The field of candidates for the position of town councillor for Ward 6 includes Linda Nazareth who submitted her candidacy on May 4th, and was a town councillor candidate for Ward 5 in the Oakville 2014 Municipal Election.
In 1977 her family moved to Bronte, and since then Oakville has been her hometown. She graduated from QE Park High School, which has since been turned into a cultural and community centre. When she married and decided to have a family, she and her husband chose Oakville as the community best suited to raising her family. Her daughter, a high performance figure skater attended Sunnydale Public School.
Linda is best known as the on-air economist for CTV’s Business News Network from 1999 to 2012. She is a graduated from the University of Toronto with a Masters in Arts and Economics. Along with her position with BNN, Nazareth found time to write three books: “The Ever After Effect”, “The Leisure Economy”, and her latest book “Economorphics”. Linda is also a Senior Fellow for Economics and Population Change at The Macdonald Laurier Institute, a right-leaning public policy think-tank. She received the Queens Jubilee Award in 2012. Currently, she is writing a new book called "Barista" which talks about the splitting of the labour market.
Linda Nazareth states that the issues facing Ward 6 are:
- Taxation: property taxes are rising too quickly
- Accountability: for people not taking care of your money
- Effective Communication with the residents through twitter and regular blog posts
The immense growth is going to require well thought out planning, according to Linda, who indicated that it will also require a great deal of the town's resources.
The increase in jobs in Oakville are often retail positions, according to Nazareth, and our community has to attract knowledge based positions which pay extremely well.
Contact Linda Nazareth
email: [email protected]
website: LindaNazareth.com
twitter: @relentlesseco
Please note that Linda Nazareth is a regular contributor to OakvilleNews.Org, you can read her articles: Linda Nazareth Articles