Kevin Li

Kevin Li appears on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 23 Scarborough North. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 1, 2026 and gives his campaign website, votekevinli.com. voche.me treats that site as the campaign's own statement.

His campaign website says he was an assistant to the late Ward 23 Councillor Cynthia Lai until her death in 2022, and that since then he has helped residents as a community volunteer. It says he has walked every street in the ward, more than 300 of them, over the past eight years, and organized park cleanups. It says that before public service he taught history and economics and then founded and ran his own business, that he came to Canada from New Zealand, and that he holds a Bachelor's degree in science and a Master's degree in Business and Management (Economics). It also says he was a sub committee member of the Mon Sheong Foundation and is an advisor to the Scarborough Ontario Health Team. voche.me opened no City, foundation or health team record that confirms any of these statements, so each one stands as his own account. The Local reports the assistant role as coming from his website.

His platform page lists four areas: community safety, including stronger community policing and crime prevention; better City services and responsible spending, including property tax increases that do not outpace residents' income growth; support for families, seniors and youth, including more job opportunities for youth; and accountability at City Hall. Under accountability it lists no self-approved pay raises (any increase approved by Council taking effect only in the next term), a commitment that councillors serve a full term instead of resigning to run for another level of government, and encouraging councillors to donate 10 percent of their salary to local food banks.

The Local's tracker, updated September 21, 2026, also reports that the Scarborough Ontario Health Team's website does not list him as an advisor. That statement rests on The Local alone. voche.me did not open that website, found no second report and read no response from him, so the statement is not repeated as a fact. TTCriders' Ward 23 page lists no response from him to its transit questions, and Build Canada's Ward 23 page lists him among the candidates who had not answered its questionnaire.