The candidate questionnaire

Published before the answers. The first twenty-three questions went on this site before a single response arrived, so anyone can see what was asked, and judge whether it was asked fairly. Three questions on data centres were added on 15 September 2026, after eight candidates had answered; that is said again under their heading below, and every candidate was sent them on the same day. Answers are capped at 150 words each so profiles stay comparable and scannable.

Responses are printed verbatim and unedited. Nothing is summarised, shortened or interpreted, and no answer is scored.

Council adopted Milton's first new Official Plan in 30 years in June 2026, guiding land use through 2051. The plan is written — the 2026–2030 council decides how it is implemented, amended and defended.

1. Do you support the Official Plan as adopted? If not, what specifically would you seek to change?
2. Where in your ward do you believe higher density belongs — and where doesn't it?
3. When a development application conflicts with community opposition but complies with the Official Plan, how do you decide?

Milton has exceeded its provincial target pace toward 21,000 homes by 2031, and intensification near Milton GO is reshaping the core. The tension is rooftops versus everything that supports them.

4. Milton is hitting its housing targets. Is that the right target, too low, or too fast?
5. What is one concrete action council can take to improve attainability for first-time buyers and renters, not just supply volume?
6. Should Milton use tools like inclusionary zoning, pre-zoning around transit, or reduced parking minimums? Which, and where?

All-day, two-way GO service on the Milton line depends on Metrolinx and CN, while Milton Transit coverage lags newer neighbourhoods and congestion grows with population.

7. What, specifically, can a Milton council member do to advance all-day two-way GO service beyond passing motions?
8. Would you support increasing Milton Transit's budget and service hours, and how would you pay for it?
9. What is the single worst traffic pinch point in your ward, and what is your fix?

Fast growth means constant capital demand while provincial development-charge reductions squeeze the revenue that traditionally funded growth. Something has to give: taxes, debt, or service levels.

10. Growth-related revenue is shrinking. Rank your preference: higher property taxes, more debt, deferred projects, or reduced service levels — and defend it.
11. What tax increase range do you consider acceptable for 2027, and what would justify exceeding it?
12. Name one Town expenditure you would cut, or one you would add.

Milton Education Village broke ground in 2024, but schools, healthcare and childcare are largely provincial or regional files. Councils influence them through advocacy, land and partnerships.

13. Healthcare and schools are not municipal responsibilities, but residents feel the gaps locally. What is your advocacy plan, and how will residents measure whether it worked?
14. What is your position on the Milton Education Village's priorities and timeline?
15. What recreation or community facility gap would you prioritise next, and where?

Roughly half of Milton's geography is rural — Campbellville, Brookville, Moffat, the Niagara Escarpment. Aggregate operations, farmland preservation and rural servicing define these communities.

16. How should council balance aggregate and quarry operations against groundwater and community concerns?
17. What is your commitment to rural Milton on roads, internet, and service equity?
18. Should Milton's urban boundary expand further within this term? Under what conditions?

Strong mayor powers, council transparency and resident engagement are structural questions for whoever wins.

19. Would you use, or support the use of, strong mayor powers? Under what circumstances?
20. What is one specific change you would make to how council engages residents between elections?
21. What does Milton need more right now — continuity or change — and why are you the answer?

Mayor candidates also (22): How would you use the mayor's budget-proposal power differently than the status quo?

Mayor candidates also (23): What is your working relationship plan with Halton Region, or its successor structure given the provincial regional-governance review?

Regional Councillor candidates also (24): What Halton Region decision from this past term would you have voted differently on?

Regional Councillor candidates also (25): Regional priorities — water and wastewater capacity, policing costs, waste — pick the one you would champion.

Town Councillor candidates also (26): What is the first motion you would bring forward?

Town Councillor candidates also (27): Name a vote from the 2022–2026 term you disagreed with, and what you would have done instead.

Added on 15 September 2026, the day after council took up a motion for a one-year interim control by-law on new data centres. Eight candidates had answered the first twenty-three questions by then, so these three went to every candidate on the same day, and a candidate who answered before they existed is shown as pending on them, not silent. Milton has no zoning rule specific to data centres; developers have asked the grid operator for more than a thousand megawatts in the town.

28. Would you support large-scale data centres being developed in our municipality, and what would make you support or oppose a specific project?
29. How would you weigh the economic benefits of a data centre against its use of land, electricity, water, and other municipal infrastructure?
30. Should the municipality actively pursue data-centre investment, or only consider proposals as they come forward?

Trustees are elected on the same ballot but are not covered by this site or this questionnaire. They are separate bodies whose business this site holds no record of, and asking them a Milton council questionnaire would produce answers with no record to read them against.