Mississauga Matters: City outlines its priorities and recommendations ahead of the 2025 federal election

A federal election has been called with election day scheduled for Monday, April 28, 2025. With less than a month until voters getting ready to head to the polls, the City of Mississauga has launched its renewed advocacy campaign – Mississauga Matters.

About Mississauga Matters

The City’s Mississauga Matters campaign ensures that all federal candidates and major political parties recognize the significant role Mississauga plays as Canada’s seventh-largest city. The campaign focuses on three primary pillars: getting housing built, keeping Mississauga affordable for all and managing the effects of American tariffs on Mississauga’s economy.

The priorities outlined within the campaign aim to strengthen the city and ensure stable funding for ongoing challenges like getting housing built quickly, a new municipal growth framework for cities, building new transit infrastructure and investing in integrated disaster mitigation.

While the City and the federal government have tackled several important issues together, Mississauga is dedicated to advocating for the needs of its residents. The 2025 Mississauga Matters campaign focuses on the following priorities:

Getting housing built: Leveraging housing-enabling infrastructure

• Transit expansion – all-day, two-way GO service for the Milton GO Rail Corridor, which is projected to serve up to 94,000 passengers by 2041.
• Investing in sustainable public transit – building a new transit facility that will enable the expansion of public transit in Mississauga.
• Investing in integrated disaster mitigation to enhance flood mitigation efforts and expand critical housing-enabling infrastructure.

Keeping Mississauga affordable for all

• Addressing the housing crisis demands with feedback from our partnership with more than 30 experts from Ontario’s leading private and not-for-profit housing developers, who have developed actionable solutions. In July 2024, Mississauga launched the Mayor’s Housing Task Force with private and non-profit representatives to address housing supply challenges, building on the 2023 Housing Action Plan with strategic recommendations in development charges, building standards, zoning and affordable housing funding.
• Getting housing built quickly by addressing the housing supply and affordability crisis in Mississauga.
• Addressing Mississauga’s food insecurity crisis as an emergency in Ontario and across Canada.
• A new municipal growth framework for municipalities across Canada that ensures municipalities can access long-term, predictable funding.

American trade tariffs and effects on Mississauga’s economy

• Mississauga is urging the federal government to work collaboratively with municipalities and provinces to mitigate the economic fallout of tariffs.
• Mississauga leaders are calling for all levels of government to work together to support Canadian businesses and ensure economic stability during this period of uncertainty.

Mississauga Matters will run throughout the duration of the federal election as a way for residents to engage with the priorities that affect their lives ahead of voting day.

The City is encouraging residents to join the conversation on social media and reach out to local candidates using the #MississaugaMatters hashtag.

For more information on Mississauga’s federal election priorities, please visit mississauga.ca/matters.

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“Municipalities, like Mississauga, are central to Canada’s success. The City of Mississauga is a thriving, diverse, and rapidly growing municipality, contributing more than $60 billion annually to Canada’s GDP. By working together with the Canadian government, Council’s goal is to move Mississauga forward and strengthen investments in transit, housing, infrastructure and climate resilience while also taking on challenges like tariffs and the economy. I am committed to advancing our City’s priorities – because when Mississauga thrives, all of Canada thrives.”
– Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish

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