“I haven’t been a politician. I’ve been a framer for 20 years, but also a business owner, a father. I know how to negotiate, I understand that deadlines matter, and, living in the places that I have in this city, I think I’ve got a different perspective on it all,” Lawson said. “I’ve walked a lot of different roads wearing a lot of different pairs of shoes, and I think it gives me a bit more of an understanding of what people are actually going through and what we need to do to address it.”
