2011 Mississauga Summit: October 25

This year’s Mississauga Summit is taking place on October 25th at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga Campus. This year’s special guest is newly elected Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi.

Mayor Hazel McCallion called for the inaugural Mississauga Summit in 2007 and invited business leaders, educators, labour, not-for-profit groups and government to come together to discuss strategies to create well-paying, long-term jobs in Mississauga.

The inaugural Summit was heralded as a great success and an excellent start to addressing the difficult challenges facing our city, particularly unemployment and job creation. In 2009, the second Mississauga Summit was called and began to narrow the focus to the top 5 key issues facing Mississauga.

From the group discussions at the second Summit, over 150 community volunteers worked diligently between 2009 and 2010 on the 5 key issues facing our community. For over a year and a half, the volunteers strategized on the solutions that could address the five key issues that include:

Building Mississauga’s human services infrastructure;

Creating a post-secondary education strategy to compliment our economic and human capital development;

Waterfront development and environmental sustainability;

Cultivating Mississauga as a Centre of Excellence for diversity and immigration;

and

Creating quality jobs for the short and longer term.

The Summit team has concluded its work and is now ready to unveil its 5 “Big Ideas” to tackle these challenges and an action plan to improve the economic prospects of our city.

The details for the Summit are as follows:

Date: October 25, 2011

Time: 4:30pm - 9:00pm

Location: University of Toronto Mississauga

(3359 Mississauga Road)

The event is free of charge, but you must register prior to attending. To register for the Summit.

For more information, please visit the Mississauga Summit’s website at http://www.mississaugasummit.ca

The Mississasuga Summit has identified common, pan-Mississauga issues that must be addressed for our continued prosperity as a community and they deserve our support.

If you ever wondered how you can get more involved in your community and help to shape the future of our great City, there is no better  opportunity than the Mississauga Summit. Our city faces some significant challenges in the next 30 years and we need every resident to get involved and have their say about our future.