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Carolyn Fast

Candidate for Ward 2 councillor

Certified candidates — City of Welland

Connection to Welland and the ward

  • More than 15 years living in Welland.
  • Work with The Hope Centre, the Community Legal Clinic and neighbourhood associations.

Work and leadership experience

  • Facilitation practice helping people and families develop housing plans.
  • Work with housing models including tiny homes and community land trusts.

Municipal and public-service record

  • Chair of the City’s Green Advisory Committee.

Committee and community service

  • Chairs the Green Advisory Committee. Earlier Library Board service is listed in her campaign biography.
  • Contributions to provincial organizations including People First of Ontario.

Reasons for running and priorities

  • She emphasizes neighbourhood-level work, drawing on her involvement with the Welland Neighbourhood Project.

Published commitments

  • She proposes planning growth against road, water and traffic capacity.
  • She advocates a wider range of housing types, prices and ownership models.
  • She proposes coordinated responses to mental health, addiction and homelessness across levels of government.
  • She commits to fair, transparent and equitable hiring, appointments and contracting decisions.

Campaign contact details

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