Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 329.
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Joshua Cameron, ballot number 329 for School Board in Vancouver, Vancouver Liberals. Profile focus: Student participation and budget oversight.
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This record covers Joshua Cameron, ballot number 329 for the Vancouver School Board with the Vancouver Liberals. It draws on the City's candidate list, the party's candidate page, issues page, press release and October 1, 2026 platform, Cameron's own candidate profile on VoteMate, his campaign newsletter on Substack and his Instagram account, the Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper's candidate questionnaires, and a 2019 report in the Camosun College student newspaper.
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.
“He wants the school board focused on strong classrooms, responsible use of public dollars, safe and welcoming schools, and meaningful consultation with parents, educators, students, and communities.”
Stated by the candidate.
Joshua Cameron candidate pageNo instrument the office controls is named.
No number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vancouver Liberals’s platform on schools: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, sets catchment boundaries and approves the district budget. Teacher pay and the provincial funding formula are set by the province.
Every School Board candidate on schools, scored the same way
“listen carefully, treat people with respect, solve problems, and never forget who you are there to serve.”
Stated by the candidate.
Joshua Cameron candidate pageNo instrument the office controls is named.
No number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
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.
Every School Board candidate on governance, scored the same way
“He wants the school board focused on strong classrooms, responsible use of public dollars, safe and welcoming schools, and meaningful consultation with parents, educators, students, and communities.”
Stated by the candidate.
Joshua Cameron candidate pageNo instrument the office controls is named.
No number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vancouver Liberals’s platform on taxes and budget: 2 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education approves the school district’s operating and capital budgets. The Province sets the funding formula and the school tax.
Every School Board candidate on taxes and budget, scored the same way
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vancouver Liberals publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vancouver Liberals’s platform on public safety: 2 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education sets safety policies for its schools and decides whether police liaison officers work in them. Policing itself is the Vancouver Police Department’s.
Every School Board candidate on public safety, scored the same way
No position found by voche.me as of October 4, 2026.
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No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. The Board of Education decides how school buildings and land are used, including child care on school sites. Licensing and operating funding are provincial.
Every School Board candidate on child care, scored the same way
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No upcoming public appearance by Joshua Cameron is confirmed in the sources checked on October 4, 2026.
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Joshua Cameron appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 329. The City records the affiliation as Vancouver Liberals.
The page says Cameron graduated from the University of Victoria with a degree in Political Science. The page says Cameron was a Finance Executive in student government at Camosun College and sat on its Education Council. The page says Cameron has worked in the Vancouver hospitality industry for more than 10 years.
Cameron appears at ballot number 329 in the School Board race as a Vancouver Liberals candidate, in the ballot order Daily Hive published on September 22, 2026.
The Wikipedia page for the 2026 Vancouver municipal election lists Cameron among the five Vancouver Liberals School Board candidates.
The party candidate page says Cameron was born in Vancouver and holds a political science degree from the University of Victoria.
The party candidate page says Cameron has worked more than ten years in Vancouver's hospitality industry.
The party candidate page says Cameron served as a finance executive in student government at Camosun College and sat on the college's Education Council. Nexus, the Camosun College student newspaper, reported on April 11, 2019 that Joshua Cameron was the new finance executive of the Camosun College Student Society after its April 8 to 10 vote, the same role the party page names. No record of the Education Council seat was found.
The party's candidate listing describes Cameron's approach as practical, optimistic leadership with a focus on students.
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.
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The party candidate page lists strong classrooms as one of Cameron's four priorities for the school board.
The party candidate page says Cameron would be a responsible steward of public funding for schools.
The party candidate page says Cameron would work for schools that are safe and welcoming, and describes wanting Vancouver schools that are welcoming, ambitious, diverse and full of opportunity.
The party candidate page says Cameron would engage with parents, educators, students and communities, drawing on hospitality work summed up as listening carefully, treating people with respect, solving problems and remembering who the service is for.
The Vancouver Liberals issues page says the School Liaison Officer Program should stay in place, and credits it under School Board Chair Victoria Jung with supporting safer schools. The party platform of October 1, 2026 says the party would keep the reformed program and that whether officers work in schools is the Board's decision.
The Vancouver Liberals issues page says students already use AI tools, and that the party would align with the position of the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on providing students with AI chatbot accounts. The party platform of October 1, 2026 adds that the party would set district guidelines with age limits on chatbot access, privacy and data standards for any tool used with students, and teacher training before new technology reaches a classroom.
The page says Cameron wants the school board to focus on strong classrooms and careful use of public money.
The page says Cameron wants safe, welcoming schools and real consultation with parents, educators, students and communities.
In his own campaign newsletter, Cameron writes that a trustee needs to listen to the people who work inside Vancouver's schools and then make board decisions in public and be accountable for them.
Responding in his own campaign newsletter to Tyee reporting on growth in Vancouver School Board management positions, Cameron writes that trustees have a responsibility to examine every dollar being spent and to ask whether resources should go toward administration or toward supports for students.
In an Instagram post on his campaign account on October 2, 2026, Cameron wrote that getting to a community centre, beach or after-school activity should not come with another unnecessary cost, and that he is running so that families can reach the public spaces and programs the city pays for.
The Vancouver Liberals platform says the party would put the 43 Vancouver schools still at high seismic risk at the top of the board's capital plan and press the Province to fund them on a firm timeline.
The platform says the party would protect catchments and rule out a return to mass school closures, and would press for the King George Secondary replacement and for expansion at the next most crowded schools.
The platform says the party would open before and after school care at every school site that can host it and attach a childcare plan to every seismic rebuild.
The platform says the party would hold school district land for schools, childcare, playing fields and public partners, and would keep it out of private hands.
The platform says the party would make counsellors and student wellbeing a top budget priority and protect special education and inclusion supports from cuts when the board sets its budget.
The platform says the party would grow and protect school meal and nutrition programs with the Province and community partners.
The platform says the party would negotiate a new Indigenous Education Enhancement Agreement with Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh and with urban Indigenous families in the first year of the term, with yearly public reports on graduation and completion.
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On his campaign Instagram account, Cameron wrote that the School Board is connected to the rest of the city, and that families already face the cost of groceries, housing and childcare. He said he is running so that children and families can reach the public spaces and programs the city pays for, and named strong schools, community spaces families can reach, and fewer barriers for families.
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Kenneth Chan set out the full ballot for the October 17, 2026 Vancouver election. Cameron appears at number 329 among the 31 school trustee candidates, listed with the Vancouver Liberals.
The Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper sent School Board candidates two questionnaires, one on why they are running and their priorities (published September 22, 2026) and one on generative AI in schools (published September 28, 2026). Both list Cameron among the candidates who did not respond by the deadline.
Managing editor Greg Pratt reported the results of the student society's April 8 to 10, 2019 vote and named Joshua Cameron as its new finance executive.
Sources checked October 4, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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Vancouver Liberals · September 22, 2026
VoteMate
Joshua Cameron campaign newsletter · September 25, 2026
Joshua Cameron campaign newsletter · July 1, 2026
Joshua Cameron campaign newsletter · July 7, 2025
Vancouver Liberals · October 1, 2026
Joshua Cameron campaign (@jcameronforvancouver) · October 2, 2026
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
The Griffins' Nest (Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper) · September 22, 2026
The Griffins' Nest (Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper) · September 28, 2026
Nexus (Camosun College student newspaper) · April 11, 2019
For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver · September 25, 2026
Women Transforming Cities · September 17, 2026
Cameron publishes his own writing on a campaign newsletter on Substack (joshuahcameron.substack.com), which had no new post between September 25 and October 4, 2026, and on an Instagram account the City lists for him (@jcameronforvancouver). Six recent Instagram captions were read on October 4; one, on October 2, states a position and is recorded above. The others repeat advance voting dates, link the party platform, or carry one line of text; a September 29 post asks readers to sign a pledge whose subject is only in the image, so nothing from it is recorded. His X account (@JoshuaHCameron) could not be read without signing in, and the Facebook page the City lists returned only a sign-in page. Cameron did not answer either questionnaire The Griffins' Nest sent to School Board candidates, on September 22 and September 28, 2026. The Vancouver Liberals video of August 25, 2026 introducing its School Board candidates names him in its description; nobody at voche.me has watched it to identify who says what, so nothing from it is recorded. The party platform of October 1, 2026 lists him as a School Board candidate; its School Board chapter is written in the party's voice and is recorded as party positions. Nexus, the Camosun College student newspaper, confirms a Joshua Cameron was elected finance executive of the Camosun College Student Society in April 2019, matching the party page. The Education Council seat and the University of Victoria degree rest on the party page alone; the Internet Archive was offline on October 4, 2026, so older Camosun Education Council member lists could not be checked. The Vancouver Secondary Teachers' Association list of October 2, 2026 and the Vancouver and District Labour Council list of June 25, 2026 do not name him. No news report, interview or forum report about his candidacy beyond the ballot order listing was found. No record of an earlier run for public office was found.
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City's school trustee candidate list, the Vancouver Liberals candidate page, issues page, press release and full platform of October 1, 2026, Cameron's campaign newsletter on Substack, his Instagram account, his VoteMate profile, the two candidate questionnaires published by The Griffins' Nest, and a 2019 report in Nexus, the Camosun College student newspaper.
Each position marked as Cameron's own is checked against a quotation from the page that carries it. Positions from the party platform with no words from Cameron are marked as the party's.
Checks still to do: confirm the University of Victoria degree and the Camosun College Education Council seat with those institutions, and ask Cameron for a number, a cost or a date on any of the positions above.
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.
The party page says Cameron has spent over a decade working in hospitality in Vancouver. It names no employer and no years.
Joshua Cameron candidate pageThe party page says Cameron held this role and was also a member of the college's Education Council. Nexus, the Camosun College student newspaper, reported on April 11, 2019 that Joshua Cameron had been elected finance executive of the Camosun College Student Society. No record of the Education Council seat was found.
Nexus · Camosun College Student Society spring election results inProposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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Joshua Cameron is number 329 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for School Board.
Joshua Cameron ran for School Board with Vancouver Liberals.
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The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the School Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
Added his October 2, 2026 Instagram post as a statement and as a position on costs at community centres and beaches, marked as outside the School Board's powers; seven School Board positions from the Vancouver Liberals platform of October 1, 2026, recorded as party text; his social media links from the City's candidate list; a 2019 Nexus report that names him as the Camosun College Student Society's new finance executive; The Griffins' Nest questionnaires, which list him as not responding; and an online forum on October 6. Corrections: the party position on AI said the party would give students official AI chatbot accounts; the party's own pages say it would align with the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on providing such accounts, and the entry now says so. The School Liaison Officer entry used a vague word in front of the report count; it now gives the release's figure, 1,117 reports. Removed the all candidates meeting run by the Grandview Woodland Area Council (dated September 29 by Women Transforming Cities), because no source shows that Cameron took part, and the October 3 advance voting day, because both dates are before this review.
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