TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 130.
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Raj Mundra, ballot number 130 for City Council in Vancouver, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver. Profile focus: Building permits and construction costs.
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This record covers Raj Mundra, a council candidate running with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver in the October 17, 2026 Vancouver election. Most of what is known about this candidacy comes from TEAM's pages and from his own statements, so each item below says who is making the claim.
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.
“helping streamline permit timelines to reduce delays and cut cost for residents and small businesses”
Stated by the candidate.
Raj Mundra for Council“For a bigger projects, it should be a separate line.”
Stated by the candidate.
Raj Mundra, Vancouver City Councillor Candidate (video)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.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on housing: 9 commitments, at least one 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
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 3 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.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on homelessness and drugs: 3 commitments, none 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
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 4 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.
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. 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
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 5 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.
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 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
“We need to cut the cost at the city level.”
Stated by the candidate.
Raj Mundra, Vancouver City Councillor Candidate (video)No 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.
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. 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
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 7 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.
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. 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
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 6 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.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on culture: 6 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
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 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.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on child care: 2 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 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. 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
“improving policy clarity so processes are easier to understand”
Stated by the candidate.
Raj Mundra for CouncilNo 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 City Council candidate on governance, scored the same way
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No upcoming public appearance by Raj Mundra is confirmed in the sources checked on October 3, 2026.
Checked October 3, 2026 · All event times are Vancouver local time. Recheck the organizer before travelling.
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Raj Mundra is on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council with ballot number 130, under the TEAM for a Livable Vancouver label. Council ballot numbers start at 100, so his name is the 31st of 56 on the council list. The City's list shows no social media or contact details supplied by the candidate.
TEAM's candidate page describes Mundra as a civil engineer with close to thirty years in the local building industry, on renovations and on residential, institutional and commercial projects. TEAM announced him as a council candidate on August 26, 2026, and said it wanted candidates from a range of backgrounds and parts of the city.
In a video published by the Vancouver Regional Construction Association on September 29, 2026, Mundra describes himself as a civil engineer, developer and builder who started his own company three decades ago, by his own count. He does not name the company, and voche.me has found no public record of it.
The campaign page says Mundra sits on non-profit boards including the Society of Punjabi Engineers and Technologists of BC, has volunteered with Diabetes Canada for more than twenty years, and is a member of the Indo-Pacific Foundation of Canada. No independent source for the Diabetes Canada or Indo-Pacific Foundation roles was found. The engineers' society's published leadership team, checked on September 26 and October 3, 2026, does not include his name. The list may leave out earlier or other board roles.
The campaign page says Mundra lives in Riley Park. The party announcement says he lives in South Vancouver and wants to represent that area and the South Asian community.
Before this campaign, Mundra sought the Conservative Party of Canada's nomination for the federal riding of Vancouver Fraserview-South Burnaby, earlier called Vancouver South. His 2024 nomination website, read through an Internet Archive copy, says he holds a civil engineering degree, worked on rural development projects assisted by the World Bank, came to Canada in 1996 and has lived in Vancouver South for more than twenty years. Sanjha TV, a Punjabi community channel, interviewed him as a nomination candidate in January 2025. voche.me treats these as the same person because the photographs, the engineering background and the South Vancouver home match TEAM's description of him. TEAM's pages do not mention the federal bid, and voche.me did not check the result of that nomination.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list, the campaign's pages and the other sources linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
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.
10 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
The campaign page says Mundra would work to shorten permit timelines so that residents and small businesses face fewer delays and lower costs.
The party announcement says Mundra wants to make building easier within Vancouver's existing zoning capacity, and points to falling housing starts as a sign the current approach is not working.
The campaign page says Mundra would work on making city policy easier to understand.
The campaign page says Mundra would expand community engagement so that more residents take part in city decisions.
The page says Mundra would widen public consultation so that more residents take part.
The page says Mundra would work to shorten permit times to lower delays and costs for residents and small businesses.
In a video published by the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, Mundra says the City should issue permits quickly, stop repeated reviews of simple projects such as a house, a duplex or a fourplex, and send larger projects through a separate stream.
Mundra says each added step in the building code, and rules such as rainwater detention tanks, raise the cost of new homes. As an engineer, he says digging a lot 6 inches deeper and adding gravel around the house can hold heavy rain as well as a tank, and that the City should ask builders about options like this.
Mundra says the City needs to cut its costs, and names the property tax as the tax on housing that is set at the city level.
In the same video, Mundra says taxes on housing, including the GST (the federal sales tax) and the provincial property transfer tax, should come down. City Council cannot change either tax by its own vote.
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In the party announcement Mundra gave a short statement about choosing to run with TEAM, calling it the grassroots party. The announcement also set out the position on building within existing zoning.
In a three-minute video, Mundra introduces himself as a civil engineer and builder. He says permit delays and repeated reviews raise the cost of new homes, which buyers pay in the end, and points to higher cement and steel prices and to added building code steps. He suggests a gravel layer in place of rainwater detention tanks and calls for lower taxes on housing. He closes by asking for support for himself and for TEAM. voche.me read the automatic captions and did not hear the audio.
On his website for the Conservative nomination in Vancouver South, Mundra wrote that housing and the cost of living were his main concerns. He proposed one federal app for building permits, which he called BUILDCAN, so that permits would be issued within 2 to 4 months, and he wrote that he had worked with party members on two housing policy proposals for South Vancouver. These were proposals for a federal campaign, and TEAM's 2026 pages do not repeat them.
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A dated reading list from independent publishers. The headings below are voche.me summaries; follow each link for the original article, context and any corrections.
A list of all 130 names on the ballot for every race, in ballot order. Mundra is number 130, one of 56 council candidates, listed for TEAM. The article carries no comment on individual candidates.
A list of every name on the 2026 Vancouver ballot, grouped by race. Mundra appears as number 130 under Councillor. The article carries no comment on individual candidates.
A 23-minute interview on a Punjabi community channel, recorded while Mundra sought the Conservative Party of Canada nomination for the federal riding. Most of it covers federal topics, including United States tariffs and border security. voche.me read YouTube's automatic captions and did not hear the audio.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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TEAM for a Livable Vancouver
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver · August 26, 2026
VoteMate
Raj Mundra federal nomination campaign
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
CTV News · September 19, 2026
Vancouver Regional Construction Association, on YouTube · September 29, 2026
Sanjha TV, on YouTube · January 24, 2025
Vancouver Food Justice Coalition, on Eventbrite
Vancouver Food Justice Coalition · September 6, 2026
Women Transforming Cities · September 17, 2026
No news story about Mundra himself was found; the CTV and Daily Hive pieces are ballot lists. His construction company, the Diabetes Canada volunteering and the Indo-Pacific Foundation membership rest on his own or TEAM's statements alone. The Society of Punjabi Engineers and Technologists of BC's published leadership team, checked on September 26 and October 3, 2026, does not include his name. The party announcement and the candidate page give different neighbourhoods for his home, South Vancouver in one and Riley Park in the other. The quotes from the construction association video come from automatic captions that no one at voche.me has checked against the audio. HUB Cycling's published 2026 survey answers, read on October 3, 2026, have no row for him, and the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition had not yet published candidate answers. The City's PDF of his nomination papers returned HTTP 403 and was not read. No forum listing names him as a speaker.
Evidence reviewed on October 3, 2026: the City's candidate list, TEAM's candidate page and announcement, a construction association video, his 2024 federal nomination website through an Internet Archive copy, news ballot lists and forum listings.
Campaign page first read on September 22, 2026. 3 stated positions and 2 background facts were recorded then, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Confirm professional status and request evidence for proposed time or cost reductions.
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 campaign page says the work covered design, planning, supervising, budgeting and operations management in the local building industry. The page gives no employer and no start year.
Raj Mundra for CouncilNamed on the party announcement and the candidate page as one of several non-profit boards. The society's published leadership team, checked on September 26 and October 3, 2026, does not include his name.
Raj Mundra for CouncilIn a September 2026 video he says he started his own company three decades ago, at first working as a subtrade, a contractor hired for one part of a building job. He does not name the company, and no independent record was checked.
Vancouver Regional Construction Association · candidate videoHis 2024 federal nomination website says he worked on rural development projects assisted by the World Bank. It names no country, project or year, and no independent record was checked.
Raj Mundra federal nomination website, 2024 (Internet Archive copy)Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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Raj Mundra is number 130 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
Raj Mundra ran for City Council with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
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This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Raj Mundra. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
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The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the City Council race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
The Daily Hive entry said the article lists 130 council candidates. It lists all 130 names on the ballot for every race, and 56 of them are council candidates. The ballot line now gives number 130 as the 31st name on the council list. The engineers' society entry said the society's records had not been checked; its leadership list was checked on September 26 and again on October 3. The introduction no longer calls him a first-time candidate, because no source showed that.
Read the updateAdded his September 29, 2026 video for the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, with four statements on permits, building rules and taxes. Added his 2024 website and a January 2025 Sanjha TV interview from his bid for a federal Conservative nomination, a CTV ballot list, and an October 13 online forum open to council candidates. No calendar event dated before October 3 needed to be moved or removed.
Read the updateThe Society of Punjabi Engineers and Technologists of BC publishes a leadership team on its own website. Raj Mundra's name is not on that list. This does not rule out a different or earlier board role that the current list does not show.
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