Asher Shahzad
Kitchener
Bringing Transparency, Accountability, Affordable Living And Common Sense Back To City Hall
Kitchener as a whole for that matter, is in a critical stage of growth and development. We need to have leadership who will get the job done while representing the needs of the residents.
Vision & Mission
Urgent need to have some common sense back at City Hall
Kitchener is a rapidly growing community. With people of all ages calling this great neighborhood home, I strive to ensure your voice is heard around the council table. Your issues are what matters to me. We are at a very crucial stage as a City. We have paid quite debts since 2012 till 2020, still under debts and looks like 2022-23 it will climb more again. 2020 alone, we paid quite in debt payments. City should focus on in addressing housing and homelessness. Money that we can use to better serve our community. We need to be very strategic in our decision making and fund the projects that really make sense and we need now. We are overspending on many projects that we can hold off but not spending on the projects that are way overdue in our wards. Kitchener Ward 2 road repair projects are overdue for a while and we need them to fund these projects as soon as possible. We need to start treating tax payer’s hard earned dollars as our own and not use taxpayer’s as a blank cheque. I am fully committed to serve you as a councilor. By the way with my background, experience and knowledge. I will be your strong voice at the City hall. I will ensure that we bring accountability, transparency, and much needed common sense at City Hall. We need to ensure that we find innovating ways to better serve our community and build Kitchener for our next generation.
I am the candidate running that has over 20 years of experience of providing service to community in different roles, therefore understand the working and know the efficiencies that we need. Also I am the candidate that has leadership and community work experience with local organizations for last 20 years. I’m excited to see you at doors, at community events and talk on phone! throughout my campaign, I hope that I can earn your respect, trust and vote.

Improving Kitchener for every Citizen
- Moving Kitchener Forward
- Protect our Neighbours, women safety, partner violence, social integrity, street nuisance, crime
- Affordable Housing, housing for first time homebuyer, students’ residence/hostels
- Improved Infrastructure; roads, schools, transportation, health care, business, environment
- Social Justice, rejection of systematic racism and control of gentrification
- Respect for diversity, recognition and Intercultural connections and Integration
- Communal living Centers for Seniors and singles
Lot of candidates know what to fix, but very few know how
Our city is currently in a very crucial stage. Our spending is out of control and we are treating tax payers as “blank cheques”. This needs to STOP.
We need to be very smart and conscious about our decisions that we make. We are spending our tax dollars on projects that we dont need at this moment, and we are not spending enough on our infrastructure and service improvements
- Need a library in Kitchener
- LRT cost approx. $818 Million dollars, way higer then runing buses
- Kitchener needs infrastructure NOW ( Roads widening and reapir)
- Affordable housing, upzoning, financial incentives, more favourable mortgage terms and increasing tax revenue
