Aislinn’s 5 Point Plan
Aislinn’s five point plan for Kitchener Centre
As a former school social worker and city councillor, and as your MPP, Aislinn has spent time speaking with the people of Kitchener, listening and learning about the challenges they’re facing – rising prices, the housing crisis, access to healthcare, education, and childcare – issues that affect everyone.
As the MPP for Kitchener Centre, Aislinn will continue to be a strong, independent voice, always putting her community first while fighting for the priorities that will help create a more liveable and affordable Kitchener.
Housing
Remove barriers to the construction of starter homes and permanently affordable rentals within existing neighbourhoods so people can access homes they can afford in the communities they love without paving over farmland and green spaces. Protect tenants by strengthening rules and penalties for renovictions and bad faith evictions, implementing vacancy control to limit rent increases between tenancies and reinstating year-over-year rent controls on all units to keep apartments affordable.
Childcare
Adopt a two-pronged strategy to give parents better access to reliable, affordable care for their kids: funding for converting under-utilized municipal and not-for-profit buildings into day-care centres; and increase wages for child care workers and create a publicly funded wage grid to attract and return ECEs to the profession to create 5000 more affordable spaces.
Healthcare
Ensure everyone in Kitchener has a family doctor or nurse practitioner in 3-4 years by reducing administrative burden, expanding team based care, and adding more medical school spots.
Education
Put students first with real caps on class sizes, hire more EAs, and increase funding to ensure that students with special needs and their families have access to the supports they need at school and at home.
Transit
Implement all-day two-way GO service and give municipalities new revenue tools to pay for improved and expanded local and regional transit.
