Now, you and I have talked about this on the podcast before, but just explain again, what are the strong mayoral powers and why is that contentious to use them? Why was that question included in the survey? Yeah.

We always try to have, you know, some fairly boilerplate questions in there about why you're running and what your priorities are.

That's important to know for every candidate every time.

But we also try to include some more topical questions to, you know, the time we're in right now.

And this will be the first election, like a civic election cycle in Ontario where strong mayor powers are on the ballot.

Yeah.

For the first time in a vast majority of Ontario municipalities, including London.

Nope.

So give us just a high level overview of what that looks like.

Yeah.

So there are as part of this, there are 10 quick start actions, which readers may remember have been sort of partially rolled out in the past couple of years.

You know, one hour of free on street parking, the open use drug strategy from London police and, you know, stepped up.

dedicated core area bylaw response, coordinated informed response, that bylaw team that typically deals with visible homelessness.

But beyond that, there are those 58 actions over sort of four broad categories that this plan is hoping to achieve.

And that's developing the river district at the heart of the city, elevating some of London's public spaces downtown, capitalizing on the UNESCO City of Music designation, but also establishing a better downtown governance structure, specifically starting a downtown office as basically a new bureaucracy of City Hall.

Are we looking to attract tourists with the return on investment? What are the goals of this?