The five Ward 3 Residents’ Associations** hosted an All Candidates Meeting on September 29th, in the cafeteria at Oakville Trafalgar High School. The room was full for the event, standing room only. Organizers estimate a crowd of more than 500 residents. All five Mayoral candidates, Rob Burton, Arvind Choudary, Julia Hanna, Jeff Knoll and Sean O’Meara, and both Ward 3 Town Councillor candidates, Morgan Elliott and Jen Zhou, participated in the question-and-answer sessions.

Because thousands of Oakville residents have shown up, spoken up, emailed, texted, hosted signs, rallied, and refused to disengage, the Midtown issue has not quietly disappeared the way Infrastructure Ontario clearly hoped it would.

From: George Niblock Date: Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:31 AM Subject: Open Letter to Mayor Burton from We Love Oakville To: Mayor Rob Burton Dear Mayor Burton, At Oakville’s Planning and Development meeting on March 23, you tabled agenda item “9.1 Confidential – TOC Update.” In camera, this became a decision-making session on a “confidential direction” from your office, culminating in a narrow 8–6 public vote, with no substantive details disclosed to residents. You called thi