2026 Mississauga Election Candidate Profile: Mayoral - Ana Luisa Vasquez

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With the upcoming 2026 Municipal elections happening on Monday, October 26th, Modern Mississauga Media has reached out to all candidates inviting them to answer the same questions so voters can familiarize themselves with them.

With the 2022 Mississauga election having a paltry 21.84% voter turnout, this series is to educate the community and hopefully increase voter turnout for 2026.
Low voter turnout means that the voices of a few make decisions for all.

Candidate’s were also asked to provide at least four images and their answers are unedited.

Click here to read all candidate profiles and check back often as responses will be posted within 72 hours of receipt.

Click here to learn how to vote in the 2026 Mississauga Election.

1. Why are you running for Mayor?
I want every resident of Mississauga to feel that same pride in our city that I feel about being Dominican-Canadian. I believe deeply in democracy, and that its integrity depends on people participating in social processes, like inputting in how your tax dollars are spent. My mission is simple: Keep What's Right, Change What's Wrong.

2. What makes you stand out over other candidates?
My trajectory as a community server is extensive and diverse. I commit from a place of love, not personal interest. I'm an action-oriented caring mother, a property consultant working hands-on with GTA families since 2013, a former legal counsel to the Dominican financial sector,  the first Hispanic-Latina licensed to officiate marriages in Ontario, and President of the Toronto Latino Lions Club.

I understand the struggles families and small businesses face because I have, and continue to, experience them myself.

I'm not running for a title or to climb the ranks of government. I'm proposing an actionable and comprehensive plan that I commit to deliver if I'm elected as Mississauga Mayor for the 2026-2030 period. With a special focus on augmenting the city's efforts to safeguard the pillar of any good society: The Family.

3. What are your key campaign priorities?
My platform rests on 4 pillars to Make Mississauga Better:

  • Pillar 1: Make life in Mississauga more affordable to live, easier to work, and safer to grow.

  • Pillar 2: Deliver a City Hall that works at the speed of business to keep Mississauga’s economy thriving.

  • Pillar 3: Protect neighbourhood identity while preparing Mississauga for the future.

  • Pillar 4: Ensure a Mississauga where everyone has equal access to local opportunities.

4. What budget item is most important for Mississauga?
Infrastructure and MiWay.Our sewer network is already failing (32% of inspected stormwater facilities needed intervention in 2024), and MiWay's Central Parkway and Malton facilities have hit capacity while demand keeps growing.
You cannot build a growing city when its structure (pipes, roads, public transportation, etc.) is already maxed out.

So in my Year 1 as mayor isn't a spending year (it's a maintenance and review year). Before spending on big plans, I will commission an independent, honest inspection of Our City's water, sewer, road, and transit systems, and build a real plan from what we find, with residents at the table. Year 2 is where that plan becomes investment: Infrastructure and MiWay first, then the Housing, permitting, procurement, and safety systems that make every other dollar in this city work harder.

Every resident gets one legible plain-language Total Tax Bill, every budget cycle, so nobody has to guess what they're paying or why.

5. What are your three favourite aspects of Mississauga?

  1. Its people. The families working long shifts to build a better life here, the small business owners who show up every day even when the process makes it harder than it should be. That everyday resilience is the reason I'm running, and it's what makes this city worth fighting for.

  2. Its potential. I believe Mississauga can be a landmark Canadian city, the way Montreal or Vancouver are landmarks. We have the size, the location, and the people to get there. What's missing is a City Hall that matches that ambition instead of holding it back.

  3. And its diversity, first and foremost. This is a city built by people who came from every corner of the world (like I did) and chose to call it home. That mix of communities and languages is something to be proud of, not managed around.

6. How will you be actively supporting our locally owned businesses if elected? 
By making City Hall work at the speed of business.Development charges get calibrated so they don't unintentionally kill smaller rental and commercial projects. My Year 2 plan (Report and Invest) directs real investment into the educational and technological systems that maximize productivity in permitting, procurement, and licensing. Invest in technological tools to track every application from submission to decision, and maximize productivity.

Implement a single-window permitting process (no more shuffling between departments), and licensing/procurement workshops that walk local businesses and their teams through how to bid on city contracts. 

I support the moratorium on unreviewed hyperscale data-centre approvals until grid-capacity and air-quality studies are done. Small businesses shouldn't be waiting months for a permit while billion-dollar projects skip the line.

7. What does Mississauga currently excel at? 

  • Even at a time when many residents are questioning the city’s direction, Mississauga is a city that welcomes people from around the world and allows them to build a life here. That is a real strength, and it is something worth protecting.

  • We also have the ambition to build for the future. The $8.1-billion Transit and Road Infrastructure Plan demonstrates that Mississauga has a clear vision for improving mobility and connecting communities. The challenge is that a vision is only as valuable as our ability to fund and deliver it.

  • Our proximity to Toronto Pearson International Airport (one of the country’s most important economic and employment hubs) gives Mississauga a strong foundation in logistics, aviation, manufacturing, business, and small enterprise. We have an economic base that many cities would be proud to have.

We excel at ambition, opportunity, and building a city where people can put down roots.

My job as mayor will be to take those strengths and turn them into results. Making sure City Hall doesn't simply develop ambitious plans, but actually funds them, delivers them, and communicates honestly with accountability to residents.

8. How would you communicate with residents and what communication standards will you be setting and following?
City Hall In Your Language
Misisssauga should be inclusive and communicate in the language residents actually feel comfortable in (readable materials, one-on-one consultations, and city communications delivered directly in that language)
On finances specifically, I'll publish one legible, plain-language total tax bill every budget cycle instead of a headline number that hides the real increase. And every year of my term, I'll publish a clear, honest account of what's been achieved, what hasn't, and what comes nex. 

9. How do you plan to involve and include residents in decisions actively?
Year one of my term starts with listening; reviewing city priorities and spending directly with residents before finalizing an action plan. I'll use community centres as accessible hubs where people can learn how to actually get involved in city decisions, and I'm committed to bringing contested decisions into the open for public debate at committee rather than deciding them privately.

I also want longer, genuinely independent Integrity Commissioner terms, so as to increase residents' trust in the process.

10. Please provide your campaign website.

AnaLuisaForMississaugaMayor.ca