I’m a builder.
When things are broken, I get them fixed.

Meet ALex

A builder, not a politician.

I grew up in Heron Gate. A lot of people reading this will know what that means.

After Ridgemont High School, I got a job framing houses. I stuck with it.

Eighteen years later, I run a business that helps put food on the table for dozens of hard-working families. My wife works alongside me, and together we’re raising our three daughters here in Ottawa.
We’ve built a life through hard work. Nothing was handed to us.

The platform / published in full

Let’s get the basics right.

In 2022 we were promised a safer, more affordable, more reliable Ottawa. We got none of the three.

Every commitment below is published in full: what Alex will do, how it gets delivered, and the timeline he expects to be held to. Read the plans. Share them. Hold him to them.

Check the receipts
Crime
+17.6%
In two years under Sutcliffe. Ottawa Police reported crime.
2-bedroom rent
+17.9%
Now $1,916 a month, up from $1,625 when Sutcliffe took office. CMHC, Oct 2025.
Property taxes
+12%
Over four Sutcliffe budgets, 2023 to 2026.
Fees & charges
+32.6%
In four years. City of Ottawa adopted budgets.
The plans, as announced
01
Build homes people can afford.
Two rents, a $700 gap, and five things in the first year to build family-sized rentals and stop the slide into homelessness. May 2026
02
Fix the basics at OC Transpo.
Ottawa’s transit system is not short on money. It is short on management. Twelve commitments, six problems, public reporting against every metric. May 2026
03
The Influence Firewall.
A four-year bar on campaign insiders lobbying the officials they helped elect. No new cost, no new department. June 2026
04
Your money, in plain sight.
Every city contract in a live, searchable, plain-language list, no minimum dollar amount, updated as work is awarded. July 2026
05
Build the ring road.
A southern ring road as a provincial 400-series highway, so 1,000 trucks a day stop rolling through Manotick and the 417 isn’t the only way across. July 2026
06
The Alto pledge.
No NDA that keeps you in the dark about your own property. If your government is talking about your land, you deserve to know. July 2026
07
Return to office, honestly.
Straight talk on what a mayor can’t do about the federal mandate, and the three things he can: the city on record, federal worksites outside the greenbelt, express buses back. August 2026
08
Fix the basics in rural Ottawa.
One standard, two operating environments. Road safety, farm business zoning, ditches, road renewal, and your right to know about your own land. August 2026
09
Jobs and growth.
Ottawa lost 30,500 jobs in a year and nobody at City Hall owns the file. Get people into work, get more work into Ottawa. 21 commitments, all on the City’s own budget. August 2026
10
Free up parking.
Every on-street parking meter comes out, and no posted parking limit shorter than two hours anywhere in the city. The motion goes to council on day one. Main streets shouldn’t charge you to shop local. September 2026

More on the way.

In my world, you hit your deadlines or you eat the cost. That’s what I’m bringing to City Hall.
Alex Lawson
Builder, not politician

Election day is Monday, October 26, 2026.

Ottawa deserves better.

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Ottawa is a beautiful city. We’re lucky to call it home.

But over the past few years, things have been getting worse.

Housing is harder to afford. Transit isn’t reliable. Costs keep going up, and basic services aren’t keeping up.

There’s been a lot of talk. Not enough action.

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