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
Ward 11's local economy is failing to connect young talent with opportunity. Youth unemployment is high, young professionals leave to launch their careers somewhere else, and the small businesses that could hire them are stuck waiting on City Hall's slow permitting.
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, starting with procurement bylaws that require a quota of local co-op students and apprentices on city contracts.
Paid internships across city departments
Project-based pipelines at zero cost to taxpayers.
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.
A Business Navigator Program
A fast track through city red tape for the small businesses that create local jobs.
The problem
Streetsville's historic core sets the standard for a well-maintained, well-funded neighbourhood, and every corner of Ward 11 deserves the same. Meadowvale and Levi Creek have waited long enough. Rusted playgrounds, cracked basketball courts, faded crosswalks and deteriorating trails are not acceptable in a ward that pays its taxes.
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
A public accounting of where the ward's maintenance money actually goes.
A guaranteed minimum share
Legally direct at least 45% of the ward's discretionary capital maintenance funds to neighbourhoods outside the historic centre.
Annual public reporting
Every year, in plain numbers, so the commitment can be checked.
Minimum guarantee
The minimum share of Ward 11's discretionary capital maintenance funds Dev will fight to direct to the neighbourhoods outside the historic centre.
Set how
Written into law, not left to discretion
Checked when
Reported in plain numbers, every year
Who it reaches
Meadowvale, Levi Creek and the wider ward
The problem
Every family in Ward 11 deserves to feel safe on their street. Residential roads are being used as high-speed bypass routes, property crime is rising, and transit is unreliable outside work hours, which leaves many residents, especially newer immigrant families, without reliable access to GO Transit.
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 planReal enforcement
Bylaw enforcement and Peel Police coordination on auto theft and property crime.
Traffic calming that works
Split speed cushions, raised sidewalks near schools, and pedestrian crossing beacons at schools and parks.
Better MiWay service
Reliable routes to Meadowvale and Streetsville, including outside working hours.
A Safe Streets program
Better lighting and quick-response maintenance across the ward.
The Gateway Program
Championing the Gateway Program as Ward 11's central community safety initiative.
And two more
Two further commitments
Further commitment
Vic Johnston and River Grove are the ward's only community centres, which leaves Meadowvale and the Derry area without one. Dev will push to expand youth and senior programming at the existing centres, activate local parks for structured programming, and fight for a new Meadowvale community centre as a longer-term commitment.
Further commitment
The current budget has suppressed tax increases by slashing the capital infrastructure levy and freezing fire safety programs, deferring costs into a 2027 tax spike. That is not fiscal responsibility, it is an election trick at residents' expense. Dev commits to full spending transparency, cutting real administrative waste (redundant management roles, unnecessary software contracts, vanity projects), and a legally binding Service Level Guarantee during the download of water and waste services from Peel Region.
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.