Please vote. Your vote matters. Anyone posting to say that "all the candidates are the same" or "one vote doesn't make a difference" are bots paid off by Ontario Proud, who really don't want you to vote.

Your quality of life is dictated in large part by who gets elected in this race. The mayor can make changes that affect almost every area of your life.

This election will affect:

- Commute times. How long will it take for you to get to work? Do we add another lane, or tax cars commuting into the city? Do we continue to spend on the Gardiner every year, or build more transit?

- Cost of services you use

- Pollution and crime levels. Cars first or pedestrians first? Cut the police budget or expand it?

- Rent, cost of housing, and housing availability. Do the 15k AirBnB units get rented out as regular apartments again, or is short term rental regulation relaxed and another 10k apartments taken off the market? Do we build more density, or more urban sprawl? Are foreign buyers and speculators regulated out of the market, or are the regulations relaxed, driving up prices?

- The level of taxes you pay and where you pay them. Pro-housing price increase candidates plan to allow massive office building on Toronto's flood plain and to expand urban sprawl for residential housing, which will dramatically increase the city's flood risk and up your taxes as a result. Candidates pledging to 'protect home values' are also pledging to lower property taxes, which will make an increase in your income taxes later almost inevitable.

- Which services are cut over the next 5 years as we dig ourselves out of a massive budget hole

- Snow removal, green spaces, and park maintenance

- And more!

Vote! Vote to protect your quality of life. Vote to see the things you want in action. Or don't vote, and then lose your right to complain about any of the above over the next 4 years.