Rick Di Lorenzo
2025 is forecasted to be a difficult year. Milton’s local municipal property tax is increasing over 9% while unemployment is worsening. The economy is threatened by the incoming United States administration. Our federal budget deficit continues to grow which hinders our ability to fight any future recession. The Town of Milton is in court battling CN Railroad on the harmful impacts their Intermodal will have on our community.
In a landscape marked by uncertainty, we need leaders who look beyond party lines and focus on long-term solutions rather than short-term political gains. We cannot afford the divisiveness that comes with partisan rhetoric and brinkmanship. The reality is all parties share similar goals — creating jobs, maintaining economic stability, and
ensuring a prosperous future for the next generation. The question is not whether these goals are desirable, but how best to achieve them. While debate is healthy what is not is the increasing polarization into separate camps and the demonizing of those of different political or philosophical viewpoints.
There is more that unites us than divides us. In 2025, care and spend time with family. However make true the “kindness of strangers” mantra by helping others even when you have nothing to gain by it. Don’t trust leaders or headlines that look to make us distrust our fellow neighbours. Show that you care even if it’s just a smile and holding the door open for a stranger. Everyone is struggling with something even if it’s hidden away inside. I depend on the kindness of strangers.
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