* Ban all corporate and union donations to candidates.
* Provide free parking downtown on nights and weekends.
* Create an independent integrity commissioner and develop a code of conduct for council.
* Create a lobbyist registry at city hall and make it public.
* End the lawsuit against the federal government over the Red Hill Valley Parkway.
* Hire an independent auditor.
* Bring back flowers to the medians.
* Start a mayor- and councillor-for-the-day youth program.
* Embrace community advisory councils.
* Impose limits of two, four-year terms for mayor and council.
* Freeze the mayor's salary for the first two years of his term.
* Kill the tax-free portion of mayor's and councillors' salaries.
* Limit urban sprawl to protect farmland.
* Develop a 'buy-local' initiative.
* Install bike racks on city buses.
* Engage the public to decide the future of aerotropolis.
* Speed up the harbour cleanup.
* Enact an anti-idling bylaw.
* Hire up to 100 new police officers over the next four years.
* Continue to pressure the province to take downloaded social services off the city's tax base.
* Reduce rural and suburban taxes by increasing the downtown tax base.
* Form a development corporation to move the harbour forward.
* Replace ward numbers with names.
* Increase bylaw enforcement.
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