Mark Daly

Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them

• Financial responsibility: control spending and taxes. He cites a 22.8% tax increase over four years against roughly 9% inflation, the C.D. Howe Institute’s report-card grades for Hamilton and the delay in the 2025 financial statements; he points to his experience as a high school principal managing budgets and audits.
• Roads, infrastructure and safe pedestrian pathways: roads are a basic expectation of city government, and he cites CAA ranking a Hamilton road as Ontario’s worst in seven of the last nine years.

Two changes to improve City services

• Quality and cost controls at City Hall.
• Accountable, clear service standards: let residents rate services, set targets and compare Hamilton with similar cities and with its own past performance.

Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton

• Infrastructure that residents can see their tax dollars paying for (crosswalks, roads, sidewalks, park maintenance), with accountability for results.
• Look at what other cities have done that has worked on homelessness, addiction and poverty downtown, and implement it; he says there are no easy solutions.

Two priorities for Ward 7

• Pedestrian safety and roads in Ward 7: repair crosswalks he calls unsafe (e.g. Limeridge at Upper Sherman and at Mohawk, Mohawk across from Our Lady of Lourdes), plus missing sidewalks on Upper Wellington and Rymal.
• Keep property taxes under control.

Three words for a four-year term (looking back from September 2030)

Honest, caring, effective.