This record covers Cam Rothery, the Independent Parks Party candidate for Park Board at ballot number 213 in the October 17, 2026 Vancouver election. His own positions appear in two places: a campaign video description and his answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network's 2026 Park Board survey. The party's platform sets out 33 numbered positions but names no individual candidate, so none of it is tagged as Rothery's own statement. This record sets out what could be confirmed and what remains unconfirmed.
The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. Measured October 4, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
Parks and recreation4/10
2/2
A position in the candidate’s own words
“Cam believes that our parks, community centres, and community programs should be accessible, well maintained, and affordable for every citizen—no matter their background or social standing.”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on parks: 9 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Vancouver is the only major city in Canada with a separately elected park board. Its seven commissioners control parks, community centres, pools, rinks and beaches.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council, the Park Board and the Board of Education each set their own meeting rules, committees, public consultation and reporting. The Vancouver Charter and the School Act create the three bodies and set their powers, and only the Province can change those acts.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on taxes and budget: 4 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board sets its own fees and approves its budget request. Council approves the City budget that funds it and the capital plan that pays for park buildings.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on climate: 7 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board manages trees, natural areas and the shoreline inside parks, and its own community centres, pools and rinks. The City’s building bylaw is Council’s.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Independent Parks Party publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on public safety: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board makes the bylaws and rules for parks and beaches and runs the park rangers. Policing is the Vancouver Police Department’s, and Council approves its budget.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Independent Parks Party publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on transport: 2 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board decides the roads, paths and parking inside parks, including Stanley Park Drive. City streets and bike lanes outside parks are Council’s.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Cam Rothery
Cam Rothery appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 213. The City records the affiliation as Independent Parks Party.
Daily Hive published the final ballot order on September 22, 2026, listing Cam Rothery at number 213 for Park Board under the Independent Parks Party, one of five candidates the party is running in that race.
A campaign video titled Cam Rothery for Park Board was posted on August 12, 2026 by Michael Robert Caditz. The video description says Rothery is a social services professional who holds a Bachelor of Arts in social sciences and has worked on housing and homelessness programmes.
The Independent Parks Party website carries an authorisation line naming Michael Robert Caditz, and says the party is a project of the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, a British Columbia non-profit organisation.
The VoteMate profile for Rothery holds no biography and no platform entries. The page states that the candidate has not uploaded a profile.
In the Vancouver Public Space Network survey, Rothery says he would ban further commercial logging in Stanley Park and other parks, keep the amount of public space from shrinking as the city grows, expand the tree canopy, hold monthly town halls, cancel the recent parking fee increase at Spanish Banks, and stop private management of sports and recreation facilities in parks. Several sentences in his answers repeat, word for word, the answers Michael Robert Caditz gave for the same party; voche.me treats those sentences as party text.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list and the campaign material linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
voche.me re-checked this record on September 26 and again on October 3, 2026. On October 3 it found Rothery's answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network's 2026 Park Board candidate survey, published under his name and ballot number on September 29, 2026. Those answers and his campaign video are the two places where his own positions appear.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
17 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · Parks and recreationCampaign pledge
Accessible, maintained and affordable parks and programmes
The campaign video says Rothery believes parks, community centres and community programmes should be accessible, well maintained and affordable for every resident.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The campaign video states this as a general belief. It names no bylaw, programme, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which specific facility or programme would this apply to first, and at what cost?
2026 · Affordable recreation and social servicesCampaign pledge
Background: career in social services and public housing
The campaign video says Rothery has spent the last decade of his career in social programs and public housing, focused on people facing homelessness or mental health issues.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Background from his own campaign video. It names no employer, programme or organisation, so it earns no point on any scored issue.
What still needs checking
What organisation did this work through, and for how long?
Stop commercial logging in Stanley Park and other parks
Asked what one change he would make in one park on his first day, Rothery's survey answer says he would ban further commercial logging in Stanley Park and every other Vancouver park, and allow tree removal only where inspectors who answer only to the City and the Park Board have found a tree unsafe.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The answer names the rule that would decide which trees may be removed. It gives no cost, number of trees or date. His wording differs from the answers other party candidates gave to the same question.
What still needs checking
Would he bring a motion to the Board to set this rule, and what would happen to work already under contract?
Rothery's survey answer says the party will set up a Green Canopy Office, a panel of experts whose permission City staff would need before removing trees.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This sentence repeats, word for word, the answer Michael Robert Caditz gave in the same survey, so it is counted as party text. It gives no cost, membership number or date.
What still needs checking
What would the office cost, how many experts would sit on it, and when would it start?
Community centres as shelter in extreme heat and smoke
Rothery's survey answer says community centres have a central role as places where residents can take shelter during extreme heat or wildfire smoke, in particular older people and people without secure housing.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
A statement of approach. It names no centre, opening hours, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which community centres would open as shelters, and who would pay for longer hours?
Rothery's survey answer says Council should pay for parks and recreation from the City's tax revenue, because residents already pay taxes that are meant for public spaces and recreation facilities.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The sentence saying Council should fund parks from the tax base repeats, word for word, the answer Michael Robert Caditz gave in the same survey, so it is counted as party text; the sentence quoted here is Rothery's own. The answer gives no budget figure and no date.
What still needs checking
How much more would the Park Board ask Council for each year?
Stop the Think Big plan for commercial use of parks
Rothery's survey answer says the Park Board's "Think Big" plan to raise money through commercial use of parks will be stopped, and that park users should not face advertising or closures for private events.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The words saying Think Big commercialization will be halted, and the sentence on advertising and private events, repeat Michael Robert Caditz's answer word for word; the reason quoted here is Rothery's own. The party's platform (position 10) calls for the strategy to be cancelled. No cost or date is given.
What still needs checking
How would the Board replace the money the strategy now brings in?
Rothery's survey answers say the Park Board should hold monthly town halls where residents can raise their concerns, and call this one of the best ways for the Board to stay in touch with residents.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The sentence "We will convene monthly town halls to meaningfully engage with citizens and their concerns" repeats Michael Robert Caditz's answer word for word; the sentence quoted here is Rothery's own. The answer gives no cost, place or start date.
What still needs checking
Where would the town halls be held, and would the Board be required to respond to what is raised?
Keep the Park Board, with commissioners setting policy
Asked whether he plans to abolish or reform the Park Board, Rothery's survey answer says no. It says elected commissioners should set park policy based on what residents tell them, and City staff should carry out that policy without overriding the commissioners.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
A statement of position. It names no specific step, number or date.
What still needs checking
What would he do if Council or the Province moved to end the Board?
Continue reconciliation work, with no commercial use of parks
Asked whether he would continue the Board's work toward reconciliation and shared management of parks with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Rothery's survey answer says yes and that the views of hereditary leaders matter to the party. It also says no organization, including the MST Development Corporation, would be allowed to commercialize Vancouver parks or build towers, businesses or parking lots on them.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
A statement of position. It names no agreement, park, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which current or planned agreements would this change?
Rothery's survey answer says rising user fees push lower-income residents out of public facilities, and that the party would cancel the recent parking fee increase at Spanish Banks and bring the rate back to $1 an hour.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The answer names a fee the Park Board sets, and the rate of $1 an hour, which is what drivers would pay and counts as the target. It names no cost to the Park Board, such as the parking money it would lose, and no source of money to replace it, so no cost point applies. No date is given. Michael Robert Caditz gave a shorter answer with the same fee and rate.
What still needs checking
When would the Board vote on it, and how would the lost parking money be replaced?
Party position: review playgrounds and sports courts
Rothery's survey answer says the party will order a review of the condition and safety of playgrounds and sports courts across the city.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This sentence repeats, word for word, the answer Michael Robert Caditz gave in the same survey, so it is counted as party text. It gives no cost or date.
Rothery's survey answer says the party will stop any privatization of sports and recreation facilities in Vancouver parks, starting with what he calls a pilot program that hands management of the Kits Beach tennis courts to a private operator.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The answer names one program the Board would end. voche.me has not checked the Park Board's own record of the Kits Beach tennis court program. No cost or date is given.
What still needs checking
When would the Board end the program, and who would run the courts after that?
Each entry below names its source. Campaign material is the candidate's own account. Nothing here is presented as a verified outcome unless the entry says so.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
Statement
Answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network Park Board survey
He answered all 10 questions. He calls for a ban on further commercial logging in parks, no loss of public space as the city grows, a larger tree canopy, community centres as shelter in extreme heat and smoke, monthly town halls, keeping the Park Board, a return to $1 an hour parking at Spanish Banks, and an end to private management of park sports facilities. Several sentences repeat Michael Robert Caditz's answers to the same survey word for word. The page lists no social media for him.
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
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Reporting
Daily Hive
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: All 130 names in ballot order
The published ballot order lists Cam Rothery at number 213 for Park Board under the Independent Parks Party. This listing is the only news mention of Rothery found.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No personal website or social media account for Cam Rothery was found, and the City's candidate list shows no social media or contact route for him. The Vimeo video page blocks automated requests with a bot-check challenge; the title, description and upload date used here come from the page's own hidden description lines and from Vimeo's public video information service, and the video itself was not watched. The party's home page (parksparty.vote) serves only navigation, a login prompt and its authorisation line to a plain request, with no individual candidate page. The party's platform, 33 numbered positions at parksparty.vote/Platform, names no individual commissioner. The party's Bluesky account's latest 60 posts, back to April 4, 2026, do not name him. The VoteMate profile confirms his party and office and states he has not uploaded a biography or added any promises. His answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network survey are his own statements, published under his name; several sentences repeat Michael Robert Caditz's answers word for word and are treated as party text. The Kerrisdale Community Centre's list of confirmed speakers for its September 29 Park Board meeting does not include him, the Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association's September 23 meeting names only Michael Robert Caditz for the party, and the October 3 West End forum notice does not name who will attend. The Women Transforming Cities pledge covered mayor and council candidates only and has no Independent Parks Party table. No news report, interview or independent profile naming Rothery was found other than the Daily Hive ballot list, and no independent source confirms the Bachelor of Arts from Vancouver Island University, the community radio show, or the decade of work in social programs and public housing that his campaign video describes. No public accountability record was found.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on September 22, September 26 and October 3, 2026: the campaign video in which Rothery is described in his own campaign's words, his answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network's Park Board survey, the party's home page and its platform page, the party's Bluesky account, his VoteMate profile, the City's candidate list, the Daily Hive ballot order, and community forum listings.
The party's home page still holds only navigation and a login prompt. Its platform, 33 numbered positions, is posted at a separate address and does not name any individual commissioner, so none of it is tagged as Rothery's own words. Sentences in his survey answers that repeat Michael Robert Caditz's answers word for word are also treated as party text.
Checks still to do: confirm whether Rothery holds or held any organisational role in housing or homelessness work, confirm the claimed Bachelor of Arts from Vancouver Island University, and confirm the community radio show. No source beyond his own campaign video was found for any of these.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material or as a survey answer is the candidate's or the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
As of 2026
Social services professional
The campaign video description says Rothery works in social services and has focused on housing and homelessness programmes. No employer, organisation or number of years is given, and no independent source was found.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
How would parks and community centres better serve residents facing housing instability?
No response has been submitted.
How would you divide funding between existing-facility maintenance, affordable access and new construction?
No response has been submitted.
Have your own question?
Ask Cam Rothery 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 Cam Rothery's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Cam Rothery?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Cam Rothery's own campaign.
What is Cam Rothery's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Cam Rothery is number 213 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for Park Board.
What party did Cam Rothery run with?
Cam Rothery ran for Park Board with Independent Parks Party.
Does Cam Rothery currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Cam Rothery.
How many sources does this Cam Rothery profile cite?
This profile lists 3 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Cam Rothery filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Cam Rothery. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Cam Rothery's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Cam Rothery 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 was the election Cam Rothery ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the Park Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
Spanish Banks parking commitment: fee rate now scored as a target
The commitment to bring Spanish Banks parking back to $1 an hour recorded the fee change as the measure but gave no points for the rate. voche.me's scoring rules count a fee the public would pay as a target, and give the cost point only for the money the measure would cost the Park Board or a named source of that money. The $1 an hour rate from his own survey answer now counts as the target. The answer gives no cost to the Park Board and no date. This matches how the same pledge is scored for Niknaz Alemi.
Record reviewed, with survey answers added
This profile said that Rothery's campaign video was the only place he spoke about his own reasons for running. That is no longer true: on October 3, 2026 voche.me found his answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network's Park Board candidate survey, published on September 29, 2026. The biography, priorities, commitments and research notes now include them. Also added on this date: the City's candidate list entry, read through a reader service, which shows no social media or contact route for him, and the October 3 Park Board forum in the West End as an unconfirmed event. No calendar entries dated before October 3 were in the record, so none were changed or removed.
