--- title: "Peter Westaway: candidate for mayor, Ottawa 2026 | voche.me" canonical_url: "https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/peter-westaway" last_updated: "2026-10-10T04:05:27.125Z" meta: description: "Peter Westaway repairs bicycles, and CBC News describes him as a former taxi driver. The City's list shows his nomination for Mayor dated July 15, 2026, th..." "og:description": "Peter Westaway repairs bicycles, and CBC News describes him as a former taxi driver. The City's list shows his nomination for Mayor dated July 15, 2026, th..." "og:title": "Peter Westaway: candidate for mayor, Ottawa 2026" "twitter:description": "Peter Westaway repairs bicycles, and CBC News describes him as a former taxi driver. The City's list shows his nomination for Mayor dated July 15, 2026, th..." "twitter:title": "Peter Westaway: candidate for mayor, Ottawa 2026" --- ** Mayor · Ottawa 2026 # Peter Westaway Bicycle mechanic running for Mayor on a plan to change the Ottawa Greenbelt. Peter Westaway repairs bicycles, and CBC News describes him as a former taxi driver. The City's list shows his nomination for Mayor dated July 15, 2026, the same day it shows him withdrawing from a race for Councillor in Ward 9. His campaign says its main aim is to change how the Greenbelt farmland is used. In his answers to CBC News he says he would prefer no property tax increase, would cut the police budget and would not give City money to a new NHL arena. Explore priorities Campaign links Researched by voche.me · Not a campaign-authored page Candidate space2026 Peter WestawayOttawa municipal election *Peter WestawayMayorv.* 01 / Introduction ## About Peter Westaway The City's list of nominated candidates shows that Peter Westaway filed a nomination for Councillor in Ward 9 on May 1, 2026, withdrew that nomination on July 15, 2026, and filed a nomination for Mayor on July 15, 2026. His campaign website says he registered in Ward 9, then decided to run for Mayor and to support Cole Fraser Jones, another Ward 9 candidate, against the sitting councillor, Sean Devine. The City's list shows his nomination for Mayor and gives a website, a LinkedIn profile and a YouTube channel for him. CBC News described him in 2022 as a bike mechanic who ran for Councillor in Ward 9 that year, and in 2025 as a former taxi driver who tunes up bicycles. CBC News also reported that he ran in the June 16, 2025 by-election in Osgoode ward and as an independent in the Nepean riding in the 2025 Ontario election. In both 2025 races CBC News said his main issue was the Ottawa Greenbelt. His website says he grew up in Nepean, drove a taxi for many years, was elected by taxi drivers to the City's Taxi Advisory Committee after amalgamation, and runs a mobile bicycle repair business called Bikemobile. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them against City records. His campaign website, titled World's Dumbest Farms, argues that the Greenbelt, the ring of mostly federal land around Ottawa's older neighbourhoods, did not stop suburban sprawl and should be changed. It says the land is controlled by the National Capital Commission (a federal agency), which makes change difficult. The site also carries short pages on waste, the police, Lansdowne, traffic, the City budget and amalgamation, and a page that tells readers to vote for Neil Saravanamuttoo for Mayor, another candidate in this race. In his answers to the CBC News questionnaire he wrote that he would prefer a zero property tax increase and would look for savings in staff and budgets, but that he sees this as unrealistic in the first year. He wrote that the police budget should be decreased and that police should do more traffic enforcement, and that the City should use more social workers and fewer police officers when it responds to public drug use and encampments. He answered No to City funding for a new NHL arena at LeBreton Flats and No to a ring road. He answered Maybe on using the mayor's strong powers, and wrote that he is not sure why. [Seven mayoral candidates lay out transit and environment plans at Nepean Sportsplex forum ](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/news/mayor-forum-transit-trees-2026-10-09) Read the sources 02 / The issues ## Priorities & positions Campaign-source summary Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform. 01 ### The Greenbelt His campaign says it wants to plant more trees along roads that cross the Greenbelt, starting with Greenbank Road, turn some large commercial farms into small community farms open to the public, and use some of the cornfields for new high-tech communities built to high environmental standards.
Read the full position The campaign says the National Capital Commission should hold open competitions for designs for these communities. The campaign says the National Capital Commission controls the land, so the City cannot change it alone.
[Peter Westaway campaign · How to change the Greenbelt ](https://ctog.ca/howtochangethegreenbelt.html) 02 ### Taxes and the City budget In his answers to CBC News he wrote that he would prefer a zero property tax increase and would find savings by cutting staff and budgets, and that he knows this is unrealistic in the first year.
Read the full position He wrote that OC Transpo deficits should be handled with service cuts and not with higher fares or a transit levy. He answered No to City funding for a new NHL arena at LeBreton Flats and said he would not accept campaign donations from the development and construction industry. He named strengthening the sewer system as his top infrastructure priority.
[CBC News · Peter Westaway's questionnaire answers, 2026 mayoral candidates ](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28722342-peter-westaway) 03 ### Police budget In his answers to CBC News he wrote that the police budget should be decreased, that police should be more efficient and do more traffic enforcement, and that more social workers and fewer police officers should respond to public drug use and encampments.
Read the full position His website says Ottawa does not need more officers but needs better ones.
[CBC News · Peter Westaway's questionnaire answers, 2026 mayoral candidates ](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28722342-peter-westaway) 04 ### Waste His website says Ottawa's garbage, recycling and compost systems are failing. It calls for a modern waste-to-energy plant (a plant that burns garbage to make electricity) and for covered recycling bins like those used in Gatineau.
Read the full position The site says Mayor Mark Sutcliffe promised on his campaign to look into a waste-to-energy plant and that the City then set a three-bin limit. These are the campaign's statements, and voche.me has not checked them.
[Peter Westaway campaign · Our waste mismanagement ](https://ctog.ca/our.waste.mismanagement.html) [CBC News questionnaire answers](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28722342-peter-westaway) Research status ## What voche.me has checked Evidence reviewed on October 5, 2026: the City of Ottawa's list of certified candidates, the City's open data file of nominated candidates, six pages of his campaign website, CBC News's list of mayoral candidates of August 28, 2026 with his questionnaire answers, and CBC News reports of 2022 and 2025 on his earlier races. His plans come from his campaign and from his own answers to CBC News, and each is written here as his statement. Gaps. The City's page of withdrawn candidates could not be opened, so the withdrawal date comes from the City's open data file. His YouTube channel and LinkedIn profile could not be read, and nothing from them is used. His claims about the Taxi Advisory Committee, his business and his 2025 races come from his own website or from CBC News and were not checked against City or Elections Ontario records. Results of his earlier races were not taken from the official results. No news report quoting him in the 2026 mayoral race was found. The questionnaire has not been sent. [City of Ottawa · certified candidates, Mayor](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/candidates/certified-and-acclaimed-candidates/certified-candidates-mayor) 03 / Background ## Experience & community Dates not given ### Former taxi driver CBC News described him in 2025 as a former taxi driver. His website says he drove a taxi in Nepean for many years. [CBC News · Ontario Votes 2025: Nepean](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-votes-2025-riding-profile-nepean-1.7440869) Dates not given ### Member of the City of Ottawa Taxi Advisory Committee In his CBC News questionnaire he wrote that he was an elected member of Ottawa's Taxi Advisory Committee after amalgamation. voche.me did not find a City record of this. [CBC News · Peter Westaway's questionnaire answers, 2026 mayoral candidates](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28722342-peter-westaway) Dates not given ### Runs a mobile bicycle repair business, Bikemobile His campaign website says he runs Bikemobile and tunes up bicycles every spring. CBC News described him in 2022 as a bike mechanic and in 2025 as someone who tunes up bicycles. [Peter Westaway campaign · About Peter Westaway](https://ctog.ca/peter.westaway.html) 2022 ### Candidate for Councillor, Ward 9 Knoxdale-Merivale CBC News listed him among seven candidates in Ward 9 in the October 24, 2022 election, won by Sean Devine. voche.me did not take his vote count from the City's published results, so none is given. [CBC News · Sean Devine will fill Knoxdale-Merivale's seat at the council table, October 2022](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-municipal-election-ward-9-knoxdale-merivale-winner-1.6620087) 2025 ### Candidate in the Ontario election, Nepean riding, and in the Osgoode ward by-election CBC News listed him as an independent candidate in Nepean in the 2025 Ontario election, and as one of 11 candidates in the Osgoode ward by-election held on June 16, 2025. voche.me did not look up the results of either race. [CBC News · Meet the 11 candidates vying to succeed George Darouze in Osgoode, 2025](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/meet-the-11-candidates-vying-to-succeed-george-darouze-in-osgoode-1.7540159) 04 / Questions & answers ## Questions for the candidate Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied. No questions and answers have been supplied. ### Have your own question? Ask Peter Westaway directly. We send it to the campaign, and publish the reply here if we get one. 05 / About this page ## Questions about this page Facts voche.me can state about Peter Westaway's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Peter Westaway? No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Peter Westaway's own campaign.
Does Peter Westaway currently hold public office? Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Peter Westaway.
How many sources does this Peter Westaway profile cite? This profile lists 13 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Peter Westaway's page show no answer? The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Peter Westaway in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Peter Westaway is running in? The 2026 Ottawa municipal election, including the Mayor race, is decided on October 26, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions ## Space for campaign updates ### No campaign updates yet Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added. ## Sources & transparency - [City of Ottawa · certified candidates, Mayor ](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/candidates/certified-and-acclaimed-candidates/certified-candidates-mayor)Checked October 5, 2026 - [City of Ottawa open data · Nominated candidates (withdrawal and new nomination dates) ](https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/5b79177ae7524c9fa68f79e852527604)Checked October 5, 2026 - [Peter Westaway campaign · home page ](https://ctog.ca/)Checked October 5, 2026 - [Peter Westaway campaign · About Peter Westaway ](https://ctog.ca/peter.westaway.html)Checked October 5, 2026 - [Peter Westaway campaign · Knoxdale-Merivale ward ](https://ctog.ca/KnoxdaleMerivale.ward.html)Checked October 5, 2026 - [Peter Westaway campaign · How to change the Greenbelt ](https://ctog.ca/howtochangethegreenbelt.html)Checked October 5, 2026 - [Peter Westaway campaign · Our waste mismanagement ](https://ctog.ca/our.waste.mismanagement.html)Checked October 5, 2026 - [Peter Westaway campaign · Ottawa Police Service ](https://ctog.ca/Ottawa.Police.Service.html)Checked October 5, 2026 - [CBC News · These are Ottawa's 2026 candidates for mayor, August 28, 2026 ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-mayor-election-race-2026-election-9.7311126)Checked October 5, 2026 - [CBC News · Peter Westaway's questionnaire answers, 2026 mayoral candidates ](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28722342-peter-westaway)Checked October 5, 2026 - [CBC News · Meet the 11 candidates vying to succeed George Darouze in Osgoode, 2025 ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/meet-the-11-candidates-vying-to-succeed-george-darouze-in-osgoode-1.7540159)Checked October 5, 2026 - [CBC News · Ontario Votes 2025: Nepean ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-votes-2025-riding-profile-nepean-1.7440869)Checked October 5, 2026 - [CBC News · Sean Devine will fill Knoxdale-Merivale's seat at the council table, October 2022 ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-municipal-election-ward-9-knoxdale-merivale-winner-1.6620087)Checked October 5, 2026 Missing information does not imply a candidate’s position. [Read our editorial standards.](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/about) Campaign contact ## Campaign links & contact. Find the candidate’s website, social accounts and contact information. [Peter Westaway campaign website](https://ctog.ca/) ## View more candidates. [All candidate spaces ](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates) [Mayor**Alex Lawson**](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/alex-lawson) [Mayor**Ali Shayvard**](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/ali-shayvard) Candidate Q&A ## Ask Peter Westaway a question. Give your name, email and question. We send it to the campaign, and publish their answer here if we get one. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/on/ottawa-2026/sitemap.md) for all pages.