Our Community Impact
Helping The Community Grow and Prosper.
Our Community Impact Over the Years
Since I was first elected, I have been a voice for Burlington’s residents. My role as the MPP for Burlington allows me to continue working hard for my constituents, both here in the riding and at Queen’s Park. Thank you.
Below are some of the great investments that the Ontario government has made right here at home!
Burlington Seniors' Centre
Value: $12,500
A Tribe Called Red
Total Value: $62,500
AgeCare Brant
Total Value: $31,200
AMK ELECTRIC CORP
Total Value: $10,000
Anchor Rehabilitation and Support Services
Total Value: $200,000
Appleby United Church
Total Value: $10,000
Archangel Raphael & St. Marina Coptic Orthodox
Total Value: $10,000
Art Gallery of Burlington
Value: $23,000
Blue Branch
Total Value: $1,660,000
Brock University - Burlington Campus
Total Value: $5.3 million
Burlington Fire Department
Total Value: $1,037,617
Burlington Historical Society Heritage
Total Value: $1,545
Burlington Waterfront Sculpture Trail Festival
Total Value: $20,000
Burlington Youth Soccer Club
Total Value: $200,000
Calvary Baptist Burlington
Total Value: $7,500
Centre for Diverse Learners
Total Value: $235,600
Centre for Skills Development
Total Value: $3,120,070
City of Burlington
Total Value: $2,674,780
Community Living Burlington
Total Value: $570,500
Compassion Society of Halton
Total Value: $184,200
Creative Community Hive Seniors Community
Total Value: $25,000
Drury Lane Theatrical Productions
Total Value: $154,900
Fast Track Community Centre for Skills Development & Training
Total Value: $692,019
Food for Life
Total Value: $492,300
Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church
Total Value: $10,000
Halton Black History Awareness Society (HBHAS)
Total Value: $3,090
Halton Region
Total Value: $91,800
Halton Region Police
Total Value: $2,427,213
Halton Women's Place
Total Value: $1,163,883
Hampton Terrace Care Centre
Total Value:$12,968
Hardlines Inc.
Total Value: $21,000
Joseph Brant Hospital
Total Value: $8,962,548
Koka Beauty Inc.
Total Value: $10,000
Metrolinx - Burloak + Drury Lane Bridge
Total Value: $160,000,000
Mighty Gang Inc.
Total Value: $72,500
Modern Elevator
Total Value: $2,334,900
One Fertility
Total Value: $1,480,693
Outside Music Inc.
Total Value: $220,000
Paroisse St-Pillipe
Total Value: $7,500
Pirates Blend Records Inc.
Total Value: $40,000
Racquetball Canada Ontario
Total Value: $54,400
Redleaf Cultural Integration
Total Value: $232,500
Royal Botanical Gardens
Total Value: $770,200
Saint John's Roman Catholic Church
Total Value: $10,000
Sound of Music
Total Value: $132,500
St Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church
Total Value: $7,500
St. Christopher's Church
Total Value: $20,000
Telling Tales Festival
Total Value: $52,500
The Burlington Historical Society
Total Value: $1,545
TRIO Fertility
Total Value: $2,028,226
Woodview Mental Health and Autism Services
Total Value: $195,208
Here are the ways we've
supported our community
A Tribe Called Red
A Tribe Called Red Inc. represents the career of Indigenous EDM DJ/Producer duo, The Halluci Nation. OMIF-supported activities focused upon LP and video content creation, marketing, and tour enhancements.
Total Value: $62,500
AgeCare Brant
Funding through the Local Priorities Fund ensures residents with complex needs can connect to the right care in the right place and help reduce avoidable emergency department visits and hospital stays.
Total Value: $31,200
AMK Electric Corp
We are investing $5 million in the Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs (RAISE) grant program for 2024-25. $10,000 grant to scale their business upon completing the required 8-week free training program.
Total Value: $10,000
Anchor Rehabilitation and Support Services
Funding through the Ontario Autism Program
Total Value: $200,000
Appleby United Church
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $10,000
Archangel Raphael & St. Marina Coptic Orthodox
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $10,000
Art Gallery of Burlington
Operating funding
Value: $23,000
Blue Branch
Blue Branch is receiving $1,660,000 to train youth and newcomers in modular housing construction through a six-week program in Cambridge.
Total Value: $1,660,000
Brock University - Burlington Campus
Funding for 360 Teaching seats. 360 new teaching seats at the Burlington Campus
Total Value: $5.3 million
Burlington Bay Festival
Experience Ontario (EO) Grant
Total Value: $10,000
Burlington Fire Department
Fire Protection Grant and a Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) grant.
Total Value: $1,037,617
Burlington Historical Society Heritage
Annual operating grant designed to promote public awareness of Ontario’s diverse heritage.
Total Value: $1,545
Burlington Seniors' Centre
Ontario continues to invest in Seniors Active Living Centre programs provide social, recreational, and educational opportunities for older adults across the province.
Total Value: $67,500
Burlington Transit
Our government is providing Gas Tax funding so that municipalities across Ontario can continue to support and grow their transit systems.
- Funding for the gas tax program is set by the number of litres of gasoline sold in the province during the previous fiscal year, along with ridership and population levels.
- Funds can be used to extend service hours, buy transit vehicles, add routes, improve accessibility or upgrade infrastructure.
Total Value: $2,674,780
Burlington Waterfront Sculpture Trail Festival
Experience Ontario (EO) provides support for festivals and events with a tourism economic impact to motivate the discovery of Ontario and increase tourism spending.
Total Value: $65,000
Burlington Youth Soccer Club
Funding to improve infrastructure and equipment for the youth soccer club.
Total Value: $200,000
Calvary Baptist Burlington
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $7,500
Centre for Diverse Learners
Centre for Diverse Learners will use the grant funding over 3 years to expand their social skills program to serve an additional 72 neurodiverse youth per year from low-income areas of Hamilton and Burlington
Total Value: $235,600
Centre for Skills Development
The provincial government is expanding its Skills Development Fund (SDF) by nearly $1 billion over the next three years, for a total of $2.5 billion. This funding will help drive Ontario’s productivity through training and reskilling Ontario workers to find good-paying jobs that help strengthen Ontario’s economy
Total Value: $3,120,070
Community Living Burlington
Community Living Burlington supports local agencies with critical infrastructure and development supports.
Total Value: $570,500
Compassion Society of Halton
Funding received to expand their impactful Referral Partner Program, which provides referrals to essential community resources, directly addressing complex needs like housing, healthcare, and job support for those in need.
Total Value: $184,200
Creative Community Hive
MSA Seniors Community Grant
Total Value: $25,000
Downtown Bistro & Grill Ltd.
Retail Modernization Project Grant
Total Value: $5,000
Drury Lane Theatrical Productions
Capital grants provide funding to non-profit organizations, small municipalities and First Nation communities for a maximum term length of one year to respond to the capital needs of Ontario communities and improve the infrastructure.
Total Value: $154,900
Fast Track Community Centre
Pre-Apprenticeship Training Funding to help potential entrants to the apprenticeship system develop their job skills and trade readiness so that they will be prepared to find work as apprentices.
Total Value: $692,019
Food for Life
Food for Life will use the funding received to improve food equity access programs by increasing cultural engagement, volunteerism, and food procurement and distribution to reflect diverse community needs.
Total Value: $492,300
Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $10,000
Hakka and Momo Hub
Retail Modernization Project Grant and Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs Program (RAISE)
Total Value: $15,000
Halton Black History Awareness Society
Annual operating grant designed to promote public awareness of Ontario’s diverse heritage.
Total Value: $3,090
Halton Region
Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) and public health programs and services in 2025-2026.
Total Value: $913,700
Halton Region Police
Halton Region Police Community Safety and Policing Grant
Total Value: $2,427,213
Halton Women's Place
Halton Women’s Place Gender-Based Violence funding
Total Value: $1,163,883
Hampton Terrace Care Centre
Funding through the Local Priorities Fund ensures residents with complex needs can connect to the right care in the right place and help reduce avoidable emergency department visits and hospital stays.
Total Value:$12,968
Hardlines Inc.
This project aims to expand and deepen our engagement with Canada’s professional dealer community—key decision-makers in the home improvement, building materials, and construction sectors.
Total Value: $21,000
Holy Rosary Parish
Supporting faith-based and cultural organizations enhance safety and secruity measures at places of worship and other culturally signifcant spaces.
Total Value: $10,000
HYAA Cares Orthotics & Medical
Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs Program (RAISE)
Total Value: $10,000
Joseph Brant Hospital
Operating and programming funding.
Total Value: $13,904,632
Koka Beauty Inc.
Investing in the Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs (RAISE) grant program for 2024-25.
Total Value: $10,000
Metrolinx
Metrolinx – Burloak + Drury Lane Bridge
MTO construction funding.
Total Value: $160,000,000
Mighty Gang Inc.
Investing in professional recording and production; facilitating job creation; undertaking export market development; enhancing business capacity; and increasing and strengthening diversity within Ontario’s music industry.
Total Value: $72,500
Modern Elevator
Modern Elevator
Total Value: $2,334,900
MRG Live- Lakeside Live
Experience Ontario (EO) Grant
Total Value: $10,000
Muslim Women's Wellness
Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs Program (RAISE)
Total Value: $10,000
Napoleon's Steak House Inc.
Retail Modernization Project Grant
Total Value: $5,000
One Fertility
Expanding access to IVF. Funding will support families who can benefit from publicly funded fertility treatment.
Total Value: $5,040,030
Outside Music Inc.
Outside Music is a record label, management firm, and distribution company. OMIF investment will support 15 artist projects (12 of which include recording, production and/or licensing new material) and strategic business travel.
Total Value: $220,000
Paroisse St-Pillipe
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $7,500
Pirates Blend Records Inc.
The music creation stream provides support to eligible domestic record labels. Increasing and strengthening diversity in Ontario’s music industry.
Total Value: $40,000
Pita Republic
Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs Program (RAISE)
Total Value: $10,000
Racquetball Canada
Ministry of Sport’s Sport Hosting Program
Total Value: $54,400
Racquetball Ontario
Ontario Sport Hosting Program
Total Value: $12,038
The Raga Foundation
Ontario Arts Council Grant funding.
Total Value: $7125
RedLeaf Cultural Integration
Seniors Active Living Centres (SALC) funding.
Total Value: $287,500
Rose Garden Restaurant
Retail Modernization Project Grant
Total Value: $5,000
Royal Cumin
Retail Modernization Project Grant
Total Value: $5,000
Royal Botanical Gardens
Royal Botanical Gardens OTF Grow grant and Ontario Cultural Attractions grant for operational support.
Total Value: $845,200
Saint John's Roman Catholic Church
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $10,000
Sound of Music
Experience Ontario (EO) funding to support festivals and events.
Total Value: $132,500
St Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $7,500
Sotiris
Retail Modernization Project Grant
Total Value: $5,000
St. Christopher's Church
Awarded operational grant funding for places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $20,000
Support House
Primary Care Action Plan
Total Value: $2,172,100
Telling Tales Festival
Experience Ontario (EO) provides support for festivals and events.
Total Value: $107,500
TH Burlington Pharmacy
Retail Modernization Project Grant
Total Value: $5,000
The Burlington Historical Society
Our government is supporting 172 provincial heritage organizations through the Heritage Organization Development Grant (HODG).
Total Value: $1,545
TRIO Fertility
Expanding access to IVF. Funding will support families who can benefit from publicly funded fertility treatments.
Total Value: $6,348,808
Wellington United Church
Supporting faith-based and cultural organizations enhance safety and security measures at places of worship and other culturally significant spaces.
Total Value: $10,000
Woodview Mental Health and Autism Services
Workforce Capacity Funding through the Ontario Autism Program.
Total Value: $195,208