Vote Nathan Parker

This city isn't working, and we need to fix it.

If you've seen other candidate's election materials then you've probably seen their face plastered across a sign or pamphlet wearing a nice suit with a big phony politician smile. Personally, I don't understand what they're smiling about when there are so many glaring issues with our city. Rent is out of control. Hundreds of working people are living in tents and on the streets. Our public transportation is unreliable and underdeveloped. The cost of living is rising far faster than the rate of wages. People are struggling to find decent jobs. Students come to study here for four years and leave, because they can't apply their degrees if they stay. The local environment is in peril, and the politicians I'm opposing have printed out big plastic signs and laminated pamphlets to tell you how much they care about it. It's dishonest and disgraceful.

This city should be working for you.

I love this city, but I am not blind to its problems and I refuse to pretend they don't exist. These are all issues that the municipal government can and should address, and the way to do that is to elect people who know the struggles and hardships regular Haligonians deal with every day, and will work to fix them. We don't need to elect more business people in nice suits with big fake smiles who will just maximize profit for development companies and take the side of wealthy landlords over workers and families who are just trying to get by. 

You are not powerless to change the way the government works, and the government is not powerless to address the city-wide issues that working class individuals and families face. I want you to wield me as a brick, and throw me through the window of city hall. Let's tell them to get their act together and start implementing real, positive change in this city. Show them that the people of Halifax don't just deserve that change, they demand it. Send city council the message that they can't just ignore us and show up to local photo ops every four years, asking for votes to keep on doing nothing.