Values
What Dev stands for
Ward 11 doesn't need another politician. It needs someone who has done the homework, understands the community, and will fight to get things done.
Values
Ward 11 doesn't need another politician. It needs someone who has done the homework, understands the community, and will fight to get things done.
The problem
Youth unemployment is at its worst level since 2010 — in the Toronto region, roughly one in five young people in the job market can't find work. Ward 11's young talent is leaving to start careers somewhere else, while the city signs major contracts every year that could be training them right here.
Why it's personal
Young people here are not short on ambition. They are short on opportunity. With jobs and resources harder to reach, too many feel like the future is already out of reach. Dev founded a province-wide student group at McMaster and has worked in policy and government, and he believes the next generation should not be preparing to lead someday. They should be leading now.
The next generation should not be preparing to lead someday. They should be leading now.
What Dev will push for
The PlanThe Mississauga Works Plan
Turning the city's purchasing power into local jobs: bonus points on major city contracts for bidders who hire students and apprentices from registered Ontario co-op and apprenticeship programs. Modeled on Toronto's program, piloted first, then scaled.
Paid Co-ops Across City Departments
Six to ten paid, four-month, field-based placements a year — budgeted in the open and partly offset by federal work-integrated-learning subsidies.
Classroom-to-City Projects
Course-embedded projects with UTM and Sheridan on the CityStudio model, proven in ten-plus Canadian cities. Students earn credit, the city gets real work done, and the wage cost is zero.
Recreation Programs That Pay Students
Self-sustaining youth and senior programming in schools and civic spaces at zero capital rent, funded by enrolment fees, staffed by paid sports-rec, education and kinesiology students.
One Front Door
One clear point of contact for student placements — powered by the city's existing economic development and HR teams, not new bureaucracy — plus a public seasonal catalogue of city projects and a standing quarterly table with UTM and Sheridan.
The problem
Streetsville's historic core sets the standard for a well-maintained neighbourhood — and every corner of Ward 11 deserves the same, from Credit Mills and Meadowvale Village to Meadowvale South, Credit Valley, Levi Creek and the Business Park. Residents point to worn playgrounds, cracked courts and faded crosswalks — and today, nobody can see where the ward's maintenance money actually goes. Dev's answer isn't louder complaining. It's a public scoring system.
Why it's personal
Dev grew up here. He didn't learn this community from a briefing note, he lived it. The families across this ward, not just the ones in the historic core, are his neighbours, and fighting for Meadowvale and Levi Creek is fighting for the same streets he has always called home.
What Dev will push for
The PlanA Ward 11 Park and Infrastructure Equity Audit
In the first 90 days: every park in the ward scored in the open on condition, 1 to 5, with distance from the historic cores breaking ties — built on data city staff already collect.
A Second Audit for Roads
A separate motion applying the same equity lens to Ward 11's share of road resurfacing and lighting, using the pavement condition data the province already requires the city to track.
A Fair-Share Floor
Once the audit produces real numbers: a minimum annual share of maintenance funding for the neighbourhoods outside the historic cores — set by the data, adopted by council vote.
Annual Public Reporting
Every year, in plain numbers, so the commitment can be checked.
The ranking rule
Every park and road in Ward 11 scored on condition, 1 (excellent) to 5 (critical). Worst condition always goes first — and when two assets tie, the one farther from the historic cores wins the spot, because those residents have fewer well-kept options close by. In public, on a list anyone can check.
Set how
Condition first — distance only breaks the tie
Checked when
Ranked and published every year, in plain numbers
Who it reaches
All seven neighbourhoods of Ward 11
The problem
Every family in Ward 11 deserves to feel safe on their street. Residential roads still get used as high-speed cut-throughs, Ontario switched off school-zone speed cameras in late 2025, and while auto theft is finally falling, it remains roughly double pre-pandemic levels. Dark streets, faded crossings and cut-through traffic shouldn't be things residents simply learn to live with.
Why it's personal
Dev has spent his life showing up for people who needed someone in their corner, including a stretch working hands-on with homeless and vulnerable populations in South Africa. He carries that into how he leads, because no one in this community should feel unsafe or overlooked.
No one in this community should feel unsafe or overlooked.
What Dev will push for
The PlanSchool Zones First
The province banned school-zone speed cameras; the City's funded replacement — speed humps, flashing beacons, fresh markings — is rolling out now. Dev will make sure every Ward 11 school is assessed and gets its fair share of that rollout, based on need.
Traffic Calming That Works
Split speed cushions, raised crossings and pedestrian beacons at schools and parks — plus fast-tracked Slow Streets requests for cut-through streets under Vision Zero.
Honest Policing Advocacy
Raising Ward 11 auto-theft and property-crime numbers at Regional Council and the Police Services Board, publishing that data for residents, and promoting Peel Police's own prevention tools.
A Safe Streets Program
Better lighting and quick-response maintenance across the ward — prioritized by the same public audit from Pillar 02, so the darkest streets get fixed first.
And two more
TWO FURTHER COMMITMENTS
Further commitment
Demand for recreation programs is outrunning supply. Citywide, waitlists for popular swim programs grew nearly 400% in three years, and the City's own 15,000-person survey found the top barrier is programs not running at times people can make. Dev's plan doesn't wait for a new building: a 100-day inventory of every underused city-owned room in the ward, joint-use agreements that open school gyms after 4 p.m., and self-funding programs priced to cover their own instructors — with a built-in subsidy for low-income families. The long-term push for a Meadowvale-area community centre goes into the City's 10-year capital plan.
Further commitment
In 2026, council paused the City's 3% infrastructure levy and 1% fire-program levy to soften the tax bill — deferring $259 million in repairs and setting up a catch-up moment in 2027. Dev won't pretend that bill doesn't exist. If elected, he'll vote to restore the repair levies as the City Treasurer recommends, publish the math in advance, and cushion it with real consolidation savings from the services Mississauga is inheriting from Peel — starting with the regional roads it took over this July. Add written service standards for those roads and for waste collection before its 2027 handover, quarterly plain-language spending reports, and an annual Ward 11 'Where Your Dollar Went' report.
Join the movement
Ward 11's young people are done being told to wait their turn. See what Dev is building, and lend a hand if it is for you.