By Andrew Macdonald
With some 1,300 folks living in ‘Tent City Halifax’, as well as major transportation congestion on the Halifax Peninsula, and a current council slow to act on the housing crisis, The Macdonald Notebook suggests the entire incumbent council should be voted out of office.
It’s time for fresh faces on the regional council, and it is time for some millennial-aged folk to get elected.
The current council has been slow to deal with a housing crisis. It took 12 years for the Centre Plan to be passed, the plan that guides apartment and condo development in Halifax and Dartmouth.
One refreshing next-generation candidate for the regional council is Lara Cusson, 36, a successful millennial-aged entrepreneur.
Known simply as Lara, she is offering to run in District 9, which includes part of Halifax, Quinpool Road to Armdale. She launched her candidacy this week with 100 supporters enthusiastically cheering her on.
A proven leader, she is a successful coffee shop entrepreneur, creating her own destiny and assembling a 17-person staff at Cafe Lara on Agricola Street. That opened in 2018 and Café Lara quickly became the place to be seen and heard. Not satisfied with just one coffee shop, she is opening a second café and roaster shop at Kempt Road in the city’s Northend.
It’s time for a fresh perspective at the regional council, it is time to usher in another generational leader, folks who can help solve the housing crisis as a main priority and folks who can tend to overburdened taxpayers and mind the financial big spending of the current incumbent council.
Lara Cusson is the type of candidate we need to run the city. That is why The Macdonald Notebook is endorsing her for District 9. Go Lara! Go!
We have down a deep dive into her family’s vision and ambition as highly successful film makers, lawyers, and housing developers in this edition of The Macdonald Notebook. We hope you enjoy these articles on the Donovan Clan, of which she is a member of, as her mother was a Donovan.
Lara Cusson’s campaign material. One hundred folk attended her campaign kick off for District 9 in HRM.
