Show your work
“Your councillor should show their work. I'll build the platform that makes the work impossible to hide.”
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Candidate for Newmarket Town Council · Ward 4
Alireza Izadjoo
Software engineer · Dad · Ward 4 resident
Your councillor should show their work — and work for you, not explain why nothing can be done.
I build things for a living, and I'm raising my son right here. I'm running to bring an engineer's habits to this seat: publish the plan, put dates on it, deliver it, and show the receipts — openly, in public spaces, never in your private one.
Now booking conversations for September 15 onward
What I heard in that room
Where this campaign started.
October 2024, a Ward 4 town hall. More residents showed up than the room they'd booked could hold — people stood along the walls. And one by one, their questions got the same answer.
Residents asked why their streets were torn up all winter when summer was available. The answer was “that's how the contractor schedule was.” Then they raised the traffic the new development under construction on Main Street will bring — and were told it would be bad, and that the plan assumed people would take transit.
“We're not going to do anything.”
— the answer residents got on the traffic to come
The bins
When collection was automated, the new bins came in one size — too big for many homes. Residents pushed back for the whole session. With the mayor in the room, the answer was that the size was non-negotiable and out of the town's hands.
A few weeks later, a second size was announced. It was possible all along.
Nobody said let us ask. Nobody tried before saying no. That's the reflex I'm running against — not a person; a habit.
I'm running to replace that answer.
Ward 4 deserves a councillor who works for every vote, answers every question, and shows the work. Here's what that looks like, in writing.
The platform
Four commitments, on the record.
Every one of these is something a single councillor can do without anyone's permission — publish, report, propose, show up. That's what makes them promises you can collect on, not aspirations.
Safe streets now
“We've been asking for safer streets for years. I will deliver the plan in one.”
Here's what “the plan” means: a published document naming which streets get which fixes by which month — speed humps, camera placements, school-zone fixes, sidewalk lighting. Some of it I'll do without asking anyone's permission: I'll walk every Ward 4 school zone with parents each September and post what we find within two weeks, and every collision, near-miss, and speed complaint goes on a public map with a status, updated weekly. Where the data shows chronic speeding, I'll push for automated speed enforcement on those corridors — the data picks them, not politics. And where a road belongs to York Region rather than Newmarket, I'll tell you that plainly — and be the loudest advocate at the Region, in public, with receipts.
Ward 4 Safe Streets Plan in year one · September school-zone walk audits, report in 14 days · public incident map, weekly · data-picked speed enforcement
Build what we say we'll build
“When the city tears up your sidewalk, you deserve to know when it's coming back — and who to call when it doesn't.”
Public construction calendar — every project, every status, searchable by street
Privacy at your door
“Your home is private space. My campaign will respect that — and so will my Council vote.”
No one from this campaign will ever knock on your door uninvited. That's policy, not laziness: you invite the conversation — online, at a coffee shop, or on your porch if you ask me over — and I'll bring the same rule to Council as an opt-in canvassing framework for Newmarket.
No uninvited door-knocking · opt-in canvassing framework
Nomination filed
I'm officially on the ballot for October 26.
Newmarket's municipal election is Monday, October 26, 2026. Between now and then, everything above is the promise — read it, keep it, and hold me to all four.
The direct line
Hear it from me first.
You shouldn't need a social media account — or an algorithm's permission — to hear from your councillor. Leave your email and I'll report the work to you directly: the plan, the dates, the receipts, through this campaign and beyond.
One list, used for these updates and nothing else. No sharing, no tracking — the record is your address and the date you joined. Every email includes the way out.
Twenty minutes, on your terms
Book a conversation.
Online, at a coffee shop, or on your porch — if you ask. Now booking conversations for September 15 onward: send a few times that suit you.