The 2010 municipal election has put Oakville at a crossroads, as a long time resident and voter I have been following the race for Mayor closely.
In reviewing the candidates for mayor I keep coming back to Ann Mulvale and her campaign tag line, “Oakville needs Ann Mulvale.”
Why do we need her back? The former mayor disappeared for four years from the public eye and all of sudden she wants her old job back. Mulvale lost in 2006 for a reason.
For a self appointed guardian of the public purse Mulvale complained about spending at Town Hall. My question, why set up a campaign headquarters in some of the most expensive retail space at the corner of Trafalgar and Lakeshore downtown, it does send out the wrong message in my mind.
In the past four years under Mayor Burton I have seen Oakville take a big leap forward, in terms of creating an official plan, caught up on the infrastructure deficit and led the council and town along with C4CA to get the TransCanada power plant project killed by Queens Park.
Courtesy my involvement with the arts community I spoke in front of the budget committee and Town Council on a few occasions and I found the meetings to be very well managed under Mayor Burton. The talk of council being out of control is spin on Ms. Mulvale, nothing more.
Speaking of spin, Mulvale wants to pay for new hospital through developer charges. When I last checked you can’t do that in the province of Ontario. If it were legal, we would need over 300 thousand new houses to make it work. It would be difficult when there is only room for 60 thousand.
The big question I ask of my fellow residents, why do you want to turn back the clock when so much has been accomplished? I don’t think Oakville needs Ann Mulvale, we have great council with Mayor Burton and I don’t think she is up to the job.
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