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MEET WARD 15 COUNCIL CANDIDATE SUMARIA WAQUAR

NAME: Sumaira Waqar

OCCUPATION: Home facilitator/community support worker at HIPPY Halton, teacher assistant at Niagara College and team leader at Hamilton Police Victim Service Branch

WHAT WARD DO YOU LIVE IN?: Ward 15

CONTACT INFORMATION: sumairawaqar.ca | sumairawaqar.ws@gmail.com

POSITION YOU ARE RUNNING FOR: Councillor, Ward 15

PREVIOUS POLITICAL EXPERIENCE: None

WHY HAVE YOU DECIDED TO RUN?: I have a passion to help my community and contribute by any means. I want to be a person who can help Ward 15 residents to raise all their concerns and be the strong voice for making decisions that affect the infrastructure, traffic and safety, and care of seniors and youth in our community.

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 3 ISSUES?:

Overall infrastructure, traffic and transit, and safety and accessibility

IF ELECTED, HOW DO YOU PLAN TO ACHIEVE YOUR PRIORITIES?: I will achieve priorities in Ward 15 by giving residents access to information, transparency and involving them to monitor the municipal government's performance in the progress of solving the issues. Also, I will take the responsibility for multimillion-dollar projects and allocate money and budget to the things that matter to my community.

MUNICIPAL ELECTION

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