MY STORIES

This is not a slogan. It’s the reality I’ve seen after knocking on thousands of doors.

I’ve run in three elections and spoken face-to-face with tens of thousands of residents.

What I saw were not numbers — but the weight of real life.

Property taxes are rising.

Mortgages must be paid.

Condo fees keep increasing.

The cost of living keeps going up.

Many people are not living — they are just holding on.

There is one woman I will never forget.

She works in a restaurant, standing more than ten hours a day.

Not for days — but for years.

Her feet are swollen, so painful that even walking is hard.

But she doesn’t want her children to see.

She goes home, hides in her room, and cries alone.

She told me her shoe size went from 27 to 40.

Not by choice — but because of suffering.

This is not an exception. This is the reality for many families.

That moment, I told her:

“Voting may not change everything overnight,

but it can mean hundreds fewer hours on your feet.”

She nodded.

And in that moment, I realized:

We cannot stay silent.

The more struggling people I meet, the more I must step forward.

I will speak for those who carry their burdens in silence.

I will fight for families who are working hard just to survive.

Reducing the burden is not a slogan — it’s a responsibility.

Helping hardworking people live with less hardship is why I’m running.

To learn more about my platform and priorities, please visit my

website.

Never Forget How Many People Are Struggling.

Property taxes keep rising — higher and higher.

But for many people, life is getting harder.

I’ve run three campaigns, knocked on thousands of doors, and spoken with tens of thousands of residents.

What I’ve seen are not statistics — but hands worn down by life.

One resident works at a supermarket selling live fish.

Customers often ask for the fish to be cleaned on the spot.

To avoid making customers wait, he works faster and faster.

With every quick cut,

his hands get pierced and sliced.

He told me:

“Sometimes I can’t even tell if the blood I see is mine or the fish’s.”

His fingers were covered in bandages.

As he said this, he raised his hands and showed me.

In that moment, I had no words.

All I could say was:

“Go vote.”

“Maybe it won’t change everything.”

“But it might mean a few fewer days of bandages.”

Friends,

For those who are bleeding every day, yet still pushing forward,

Shouldn’t we go vote?

Less burden.

Less pain.

More dignity.

Starting with this vote.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

The cost of housing keeps rising year after year.

Property taxes keep going up.

And for many families,

the pressure keeps getting heavier.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

I have run in three elections.

I have knocked on thousands of doors

and spoken face-to-face with tens of thousands of residents.

I have heard many stories.

And I have seen how hard many people are working just to get by.

One resident told me

he works in a factory to support his family.

He has been working rotating shifts for years —

days, nights, and overnight shifts.

Day after day.

Night after night.

He told me:

“Sometimes, I don’t even know whether it’s day or night anymore.”

That really stayed with me.

A person working this hard

just to support his family,

giving up his time, his energy,

and sometimes even his health,

just to make ends meet.

All I could tell him was:

“Remember to vote.”

Because your vote may not change your life overnight.

But it can change the direction of our city.

And it may help change the future of your family.

Ladies and gentlemen,

If hardworking people

barely have time to breathe;

If families working hard every day

are struggling under the rising cost of living;

shouldn’t we stand up

and speak for them?

If you don’t want property taxes to keep skyrocketing — GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends to have less money in their pockets — PLEASE SHARE THIS!

If you want to help make a difference — CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

Never forget how many people are struggling.

Let’s work together

to reduce the pressure on hardworking families,

restore dignity to those who work hard,

and build a city with more compassion,

more understanding,

and more hope.

Please share this message.

And I want to hear from the residents of Mississauga:

What is your life really like?

What are you struggling with?

Tell me.

I will listen.

Let’s work together

and get through these difficult times.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

I have run in three elections.

I have knocked on thousands of doors and spoken face-to-face with tens of thousands of residents.

I have seen the polished side of life. But more importantly,

I have seen the struggles that many people don’t talk about.

A husband and wife once told me:

They sleep during the day

and work at night.

When the streets are dark,

when most people are already in bed— they get into their car

and drive out into remote areas.

In the darkness, surrounded by the sounds of the night,

they dig for earthworms

and sell them for money.

Why?

To survive.

To support their family.

And in the winter?

They shovel snow.

They leave home while other people are sleeping.

Sometimes they don’t come home until morning.

They told me:

“We don’t have a day or a night.”

Those words stayed with me.

Because while some people in our city are enjoying life, others are working so hard that they can barely tell where one day ends and another begins.

I asked them:

“Have you ever voted?”

They said: “No.”

I told them: “Go vote.”

You may not have enough time.

You may not have enough money.

You may not have the freedom to choose the job you really want.

But you still have something powerful: Your vote.

One vote may not make you rich overnight.

But it may help put hundreds —

or even thousands — of dollars back into your pocket.

And if we do nothing, if costs keep rising, if property taxes keep rising, your family may be losing hundreds or even thousands of dollars year after year.

So I want to ask every hardworking resident:

You work this hard just to survive.

Are you really going to give up

your one chance to have a say

in the future of our city?

They don’t have a day or a night.

We cannot let them lose their voice, too.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep skyrocketing — GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends to have less money in their pockets —

PLEASE SHARE THIS!

If you’re willing to stand up and do something for hardworking residents —

CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

Never forget how many people are struggling.

I want to hear your story.

Mississauga residents,

tell me about your life.

What are you struggling with?

What keeps you awake at night?

What is putting the most pressure on your family?

You speak. I listen.

Together, we work.

Together, we get through these difficult times.

To learn more about my platform and priorities,

please visit my website.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

As the cost of housing keeps rising, the pressure on many families keeps growing.

I have spoken with tens of thousands of residents.

I have heard many stories.

And I have seen just how hard ordinary families are working simply to get by.

There is one woman I will never forget.

A few years ago, she bought a home.

At the time, she was told:

“The property tax is about $3,000 a year.”

She thought property taxes, like other major household expenses,

would be something she could reasonably plan for.

So she bought the house.

Her family carefully calculated their mortgage,

car payments, insurance, and other expenses.

There are seven people in her family.

She has three children.

The children are cared for by their grandparents.

She works at a chicken-processing plant.

Her job is to separate bones from the meat by hand.

Day after day.

Year after year.

After years of repetitive work,

her index and middle fingers have become visibly deformed.

She is only in her forties,

but her hair is already completely grey.

She looks more than twenty years older than she is.

But she keeps working.

Because after her shift at the chicken plant,

she goes to a restaurant to wash dishes.

She works more than ten hours a day.

Why?

She told me:

“I have no choice.”

“There are seven people in my family.

I have to work as hard as I can to support them.”

Then she said something I will never forget:

“We can calculate our mortgage.”

“We can calculate our car payments.”

“We know what those payments will look like for years.”

Then she said:

“But property taxes — we can’t calculate those.”

“They keep going up, and the increases catch us completely off guard.”

Ladies and gentlemen,

this is the pressure many ordinary families are facing.

It isn’t because they aren’t working hard.

They are working incredibly hard.

A mother in her forties,

working more than ten hours a day,

her fingers deformed from years of labour,

her hair turning grey,

and after all that,

she still goes to a restaurant to wash dishes.

She doesn’t want much.

She simply wants to support her family,

keep a roof over their heads,

and give her three children a better future.

I told her:

“You and your whole family should vote.”

She looked at me and said:

“I hope you win.”

That moment made me even more determined.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

We cannot only look at how beautiful our city is.

We also need to look at the people living in those homes

and ask ourselves:

How hard are they working just to stay there?

We cannot only look at numbers in a budget.

We have to look at what those numbers mean

for real families around our city.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep skyrocketing — GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends to have less money in their pockets — PLEASE SHARE THIS!

If you are willing to stand up and help hardworking residents — CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

Please share this message.

And I want to hear from the residents of Mississauga:

What is your life really like?

What are you struggling with?

What is putting the most pressure on your family?

You speak.

I listen.

Together, we can work through these difficult times.

To learn more about my platform and priorities, please visit my

website.

Never Forget How Many People Are Struggling

Rising property taxes

are putting unbearable pressure on many families.

I have spoken with tens of thousands of residents.

I know what people care about.

And I know what hurts them the most.

One resident told me:

“Ever since we bought our home,

our family has never gone out to a restaurant for a meal.”

I asked him why.

He said:

“We have to pay the mortgage every year.

We have to pay property taxes every year.”

“Our mortgage is fixed.

We can plan for it.”

“But property taxes are different.”

“They go up 5% one year,

9% the next — and the increases compound.”

“We simply don’t know how much we’ll have to pay next year.”

He told me:

“Sometimes, the pressure is so heavy that we can barely breathe.”

So they budget every dollar.

If they can save, they save.

If they can go without something, they go without it.

They have three young children.

Sometimes the children ask:

“Dad, when can we go to a restaurant?”

And he tells them:

“Daddy will make something special for you at home.”

So he cooks different meals for them at home.

Not because he doesn’t want to give his children more.

But because he loves them too much to let them see how financially difficult things have become.

He told me:

“We don’t have much money.”

To prepare for rising costs

and the possibility of another major property-tax increase,

he has even had to borrow money from relatives and friends.

Then he said something that really stayed with me:

“Sometimes I see the look in my children’s eyes when they want to go to a restaurant, and it breaks my heart.”

As he said those words,

I could see his eyes beginning to redden.

A father.

He wasn’t asking for designer clothes.

He wasn’t asking for a luxury car.

He wasn’t asking for an expensive vacation.

He simply wanted one thing:

To take his three children

to an ordinary restaurant

and enjoy one ordinary family meal.

That’s all.

But for this family,

even that has become a luxury.

Finally, he told me:

“I hope property taxes don’t go up again next year.”

“I just hope I can take my children to a restaurant next year.”

Ladies and gentlemen,

I want to ask you:

For this hardworking father,

for his three children,

for the chance to let those children sit down at an ordinary restaurant

and enjoy a meal they’ve been waiting for—

shouldn’t we vote?

Shouldn’t we bring our families, friends and neighbours with us to vote?

Because for some people,

voting isn’t just politics.

Voting is one of the few ways ordinary people can make their voices heard.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep rising sharply—

GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends to have less money in their pockets—

PLEASE SHARE THIS!

If you are willing to stand up for hardworking families—

CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

And I want to hear from the residents of Mississauga:

How are you really doing?

What are you struggling with?

What is putting the most pressure on your family?

Tell me.

I will listen.

Together, we can speak up for our community.

Together, we can get through these difficult times.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

To learn more about my platform and priorities, please visit my website.

Remember:

sometimes, one vote is not just a number.

It represents a family’s hope for a better life.

Rising property taxes

and the growing cost of living

are putting more and more pressure on families.

I have spoken with tens of thousands of residents.

Over the years,

I have heard many stories.

Sometimes, after hearing what someone has gone through,

I sit in my car for a long time afterward,

unable to shake the feeling.

Because I have come to realize something:

Some people look perfectly fine on the outside,

while carrying an enormous burden on the inside.

One man told me:

“I’m sorry. I’m not doing very well lately.

I have a home to take care of.

I don’t have time to talk.”

Just one sentence.

But I could hear the pressure behind it.

A person has to work,

support a family,

pay a mortgage,

and deal with rising living costs.

Sometimes,

there isn’t even time to stop and breathe.

Another woman told me:

“I’ve lost my job.”

“But I still have a home to pay for.

Property taxes and insurance keep going up every year.”

Then she said:

“I honestly can’t take it anymore.”

Another woman told me:

“I’ve lost my job.

I’ve been sick.

I recently had surgery.”

All three of these people

have relatively high levels of education.

But education does not make a person immune to hardship.

People with jobs struggle.

People without jobs struggle.

Young people struggle.

Middle-aged people struggle.

Parents struggle.

Retirees struggle.

Pressure doesn’t ask who you are.

It simply keeps building.

And what hurts me the most is this:

Some people are barely holding on,

yet they still tell everyone:

“I’m fine.”

They may smile when they talk to you.

And then, when they turn around,

they may be sitting alone,

trying to figure out how to get through another day.

So I want to ask:

Is there someone like this in your life?

A family member.

A friend.

A neighbour.

A co-worker.

Someone who seems unusually exhausted lately?

Someone who has suddenly become quiet?

Someone who may be carrying more pressure

than you realize?

Ask them one simple question:

“Are you okay?”

Sometimes, a simple act of caring

can mean more than we realize.

And I cannot simply stand by and watch.

The more struggling people I meet,

the more determined I become to step forward.

I have stepped forward three times before.

And this time,

I am stepping forward again.

Not because I don’t understand how difficult things are.

But because I have heard too many stories.

I have seen too much hardship.

I know what many ordinary residents are going through.

And I want to do something about it.

I want our city to be more than just a beautiful place to live.

I want it to be a city where ordinary people

can live with dignity,

raise their families with less fear,

and look toward tomorrow with hope.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep rising sharply—

GO VOTE.

If you don’t want your family and friends

to have less money in their pockets—

PLEASE SHARE THIS.

If you are willing to stand up

and do something for hardworking residents—

CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM.

And I want to hear from the residents of Mississauga:

How are you really doing?

What is putting the most pressure on you right now?

What do you want to see change in our city?

You speak.

I listen.

Because behind every story

is a real person,

a real family,

and a real life.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

Let us have less indifference

and more compassion.

Less pressure

and more hope.

To learn more about my platform and priorities, please visit my website.

I have knocked on thousands of doors

and spoken face-to-face with tens of thousands of residents.

Some residents have told me:

“You came to my home a year ago.”

Others said:

“You came to our home two years ago.”

And some even remembered:

“You knocked on my door four years ago.”

Those words mean a lot to me.

Because over the years,

I have come to understand what residents truly care about,

what worries them the most,

and what pressures they simply cannot take anymore.

And I have learned something very important:

Many ordinary families are struggling.

That is why I decided to step forward.

To stand up for them.

One day, I walked up to a resident’s home.

The homeowner saw me and immediately said:

“Frank!”

I was surprised.

I asked:

“How do you know me?”

He said:

“Our family has voted for you every time.”

Then he said:

“Aren’t you the one who wants to bring property taxes under control?”

“If you run again, we’ll vote for you again.”

“Let’s vote out the people who keep raising our property taxes.”

Then he sighed:

“Property taxes are really becoming unbearable.”

I asked him:

“Why are you home today? Are you taking the day off?”

He smiled and said:

“Taking the day off?”

Then he told me:

“My wife and I are both unemployed.”

“We’re looking for work.”

That moment, one thought hit me:

**When you lose your job,

your mortgage doesn’t lose its job.**

Your car payment doesn’t lose its job.

Your insurance doesn’t lose its job.

And your property taxes certainly don’t lose their job.

When someone loses their job,

their income can suddenly drop to zero.

But the bills don’t.

The mortgage is still there.

The car payment is still there.

Insurance is still there.

Utilities are still there.

Groceries are still there.

And property taxes are still waiting.

That’s why I understand more and more

why so many residents are deeply concerned about property taxes.

For a family with a stable income,

an increase may look like just another number.

But for an unemployed family,

every additional expense can mean less food,

fewer repairs,

and fewer choices for their children.

This is what I have seen

after walking through thousands of neighbourhoods in Mississauga.

So I don’t want to sit in an office

and talk only about numbers.

I want to hear from residents.

I want to know:

How are you really doing?

What worries you the most?

What pressure has become too much?

Because ultimately,

municipal government isn’t about spreadsheets.

It’s about people.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep skyrocketing—

GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends

to have less money in their pockets—

PLEASE SHARE THIS!

If you’re willing to stand up

and do something for hardworking residents—

CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

To learn more about my platform,

please visit my website.

And I welcome residents of Mississauga

to tell me about your lives.

You speak.

I listen.

Together, we work.

Together, we get through these difficult times.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

Is Mississauga Really Getting Safer?

I have walked past the doors of thousands upon thousands of homes across Mississauga.

And over the years,

I’ve noticed something increasingly common:

More and more homes have security cameras at their doors.

Detached homes.

Condo units.

Some cameras are obvious.

Others are hidden in places

you wouldn’t notice unless you were looking for them.

One day, I had just left a resident’s front door.

A short time later, my phone rang.

The resident said:

“Hey, brother! You were just at my front door, weren’t you?”

I said:

“Yes.”

Then he said:

“That’s the third time you’ve been at my door.”

I thought to myself:

How did he know I had just been there?

The camera.

So let me ask you a question:

Do people install cameras at their front doors

because they are really concerned about

when their “brothers” are coming to visit?

Or—

are they worried about when other “brothers” might come to visit?

😂

I’ll leave that one for you to answer.

What do you think?

Tell me in the comments.

But here’s what I believe:

A truly safe city

shouldn’t be a city where every household feels they need a security camera just to feel protected.

Real safety means:

You can come home and feel safe.

Your children can walk outside and feel safe.

Your seniors can go out without fear.

And business owners can close their doors at night

and sleep peacefully.

That’s the kind of city we should be building.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep skyrocketing—

GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends

to have less money in their pockets—

PLEASE SHARE THIS!

If you’re willing to stand up

and help make our city better—

CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

To learn more about my platform and priorities,

please visit my website.

And I want to hear from Mississauga residents:

How safe do you think our city really is?

What concerns you the most?

You speak.

I listen.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

Sometimes, what breaks a family isn’t millions of dollars.

It’s the last few thousand dollars they can’t afford.

A resident told me about a friend of his.

A few years ago, his friend bought a home worth about $4 million.

He then spent more than $200,000 renovating it.

He thought he was building a home.

He thought he was protecting an investment.

But eventually, he had to sell.

The house was listed about a year ago.

It didn’t sell.

The price was reduced.

Still no buyer.

Reduced again.

Still nothing.

The price kept going down.

But one thing didn’t:

The property taxes.

They still had to be paid.

And they kept increasing year after year.

The pressure became unbearable.

Finally, the homeowner told his friend:

“If I don’t sell soon, I may not be able to hold on much longer.”

Recently, the house finally sold.

For just over $1 million.

After the original purchase, renovations, and the eventual sale,

the total loss was roughly $2 million.

Two million dollars.

That’s an enormous loss.

But what really stayed with me was what he said afterward:

“I stopped using the heat as much in the winter to save money.”

“I don’t turn on the air conditioning in the summer.”

Even during this recent heat,

he was afraid to turn on the AC.

Why?

Because he had to save money.

But there was one bill he couldn’t simply choose to stop paying.

Property taxes still had to be paid.

He told his friend:

“If I didn’t have to pay those tens of thousands of dollars in property taxes, I might be able to make it through the end of the year.”

Think about that.

A person who has already lost roughly $2 million

may not ultimately be brought down by the millions themselves.

He may be brought down by the final few thousand dollars of cash flow.

That’s reality.

A family can have assets.

They can own a home.

The home may even be worth millions.

But:

Assets are not cash.

A valuable house does not mean you have money in your pocket.

When income falls,

when a job disappears,

when the cost of living rises,

and the bills keep arriving,

sometimes it’s those final few thousand dollars

that push a family over the edge.

So I want to ask you:

Have you ever experienced a situation where, when you were already down, someone or something pushed you even further down?

Because when a family is already struggling,

shouldn’t we be even more careful about every additional tax burden?

For some families,

one percentage point isn’t just a number.

It could mean hundreds of dollars.

It could mean thousands.

And those thousands of dollars

could be the final straw.

I believe:

There is no saviour coming to rescue us.

We cannot simply wait for someone else to fix our problems.

The future of our city ultimately depends on us.

Our voices.

Our actions.

And our votes.

If you don’t want property taxes to keep skyrocketing—

GO VOTE!

If you don’t want your family and friends to have less money in their pockets—

PLEASE SHARE THIS!

Every share gives our voice more strength.

If you’re willing to stand up and help hardworking residents—

CONTACT ME AND JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!

And I want to hear from the residents of Mississauga:

What challenges have you faced?

What is putting the most pressure on your family right now?

You speak.

I listen.

Together, we can work for a better city.

Never forget how many people are struggling.

To learn more about my platform and priorities, please visit my website.