For current project updates and official sources, visit the Ward 2 Tracker.
Question 1 of 5
What is your top capital project priority?
Getting Bowmanville ready for GO.
The train now has a timeline. The roads, intersections, sidewalks and cycling routes around the future station at Highway 2 and Bowmanville Avenue need one too.
January 2026
Metrolinx awarded a major construction contract. Work is underway.
November 2025 to December 2027
Durham Region is widening Bowmanville Avenue from Baseline Road to Highway 2.
9 towers, 30 to 40 storeys: sent back
Proposed beside the station in 2024. In June 2024, Council’s planning committee sent it back to staff with a maximum of 18 storeys. No revised plan has been posted. Whatever returns must have connections and servicing in place and funded before it is approved.
I also want to be honest about what Clarington can afford.
$33.2M
2026 capital budget, with no new debt
$10.4M
a year is what the Municipality says it is short just to keep what we own in good repair
So before any major project goes ahead, I ask three questions. What is needed? When will it be delivered? Who will pay? Growth near the station should help pay for the infrastructure it needs.
How do you build consensus if council is deeply split?
Leadership is less about winning the argument and more about how you conduct yourself while you have it.
When councillors model respectful dialogue and professionalism, the public can trust a decision even when they disagree with it.
Start with shared facts: what it costs, what the evidence shows, what residents are telling us.
Find out what each person actually needs, then build the proposal that meets as many of those needs as possible, before the meeting, one conversation at a time.
Question 3 of 5
What measurable metric will you use to judge whether your term was a success?
Already live at kathleenflynn.ca. Major projects and planning files, each with its stage and an official source. Send me a question or concern about anything on it, or anything that should be.
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Every major vote explained
In plain language, before and after: what it costs, who pays, what happens next.
3
Nobody left wondering
You hear back promptly, and you know who is responsible and what the next step is.
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A report card at the end of the term
What was promised to Ward 2, what was delivered, what was not, and why.
Question 4 of 5
How will you address issues that fall under regional, provincial or federal jurisdiction?
Know who decides, and get the right people in the room.
Where your property tax dollar goes
33%Clarington
50%Durham Region
17%Education
Regional roads, transit, water, hospitals and schools are decided somewhere other than Clarington Council. As a trustee, I have built working relationships with our provincial representatives, Clarington Council and Regional Councillors, and I know how each level makes its decisions.
The percentages are a rounded overview, not a statement of every property’s 2026 bill. My written transportation correspondence was sent in January 2026.
Question 5 of 5 · Anything else?
A professor, a parent in Hampton, and one of Clarington’s elected public school board trustees.
In 2022, 5,919 Clarington residents trusted me with their vote. I have tried to earn that trust every day since.
$552.3M
operating budget approved by trustees this year
$60.8M
capital budget
35,000
students, across Clarington, Northumberland and Peterborough
Since 2022 I have been reading the reports, questioning the numbers and listening to the families, students and staff affected before I vote. Then I explain it in public. That is the same work Council does.
I grew up in a fire service family. These are the people who show up on the worst day of a resident’s life. We share a commitment to community safety and firefighter safety: stations, staffing and training that keep pace with growth, and consultation before decisions are made, not after.
Durham Region Labour Council
The Labour Council endorsed me as a candidate who shares the values of working people: affordability, good jobs, strong public services and respect for the people who deliver them. Those values serve everyone, whether you earn a paycheque, live on a pension or are between jobs, and they will guide how I vote on taxes, housing and transit.
Both endorsements say something about how I work. I seek input from residents, associations and the people on the front line before decisions are made, and I collaborate rather than decide in isolation.
Thank you for reading
Listen. Lead. Deliver.
Residents should not have to spend their evenings reading staff reports to know what is happening in their neighbourhood. I will do the homework, ask the hard questions, listen to the people affected, and explain what I decided and why.
Proven experience. Fresh momentum. I would be honoured to earn your vote.
