Area Councillor · Ward 4 · Township of Georgian Bay
Experience that works,
for the Shoreline & Hamlet
Your Councillor for Honey Harbour since 2018 — championing water quality, sensible planning, and a Township that actually follows through.
The record
Since 2018 I’ve represented Ward 4 with one focus: the interests of the people who live on and love this water. That has meant showing up, doing the homework, and pushing resolutions until things change.
2018
Serving as your Councillor since
50+
Resolutions initiated & tabled
20+ yrs
Water quality sampling & testing
6
Boards & committees currently held
What I’ll keep pushing for
01
Stronger environmental action
Water quality monitoring in every part of the Township, dark-sky lighting, sensible boat speed zones, and a real say on floating dwellings.
02
Governance you can check
Keep the Action Item Tracker working, so Council’s directions to staff actually get done — and get reported back in public.
03
Issues tracked to resolution
Every constituent concern logged and followed through — from Macey Bay to South Honey Harbour — not left to fade.
04
Planning policy that fits the Bay
Waterfront planning rules written for Georgian Bay’s shoreline, not lifted from an inland template.
05
Financial accountability
Question spending, expect value for it, and keep the tax burden on residents defensible line by line.
This term · a selection
A partial register of the work — the full list of resolutions and constituent files is longer.
- Worked with Honey Harbour marinas and businesses on private waste collection after the District of Muskoka removed the water-access community’s waste bins.
- Led resident interests in the Macey Bay area and in South Honey Harbour.
- Initiated Council’s Action Item Tracker for directions to staff, and staff response-time goals for resident enquiries.
- Brought forward 50+ resolutions on Township effectiveness, transparency, and environmental focus.
- Advanced Township positions on dark-sky lighting, noise, water speed zones, and floating dwellings.
- Supported the proposed William Grenville Davis Education Centre for the Hamlet of Honey Harbour.
- Continued hands-on water quality sampling and testing across the Township, expanding the volunteer base.
How to vote
Voting is by internet and phone. It closes October 26, 2026.
Voting day
Monday, October 26, 2026
Online voting opens earlier in October
How you vote
Internet & telephone
No paper ballot, no polling station
Check the voters’ list
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Confirm or add yourself
Not on the list? Many seasonal residents aren’t — especially where the property is owned by a corporation or a trust, or where you’re a tenant or an adult child of the owner. You may still be entitled to vote. Contact the Township Clerk: clerks@gbtownship.ca · 705-538-2337. One vote per person, even if you own more than one property in the Township.
Background
- Councillor, Ward 4 (Honey Harbour)
- Chair, Planning Committee
- Waterfront Planning Policy Working Group
- Board Member, GB Township Public Library
- GBA Coastal Protection Advisory Committee
- GBA Floating Cottage Advisory Group
- Township Water Quality Monitoring Working Group
I’ve been the Councillor for Ward 4 – Honey Harbour since 2018. Before that I spent more than 35 years in a professional sales career, selling customer service and customer experience solutions to executives at Fortune 500 companies across North America.
I’ve also put in over 50 years of volunteer work with organizations like the Georgian Bay Association, the Honey Harbour Association (20 years on the board, 12 as President), the Go Home Lake Cottagers Association and the Ontario Onsite Wastewater Association — representing cottager and resident interests to local government and to provincial and federal ministries.
For eight years I provided business and marketing services to an R&D firm that invented a technology converting residential wastewater to near-potable water. That work took me to the US EPA, the Water Research Foundation, and California’s water boards — and it built deep, practical expertise in water and wastewater that I bring to the Township table.
The customer-experience background is why I take a resident-first approach to the job; the executive-sales background is why I’m comfortable with the communication, negotiation and follow-through it takes to actually get results.
