ROBMILLAN

Make Stage 3 LRT to Kanata a committed, funded project, improve transit now, advance the March Road rapid-transit corridor, and add road capacity where growth actually requires it.

I support completing the provincial LRT upload on terms that are fair to Ottawa taxpayers, preserve OC Transpo's control over local service delivery, accelerate Stage 3, and reinvest the City's savings into transit.

What I’ll do

• Make Stage 3 LRT to Kanata a funded, committed project by the end of the term.
• Secure the remaining federal and municipal funding to build on Ontario's commitment and move the Kanata North Transitway toward construction.
• Publish route-by-route service delivery, cancellations and actual-versus-scheduled travel times through OC Transpo's public performance measures.
• Coordinate road, transit and development planning so capacity arrives with growth instead of years afterward.
• Work with MTO on Highway 417 access and west-end bottlenecks that cannot be fixed by the City alone.

Kanata North already has Canada's largest technology park. The next step is a stronger economic centre with more investment, more jobs, more housing, and more places to eat, meet and spend time after work.

What I’ll do

• Set specific technology-investment attraction goals for Kanata North within the City's economic-development strategy, and publish the results.
• Treat growth in commercial investment and assessment as a long-term fiscal objective, not only a jobs target.
• Speed approvals for major employment projects. Extend the High Economic Impact Program to strategically important R&D and employment projects, with clear service standards and one accountable municipal lead.
• Support significant mixed-use housing and commercial activity in the Kanata North Economic District where infrastructure can support it.
• Strengthen partnerships with universities, colleges, researchers and employers so more talent and commercialization stay in Kanata.
• Use transit, public-realm investment and better amenities to turn the Tech Park into a place that is active beyond office hours.

Housing affordability matters. People who grew up in Kanata should still have a realistic chance to rent or buy a home here, and families should have more choices as their needs change.

City Hall cannot set mortgage rates or salaries, but it can make housing easier to build, approvals faster, and infrastructure arrive with growth.

What I’ll do

• Support more housing on major corridors, near transit, in the Tech Park and in well-planned growth areas.
• Set tougher approval-time standards and use the existing Housing Approvals Dashboard to show where the City is meeting or missing them.
• Build the infrastructure when we build the homes. Sequence roads, sewers, stormwater, transit, parks and community services with major growth.
• Coordinate major growth planning with school boards and the Province so school capacity and sites are addressed early.
• Protect established low-rise neighbourhood interiors from arbitrary major upzoning while allowing appropriate infill and corridor density.
• Encourage more family-sized and ownership-oriented housing choices.

Families, businesses and residents on fixed incomes are already dealing with higher costs. The goal is not arbitrary cuts, it is better results per taxpayer dollar.

The inflation ceiling applies to the overall property-tax increase, with an emergency exception for extraordinary events such as major infrastructure destruction. I will not chase a 0% increase at the expense of core services.

What I’ll do

• I will oppose ordinary property-tax increases above inflation and demand better value from the billions the City already spends.
• Require major capital and procurement reports to show a standardized lifecycle-cost comparison before Council approves them.
• Create a searchable major-project ledger showing the original approved budget, current forecast, actual spending, cumulative contract amendments and explanations for material changes.
• Require major City programs to publish outcome KPIs and a scheduled review date so Council can judge results before budgets are renewed.
• Grow Ottawa's commercial tax base through investment and employment growth so residential taxpayers are not the only place Council looks for additional fiscal capacity.
• Pursue provincial and federal funding aggressively before defaulting every infrastructure need to the property-tax base.

Growth should strengthen Kanata, not erase what people moved here for. That means protecting meaningful greenspace, fixing infrastructure risks, maintaining parks and mature trees, and keeping neighbourhoods safe.

I support a Province-enabled solution that permanently protects the former golf-course lands without forcing Ottawa taxpayers to purchase them at full development value.

What I’ll do

• Support a fair, transparent ClubLink land-swap solution if the Province can deliver one, with independent valuation and permanent protection for the lands received by the public.
• Maintain independent drainage and environmental scrutiny and enforce all lawful subdivision conditions.
• Ensure the City's ongoing July 1 review publishes neighbourhood-level findings for Kanata North and produces a prioritized plan for the highest-value fixes.
• Protect mature trees and require appropriate canopy replacement when development removes significant trees.
• Maintain parks, recreation, pathways, roads, police and emergency-service capacity as the ward grows.

I will use every lawful municipal tool available, while being candid about what Council can and cannot legally guarantee.