This record covers Jon Girard, ballot number 204, running for Vancouver Park Board with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver. Most of the available material relates to the court case Girard helped bring over the size of the pool in the Vancouver Aquatic Centre replacement.
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 3, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
Parks and recreation9/10
2/2
A position in the candidate’s own words
“Halt the Aquatic Centre project and reopen the planning.”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 5 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 5 commitments, none 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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 7 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on climate: 7 commitments, at least one 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. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 4 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 4 commitments, 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. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 5 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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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.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on transport: 5 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 Jon Girard
Jon Girard appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 204. The City records the affiliation as TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
The campaign says Girard works as a consultant in software and explains technical detail to people who must decide without being experts. The page says Girard was founding managing director of Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society, which raised over $110,000 from the public and filed a court petition over the Aquatic Centre replacement. The campaign says Girard has lived in Vancouver for the last ten years and swims in public pools several times a week.
The TEAM campaign page says Girard works as a software consultant and has lived in Vancouver for the past ten years.
Girard is one of three directors of the Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society. CityHallWatch named Girard, Susan Boutwood and Carlie McPhee as the three directors in July 2025, and the society's own petition announcement lists the same three names.
Daily Hive reported in September 2026 that Girard is one of two directors of that society who are running for Park Board, the other being Mayeli Alvarez.
TEAM announced Girard as a Park Board candidate on August 27, 2026, alongside Mayeli Alvarez and Allan Fawley.
Girard appears at ballot number 204 on the Park Board ballot, listed with TEAM.
The TEAM campaign page says Girard swims at public pools and uses city gyms, and names the Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre.
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.
The City's candidate list, read on October 3, 2026, gives saveourvacpool.ca, the society's website, as Girard's website, and votejonforpb as his Instagram and Facebook account.
Daily Hive's report on the court's written reasons names the petitioner as Jonathan Girard, a director of the society. The ballot name is Jon Girard.
After the court dismissed the society's petition, the society announced on September 23, 2026 that it would appeal. Its post, signed by Girard, says he paid $3,031 of the appeal lawyer's $10,000 retainer himself.
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.
12 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · Parks and recreationCampaign pledge
Halt the Aquatic Centre project
Girard and Mayeli Alvarez say they will move to stop the current Vancouver Aquatic Centre project and reopen the planning so that a ten lane, fifty metre public pool is built and operating on the site.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The pledge is set out in the September 1, 2026 post on the society's website, written by the two candidates. The post does not say how many of the seven commissioners would need to agree, or what the cost of stopping the project would be.
What still needs checking
What would stopping the contracted project cost, and does any other party support reopening the plan?
Require every major capital decision to be published before the vote with the full list of options, including options staff advise against, a cost estimate for each, and a written reason each rejected option was dropped.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated in the September 1, 2026 candidates post. No draft policy or motion text has been published.
What still needs checking
Would this be a board policy, and how would it apply to work the City runs rather than the Park Board?
No facility would close until a written interim programming plan has been given to the user groups affected.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated in the September 1, 2026 candidates post, which refers to eighteen days of notice given to user groups at Britannia. The eighteen day figure comes from the society and was not confirmed in an independent source opened for this record.
What still needs checking
How much notice would the plan require, and who would sign it off?
Girard says swimming is a life skill and wants pool time shared between learn to swim programs, lifeguard training, school programs, masters swimmers, seniors and people swimming for rehabilitation.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated on the TEAM campaign page. The page does not set out how the time would be divided.
What still needs checking
Which pools are oversubscribed, and what change in scheduling is proposed?
Party position: fifty metre pool and parks funding
TEAM's parks and recreation platform commits the party to $739 million over four years for parks and recreation facilities and to a 50 metre pool in the Vancouver Aquatic Centre replacement.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform position, published on the TEAM website. Girard's own September 1, 2026 campaign post restates the same $739 million and 50-metre pool commitment in his own words, which is why this entry counts as his own position. The platform page says more than 70 percent of recreation facilities carry one of the two lowest condition grades the page names, “poor” and “very poor,” a figure the party does not source on that page.
What still needs checking
Where would the $739 million come from, and over which budget years?
The campaign says adding aquatic resources will be one of Girard's main areas of work, because learn to swim, school, masters, seniors and rehabilitation swimmers share the same pool hours.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Taken from the campaign page listed in the sources. No independent confirmation was found.
What still needs checking
What would this cost, who would deliver it, and by when?
2026 · Give residents a say locallyCampaign pledge
Give residents a say locally
The page says Girard wants residents to have real power over decisions about their own neighbourhoods, and would work on the process from inside the board.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Taken from the campaign page listed in the sources. No independent confirmation was found.
What still needs checking
What would this cost, who would deliver it, and by when?
Girard says he will protect Kitsilano Pool and its 137.5 metre length for lap swimmers, keep the pool open later into each season, and end the reservation system for swims there.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated in a September 19, 2026 Instagram post on Girard's campaign account, published jointly with the accounts hardwickcolleen, voteforteam and saveourvacpool. The post gives no season dates, no cost and no plan for the pool's future.
What still needs checking
How many weeks longer would the season run, what would the extra staff time cost, and how would crowding be handled without reservations?
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.
Petition argued; the court dismissed it on September 15, 2026
Argued the Vancouver Aquatic Centre judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court
As a director of Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society and one of its two petitioners, Girard had the society's judicial review of the Park Board's 25 metre pool decision argued in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Scope, limits and sources
Independent reporting confirms the hearing date, Girard's role as a petitioner and director, and the dismissal. The society says it filed the first petition on August 18, 2025, and the Vancouver Sun reported the filing on August 19, 2025. Daily Hive names Girard as a petitioner beside the society and reports that written reasons were released on September 23, 2026. voche.me has not read the written reasons or the filed petition itself.
Records posted on the society's website and reported by CBC News
Published City records on the Aquatic Centre decision
CBC News reported in March 2026 that the society, with Girard as managing director, had been posting City documents obtained through freedom of information requests and the court case's document exchange on its website. Girard told CBC the exchange produced 900 documents.
Scope, limits and sources
CityHallWatch reported in October 2025 on an earlier freedom of information release the society obtained. The society says it filed more than 130 freedom of information requests; that count is its own and was not checked.
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Statement
Statement on joining TEAM
In TEAM's announcement of three Park Board candidates, Girard said TEAM was the only party that had put its answer on the Aquatic Centre pool in writing, and pointed to the party's parks platform and its commitment to fund the Park Board capital plan.
A post co-signed by Girard and Mayeli Alvarez on the society's website setting out five commitments, covering the Aquatic Centre project, consultation before design, published option sets for capital decisions, written plans before facility closures, and stopping the same process being used again.
The society said the disagreement with the court is about the standard a court uses to review this kind of decision, said it believes there is a basis for an appeal within the thirty day window, and asked the City to postpone the demolition set for October 1, 2026. The post urges voters to ask Park Board candidates whether they will halt the project.
Contributed article: fighting the Aquatic Centre decision
Girard wrote a guest article for CityHallWatch describing the 2022 plebiscite, the council vote approving extra funding, and why Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society decided to sue the City and the Park Board.
Girard told CBC News that internal emails show senior city staff steered the Aquatic Centre design toward a smaller pool and drafted talking points before elected officials or the public were told, and said the Park Board, not city staff, holds final authority over parks and recreation.
Girard said outside court that he disagreed with the judge's reasoning on which material was legally binding, and said voters had been misled about the size of pool they were funding.
Girard told a reporter the decision to shrink the pool was undemocratic, compared an eight-lane 25 metre pool to the Canucks training on half a hockey rink, and said the city calling its own capital plan and voter materials “extraneous” was an insult to voters.
Girard told the Vancouver Sun that a 25 metre pool and a 50 metre pool are different facilities, and said the society was acting for swimmers across the city, because moving users to other pools would crowd them.
CBC Radio interviews on a freedom of information release
CityHallWatch lists two CBC Radio interviews, on October 15 and 16, 2025, in which Girard described what a freedom of information release obtained by the society showed about the Park Board's choice of a 25 metre pool. voche.me did not listen to the audio; this entry rests on the CityHallWatch listing.
After the court refused to keep the pool open, Girard told CBC News the society was not surprised, said the main issue was respect for a democratic vote rather than the pool length, and said the ruling on the main case would set a precedent for plebiscites.
In a post signed by Girard, the society said private groups used the pool on June 29 and 30, the two days after it closed to the public on safety grounds. It argued that the Vancouver Charter gives the Park Board control over the use, rental and demolition of the building, and said its lawyer had told the City it was considering an appeal of the injunction ruling.
Girard told CBC News the private events showed the closure was not about safety, and criticized a planned Council vote on the demolition contract while the judicial review was still undecided.
On his campaign Instagram account, Girard said he will protect Kitsilano Pool's 137.5 metre length, keep it open later in the season and end its reservation system.
In a post signed by Girard, the society said it had retained a lawyer to appeal to the B.C. Court of Appeal for a $10,000 fee, that it had spent its full balance on the fee and Girard paid the rest, and it asked donors for $5,000. The post calls the October 1 demolition date "vindictive" and asks that demolition wait until the appeal is heard.
A post on Girard's campaign Instagram account, published jointly with the society's account, says the writer has fought since February 2025 over what it calls a "bait and switch" with taxpayer money by the Park Board and the City. It asks voters to elect a list of accounts that includes Girard's own, Mayeli Alvarez's and an Independent Parks Party account, and to vote out Park Board commissioners Tom Digby and Scott Jensen. Because the post names Girard's own account in that list, it may have been written by the society's account.
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.
Civil lawsuit
Judicial review petition dismissed
The society Girard directs asked the Supreme Court of British Columbia to overturn the decision to build a 25 metre pool at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, arguing it did not match what voters were told in the 2022 plebiscite. The court dismissed the petition. Daily Hive reported the dismissal on September 15, 2026 and the society posted on September 16, 2026 that Justice Giaschi delivered the decision orally with written reasons to follow. The first petition, filed in August 2025, also asked the court to declare that the Park Board and the City had committed fraud; the Vancouver Sun reported at the time that none of the allegations had been proven. The society says it filed a narrower revised petition on May 8, 2026. Daily Hive reports that in written reasons released on September 23, 2026, the judge found nothing in the evidence to support the claim that the City or the Park Board deliberately misled voters.
Candidate or party response
The society said it disagrees with the standard the court applied, said it believes it has a basis for an appeal, and asked the City to delay the demolition set for October 1, 2026 so an appeal could proceed. On September 23, 2026 the society said it had retained a lawyer to appeal to the B.C. Court of Appeal. Its post says the society spent its full balance of $6,969 on a $10,000 retainer and Girard paid the remaining $3,031 himself.
Verified status and limits
The petition was dismissed, with written reasons released on September 23, 2026. Daily Hive reported that the society announced an appeal. As of October 3, 2026, voche.me had not opened a Court of Appeal record showing a filed appeal. The society says the City may ask the court to order it to pay the City's legal costs; no such order was found in a source opened for this record.
The society published an email it says the Park Board chair, Tom Digby, sent to Girard and one other director late on the evening before a board vote on demolition contracts. The society published the email in full and described it as an attempt to discourage its legal challenge. This account and the published email come from the society's own website.
Candidate or party response
No published reply from Tom Digby or from the Park Board beyond the email itself was found in any source opened for this record.
Verified status and limits
No independent report of the exchange, and no finding by any body, was found in a source opened for this record.
Allegation that senior city staff steered the Aquatic Centre design and messaging
Girard, as managing director of Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society, said internal emails obtained through discovery and freedom of information requests show deputy city manager Armin Amrolia and two other senior staff directed the project team toward a smaller pool in March 2024 and later circulated suggested talking points for the mayor and council, before the public was told the 50 metre pool was being dropped.
Candidate or party response
The city's communications department told CBC News that early considerations for a pool retrofit did not include leisure components, but that the design was expanded to incorporate leisure amenities identified through community consultation led by Park Board staff, and that community feedback, staff recommendations and Park Board and Council decisions support the project as designed.
Verified status and limits
No official finding on the allegations was reported in the sources checked here. Daily Hive reported on September 25, 2026 that Park Board commissioners approved a motion in March 2026 asking the City's Auditor General for an independent audit of the project's planning and decisions, and that the Auditor General had not said whether it will do that audit.
The society Girard directs asked the Supreme Court of British Columbia for an order to keep the Vancouver Aquatic Centre open until the main case was decided. Justice Christopher Giaschi refused on June 23, 2026, finding that keeping the building open to the public carried ongoing safety risks, as CBC News reported. The pool closed to the public on June 28, 2026.
Candidate or party response
Girard told CBC News the society was not surprised and that the main issue was respect for the 2022 vote. The society later said the building was used for private events on June 29 and 30. CBC News confirmed both events, and a City spokesperson said the June 30 event was for staff to say goodbye to the facility.
Verified status and limits
The order was refused. The society wrote on July 1, 2026 that its lawyer had told the City it was considering an appeal; no appeal of this ruling was found in a source opened for this record.
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Reporting
Daily Hive
Demolition of a beloved Vancouver pool is set to proceed
Reports that the B.C. Supreme Court dismissed the society's challenge, finding that the binding authority came from the wording of the borrowing bylaw and the plebiscite question rather than from supporting documents that described a 50 metre pool. Names Girard as one of two society directors running for Park Board.
Watchdog group alleges senior city staff 'tampered' with Vancouver Aquatic Centre renewal project
Karin Larsen reports on internal city emails the society obtained showing senior staff steering the Aquatic Centre design toward a smaller pool and drafting talking points for the mayor and council, and quotes Girard's response and the city's account of the consultation process.
Vancouver Aquatic Centre set for demolition after legal challenge denied
Karin Larsen reports that Justice Christopher Giaschi dismissed the petition, ruling that the plebiscite question itself, not the surrounding materials, was the binding authority, and quotes Girard's disagreement with that reasoning and his account that voters were misled.
'A betrayal': Swimmers head to court seeking to block Aquatic Centre downsizing
Dan Fumano's report on the judicial review hearing quotes Girard describing the pool downsizing as undemocratic, and quotes the City's position that the plebiscite question did not name a pool length.
Why a judge dismissed the challenge to Vancouver Aquatic Centre's redevelopment
Kenneth Chan reports on Justice Giaschi's written reasons of September 23, 2026, names the petitioners as the society and Jonathan Girard, reports the society's plan to appeal, and notes that Girard and Mayeli Alvarez are running for Park Board with TEAM.
2 groups given private use of Vancouver Aquatic Centre after closure and court ruling citing safety risks
Karin Larsen reports that a swim club and Park Board staff used the closed pool on June 29 and 30, quotes Girard, the club's treasurer and a City statement, and notes that the Park Board chair declined to comment.
Swimmers ask B.C. court to quash Vancouver's aquatic centre decision
Susan Lazaruk reports the filing of the society's petition, names Girard, Carlie McPhee and Susan Boutwood as its directors, and lists what the petition asked for, including declarations of fraud that the report notes were unproven.
Demolition of Vancouver Aquatic Centre will start on Oct. 1
J.J. Adams reports the City's plan to start demolition on October 1, 2026 after the court dismissed the challenge, and names Girard and Mayeli Alvarez as directors of the society.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
Sources opened on October 3, 2026 close two earlier gaps: the society says it filed its petition on August 18, 2025, and the Vancouver Sun reported the filing on August 19, 2025; Daily Hive reported on September 25, 2026 that the society had raised more than $110,000. CBC News and Daily Hive give September 15, 2026 for the oral dismissal; the society's post about it is dated September 16. Not yet opened: the court's written reasons of September 23, 2026, any Court of Appeal filing, and Girard's Facebook page, which needs a login. The City's candidate list confirms that votejonforpb is his Instagram account. The Kerrisdale Community Centre Association listed Girard among the confirmed speakers at its September 29, 2026 Park Board meeting, but no source found shows he spoke there, so it is not recorded as a talk. The September 23, 2026 Mount Pleasant meeting was removed from the calendar for the same reason. Girard is not in the Vancouver Public Space Network's Park Board survey, and his VoteMate page still has no text from him. A conductor named Jonathan Girard also works in Vancouver; he is a different person and no source about him is used. No record of Girard holding elected public office was found, so no minutes search applied under step 7.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 3, 2026: the City's candidate list (read through a reader service, because the City's site refuses automated reads), campaign material from TEAM, the society's website and Girard's campaign Instagram account, and independent reporting from Daily Hive, CBC News, the Vancouver Sun and CityHallWatch.
Campaign pages and Instagram captions were saved as text and every quoted line was matched word for word against that copy. Every commitment on an issue the Park Board can act on has been tagged for scoring.
Checks still to do: the court's written reasons of September 23, 2026, any filed Court of Appeal record, and Girard's Facebook page, which needs a login.
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 or the society's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source, except where a source other than the campaign is named.
03 / Background
Experience & community
2025 to 2026
Managing director, Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society
The society brought a judicial review in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against the City of Vancouver and the Park Board over the decision to build a 25 metre pool in place of the 50 metre pool the society says voters approved in the 2022 plebiscite. The society says it filed the petition on August 18, 2025, and the Vancouver Sun reported the filing the next day. The petition was argued on June 19, 2026 and dismissed on September 15, 2026, with written reasons released on September 23, 2026. The society then announced an appeal. Daily Hive reported on September 25, 2026 that the society had raised more than $110,000 through crowdfunding.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
What pool capacity, cost and construction timetable would your preferred plan provide?
No response has been submitted.
How would you divide funding between existing-facility maintenance, affordable access and new construction?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Jon Girard's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Jon Girard?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Jon Girard's own campaign.
What is Jon Girard's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Jon Girard is number 204 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for Park Board.
What party did Jon Girard run with?
Jon Girard ran for Park Board with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
Does Jon Girard currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Jon Girard.
How many sources does this Jon Girard profile cite?
This profile lists 2 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Jon Girard filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Jon Girard. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Jon Girard's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Jon Girard 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 Jon Girard 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
Added the appeal, the injunction ruling and new campaign posts
Added Daily Hive's report on the court's written reasons and the society's appeal, CBC News reports on the refused injunction and on private use of the closed pool, two Vancouver Sun reports, four posts on the society's website signed by Girard, four Instagram posts from his campaign account, and the City's candidate list. Added a commitment on Kitsilano Pool, a record entry on the society's publication of City records, and an accountability entry for the refused injunction. Corrected the audit entry: Daily Hive reports the Park Board approved the motion asking the Auditor General for an audit in March 2026. Closed two gaps: the petition filing date and the crowdfunding total. Removed the September 23, 2026 Mount Pleasant meeting from the calendar, because no source opened shows Girard took part. Added the October 3, 2026 West End Park Board forum, with attendance unconfirmed.
Tagged the dossier for scoring and added independent court reporting
Added CBC News and Yahoo News Canada reporting on the Aquatic Centre judicial review, corrected the CityHallWatch article's source type since it is contributed by Girard rather than independent reporting, removed an unconfirmed filing date, and tagged every dossier commitment against the issues the Park Board can act on.
