Jobs

Creating good paying jobs in this city will require working harder and smarter. Silicone valley or steel factories are not coming to save us. We will need to do it ourselves. First, a clean bright city with working infrastructure - that's jobs!

We need to make the city more livable & make an environment that will attract investors & professionals that will bring good opportunities. Making this city more livable includes initiatives such as:

• better governance

• accountability and transparency

• debt-reduction

• significant repair to infrastructure

• investment in arts & culture

• preservation of heritage assets

• more effective modern transit

• building smart streets (streets made with vehicles, buses, bicycles and pedestrians in-mind)

• Light Rapid Transit (LRT)

• affordable housing

• homeless shelters, transitional housing, emergency psychiatric services

We will need to strike a balance between outside investment (too much of which has driven-up prices and real estate too fast) & a smarter locally-driven economy.

Local initiatives & job opportunities exist in:

• growing tourism

• expanding the food industries

• more business parks

• assisting in setting-up a science park

• investment in arts & culture

• liberlising the government constraints on local business expansions

• tax incentives for new businesses

• infrastructure improvement work

• new capital projects

• establishing a film commission

In the short-term, we could consider partnering more with Hamilton to bridge the gap and broaden regional job opportunities. Hamilton is a closer commute and shares a lot of the same issues and circumstances as we do in-comparison to Toronto.