A whirlwind visit to Ottawa this week has secured for Mississauga — and Peel Region — some much-needed cash for housing from the provincial government, the city’s mayor says.

While not revealing the specific amount of funding headed to Mississauga and Peel, Mayor Carolyn Parrish said on Tuesday the City of Mississauga’s delegation was “well received” at the 2026 Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference.

Mississauga Deputy Mayor and Ward 8 Coun. Matt Mahoney, Ward 3 Coun. Chris Fonseca, City Manager Geoff Wright and other members of the city’s senior leadership team joined Parrish in meeting with Ontario cabinet ministers, opposition party leaders, MPPs and industry stakeholders to discuss and advocate for Mississauga’s priorities.

Participating in some 10 meetings over two days in the nation’s capital at the annual conference, Parrish said in an update on social media the experience was “kind of like speed lobbying.”

She added, “we were well received and our requests are being answered with two large grants — can’t report amounts yet — to Mississauga and to Peel in response to our cutting development charges and other housing incentives.”

City of Mississauga officials, including Mayor Carolyn Parrish, met this week with various provincial cabinet ministers in Ottawa. (Photo: City of Mississauga)

Beyond affordable housing, other priorities tabled by Mississauga’s delegation this week included strengthening public transit, supporting economic growth and trade resilience, addressing flood prevention and infrastructure needs, securing a fair police funding formula in Peel, and investing in arts, culture and sport infrastructure, city officials said.

In addition, city officials also raised the matter of safety related to the use of electric scooters in Mississauga — an issue of concern that’s been discussed many times at city council the past two years.

Parrish said Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria met with the Mississauga delegation and “laid out plans to address many of the concerns about electric scooters shared by police officers, medical practitioners, many city councillors and the team.”

As far as policing is concerned, Mississauga has been pushing for years to have the Peel Regional Police funding formula changed. The mayor and councillors have long described the current deal as being grossly unfair to Canada’s seventh-largest city and its residents.

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Following the release of the 2025 Peel police budget early last year, Parrish described it in a letter to the province at the time as “… a most egregious burden on Mississauga taxpayers. Peel Regional Police have presented us with a 2025 budget increase of $144 million, or 23.3 per cent. Mississauga will again carry 62 per cent of the cost while Brampton pays only 38 per cent, despite almost identical populations.”


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