MY PLATFORM
ACCOUNTABILITY YOU CAN SEE.
I promise accountability by building the system for it.
THE PLAN
Six ways you will see it working
Every commitment connects to something residents can watch, check, and question.
Accountability
Open information, honest answers, and systems that let residents see their City working. Not promises on paper: tools you can check yourself.
How It WorksPITA: Your Issues, Tracked
The Ward 8 Public Issue Tracker App. Report It. Map It. Track It. Get Answers. One complaint can be overlooked. A visible pattern cannot.
Open PITAPaper Ballots / Witness Your Vote
Restore the paper ballot choice before the 2026 election. And if municipalities continue without paper ballots, Witness Your Vote adds transparency.
Paper BallotsLower Taxes Through Responsible Spending
Cut the cost of government before asking taxpayers for more. Find waste, review management costs, and protect essential services.
The PlanIndependent Forensic Audit
An independent, professional review of how the City spends money, with findings reported publicly to the people who pay the bills.
Why an AuditMedia for the People
Do not make residents hunt for important public information. Bring the information to them: decisions, notices, and taxpayer facts.
The VisionTHE FULL PLATFORM
Every commitment, in detail
Hope Through Accountability
Steve's platform is built on a simple belief: people have more hope when government is open, accountable, and responsive.
- Plain-language budgets
- Public issue tracking
- Fair by-law enforcement
- Respect for property owners
- Roads and drainage treated as priorities
- Council meetings explained clearly
- Residents shown how to have their say
City Hall must remember who it serves. Council exists to represent the people, not ignore them.
Before City Hall asks families for more money, City Hall must show how it managed the money it already received.
Steve promises accountability by building the system for it.
Steve’s 2-Page Flyer
Steve’s 2-Page Campaign Flyer
The official 2-page campaign flyer: why Steve is running, his commitments, and how he will serve Ward 8.
Download Steve's CV
Steve Lesperance's full CV: more than 30 years of hands-on experience in web development, branding, marketing, business process analysis, product development, and public-facing digital tools.
CV updated 2026-08-10
THE TAX PROMISE
Not just stop tax hikes. Let’s lower taxes.
Not just stopping tax hikes — working to lower the tax burden on residents.
Steve Lesperance is committed to more than slowing down the continual tax increases. He will push for spending review, stronger accountability, better procurement, smarter systems, and practical cost-cutting to help lower the tax burden on residents.
This does not mean cutting the essential front-line services residents rely on. It means finding waste, duplication, poor systems, unnecessary spending, and expensive processes that taxpayers should not have to carry.
Steve Lesperance will push for a serious spending review, stronger accountability, better procurement, smarter systems, and practical cost-cutting to help lower the tax burden on residents.
Any tax reduction requires Council support, budget review, and responsible financial decisions.
How Steve will push for it
- Review spending line by line
- Challenge waste and duplication
- Demand better value from contracts and software systems
- Protect essential front-line services
- Make City spending easier for residents to understand
- Publish plain-language data and charts
- Use the Issue Tracker to show where service problems are happening
- Push for accountability before asking taxpayers for more
Report it. Map it. Track it. Cut the waste. Lower the taxes.
The Ward 8 Public Issue Tracker is not just an issue-reporting tool. It is part of a larger accountability plan. When residents report problems, patterns become visible. When patterns become visible, Council can ask better questions. When spending and service problems are tracked, taxpayers have a stronger case for change.
Steve promises accountability by building the system for it.