Why I’m Running
Madoc Township is at a crossroads. For far too long, voters have not had a real choice. Decisions have been made behind closed doors. Tax dollars have been spent arbitrarily and without accountability. Residents who want to speak at Council meetings have been made to feel like an inconvenience or a threat rather than a priority.
I’m not running because I think I have all the answers. I’m running because I have a skillset and professional experience that are valuable to this Township and I want to serve and be a part of the solution.
I’ve watched this Council casually over many years, closely since 2022, and intensely and up-close during 2026. I have attended every meeting, read every agenda, inspected every minutes package, checked every document, and double-checked every filing. I have submitted Freedom of Information requests in an effort to get answers about what’s really going on, and I’ve been disappointed by the consistent refusal to answer questions or take accountability.
I believe our township deserves better from its Council. Because I’ve been doing the work already, I know what the job requires – and I’m up to the task.
A Better Standard
This election isn’t about replacing one group of people with another – it’s about replacing a way of doing things. Madoc Township at its best is straightforward: plain answers, open books, and the same service for every resident and every road. That standard already exists in law and in common decency. It just isn’t being practiced consistently enough.
I propose we return to it:
- Respect for residents and staff alike
- Plain answers, in plain language
- Equal service to every resident and every road
- Openness – everything done in the open that can be
- Real regulatory compliance, on time, every time
That’s my entire platform in one sentence: straightforward, transparent honesty and actual regulatory compliance – because a township that meets its obligations on time doesn’t get fined, frozen, or embarrassed.
Five Concrete Commitments
1. Compliance – file properly, on time, always.
Financial returns, statutory filings, audited statements – on time is the floor, not an achievement.
2. Publish a public calendar of filings and important dates.
Residents will be able to see what the township owes, when it’s due, and whether it was done. No more discovering obligations from local news coverage or councillors acting like non-compliance is a surprising discovery.
3. Equal service by demonstrated need.
Roads and resources prioritized by objective need, recorded and explained publicly – not by councillor preference.
4. Monthly open town halls.
Frank, open, in-person discussion that Council meetings rightly cannot offer.
5. Closed sessions only when the law requires them – and say why in plain language.
What I Won’t Do
I want our taxes to stop going up, but I won’t promise any tax numbers until I can get a handle on our current finances and an approximate sense of next year’s books – including correcting the existing years of financial non-compliance. I won’t make dishonest or arbitrary promises, but I’ll tell you what I want to do: hold taxes steady, sort out our compliance nightmare, and ultimately reduce the Madoc Township tax burden.
I won’t blame staff for Council failures. The buck stops with Council. You don’t get to have phenomenal, cosmic powers while also having no responsibility for anything that goes on in this township.
I won’t ambush colleagues on Council with “new business” that should have been included in the agenda, manipulate the local media, or confuse “telling the truth” with “issuing statements that are mostly true on their face, spun in the way that is most flattering to me”. All of these are specific behaviours I have seen repeatedly in recent months and years. All of them are unbecoming of our Council and our community. These behaviours have to stop, immediately.
I won’t stop talking to you or treating you with respect and neighbourly compassion after the election finishes. Period.
Hold Me to It
Every claim on this page is something I’ve said publicly at the rescheduled all-candidates’ meet-and-greet and throughout this campaign. If I fall short of any of it, you can call me out on it. That’s the deal.
