Mike Matulewicz
Running for Mayor of Mississauga
A 34-year police veteran running on surveillance technology, policing costs and an independent Auditor General.
Background
Retired Toronto Police officer with 34 years of policing experience, including community policing, budgets and police governance. Long-time Mississauga resident. He first gained attention during the 2024 mayoral by-election on a law-and-order platform centred on crime, car thefts, home invasions and policing costs, and finished near the bottom of that field. He also ran as a federal independent in 2025.
Where they stand
Each position pairs what they say with what they did.
AI data centres
Safeguards, no stated vote
What they did:
On data centres he emphasises environmental and infrastructure safeguards. No detailed public position on the July 2026 pause was found.
Environment
Environmental monitoring
What they did:
Strong environmental platform, including environmental monitoring.
Housing
Affordable housing on city land
What they did:
Supports affordable housing and community-land approaches. Affordability, particularly cost of living, is a central concern, but his published platform is less focused on housing supply than Tedjo's or Parrish's.
Land use
Housing on city land
What they did:
Housing on city land and affordability-focused planning.
Policing
Policing background plus reform
What they did:
Strong policing background and reform agenda, combined with fiscal conservatism about policing costs and heavy use of surveillance and security technology.
Public funds
Spending control
What they did:
Strong spending-control platform, warning that the Peel police budget could eventually hit $1 billion.
Transit
Transit funded by a fuel levy
What they did:
Proposes major transit investment, funded partly through a proposed fuel levy. He says MiWay currently helps keep the city moving and emphasises maintaining essential services and infrastructure. No detailed congestion platform beyond that was found.
Transparency
Auditor General and public reporting
What they did:
Strong Auditor General and public reporting platform. Pledges to publish the receipts for the charitable donation of his mayor's pay for each of the four years.
What they are promising
Their own platform, in their own words. Not checked against their record.
Focuses on safe, healthy and affordable communities, spending reductions, an independent Auditor General, affordable housing, environmental monitoring and transit funded partly through a proposed fuel levy. Much of his platform involves surveillance and security technology, including neighbourhood licence-plate-reader systems on lamp posts and expanded city cameras and digital evidence systems. He argues policing now makes up roughly 43% of property taxes and warns the budget could eventually hit $1 billion. Pledges to give his combined mayor's city and regional pay to registered Mississauga charities each year through an independent community fund, and to publish the receipts for each of the four years.
