Councillor Mayor Groves ran for her 2nd time for Mayor and won the 2022 election  with 57.7% of the votes cast by Caledon residents.  Her campaign brought in $61,500 with her campaign expenses being $62,200 with no surplus being returned to the clerk.  7 of the 52 donors are associated with the Development industry with 2 Logistics donors and 9 donors associated with Bolton/Vaughan businesses.

Mayor Groves previous voting record had her voting No for 4 property tax increases, No to the Erin pit expansion and No to the 3 MZOs brought forward in her last term.

Watch this term's voting record to see if Mayor Groves keeps her track record with ensuring Development pays for Development and her harsh stance against MZOs and the 413.  You can find her filed 2022 Campaign financial report here

Identities of Annette Groves' donors part 1

Councillor Early ran for Regional Ward 1,2,3 Councillor and raised $26,475.00 on her campaign, having to give back $209.46 of surplus to the Town Clerk. Over 33 donors contributed to her campaign, 8 were Caledon residents, 13 donors are associated with Construction and Developers.  $14,900 came from Developers/construction.  Councillor's Early's previous voting record had her voting yes for Highway 413 route change (she should have recused herself as her family has land in the path of the 413) and yes to 3 MZOs in her first term in office.

Continue to watch this term's voting record when it comes to the mega quarry in Caledon and other Development applications.   You can find her filed 2022 Campaign financial report here

Newcomer candidate Councillor Mario Russo,  ran for Regional Wards 4,5,6 raised $29,550.00 for his campaign.   Councillor Russo also had  33 donors, like Councillor Early.  Breakdown of donors are 2 Caledon residents, 19 donors were Developers and 4 Real Estate Agents.  

Continue to watch his first term's voting record when it comes to the 413, mega quarry in Caledon and other Development applications.  He is also the Vice Chair of the Planning and Development committee,  you can find his filed 2022 Campaign financial report here

Re-elected Ward 1 Councillor Lynn Kiernan amassed $12,400.00 for her campaign, having to give back $3,941.73 back to the Town Clerk.  36% of donations are from confirmed Developers and an interesting maximum donations from the Golf Pro at Osprey and the CEO of Mount Alverno Resorts.  Her last ditch effort to support an interim control bylaw on quarries was a last ditch effort to win votes.

Continue to watch her voting record when it comes to the mega quarry in Caledon and the 413, and other developments in Caledon.  You can find her filed 2022 Campaign financial report here

Dave Sheen a newcomer to the Caledon political scene amassed  $12,450.00 from his campaign  Developer donations.  With a former career in Youth Justice, it is hard to connect how he was associated with all these Developers who contributed over $10,800.00 of funding to his election campaign as a newcomer to Caledon politics.   63% of his donations were from Developers.  It will be interesting to see his voting record during his first term.  Link to his filed 2022 Campaign financial report is here

Doug Maskell paid for his entire campaign and spent a total of $5,097.13 on his campaign for flyers, website design, signs and internet/phone expenses.  Congratulations Doug for self funding your campaign and winning Ward 3 

Tenured for 19 years, Nick DeBoer,  Ward 4 Councillor did not have one single Caledon resident dontate to his 2022 campaign.  All of Councillor DeBoer's campaign donations were from non Caledon residents, 87.5% of donations are from confirmed Developers.   During the 2022 campaign, Nick was challenged about his 2018 campaign donors all being developers, his response was  "I have received donations from individuals only.   I don’t enquire or request information about the individual and I don’t do computer searches on the individuals"  Link to his filed 2022 Campaign financial report is here

Re-elected Ward 5 Councillor Tony Rosa received $28,950.00 worth of campaign donations and had to return $8,685.99 to the Town Clerk.  ( his campaign limit was $16,550.65).  Councillor Rosa could have funded another candidate's campaign with that money returned to the clerk.  Out of 27 donors, 23 of his donors were directly connected to Developer/construction, that equates to 86% of a developer supported campaign.  Councillor Rosa received a donation from the CEO Billionaire of Smart Centers Mitchell Goldhar, how are they connected?  Not a single Caledon resident donated to his campaign either.  How this high school guidance teacher/1 term Councillor knows so many developers personally to get cheques written for his campaign raises my eyebrows?  Plus he did not fill out the dates upon he received donations which is mandatory as part of filing.  Link to his filed 2022 Campaign financial report is here

Newcomer Cosimo Napoli's had 5 Caledon residents donate to his campaign, there were 7 donors in total.  Dig-Con a Caledon business donated to his campaign and one Developer from Royal Pine homes.  Total campaign contributions were $6,200 with $1,000 coming from an outside Developer  Link to his filed 2022 Campaign financial report is here