Menard D. Caissy: Vancouver should cap taxes

Mayoral candidate Menard D. Caissy on his plans for the future of Vancouver
 

I, Menard D. Caissy, will transform our city by first petitioning over 900 individuals (signatures and addresses, business cards, phone numbers) to create a law putting a cap on property/commercial taxes as of January 1, 2009. Leveraging taxes past January 1 is ridiculous.

I will and am bringing politics back to the people that actually work for a living. I’ve managed a moving company for nine years. These politicians don’t even talk to people aside from conventions, and set up corn starch politics with expensive dinners that with our global depression look ridiculous.

Every single business along the Canada Line, Main Street, Cambie Street, Commercial Drive, Robson Street--Gregor Robertson as MLA didn’t even accomplish 20 percent of this. Sick! I visited 20 businesses along Canada Line today!

I will reduce tuition for, rich or poor, all students in university, colleges by 50 percent! We must keep our students graduating.

Crime. Mandatory minimums on schedule two offences. Murderers shouldn’t be walking the streets of Vancouver! These gangsters shouldn’t be running our streets! Enough!

I have already got a number of daycare spaces. Hundreds announced by Harper just prior to the election. I petitioned over 2,200 homeless people and people along Robson Street, East Siders, and rich people, collectively working together to create a nationalized petition that actually changed politics--results no less.

I am working with all politicians locally and provincially and federally to get housing for the mentally ill, but not for adults that are homeless. Adults asking for housing from adults makes no sense; it’s pathetic. They can work. But I have lived in the Downtown Eastside for over nine years, nine months, nine days, and I tell them the same thing! I’ll be the guy in City Hall saying get out of our office, and they’ll listen.

 
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