It is our mission to educate, engage and energize citizens of Mississauga to get involve with issues that affects our life and participate in positive dialogue and change in the mainstream politics.

As a concern citizen of this great city, I foresaw a change in coming to leaderhsip in the City of Mississauga and there was burning desire to engage public as this opportunity was coming after 36 years of Mayor ship by Hazel McCallion. As a result of my humble efforts, we are having our very first Mississauga Mayoral Candidates Debate 2014 on October 14th, 2014 between 7:00PM to 9:30PM at Mississauga Convention Centre, 75 Derry Road, West, Mississauga, ON L5W 1G3 and more events will follow in the future. It is just beginning for a new era of politics in the City of Mississauga.

As you know, the demographic of our city has changed and is continuously changing, thus necessitating the change of attitude and facilitation of equal opportunities for common person to complete for public office.

Our political system requires tremendous financial commitment for a candidate to participate in the election which deprives the highly talented, visionary and brilliant minds with limited resources to stay away from running for a public office thus creating a tremendous harm to City of Mississauga, Province of Ontario and Canada. We neeed to stop this brain drain in our political system and encourage the most intelligent, capaable and forward thinker to come forward to represent us in public office.

We want our elected representatives to be transparent and accountable to us at all times when in the office. VMC will work hard to ensure that the conventional wisdom of politics and attitude is changed to allow our talented, educated and brilliant minds, our sons and daughters to come forward and participate in politics t to serve and represent us not only in our city but provincial and federal levels.

To help facilitate that engagement, provide opportunities, and resources, VMC platform will continue to focus and launch events to ensure our intelligent youth, educated professionals, intellectuals and visionary talented personalities contribute in fulfilling the dreams of our communities and help provide opportunities to its citizens to participate in a unified way in the main stream politics and represent us in all level of governments.

The VMC Forum is open to all Citizens of Mississauga and it encourages for a positive dialogue and change in political landscape of Mississauga.

Tahir I. Qureshi, Publisher