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<\/p>\nOne day after a decisive victory, Alvin Tedjo announced his priorities as the next mayor of Mississauga, saying he will focus on affordability, crime, housing, transportation and the economy.<\/p>\n
“We have put forward practical solutions that will make a difference in people’s lives. Now it’s time to put those solutions into action,” Tedjo told reporters outside Mississauga city hall on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Over the next four years, I’m committed to living up to the extraordinary trust that has been placed in me by my fellow residents. It is beyond a doubt the honour of a lifetime to be elected the next mayor of Mississauga and building that better future for every single resident.”<\/p>\n
Tedjo, councillor of Ward 2 since 2022, defeated incumbent Carolyn Parrish and former mayor Bonnie Crombie in a closely watched mayoral race on Monday. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2024, finishing second behind Parrish.<\/p>\n
According to 2026 unofficial results, Tedjo secured 74,479 votes (39.2 per cent), ahead of Parrish with 51,853 votes (27.3 per cent) and Crombie with 43,191 (22.7 per cent).<\/p>\n
On Monday night, Tedjo said he spoke to Parrish and Crombie and thanked them for their years of service to the city.<\/p>\n
Tedjo wants to freeze property taxes ‘right now’<\/p>\n
Tedjo said Tuesday he plans to focus on creating the city’s budget in consultation with council in his first 100 days as mayor.<\/p>\n
He also said he wants to freeze property taxes “right now” in the current budget cycle. Property taxes have increased 30 per cent in the last four years, he said.<\/p>\n
Tedjo promised on his website that he would freeze property taxes for two years for all residents. He said the freeze would be achieved by “cutting waste, implementing a hiring freeze and making sure that the city is not adding new spending.”<\/p>\n
Residents have made it clear that affordability is their number one concern, he said.<\/p>\n
A report by Food Banks Mississauga, released in September, said roughly 43,000 residents used its food banks more than 513,000 times in the past year.<\/p>\n
“That shows me and it shows the public that we have a much more unaffordable city and a much bigger problem when it comes to the cost of living,” he said.<\/p>\n
Plan in works to help small businesses<\/p>\n
Tedjo said he also has a plan to help small businesses get up and running quickly and that involves creating conditions to expedite permits.<\/p>\n
“That’s something that we’re going to get working on right away. It’s going to take a little bit of time to get there, obviously, but we are going to be getting to work on that as soon as we can,” he said.<\/p>\n
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According to unofficial results, Alvin Tedjo secured 74,479 votes (39.2%), ahead of Carolyn Parrish with 51,853 votes (27.3%) and Bonnie Crombie with 43,191 (22.7%). (Laura Pederson\/CBC)<\/p>\n
On the provincial front, he said he was scheduled to talk to Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday and he looks forward to working with him.<\/p>\n
“We do have a number of alignments when it comes to building more housing, making sure that cities are set up for economic development. And when we’re facing the challenge that we’re facing with the world, with the United States, Mississauga can be that solution.”<\/p>\n
Campaign focused on policies, not personalities<\/p>\n
As for his victory, he said his campaign was focused on policies, not personalities.<\/p>\n
“It was an incredible journey,” he said.<\/p>\n
“What we focused on was building a team that could touch every corner of the city … so that we could truly engage with them on a real level before we created our platform, so that we had all the advice and all the input that we needed from city residents to create something that they could be proud of.”<\/p>\n
Tedjo said his team took nothing for granted. At mayoral debates, Parish and Crombie lashed out at each other and Tedjo said he thinks their public feud prompted voters to look at his “more positive and more constructive” campaign.<\/p>\n
“I think people were quite bothered by the personal attacks,” he said. “It certainly gave us an opportunity for people to see the positive plan.”<\/p>\n
Tedjo’s inauguration is set to place in mid-November.<\/p>\n
Quito Maggi, president and CEO of Mainstreet Research, said voters were looking for a change and Tedjo’s campaign was clear in its platform, messaging and communications.<\/p>\n
“Alvin \u2014 he ran the best campaign by far,” Maggi said. “I was very impressed … Congratulations to Alvin for winning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after a decisive victory, Alvin Tedjo announced his priorities as the next mayor of Mississauga, saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-948922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}