Neighbourhood Safety & Community Pride

After months of listening to residents, I've reached one clear conclusion.

Winnipeg is facing a Neighbourhood Safety Crisis.

Residents see it every day through violent crime, gang activity, illegal firearms, drug trafficking, addiction, mental health challenges, and homelessness. These issues have become interconnected, and trying to solve one while ignoring the others has not worked.

Everyone deserves to feel safe in their neighbourhood. Whether you're walking your child to school, waiting for a bus, visiting a park, opening your business, or simply coming home after work, you should feel safe and proud of the community you call home.

My goal is to help build safer neighbourhoods where families, seniors, businesses, and young people can thrive.

Residents consistently tell me they are concerned about violent crime, gangs, illegal firearms, repeat violent offenders, drug trafficking, addiction, mental health challenges, homelessness, theft, vandalism, and safety on our streets and public transit.

Parents want safe neighbourhoods. Seniors want to feel safe walking in their community. Business owners are frustrated by crime and vandalism.

Residents don't want more excuses. They want leadership, accountability, and action.

My approach is simple.

Crime, gangs, illegal firearms, drug trafficking, addiction, mental health challenges, and homelessness have become interconnected. Trying to solve one while ignoring the others has not worked.

We must address them together.

That means two priorities must happen at the same time.

First, we must be tough on violent crime, gangs, illegal firearms, drug trafficking, and repeat violent offenders who threaten our communities.

Second, we must expand access to treatment, recovery, mental health services, transitional housing, supportive housing, prevention programs, and opportunities for people struggling with addiction, mental health challenges, and homelessness to rebuild their lives.

One approach without the other will not solve the crisis.

Ignoring crime is not compassion. Ignoring addiction is not compassion either.

We cannot arrest our way out of this crisis. We also cannot ignore criminal activity.

Real public safety requires both strong enforcement and strong recovery. They are two parts of the same solution.

No single level of government has the authority, resources, or responsibility to solve this crisis alone.

The City of Winnipeg cannot fund or solve this crisis by itself. Manitoba and Canada must be at the table with real funding, resources, staffing, and support. As your City Councillor, I will work with the Mayor, Council, the Province of Manitoba, and the Government of Canada to push for the resources Winnipeg needs to make our neighbourhoods safer and help people recover.

Real change will also require leadership at City Hall. A City Councillor cannot implement a city-wide strategy alone. It takes a Mayor and City Council who recognize the seriousness of Winnipeg's Neighbourhood Safety Crisis and are prepared to make neighbourhood safety one of the City's highest priorities.

This election gives every resident an opportunity to help shape the future of Winnipeg.

The decisions we make today won't just affect the next four years. They will help shape the direction of our city for many years to come.

Ask every candidate for Mayor and every candidate for City Council:

Do you believe Winnipeg is facing a Neighbourhood Safety Crisis, and if so, what are you prepared to do about it?

My role is to build support, bring people together, advocate for practical solutions, and keep pushing until residents see real progress.

• Bring neighbourhood safety concerns directly to City Hall.
• Advocate for resources for Winnipeg Police and community safety initiatives.
• Support improvements that make public spaces and transit safer.
• Work with residents and community organizations.
• Support youth prevention and mentorship.
• Track neighbourhood safety concerns.
• Report back publicly on progress.

I will work with the Mayor and Council to build support for a balanced approach of strong enforcement and strong recovery, strengthen public safety initiatives, support prevention programs, improve coordination, and make neighbourhood safety a budget priority.

I will advocate for Manitoba to provide the funding, staffing, and services that fall under provincial responsibility, including addiction treatment, detox services, recovery programs, mental health care, supportive housing, transitional housing, youth intervention, outreach teams, and better coordination between justice, health, housing, education, and social services.

I will advocate for the Government of Canada to provide funding, resources, and partnerships to help municipalities respond to crime, illegal firearms, organized crime, addiction, homelessness, mental health, and community safety while investing in long-term crime prevention.

• Residents feeling safer.
• Improvements in public safety.
• Stronger partnerships.
• Public reporting.
• More people connected to treatment and recovery.
• Safer neighbourhoods.

I'm not running because I think everything is working. I'm running because I believe Winnipeg is facing a Neighbourhood Safety Crisis that requires urgent action.

I won't pretend a City Councillor can solve every problem alone.

My responsibility is to listen, build partnerships, earn support, advocate for practical solutions, and keep pushing for action.

Real change happens when residents, community organizations, City Hall, the Province of Manitoba, and the Government of Canada work together with urgency.

A safer Winnipeg is built through both enforcement and compassion, working together.

If elected, I will regularly report back on what I've heard, what I've asked City Hall to do, what action has been taken, what progress has been made, and what still needs to happen.

Let's Make Change Together.