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Dipika Damerla

Ward 7 City Councillor

First elected to City Council in 2018
Previously represented Mississauga East-Cooksville as the Member of Provincial Parliament where she served as Ontario’s Associate Minister of Health and Long Term Care and Minister of Senior Affairs
Prior to politics, Damerla worked in corporate banking and ran a small business in Mississauga

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Dipika Damerla’s Priority Issues

Make life affordable

Improve city services:

Introduce a Pothole Repari Guarantee so that arterial road potholes are repaired in 4 days and collector road holes within 7. Also launch a new online tracking system along with a monthly dashboard to show the City’s performance

Fight crime and protect residents:

Protect residents from bad landlords, unfair condo rules, unsafe streets and ensure police show up when residents need them.

Respect the taxpayer:

Ensure that residents get a detailed breakdown of where their property taxes are going (currently exists on her website), work towards an invoice style insert that comes with your property tax bill

Dipika’s Answers: Muslims & Islamophobia

How will you strengthen relationships and trust between police services and Muslim communities?

How will you work with mosques, Islamic schools, and Muslim organizations to improve community safety and emergency preparedness?

What steps will you take to address Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination?

How will you ensure Muslim residents and community organizations have a meaningful voice in municipal decision-making?

How will you support Muslim organizations that provide community services, settlement support, youth programming, food assistance, and other essential services?

How can the city provide a more nuanced approach to zoning for religious institutions (such as mosques) given their practices, cultures and needs differ?

What do you think is the greatest problem the ward is facing, and how do you plan to address it?

Dipika in the Media

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