Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 145.
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Michael Wu, ballot number 145 for City Council in Vancouver, Vancouver Liberals. Profile focus: Small business and community safety.
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This record covers the Vancouver Liberals candidate page for Michael Wu, dated March 18, 2026, his answers to HUB Cycling's 2026 survey, reporting on his nomination by Daily Hive and Sing Tao, his place on the 2026 ballot, and his 2024 provincial candidacy in Burnaby North, first for BC United and then for the Conservative Party of BC.
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Vancouver Liberals’s platform on housing: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Council sets zoning, approves rezonings and development permits, and makes rental and tenant-protection bylaws under the Vancouver Charter. The province sets rent increase limits and tenancy law.
Every City Council candidate on housing, scored the same way
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Vancouver Liberals’s platform on homelessness and drugs: 2 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Council funds shelter sites, street cleaning and city outreach, and decides where supportive housing is approved. Health services, treatment beds and drug policy are provincial and federal.
Every City Council candidate on homelessness and drugs, scored the same way
“He believes that public safety is a fundamental responsibility of government, and that we must do more to protect those who cannot always protect themselves.”
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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. Council approves the police budget. The Vancouver Police Board, not Council, directs the police department. Fire and rescue services report to the city.
Every City Council candidate on public safety, scored the same way
“I believe that fastest way to save lives and improve safety will be to lower local street limits to 30 km/h and add traffic calming, starting around schools and parks.”
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HUB Cycling 2026 election survey: Vancouver candidate answers (Michael Wu's row)“lower local street limits to 30 km/h and add traffic calming”
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Vancouver Liberals’s platform on transport: 1 commitment, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The city owns and designs its streets, bike lanes, sidewalks and parking rules. Buses, SkyTrain and SeaBus are run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control.
Every City Council candidate on transport, scored the same way
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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. Council sets the property tax rate each year, approves the operating budget, and approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for buildings and infrastructure.
Every City Council candidate on taxes and budget, scored the same way
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Vancouver Liberals’s platform on climate: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy and emissions rules for new buildings that other BC cities cannot.
Every City Council candidate on climate, scored the same way
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Vancouver Liberals’s platform on culture: 2 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The city licenses venues and events, sets noise and business rules, and funds cultural grants and spaces. Liquor licensing is shared with the province.
Every City Council candidate on culture, scored the same way
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What this office controls. The city creates child care spaces through zoning, city-owned buildings and development contributions. Licensing, subsidies and operating funding are provincial.
Every City Council candidate on child care, scored the same way
“He believes Vancouver needs practical leadership at City Hall that supports small businesses, encourages economic growth, and creates opportunities for the next generation.”
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Michael Wu candidate pageNo instrument the office controls is named.
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What this office controls. Council issues business licences, sets licence and permit fees, zones commercial and industrial land and approves business improvement areas under the Vancouver Charter. Employment law, sales taxes and income taxes are provincial and federal.
Every City Council candidate on economy, scored the same way
“We need good, transparent policy that supports the needs of all Vancouverites and is rooted in addressing problems and supporting citizens.”
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Vancouver Liberals add two city councillor candidates for 2026 electionNo instrument the office controls is named.
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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 City Council candidate on governance, scored the same way
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Michael Wu appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 145. The City records the affiliation as Vancouver Liberals.
The party's candidate page, posted March 18, 2026, says Wu has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years, running businesses across the Lower Mainland. It says he became a business owner at 19 and, at the height of his career, ran five companies with more than 60 employees.
The party page says Wu joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as an Auxiliary Constable in 2006, giving 24-hour translation in Mandarin and Cantonese and assisting officers responding to calls. Daily Hive, reporting his nomination on March 21, 2026, quotes Wu saying he has spent 17 years in the volunteer role. The same figure of 17 years, counted from 2006, already appears on his BC United campaign page as archived in September 2024.
The party page says Wu has previously run as a provincial MLA candidate for a major British Columbia party, without naming the party, the riding or the year. Burnaby Now reported on October 25, 2023 that BC United had named Wu its candidate in Burnaby North, the first time he had run for any office. Sing Tao's Chinese-language report on his 2026 nomination says he first won the BC United nomination in Burnaby North and then ran for the Conservative Party of BC. Elections BC's statement of votes for the October 19, 2024 election gives Wu 8,658 votes, 43.00 percent, second to New Democrat Janet Routledge with 10,724 votes, 53.26 percent.
His 2024 BC United campaign page gives his Chinese name as 吳建宏, and Sing Tao's report writes it in simplified characters as 吴建宏. The ballot name is Michael Wu. In a profile he submitted to Burnaby Now in October 2024, Wu wrote that he was born in Taiwan, moved to Saudi Arabia at age 6, immigrated to Canada in 1991 and finished high school in Burnaby.
The party page says Wu supports the Vancouver Liberals mayoral candidate Kareem Allam. The party's candidates page lists Wu on a council slate with John Coupar, Devin Clemens, Armor Valor, Moira Stilwell, Jessica Walton, and Victoria Jung.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list, Elections BC's 2024 results, the campaign material and the independent reporting linked under Sources, including Chinese-language reporting. The campaign has not been contacted. Wu's own words on this page come from the party, VoteMate, his answers to HUB Cycling's survey, his Instagram account and a 2024 newspaper profile he submitted.
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Wu says City Hall should support small businesses and encourage economic growth, pointing to rising costs and regulation as the pressures local businesses face.
Wu says public safety is a basic responsibility of government and that the city must do more to protect people who cannot protect themselves.
In the Daily Hive interview announcing his nomination, Wu said the government must encourage and inspire the next generation to flourish, and that the city needs good, transparent policy that supports the needs of all Vancouverites and is rooted in addressing problems and supporting citizens.
Wu says the reason for running is safer neighbourhoods, stronger local businesses, and a city where young people can build their lives.
The campaign says Wu wants City Hall to support small businesses and economic growth.
The page says Wu treats public safety as a basic duty of government and wants more done to protect vulnerable residents.
The campaign says Wu is running so that young people and later generations can build their lives in Vancouver.
Women Transforming Cities, a Vancouver charity that campaigns on City policy, asked every candidate for mayor and council to commit to six policy asks if elected. Its results table for the Vancouver Liberals marks Wu as committing to all six: housing access, transit and mobility, community spaces, food security, public washrooms and gender safety.
The housing ask, which the results table marks Wu as committing to, asks candidates to increase co-op, social and supportive housing in every neighbourhood by changing zoning rules that delay non-market homes (homes with rents below the market, such as social housing) within the first year of the term, to put non-market housing on public land, and to demand long-term funding from the provincial and federal governments.
The transit ask, which the results table marks Wu as committing to, asks candidates to press the province for a low-income transit pass for people earning less than $40,000 a year, to speed up buses with measures such as dedicated bus lanes so at least nine transit corridors are finished by 2030, to add covered bus shelters, seating and lighting, and to give people more time to cross the street.
The community spaces ask, which the results table marks Wu as committing to, asks candidates to extend library hours and pay library workers a living wage, to report how many City properties sit unused and give community groups priority access and lower rent, and to work with independent arts and culture venues and queer spaces to change permit and bylaw (City law) barriers.
The food security ask, which the results table marks Wu as committing to, asks candidates to increase the City's Sustainable Food Systems Grant and add an Indigenous Food Sovereignty Grant starting in the 2027 budget, to give City-owned real estate for a South Vancouver Community Food Hub, and to create at least four food planner staff roles.
The public washrooms ask, which the results table marks Wu as committing to, asks candidates to install prefabricated public toilets in high-need areas or portable toilets as a stopgap, to increase funding for keeping up existing City and Park Board washrooms, and to work with Downtown Eastside service providers and other governments to keep hygiene services such as mobile washrooms and showers running.
The gender safety ask, which the results table marks Wu as committing to, asks candidates to fund the City's work on the Calls for Justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people, to reinstate a second Sex Worker Safety Planner role and give sex worker drop-in spaces steady funding, and to carry out survivor-led safety and violence prevention strategies on time.
HUB Cycling, a regional cycling charity, asked candidates whether they support 30 km/h speeds on local streets with traffic calming for young people travelling to and from school. Its published Vancouver answers record Wu as answering yes. In his own words he wrote that lowering local street limits to 30 km/h and adding traffic calming, starting around schools and parks, is the fastest way to save lives and improve safety.
HUB Cycling asked candidates to send speed cuts and quick street safety upgrades to underserved neighbourhoods first. Wu answered yes. He wrote that underserved neighbourhoods often have the most dangerous streets and the most people walking, cycling and taking transit, and that he would work with the Vancouver Liberal team to start with those communities and lower speeds at the city's most dangerous intersections.
HUB Cycling asked candidates to connect local bike routes to the regional network and to close gaps with routes separated from traffic. Wu answered yes. He wrote that cyclists are only safe when their route protects them from start to finish, and that he would work with other councillors to close the critical gaps between separated routes while studying how best to expand the cycling network across the city.
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In a profile he submitted to Burnaby Now as the Conservative candidate in Burnaby North, Wu named housing, public safety and small business as the top issues. He wrote that housing rules should be made together with local governments and residents, and objected to rules imposed by the Province. He called for more police officers and for crime prevention through the design of buildings and streets, which he said was one of his main tasks as an auxiliary constable, and said small businesses carry too many taxes. These statements come from his 2024 provincial campaign.
The Vancouver Liberals published a video of 4 minutes and 8 seconds introducing Wu as a council candidate on the day his candidate page went up. The video description calls him an entrepreneur and a public safety advocate. voche.me could not download a transcript and has not recorded what Wu says in it.
In the nomination announcement Wu said the government must encourage and inspire the next generation to flourish, and called for good, transparent policy that supports the needs of all Vancouverites and is rooted in addressing problems and supporting citizens.
Wu wrote that he was knocking on doors every day, and that he expected to pass the 7,000 doors he says he reached in his provincial campaign before election day on October 17.
The charity's results table for the Vancouver Liberals marks Wu as committing to all six of its Our City Hall asks: housing access, transit and mobility, community spaces, food security, public washrooms and gender safety. The table is an image, which voche.me read by eye, and it carries no statement in his own words.
Wu answered yes to all three of HUB Cycling's asks: 30 km/h local streets with traffic calming, street safety work in underserved neighbourhoods first, and closing gaps in the separated bike network. He wrote that local street limits should drop to 30 km/h with traffic calming, starting around schools and parks, and that speeds should be lowered at the city's most dangerous intersections. The answers carry no date, so this date is the day voche.me read them.
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theBreaker.news, a British Columbia news site published by journalist Bob Mackin, reported that a photograph posted on WeChat, a Chinese-language social media and messaging app, showed Wu at his 2024 Burnaby North campaign office with two men, James Wu Jiaming and Pifeng Hu, who lead groups that support closer ties with the government of China. The report says the same two men had appeared in a 2021 video connected to a campaign that helped elect Liberal Parm Bains over Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in a different riding, a race in which a federal elections investigation later found officials of the government of China had given direction, though investigators said they did not find enough evidence to charge anyone under the Canada Elections Act. The report also quotes Wu's X biography describing him as a 17-year RCMP auxiliary member, the same length of service given elsewhere in this record.
The article says neither Wu nor the Conservative Party of BC head office responded to a request for comment.
No investigation or finding against Wu himself is on record. The federal investigation the article describes concerned a different riding in the 2021 federal election and did not name Wu.
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Kyle Balzer reports that BC United named Wu its candidate for Burnaby North on October 23, 2023, the first time he had run for any office. The article quotes Wu saying his community deserves better and cites his profile for 17 years as a Mandarin and Cantonese translator with the Burnaby RCMP auxiliary program.
Bob Mackin reports a photograph showing Burnaby North Conservative candidate Michael Wu with two men connected to groups that support closer ties with the government of China, one of whom had appeared in a video tied to a federal elections investigation into a different 2021 riding race. The article says Wu and the party did not respond to requests for comment.
Bob Mackin reports that Kareem Allam, the Vancouver Liberals' mayoral candidate, sat at a table with a Chinese diplomat and leaders of groups that support China's government at a December 2025 volunteer dinner for the Burnaby Hospital Foundation. The article lists Wu, described as a Burnaby Conservative candidate, among the politicians who also attended. Wu appears in the article only in that list of guests.
Kenneth Chan reports the nomination of Wu and Jessica Walton, describing Wu as an entrepreneur and a volunteer RCMP auxiliary constable of 17 years, and quoting party leader Kareem Allam on the choice.
Sing Tao's Chinese-language report on the nomination of Wu and Jessica Walton describes Wu as an entrepreneur and long-serving RCMP auxiliary member, quotes his call for good, transparent policy, and says he first won the BC United nomination in Burnaby North for the 2024 provincial election and then ran for the Conservative Party of BC.
The published ballot order lists Wu at number 145 for city council under the Vancouver Liberals banner.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
City of Vancouver
City of Vancouver
City of Vancouver
Elections BC
Vancouver Liberals · March 18, 2026
Vancouver Liberals · August 19, 2026
Vancouver Liberals
VoteMate
VoteMate
BC United
Conservative Party of BC
Conservative Party of BC · September 3, 2024
Vancouver Liberals · March 18, 2026
Michael Wu campaign, Instagram · August 15, 2026
Daily Hive · March 21, 2026
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
theBreaker.news · October 13, 2024
Women Transforming Cities · September 16, 2026
Women Transforming Cities
Sing Tao Canada (星岛加拿大都市网) · March 21, 2026
Burnaby Now (Vancouver Is Awesome) · October 25, 2023
theBreaker.news · January 9, 2026
Burnaby Now (Vancouver Is Awesome) · October 8, 2024
HUB Cycling
Vancouver Food Justice Coalition, on Eventbrite
The Tyee · September 18, 2026
Women Transforming Cities · September 17, 2026
Wu's X account (@votemichaelwu), listed on the City's candidate page, could not be read: X refused automated reads on October 3, 2026. Instagram's public embed page showed six recent posts; the newest was dated August 15, 2026. The Facebook page returns only a short description. The party's launch video for Wu, published March 18, 2026, has no transcript that voche.me could download, so nothing Wu says in it is recorded here. The City links Wu's nomination papers, and nobody has read them yet. Women Transforming Cities' pledge results table, an image, marks Wu as committing to all six of its asks, with no personal sentence from him, so those six commitments are tagged as not his own words. Vote Palestine Vancouver's candidate table, current to October 1, records no response from Wu. The one accountability item concerns the 2024 provincial campaign; no accountability record was found for the 2026 campaign. Wu has not held elected office, so there are no votes or motions to record. No public forum from October 3 to 17 names him as a participant, and no source shows whether he took part in the October 1 Last Candidate Standing event.
Evidence reviewed on October 3, 2026: the party's candidate page, candidate list, news page, platform and launch video; the City's candidate list; VoteMate; HUB Cycling's survey answers; Wu's Instagram account; Elections BC's 2024 statement of votes; archived 2024 campaign pages from BC United and the Conservative Party of BC; and reporting from Daily Hive, Sing Tao, Burnaby Now and theBreaker.news.
The party's candidate page was read again on October 3, 2026, and its text about Wu is the same as on September 26.
Checks still to do: the nomination papers the City links for Wu have not been read, the launch video has no transcript voche.me could download, and Wu's X account could not be read.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. The 2024 provincial result comes from Elections BC. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been independently confirmed beyond the checks noted here.
The party page says Wu started a first business at 19 and later ran five companies with more than 60 employees across the Lower Mainland.
Michael Wu candidate pageThe party page says the role involved translation in Mandarin and Cantonese and helping officers respond to community calls. Daily Hive puts the length of service at 17 years. His 2023 BC United page and his 2024 Conservative Party of BC page describe the same service, starting in 2006, with the Burnaby RCMP.
Michael Wu candidate pageBurnaby Now reported that BC United named Wu its Burnaby North candidate on October 23, 2023. Sing Tao reports that he later ran for the Conservative Party of BC. Elections BC's statement of votes gives him 8,658 votes, 43.00 percent, in the October 19, 2024 election, second to New Democrat Janet Routledge with 10,724 votes, 53.26 percent.
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Michael Wu is number 145 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
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The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the City Council race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
Sing Tao's March 21, 2026 report states that Wu ran in Burnaby North in 2024, first for BC United and then for the Conservative Party of BC, which confirms the identification made on September 26. The 2024 vote count now comes from Elections BC's statement of votes instead of Wikipedia; the figures are the same. Removed the mention of his wife's occupation, a private detail that had been used only to match the two campaigns. Added his answers to HUB Cycling's survey as three commitments, the party's March 2026 launch video, an August 2026 Instagram post, his Chinese name as his 2024 campaign gave it, a 2023 Burnaby Now report, his 2024 Burnaby Now profile, a January 2026 theBreaker.news report, the Women Transforming Cities pledge as a statement, and an October 13 online town hall. Removed the October 1 Last Candidate Standing event from the calendar, because no source shows whether Wu took part.
voche.me confirmed that the Michael Wu who ran for the Conservative Party of BC in Burnaby North in 2024 is this candidate. The 2024 and 2026 VoteMate profiles list the same Facebook and Instagram accounts, and the two campaigns give matching biographical details. Added the 2024 election result and a 2024 report on that campaign.
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