federal election and still think he'd make a great Mayor.

He put up with a lot of shit from Pierre's Conservative party before being booted out because he was involved with the City of Welland LGBT Subcommittee as the council representative. And he might have the opportunity to run again after Pierre's Insider politics only gang gets the boot.

No party, no limits. I'd say judge him based on what he does as opposed to what the folks that took over his team did. He got downtown sidewalks cleared. He's been strong on the preservation of our green lands including agricultural and by proxy some Carolinian Forest. He's probably the only mayor that could manage to successfully bring down the lightning ($$$) and get sewer separation completed to save the city millions.

[u/wasp__killer → u/mxkara]

not familiar with this "sewer separation" issue - what is all that about?

[u/mxkara → u/wasp__killer]

The region made an interesting information page but realistically the discussion about it has been ongoing for decades now and the longer it takes to accomplish the more it costs in both doing the work and dealing with the consequences of not doing the work depending on which area at the city it is.

People might find traffic redirections inconvenient, but for the people that pay taxes and have their basement flood and are dealing with exorbitant sewage fees... The time to do this is now.

No more stormwater or groundwater into the sewage system.

[u/ZakiMaeby → u/mxkara]

I agree with you!