Proven Advocacy

Real results, in Kingston and across Canada

I don't just talk about problems, I fix them. When I learned that credit card and retail loyalty points were set to expire on Canadians, taking hard-earned rewards away from families who had paid for them, I fought for a change in the law. That advocacy work reached Queen's Park and helped bring in protections that now stop those points from expiring, saving Canadians millions of dollars, and the effort was covered by CBC Marketplace and The National.

I have also taken on barriers to medical and disability access, at the local, provincial, and federal levels. I personally advocated to get hip resurfacing, a procedure and implant, approved first in Ontario and then across Canada, opening that option to patients who need it. Closer to home, I raised the issue of disability parking directly with government, and I am proud that my MP, Mark Gerretsen, presented my petition in the House of Commons, while my MPP, Ted Hsu, brought the same petition before the Ontario Legislature. A resident's vehicle is sometimes their accessibility aid, not a convenience, and that petition made that case at both levels of government.

Food security in Kingston has also been a personal priority of mine for years. Over the past four and a half years, I have helped facilitate and coordinate more than $580,000 in food and essentials for local families, including a recent 35,000-pound, roughly $170,000 shipment of Barilla Canada pasta delivered to Partners in Mission Food Bank. This work, alongside my broader advocacy, has been recognized through Canada's Chancellery of Honours, administered at Rideau Hall, where I was honoured with the King Charles III Coronation Medal. It's the same hands-on, results-first approach I intend to bring to City Council for District 7.