Campaign Signs

I am working to get more of my lawn signs distributed throughout the city. Like most things, there was an initial rush, but I still have some signs left.

If you’d like to support my platform, please get in touch through my website (chrisoramforcouncil.ca) or by email at coram@sympatico.ca. I’m particularly hoping to connect with more residents in the south end who can help by putting up a sign.

Your support means a great deal, and I’m committed to doing the work required to move Sarnia forward if elected.

Platform:

• Rebuild capital reserves rather than using them to offset taxes

• Examine what other municipalities are doing to encourage growth - (Grants, Strategic Borrowing, Smarter Financial Planning, Innovative thinking for the Future)

• Improve infrastructure maintenance, reliability, and expansion to support existing industry, and encourage new investment

• Enhance Sarnia's efforts to attract new business/industry

• Community consultation to reduce controversy

• Apply clear forward-looking approaches to issues like the unhoused, supportive housing and all the involved social issues that require cooperation between all levels of government to address;

• Investigate the best strategy for enacting new zoning by-laws to address homeless shelters and supportive housing

• Ensure issues such as open drug use and the loitering and littering that go along with it are addressed by the police service;

• Use measured austerity to stabilize long-term finances (No more "Zero Debt" illusion)

• Protect frontline services while maintaining sustainable budgets

• Advocate for downtown revitalization, and other such commercial areas in the city

• Encourage affordable new housing

The list is long, but:

The difficulty of a goal should never diminish the ambition to achieve it.