William Turnbull Asks:
Why do you want to be elected?
The simple reason is because I believe I have something to contribute to the ongoing conversation on how we grow our community.
There are issues I have been writing about for years as a reporter that I want to help tackle and hopefully move forward. Those include adequate transit for all areas of our city, dealing with vacant land that has spent years with for sale signs on it with no takers. There must be a reason for this and I’d like to help identify it and address it.
More importantly, though, I’m running because of how I view the role of a city councillor. It’s really being a public servant and that means not waiting for those who you serve to contact you on issues or to provide input but to seek it out. It means not waiting for public hearings but gather in the neighbourhood coffee shops or community centres to ask questions but, more importantly, to listen to the answers.
I’ve been doing that for decades in one role — and believe it’s now important to do it in a true public service way