Jobs for the 21%
One in five young people in this region can't find work, Brampton's own spending and growth will start hiring them.
Peel's unemployment rate reached 10.0% in 2025, with roughly 43,900 residents experiencing job changes or losses.
Source: bramptonbot.comYouth unemployment in Peel reached 21.0%.
Source: bramptonbot.comOntario Works caseloads in Peel rose 15.4%.
Source: bramptonbot.com
Tie apprenticeship and local-hiring commitments to city procurement, pair city projects with co-op placements, and turn Brampton's industrial building-permit growth into a hiring pipeline for the people who already live here.
College funding and immigration policy are provincial and federal files, Brampton's case for transition support gets made relentlessly, with our numbers on the table.
We won't pretend a mayor controls the national economy. We control whether Brampton's own dollars hire Brampton's own people, and today they don't have to.
Direct staff to draft local-hiring and apprenticeship requirements for city procurement, tabled at council within 100 days.