Let's GET. TORONTO. MOVING.

And tell these politicians . . .

YOU'VE. HAD. ENOUGH.

Mark has been an entrepreneur and job creator most of his life, barring a few stints in his early days, one of them 9-months canvassing for the Toronto Star from October, 1975 until June, 1976 when he was just eleven-years-old. The experience with The Star has proven to be invaluable for Mark, the first reason being a reminder just how safe Toronto was back then: Can you imagine letting your son or daughter at eleven-years-old walk the streets of North York or Scarborough or Etobicoke in the dark of night during winter months from 6pm to 9pm each weekday in today's Toronto? Fat chance any parent would allow that now. It was also during that stint with The Star that Mark learned one of business’s most valuable rules: Before a prospect becomes a customer, they first need to try your product or service.

This rule clearly wasn’t known to his boss back then – Mr. Murray Atkinson – but it was a rule Mark learned well and has applied countless times over the past three decades as he built and ran businesses in both the transportation and communications sectors, creating dozens of jobs along the way.

Mark is the product of a deliriously happy childhood and has never forgotten his roots growing up in the east end of Toronto in Leslieville, which at the time was considered a lower-middle class neighbourhood. It is these roots that taught him to take nothing for granted, to appreciate the simpler things in life, and instilled in him a tireless work ethic: To this day he still leads his staff by example, working 60 to 70 hours each week, and during one seven-plus-year stretch – from August, 2014 to October, 2021 – he didn’t take a single vacation and had only a handful of days off, two of which were to volunteer for a charity event in Caledon, Ontario.

Mark believes his practical know-how, first and foremost, makes him the best candidate for Toronto’s top job. He is also blunt about how he feels when it comes to this election and the way Toronto has historically been run.

“My success in business proves that I possess the executional skills and management skillset that I believe will finally get Toronto moving in the right direction. I also feel this city has been run by idiots for more than a decade who were in it – and are in it now – for nobody but themselves. I could care less about the money. I could care less about my legacy. I care deeply about Torontonians and standing up for them by telling the politicians who are running now that enough is enough.”

Mark also feels strongly politicians don’t have a creative bone their bodies, so how can they solve complex problems that require imagination?

“In business you must be a creative thinker to thrive. Part of my campaign platform to get Toronto moving physically and economically promises to reduce Toronto highway traffic – and increase City revenue significantly – by utilizing a precedent-setting incentivization tool never before adopted by any city worldwide. Implementing this idea would help ALL Torontonians, even if they don't drive, because we could do a lot of good with the revenue it will generate for Toronto."

Mark is confident that it’s ideas like this that he brings to the table, combined with his tireless work ethic, and practical, experience-driven approach to leadership that will ultimately make Toronto a much better and safer place for everyone to live.