Camil Dumont, ballot number 119 for City Council in Vancouver, Green Party of Vancouver. Profile focus: Food systems and the transition from parks to council.
This record covers Camil Dumont's term as a Vancouver park commissioner from 2018 to 2022, including motions and votes reported at the time, and the 2026 council candidacy with the Green Party of Vancouver. Dumont appears at ballot number 119.
No public appearance by this candidate was confirmed in the sources checked on September 22, 2026. The voting dates below apply to every voter. An empty day is a gap in the research, not proof that nothing is happening.
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01 / Introduction
About Camil Dumont
Camil Dumont appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 119. The City records the affiliation as Green Party of Vancouver.
The party page says Dumont co-founded Inner City Farms in 2009 and led it as Head Farmer and Executive Director for more than 10 years. The page says Dumont was elected as a Green to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation in 2018 and was elected Chair of the Park Board twice. The page says Dumont has been Education Manager at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm since September 2020.
Dumont was elected to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation in the 2018 civic election as a Green Party candidate, taking 65,303 votes, or 37.01 percent, which placed third among park board candidates.
The party's candidate page says Dumont grew up in Vancouver, attended l'Ecole Bilingue, graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in 1997, and later earned an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree and a Master of Science from the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Land and Food Systems.
The party's candidate page says Dumont worked for the Vancouver Park Board for close to a decade in seasonal horticulture before entering elected office.
The party's candidate page says Dumont co-founded Inner City Farms, an urban farm in Vancouver, in 2009, and served as head farmer and executive director for more than ten years.
The party's candidate page says Dumont has been Education Manager at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm since September 2020. Daily Hive describes Dumont as an urban farming advocate.
The party's candidate page says Dumont was elected chair of the Park Board twice and committee chair once during the 2018 to 2022 term. The Georgia Straight and Daily Hive both identify Dumont as park board chair in March 2021.
The Green Party of Vancouver announced Dumont on March 23, 2026 as one of seven council nomination candidates, describing Dumont as a former park board chair and urban agriculture leader. Daily Hive reported the nomination contest the following day.
Daily Hive reported on May 14, 2026 that Green Party members confirmed Dumont as one of four council candidates for the ballot, alongside Annette Reilly, Bridget Burns and Stephanie Smith, with sitting councillor Pete Fry as the party's mayoral candidate.
Women Transforming Cities lists Dumont among the candidates who signed its City Hall Pledge.
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City Hall Pledge signature
Women Transforming Cities lists Dumont as having signed its City Hall Pledge, a set of six policy asks put to mayoral and council candidates.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The organisation's page names Dumont among the Green Party signatories, together with Annette Reilly and Bridget Burns. The page does not record which of the six asks each signatory accepted.
As a commissioner Dumont moved to bring the temporary protected bike lane on Stanley Park Drive back for 2021, saying the reason was to make the car less central to daily life.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The Park Board approved the motion on March 11, 2021 by five votes to two, with NPA commissioners John Coupar and Tricia Barker opposed. The lane was approved to the end of October 2021. The sources do not record what happened after that date.
What still needs checking
Whether Dumont is asking council to take the same approach to road space in 2026.
In 2019 Dumont wrote a motion asking for shared information and direct, open communication between the Park Board and BC Housing so that homelessness in parks could be handled faster.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The Georgia Straight reported the motion on October 30, 2019 and said it was set for the November 4 park board agenda. No source was found that records how the board voted or what followed.
A multi-government approach to homelessness in parks
The Georgia Straight reported that Dumont had introduced a resolution on voluntary decampment at Oppenheimer Park on September 26, 2019 and, earlier that month, a request for a task force across levels of government on homelessness.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The article names the resolutions and the dates Dumont introduced them. It does not say how the board voted on either one.
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Approved
Temporary bike lane on Stanley Park Drive, 2021
Dumont moved that the Park Board bring back a temporary protected bike lane on Park Drive in Stanley Park and keep it until October 31, 2021. Commissioners approved it five votes to two. John Coupar and Tricia Barker, both NPA commissioners, voted against.
Scope, limits and sources
The lane had first been put in during 2020. Dumont said the main reason for bringing it back was to make the car less central to how the city works, and called that a difficult change. Daily Hive reported the measure came back with changes based on the 2020 experience.
Dumont wrote a motion calling for shared information and direct, open communication between the Vancouver Park Board and BC Housing, so that homelessness in city parks could be dealt with more quickly.
Scope, limits and sources
The Georgia Straight reported the motion was going to the park board agenda of November 4, 2019. Dumont told the paper that the situation at Oppenheimer Park had shown how the different government bodies deal with each other. No record of the vote was found.
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Interview
Interview on homelessness in parks and working with BC Housing
Dumont told the Georgia Straight that people experiencing homelessness are in parks in every part of the city, that Oppenheimer Park had shown how government bodies interact, and that humanitarian questions should be handled as governance rather than politics.
Remarks on returning the Stanley Park Drive bike lane
Speaking as park board chair after the vote, Dumont said a temporary protected bike lane made sense and that the main reason was a view that the car needs to become less central to daily life, a change Dumont called difficult.
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Policy dispute
Decision not to seek re-election in 2022 after disputes over encampments and the Stanley Park bike lane
Daily Hive reported in March and again in May 2026 that Dumont placed third among park board candidates in 2018 but did not seek re-election in 2022, describing the term as turbulent and naming disputes over homeless encampments in parks and the Stanley Park Drive bike lane.
Candidate or party response
The Green Party candidate page says Dumont did not seek re-election in 2022 primarily for health reasons. No statement from Dumont about the disputes themselves was found.
Verified status and limits
Dumont left the Park Board at the end of the 2018 to 2022 term and is now a Green council candidate at ballot number 119. These were disagreements over policy, and no source shows any finding against Dumont.
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Reporting
Georgia Straight
Vancouver Park Board to reinstate temporary Stanley Park cycling path
Reported the board's approval of a temporary cycling path on Park Drive for 2021, with changes based on the previous year, and quoted board chair Dumont on reducing the place of the car.
Green party names seven Vancouver City Council nomination hopefuls
Listed the seven people seeking the Green council nomination and described Dumont as an urban farming advocate and former park commissioner who declined to seek re-election in 2022 after a difficult term.
Green Party confirms four Vancouver City Council candidates for election
Reported that members confirmed Dumont, Annette Reilly, Bridget Burns and Stephanie Smith as the Green council slate, and repeated that Dumont did not run again in 2022 after disputes over park encampments and the Stanley Park Drive bike lane.
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
The Green Party's events page lists campaign events to October 17, 2026 but names only Breanne Smart and Bridget Burns, so no appearance by Dumont could be confirmed. CBC and Vancouver Is Awesome pages about the CRAB Park and Strathcona Park encampment decisions returned HTTP 403 and could not be opened, so this record does not say how Dumont voted on any encampment matter. Neither the party candidate page nor the nomination announcement sets out a personal 2026 platform for Dumont, and no 2026 interview with Dumont was found. The schooling, degrees, Inner City Farms role and UBC Farm post come only from the party page and were not independently confirmed. The outcome of the 2019 motions on BC Housing, Oppenheimer Park and a task force was not established.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 0 stated positions and 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Verify previous elected service and distinguish the Park Board record from council experience.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Dates not stated
Seasonal horticulture worker, Vancouver Park Board
The party's candidate page says Dumont worked for the Park Board for close to a decade, mostly in seasonal horticulture, and developed an interest in plants, gardens and public green space.
Co-founder, head farmer and executive director, Inner City Farms
The party's candidate page says Dumont co-founded the urban farm in 2009 and led it for more than ten years, expanding chances for people to learn about farming and local food.
Commissioner, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
Elected in 2018 with 65,303 votes. During the term Dumont moved motions on homelessness in parks and on the Stanley Park Drive bike lane, and the party page says Dumont chaired the board twice.
