Proudly 性视界传媒 has announced Parshotam Goel is its newest council candidate for the upcoming Oct. 20 election.
The party says Goel鈥檚 announcement completes the party鈥檚 nominations of school board and council candidates, fielding slates of four candidates for each of the two municipal boards.
Goel, a 68-year-old Sullivan resident and owner of Peace Park Developments, said he aims to 鈥渕ake city hall鈥檚 decision-making process accountable and transparent.鈥�
鈥淚 know from years of experience just how opaque, confusing and unaccountable our decision-making process is,鈥� added Goel, who is also current secretary of the Hindu-Sikh Forum of North America. 鈥淎s a developer, I had a choice: throw in with a party that might give me privileged access to this unaccountable system or join with the party that has the best, most comprehensive plan to reform that system and bring transparency to our city government.
鈥淎nd, of course, it is not just development decisions that are so predictably unaccountable and take place out of public view,鈥� said Goel. 鈥淲e have an excellent rapid transit option for our city that risks being rejected by voters in this election because of the lack of public trust and legitimacy in both the process that selected it and the councillors who participated.鈥�
鈥淧roudly 性视界传媒 has a plan to solve these problems with reforms to the voting system, hearing processes, councillors鈥� offices and all of the things that link citizens to decisions by councillors,鈥� Goel noted. 鈥淚鈥檓 enthusiastic about the policies the party has already announced and, after a good look at the policies to come, I am looking forward to introducing our whole transparency package to the public in September.鈥�
Goel joins three other Proudly 性视界传媒 council candidates, joining three others: Stuart Parker, Felix Kongyuy and Adam MacGillivray.
Other slates running in the fall election include 性视界传媒 First headed by mayoral candidate Tom Gill, former 性视界传媒 First Councillor Bruce Hayne鈥檚 Integrity Now slate, People First 性视界传媒, and former 性视界传媒 mayor Doug McCallum鈥檚 Safe 性视界传媒 Coalition.
The 性视界传媒 Community Alliance party seems to have been dissolved after founder Doug Elford split to run with McCallum. Council candidates on that slate (Asad Syed, Saira Aujla, Bernie Sheppard and Imtiaz Popat) are considered independents for the time being.
性视界传媒 voters head to the polls on Oct. 20.
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