Elect Dave Welling · Mayor of Carling
My answers for the ratepayer associations’ all-candidates meeting
I want to be candid with ratepayers. Every number below is one I have already published, with its source, at davewelling.ca.
Where things stand
- Your voice has been taken from you. Meetings you can’t speak at. Minutes that record no dissent unless a member asks for it, by the Township’s own Procedure By-law. Recordings gone in 30 days.
- Council and Mayor, neutered. A Council that sees no financial statements during the year, and a Mayor who abstains rather than leads. Staff bring finished recommendations; Council waves them through.
- Overtaxed, over-processed, presumed guilty. 20.8% left over on our own operations every year, by design. Planning that drags and costs too much. And under AMPS, you must now prove you’re innocent — not the Township prove you’re guilty.
Why I am running
- 01 It started with floating cottages. Ratepayers raised it, and got “not our jurisdiction.” No answer is still an answer.
- 02 Then AMPS. They thought ratepayers would cave. We didn’t. They blinked. A win worth building on.
- 03 Then I kept reading. A month in the agendas, minutes and by-laws turned up bigger problems than the one that started it.
I hate injustice. It’s why I’ve mentored gang-involved and at-risk youth, and why I co-founded Omacan, a registered Canadian charity for street children in the Masaka region of Uganda. One person, being open and rallying others, can change what a system does to people.
My background
40 years in the fast-paced technology industry — as a leader, an executive always answering to shareholders and boards, and now a business development consultant to CEO’s in the industry on change and transformation. Today I mentor founders as a senior consultant to the Toronto Business Development Centre and to the City of Brampton’s BHive incubator for companies founded by new immigrants. That’s the same discipline I bring to the Mayor’s seat: 40 years of answering monthly and quarterly to stakeholders, and knowing the numbers!
How I volunteer in Carling
I co-founded Omacan, a Canadian charity right here from Carling, one of Canada’s smallest authorized for international development, serving street children and the extreme poor of Uganda’s Masaka region.
My promise
I promise you: by the end of my term —
- One Carling taxpayer — not seasonal, not local — services restored, for all according to the needs.
- Dumps open year-round, 7 days/week, 8 hrs/day — hours that work for you.
- Repair or replace any public water-access infrastructure not up to Township standards in the AMP, expand Marine 911, parking that works.
- Tax relief for any funds over-collected for no stated purpose.
- End the COVID-19 lockdowns: put Public back in Council meetings, in person again. Preserve a verbatim record and post it to YouTube, forever.
- Council and Mayor’s powers put back with Council and the Mayor — cleaning up our bad executive governance.
- Put Community back in Community Centre, like reopening the Carling Market.
And if I don’t deliver, fire me for good in the next election. Help me now by electing new councillors, too — the ones who made this mess can’t be the ones who fix it. And don’t even get me started on the pool.
Prepared for the ratepayer associations’ all-candidates meeting. Read the sources behind every issue, and get in touch, at davewelling.ca · 416-931-4999 · campaignformayor@davewelling.ca.
For further information on Dave Welling, please visit davewelling.ca