Strong communities combine to achieve a sustainable, prosperous and vibrant city only when decisions are guided by a long-term vision that puts people first. We are currently in a time of boom when people are moving to our city out of economic necessity. We must not waste this opportunity. Our long term prosperity depends on building a city that people will want to live in even when the boom subsides. This means making choices with eye to the longer future and not just short term panic.

We deserve a City Council that believes in a long-term vision for the future. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to build a city that, in ten or twenty years, will live up to the values and dreams we set today.

City Council must have the courage to articulate a long-term vision and the determination to stand by it. Far too much planning in the past ten years has been handled in a random and indecisive fashion. Either we don't plan or we don't adhere to the plans we have made.

Edmonton is currently in a period of economic growth, which provides us with a golden opportunity to make the right choices now, to set the plans in motion that will guide us.