Daniel Bourgeois

Reducing and preventing crime. It is the same priority as in 2021. It took me 4 years to convince the majority of council to adopt a plan on this. Since 2021, only 4 members of council supported a plan. It took us four years to convince the rest of council to adopt one. I wrote the city's draft 3-year crime reduction and prevention plan which is before city council and should be adopted on May 4. I will ensure its implementation.

The City has supported Rising Tide, Harvest House and the Humanity Project since 2021 to the tune of $6.5M. I support their work. Over 200 units have been built for the homeless since 2021. Unfortunately, the number of homeless rose from approximately 200 in 2021 to over 800 today despite the construction or renovation of the 200+ units. The scope of the problem is well beyond the city's capacity. The Province has stepped in, but it must do more and better.

The draft plan covers both sides of the coin (pun intended). On the one hand, the Province needs to help Moncton with the costs. The worst example is that the Province collects 100% of traffic fines ($856,000 in 2025) but pays nothing for traffic enforcement while the City pays approximately $2M per year to enforce it yet collects nothing from the fines. Another example is that the Province pays nothing for Codiac RCMP services, yet orders it to search for missing children in the ward of the pro…

The City is preparing its next urban plan. This is exactly its purpose. I sat on the committee that prepared the 2012 plan (adopted in 2014) and I sit on the committee that is preparing the next plan (2017-2027). These issues are being addressed. In my opinion, there will be another 12,000-15,000 people living in Moncton. We need more housing. Now. Densification in the downtown is the priority, and several high-rise residential/mixed buildings are in the works, but not everybody wants to live do…

The Visions Lands, the Junction, the 30-story building off Harper street and the Ashford development on the Assumption Place parking lots. I also want to champion the rapid elimination of flat surface parking lots in the downtown core, to be replaced by 10-story mixed (residential/commercial) buildings. Finally, I want to transform the 7 segregated developments owned and operated by NB Housing into 5,000 units of integrated (subsidized, affordable & market rate) residential complexes.

Contribute to the construction of 2,000 affordable housing units within the transformed NB Housing developments.

See (3) above.

There are many, but that's democracy. The one that stands out is the refusal by the majority (7 to 4) to prepare and adopt a crime reduction and prevention plan. The majority refused twice, in 2021 and again in 2022, without offering an alternative. In the end, we succeeded in 2025 to convince the majority to establish a committee to prepare the plan. So, there is nothing I could have done differently.

I have put everything in detail on my web site for full transparency. I have no plans to surprise voters later on. They should expect what I commit to on my web site.

In my spare time, I make movies.

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