[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1738},["ShallowReactive",2],{"party-cope":3,"platform-cope-2026-platform":401,"platform-chapters-cope-2026-platform-fight-for-housing":596,"party-roster-COPE":954},{"id":4,"aliases":5,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":14,"history":15,"leadership":24,"logo":13,"meta":25,"money":26,"name":41,"news":42,"overview":48,"palette":53,"platform":58,"questions":321,"record":361,"registeredName":367,"rosterLabel":41,"slug":368,"sources":369,"stem":398,"summary":399,"website":372,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":400},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcope.json",[],"2026-09-22",{"hex":8,"note":9,"cites":10},"#f23d3d","Read from the party stylesheet on September 22, 2026.",[11],"cope-home","json",null,"The left slate, running no mayoral candidate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":18,"gaps":21,"entries":23},"unresearched",false,[19,20],"The party website","A web search for the party name with past Vancouver election results",[22],"Founding, past results and any name changes have not been checked for this party yet.",[],[],{},{"state":27,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":28,"gaps":31,"searchUrl":33,"filings":34,"notes":35},"researched",[29,30],"The Elections BC local elections disclosure system","The Elections BC elector organization reporting rules",[32],"This party's own filings have not been retrieved and transcribed yet, so this page explains where to look rather than showing the figures.","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FLESearch.aspx",[],[36,37,38,39,40],"Registered parties in British Columbia are called elector organizations. Only a registered elector organization can endorse candidates, take campaign contributions and spend money on an election.","Each one files a report within 90 days after general voting day, another by March 31 for every calendar year, and a final one within six months of closing down.","General voting day is October 17, 2026, so this election’s filing is due by about mid-January 2027. It is not on the public record during the campaign.","What is on the record now: the reports filed for each calendar year, and the full filings from the 2022 Vancouver election.","Anyone who gives $100 or more to a party or a candidate has their name and the amount published.","COPE",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":43,"gaps":45,"entries":47},[44],"A web search for the party name, September 2026",[46],"No dated coverage index has been compiled for this party yet.",[],[49,50,51,52],"COPE stands for the Coalition of Progressive Electors. It is running 12 candidates: 4 for City Council, 4 for Park Board and 4 for School Board. It is not running a mayoral candidate.","It is one of two parties on this ballot contesting three races but not the mayoralty; OneCity is the other.","The platform published on the party website on September 22, 2026 is its April 2025 by-election platform, not a 2026 platform. We have recorded it as such throughout, with its date attached, because the commitments in it were written for a different election.","COPE states that it rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and says it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022.",{"accent":54,"onAccent":55,"tint":56,"ink":57},"#E71010","#FFFFFF","#F7E3E3","#7A1F1F",[59,116,140,164,189,211,230,257,294,305],{"issue":60,"paragraphs":61,"proposals":66,"questions":100,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":110,"gaps":113,"headline":114,"summary":115},"housing",[62,63,64,65],"These commitments come from COPE’s April 2025 by-election platform, which was still the platform published on its website on September 22, 2026.","The mansion tax is the most specific number on it: 1% on property values above $5 million, to pay for ending homelessness.","COPE would also have the city buy existing apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops, naming Montreal as the model.","The vacancy loophole it names is the rule that lets a landlord raise rent without limit between tenants. Rent control between tenancies is provincial law, so a city cannot close that gap on its own.",[67,74,78,83,87,92,96],{"title":68,"detail":69,"cites":70,"cost":72,"authority":73},"A 1% tax on property values above $5 million","COPE would end homelessness with a tax on what it calls the mansions of the super-rich: a progressive property tax of 1% on values exceeding $5 million.",[71],"cope-platform","1% above $5 million","Council sets property tax. A new tax class may need provincial approval.",{"title":75,"detail":76,"cites":77},"Buy apartments and convert them to public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and turn them into permanently affordable public housing and co-ops, following Montreal’s municipal approach.",[71],{"title":79,"detail":80,"cites":81,"authority":82},"Close the vacancy loophole","COPE would close the loophole that lets landlords raise rents without limit between tenants.",[71],"Rent control between tenancies is set by provincial tenancy law.",{"title":84,"detail":85,"cites":86},"Stop demovictions","COPE would stop demovictions and address city-owned vacant land and what it calls exclusionary mansion districts.",[71],{"title":88,"detail":89,"cites":90,"authority":91},"Increase and tighten the Empty Homes Tax","COPE would keep increasing the tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to exempt new builds, increase enforcement and close loopholes.",[71],"The Empty Homes Tax is a City of Vancouver tax.",{"title":93,"detail":94,"cites":95},"Create a landlord registry","A registry would track rents and allow enforcement against landlords with patterns of violations.",[71],{"title":97,"detail":98,"cites":99},"Bring back the renters office with enforcement powers","COPE would restore the renters office and give it new enforcement powers.",[71],[101,105],{"question":102,"answer":103,"cites":104},"Is this COPE’s 2026 platform?","No. The platform published on the party website on September 22, 2026 is its April 2025 by-election platform. We have kept its date attached to every commitment because it was written for a different election.",[71],{"question":106,"answer":107,"cites":108},"Can the city close the vacancy loophole?","No. The rule that lets a landlord raise the rent without limit when one tenant leaves and another arrives is provincial tenancy law. A city can ask the province to change it, and can act on the taxes and registries it does control.",[71],true,[111,112],"The COPE platform page","The COPE home page",[],"A 1% tax on homes worth more than $5 million","COPE’s published platform would tax properties above $5 million at 1% to fund ending homelessness, buy apartments as permanent public housing, close the vacancy loophole and stop demovictions.",{"issue":117,"paragraphs":118,"proposals":121,"questions":135,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":136,"gaps":137,"headline":138,"summary":139},"homelessness",[119,120],"COPE is the only party on this ballot that names both an end to homelessness and the tax that would pay for it in the same commitment.","On the drug crisis, COPE maintains support for safe supply and harm reduction, which is the opposite position to ABC’s ban on open-air use and TrueBlue’s recovery-first framing.",[122,126,131],{"title":123,"detail":124,"cites":125,"cost":72},"End homelessness, paid for by a mansion tax","A 1% property tax on values above $5 million would fund ending homelessness.",[71],{"title":127,"detail":128,"cites":129,"authority":130},"Maintain safe supply and harm reduction","COPE commits to maintaining support for safe supply and harm reduction programs.",[71],"These are provincial and federal health programmes.",{"title":132,"detail":133,"cites":134},"Buy apartments as permanent public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops.",[71],[],[111],[],"End homelessness, funded by the mansion tax","COPE ties its homelessness commitment directly to a funding source: a 1% tax on property values above $5 million.",{"issue":141,"paragraphs":142,"proposals":146,"questions":159,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":160,"gaps":161,"headline":162,"summary":163},"public-safety",[143,144,145],"COPE is the clearest counter-position to ABC and TEAM on this issue. Where they commit to more police tools and enforcement, COPE commits to funding other services instead.","Its platform states the Vancouver police budget increased by about $100 million under the current administration. That is COPE’s own figure and we have not checked it against city budget documents.","Peer-assisted care teams, which COPE calls PACTs, send trained peers rather than police to a mental health crisis.",[147,152,156],{"title":148,"detail":149,"cites":150,"authority":151},"Fund public services rather than policing","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation facilities and social infrastructure over policing.",[71],"Council approves the police budget but the Police Board directs the department.",{"title":153,"detail":154,"cites":155},"Support peer-assisted care teams","COPE would support peer-assisted care teams to respond to mental health crises without involving police.",[71],{"title":127,"detail":128,"cites":157,"authority":158},[71],"Safe supply is a provincial and federal health programme.",[],[111],[],"Fund peer crisis teams rather than police","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation and social infrastructure over policing, and support peer-assisted care teams that respond to mental health crises without police.",{"issue":165,"paragraphs":166,"proposals":168,"questions":184,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":185,"gaps":186,"headline":187,"summary":188},"transport",[167],"COPE publishes its transport commitments inside its climate section rather than separately.",[169,174,179],{"title":170,"detail":171,"cites":172,"authority":173},"Work toward free public transit","COPE would expand free transit to under-18s and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system.",[71],"TransLink sets fares.",{"title":175,"detail":176,"cites":177,"authority":178},"Restore bus routes 17 and 25","COPE would restore both routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[71],"TransLink runs bus routes.",{"title":180,"detail":181,"cites":182,"authority":183},"Support protected bike lanes","COPE would support protected bike lanes and cycling safety initiatives.",[71],"The city designs its own streets.",[],[111],[],"Free transit, restored bus routes and protected bike lanes","COPE would work toward fully funded free public transit, restore bus routes 17 and 25, and support protected bike lanes.",{"issue":190,"paragraphs":191,"proposals":193,"questions":206,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":207,"gaps":208,"headline":209,"summary":210},"parks",[192],"COPE and TEAM both commit to keeping and strengthening the elected Park Board, and both would make temporary parks permanent. COPE publishes a number: more than 100.",[194,198,202],{"title":195,"detail":196,"cites":197},"Strengthen the elected Park Board","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected park board.",[71],{"title":199,"detail":200,"cites":201},"Make 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[71],{"title":203,"detail":204,"cites":205},"Expand community gardens and food growing","COPE would expand community gardens, seed sharing and community kitchens and establish food sovereignty networks.",[71],[],[111],[],"Make the 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected Park Board and make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent ones.",{"issue":212,"paragraphs":213,"proposals":215,"questions":224,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":225,"gaps":226,"headline":228,"summary":229},"schools",[214],"COPE’s published platform addresses public education in general terms and does not set out school-specific commitments. Its related commitments are on libraries and food security.",[216,220],{"title":217,"detail":218,"cites":219},"Increase library funding, hours and wages","COPE would increase funding, hours and wages and add worker representation to the Vancouver Public Library board.",[71],{"title":221,"detail":222,"cites":223},"Defend public education","COPE campaigns on fighting for public education.",[11],[],[111,112],[227],"No school capacity, catchment or budget commitment is published.","Public education, libraries and food programmes","COPE is running four School Board candidates and campaigns on defending public education, with library funding and food programmes alongside.",{"issue":231,"paragraphs":232,"proposals":235,"questions":252,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":253,"gaps":254,"headline":255,"summary":256},"taxes-and-budget",[233,234],"COPE and TEAM both commit to a lobbyist registry, from opposite ends of the political range. That makes it one of the few commitments with support across this ballot.","COPE’s donation position is a claim about its own conduct: it says it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. That is the party’s own account. Elections BC filings are the place to check it.",[236,240,244,248],{"title":237,"detail":238,"cites":239},"Establish a lobbyist registry","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry and push fossil fuel and big business lobbyists out.",[71],{"title":241,"detail":242,"cites":243},"Defend the Integrity Commissioner","COPE would defend and restore the independence and authority of the Integrity Commissioner.",[71],{"title":245,"detail":246,"cites":247},"Refuse developer and big business donations","COPE states it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. This is the party’s own account of its conduct.",[71],{"title":249,"detail":250,"cites":251},"Expand public participation at council","COPE would increase council comment time and follow-up questions and hold town halls throughout the city.",[71],[],[111],[],"A lobbyist registry, and no developer donations","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry, defend the Integrity Commissioner’s independence, and states it rejects donations from developers and big business.",{"issue":258,"paragraphs":259,"proposals":263,"questions":289,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":290,"gaps":291,"headline":292,"summary":293},"climate",[260,261,262],"COPE’s climate section is the longest part of its published platform and folds transport into it.","It refers to the 2021 heat dome, stating 99 people died in Vancouver, and frames its climate adaptation commitments around protecting people from extreme weather.","Rejoining the Sue Big Oil lawsuit would have the city join other local governments suing fossil fuel companies for climate costs.",[264,269,273,276,281,285],{"title":265,"detail":266,"cites":267,"authority":268},"Free transit for everyone under 18","COPE would expand free public transit to youth under the age of 18, working toward fully funded free-to-ride public transit.",[71],"TransLink sets fares. A city can advocate and can contribute funding.",{"title":270,"detail":271,"cites":272},"Rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","The city would rejoin the lawsuit requiring polluters to fund climate crisis remediation.",[71],{"title":175,"detail":274,"cites":275,"authority":178},"COPE would restore the two routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[71],{"title":277,"detail":278,"cites":279,"authority":280},"Block gas in new buildings","COPE would block what it describes as the next attempt to enable burning methane gas in new builds, and support electric heat pump retrofitting.",[71],"Vancouver sets its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":282,"detail":283,"cites":284},"Exceed IPCC emissions targets","COPE commits to exceeding IPCC greenhouse gas reduction targets and timelines.",[71],{"title":286,"detail":287,"cites":288},"A climate defence strategy for extreme weather","COPE would develop adaptation infrastructure for extreme weather, citing the 99 deaths in Vancouver during the 2021 heat dome.",[71],[],[111],[],"Free transit for under-18s and rejoining the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","COPE’s published platform would expand free transit to everyone under 18, rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit, restore bus routes 17 and 25, and exceed IPCC emissions targets.",{"issue":295,"paragraphs":296,"proposals":297,"questions":298,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":299,"gaps":303},"culture",[],[],[],[300,301,302],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F","The City of Vancouver official candidate list","A web search for the party name with the issue name, September 2026",[304],"This issue has not yet been researched for this party.",{"issue":306,"paragraphs":307,"proposals":309,"questions":316,"state":27,"indexable":109,"checkedAt":6,"searched":317,"gaps":318,"headline":319,"summary":320},"child-care",[308],"The $10 a day programme is a provincial scheme. A city can create the rooms and press for more spaces to be funded, but it does not set the fee.",[310],{"title":311,"detail":312,"cites":313,"cost":314,"authority":315},"Expand $10 a day child care spaces in Vancouver","COPE would expand affordable child care, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[71],"$10 per day per space","The $10 a day programme is funded and set by the province.",[],[111],[],"Expand $10-a-day child care spaces","COPE would expand affordable child care in Vancouver, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[322,327,331,335,339,343,348,352,356],{"question":323,"answer":324,"cites":325},"Is COPE running a candidate for mayor?","No. COPE is running 12 candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor.",[326],"city-candidates",{"question":328,"answer":329,"cites":330},"What does COPE stand for?","The Coalition of Progressive Electors.",[11],{"question":332,"answer":333,"cites":334},"Is the platform on COPE’s website its 2026 platform?","No. On September 22, 2026 the platform page held its April 2025 by-election platform. We have kept that date attached to every commitment taken from it.",[71],{"question":336,"answer":337,"cites":338},"What is COPE’s mansion tax?","A property tax of 1% on the value of a home above $5 million, which COPE says would fund ending homelessness. A home assessed at $6 million would be taxed 1% on the $1 million above the threshold.",[71],{"question":340,"answer":341,"cites":342},"Where does COPE stand on policing?","It would prioritise pools, recreation and social infrastructure over policing, and fund peer-assisted care teams that respond to mental health crises without police.",[71],{"question":344,"answer":345,"cites":346},"Does COPE take developer donations?","It states that it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. That is the party’s own account. Elections BC filings are where to check it.",[71,347],"ebc-search",{"question":349,"answer":350,"cites":351},"What does COPE say about the Park Board?","It would strengthen the independence of the elected board and make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[71],{"question":353,"answer":354,"cites":355},"Does COPE support free transit?","Yes. It would expand free transit to everyone under 18 and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system. Fares are set by TransLink, not the city.",[71],{"question":357,"answer":358,"cites":359},"Where can I see COPE’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027.",[347,360],"ebc-org",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":362,"gaps":364,"entries":366},[19,363],"The City of Vancouver council and board decision records",[365],"No decision, vote or funded-work record has been checked for this party yet.",[],"The Coalition of Progressive Electors","cope",[370,374,378,383,386,389,393],{"id":11,"label":371,"url":372,"publisher":41,"kind":373,"checkedAt":6},"COPE home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F","subject",{"id":71,"label":375,"url":376,"publisher":41,"kind":373,"publishedAt":377,"checkedAt":6},"COPE platform (April 2025 by-election platform, still published September 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002Fplatform","2025-04-05",{"id":326,"label":379,"url":380,"publisher":381,"kind":382,"checkedAt":6},"Who is running: official 2026 candidate list","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002F2026-candidate-information.aspx","City of Vancouver","government",{"id":347,"label":384,"url":33,"publisher":385,"kind":382,"checkedAt":6},"Local elections disclosure statement search","Elections BC",{"id":360,"label":387,"url":388,"publisher":385,"kind":382,"checkedAt":6},"Elector organizations: registration and financial reporting duties","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Felector-organizations\u002F",{"id":390,"label":391,"url":392,"publisher":385,"kind":382,"checkedAt":6},"ebc-contrib","Making a campaign contribution","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Fmaking-a-campaign-contribution\u002F",{"id":394,"label":395,"url":396,"publisher":41,"kind":373,"checkedAt":397},"cope-platform-2026","Fight for Vancouver: COPE 2026 Platform (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002Fs\u002FFight-For-Vancouver-COPE-2026-Platform-t7yf.pdf","2026-09-30","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcope","COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, is running 12 candidates for Council, Park Board and School Board, and no mayoral candidate. Its published platform commits to a mansion tax, buying apartments as public housing, and free transit.","OHl8B5Jgx9XJP0Ej9FnoyIVCJp-rs_ulMHPTEKXYQx4",{"id":402,"title":403,"checkedAt":397,"context":404,"corrections":405,"extension":12,"headline":406,"intro":407,"meta":411,"pageCount":412,"party":368,"pillars":413,"questions":570,"slug":589,"sourceId":394,"sourceIds":590,"stem":591,"summary":592,"tagline":593,"updatedAt":13,"url":396,"__hash__":595},"platforms\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatforms\u002Fcope.json","Fight for Vancouver",[],[],"COPE's 2026 platform, Fight for Vancouver, section by section",[408,409,410],"COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, calls its 2026 platform \"Fight for Vancouver\". The party published it as a PDF in three numbered sections: Fight for Housing, The People's Audit, and Fight for Vancouver. COPE also publishes a black-and-white print version, called its Election Program, with the same text.","These pages split the PDF into its numbered parts. Each page lists every commitment in the party's own order, with the PDF page it comes from, so you can check the wording yourself. We added one thing the PDF does not give: which government would have to act for each commitment, and why. We moved part 3.7, COPE's School Board platform, into a section of its own so that School Board voters can find it.","COPE is running candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor. Much of the platform asks Council to act with its own powers over zoning, city land, the budget and city bylaws. Other parts ask the Province, the federal government or TransLink to act, and on those points COPE could only press.",{},"28",[414,452,491,532],{"slug":415,"title":416,"race":417,"order":418,"pages":419,"aim":422,"headline":423,"summary":424,"intro":425,"questions":429,"context":448},"fight-for-housing","Fight for Housing","City Council",1,{"from":420,"to":421},4,9,"We can make housing affordable if we’re willing to fight for it.","COPE on housing: the Empty Homes Tax, public housing, a Renters Office and a mansion tax","Fight for Housing is the first section of COPE's 2026 platform. It would triple the Empty Homes Tax, buy apartments for public housing and co-ops, secure 20,000+ affordable homes, bring back a Renters Office and tax mansions to pay for ending homelessness.",[426,427,428],"COPE opens its 2026 platform with housing, on pages 4 to 9. The section begins with the party's argument that the housing market is working as designed, to raise rents and reward investors, and ends with its plan for homelessness. Its parts cover stopping the loss of affordable homes, building permanently affordable public housing, protecting renters, and taxing mansions to end homelessness.","The best-known items are a tripled Empty Homes Tax, the city buying apartment buildings to turn into public housing and co-ops, and a target of 20,000+ affordable homes paid for by taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots. For renters, COPE would bring back a Renters Office \"with teeth\", create a Landlord Registry and have the city repair neglected units and bill landlords. For people without homes, it would add shelters and tiny house villages and stop street sweeps.","Council controls zoning, city land, the Empty Homes Tax and rental bylaws, so many of these steps are within its power. Rent increase limits and tenancy law belong to the Province, and so do any new kinds of tax, because the Vancouver Charter sets the city's powers. Housing funding also depends on the provincial and federal governments, which COPE says it would press.",[430,433,436,439,442,445],{"question":431,"answer":432},"What is COPE's housing platform for 2026?","COPE's Fight for Housing section would triple the Empty Homes Tax, buy apartment buildings for public housing and co-ops, secure 20,000+ affordable homes, bring back a Renters Office and tax mansions to end homelessness (platform, pages 4 to 9).",{"question":434,"answer":435},"How would COPE lower rents in Vancouver?","COPE would fight to close the vacancy loophole so rent controls apply between tenants, buy apartments to take them off the private market, and penalize rent increases above the maximum through a Renters Office. The Province sets rent increase limits, so the loophole would need provincial action (platform, pages 5 and 8).",{"question":437,"answer":438},"Does COPE want to tax mansions in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would tax the wealth held in mega-mansions to pay for ending homelessness, and lists taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots among the ways it would pay for public housing. New kinds of tax would need powers from the Province (platform, pages 7 and 9).",{"question":440,"answer":441},"What does COPE propose for renters?","COPE would bring back a Renters Office, create a Landlord Registry, have the city do neglected repairs and bill landlords, allow pets in all rentals, ban rent-price collusion and protect tenant unions (platform, page 8).",{"question":443,"answer":444},"What would COPE do about homelessness in Vancouver?","COPE would use every city power on emergency shelters, tiny house villages, meal programs and storage for belongings, stop street sweeps, ban hostile architecture and follow the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments. It would pay for housing with a mansion tax (platform, page 9).",{"question":446,"answer":447},"Who has the power to carry out COPE's housing plan?","Council controls zoning, city land, the Empty Homes Tax and rental bylaws. The Province sets rent increase limits and tenancy law and decides what new taxes the city may charge, and most funding for social and supportive housing comes from the provincial and federal governments (platform, pages 4 to 9).",[449],{"label":450,"url":451,"publisher":381,"checkedAt":397},"Vacancy Tax (Empty Homes Tax) By-law 11674","https:\u002F\u002Fbylaws.vancouver.ca\u002Fconsolidated\u002F11674.PDF",{"slug":453,"title":454,"race":417,"order":455,"pages":456,"aim":459,"headline":460,"summary":461,"intro":462,"questions":466,"context":482},"the-peoples-audit","The People's Audit",2,{"from":457,"to":458},10,11,"Identify and report on what happened and why under Ken Sim’s tenure, and who bore the consequences for the decisions made.","COPE's People's Audit: undoing ABC's changes and reviewing City Hall","The People's Audit is COPE's plan to review and reverse the ABC council's decisions. It proposes an emergency transitional budget, a worker-led audit, a 9% Empty Homes Tax, the Auditor General's land sale fixes, a lobbying registry and cooling-off periods.",[463,464,465],"The People's Audit, on pages 10 and 11 of COPE's platform, is about the city government itself. COPE says it would find out what happened under Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC majority, who bore the consequences, and how to undo the decisions it opposes. The section has three parts: immediate steps to reverse course, a review of how decisions were made, and limits on the influence of the wealthiest people and of lobbyists at City Hall.","The first steps include an emergency transitional budget, a worker-led audit in which city workers are interviewed about waste, the return of the Renters Office and of cut climate programs, and an Empty Homes Tax rising to 9%. The review would look at staff layoffs, the replacement of the city manager, the use of city data by AI companies, and the Auditor General's 2026 Land Sales Audit. COPE would also add a lobbying registry and cooling-off periods for people moving between city jobs and industry.","Almost all of this is Council's to decide, because Council directs the city's administration, approves the budget and sets city bylaws, including those for the Auditor General and the Integrity Commissioner. Campaign finance is the exception: contribution rules for BC local elections are set by provincial law, so COPE could only press for that reform. A lobbying registry is a mixed case: COPE says the city can start one alone and would seek more authority from senior governments.",[467,470,473,476,479],{"question":468,"answer":469},"What is COPE's People's Audit?","The People's Audit is COPE's plan to review and reverse decisions made under Ken Sim and ABC. It includes an emergency transitional budget, a worker-led audit of City Hall, a review of major decisions, and new limits on lobbying (platform, pages 10 and 11).",{"question":471,"answer":472},"What would COPE change at Vancouver City Hall?","COPE would give the Auditor General more independence, carry out the Auditor General's 2026 land sale recommendations, give the Integrity Commissioner more power, bring in a lobbying registry and set cooling-off periods between city jobs and lobbying industries (platform, page 11).",{"question":474,"answer":475},"What does COPE say about Ken Sim's record?","The platform says Ken Sim and ABC froze supportive housing, cut climate programs and the sustainability department, stopped a planned rise in the Empty Homes Tax and did not act on a land sales audit that found $60 million+ in lost revenue. These are COPE's statements (platform, pages 10 and 11).",{"question":477,"answer":478},"Would COPE raise the Empty Homes Tax in its first term?","Yes. In its list of immediate steps, COPE says it would reverse the cut to the Empty Homes Tax and phase in increases to 9% (platform, page 10).",{"question":480,"answer":481},"Who would carry out COPE's People's Audit?","Council directs the city's administration and approves the budget, so a council majority could order the audit and the reviews. The Auditor General and the Integrity Commissioner work under city bylaws. Campaign finance rules are provincial, so that part would need the Province (platform, pages 10 and 11).",[483,486,489],{"label":484,"url":485,"publisher":381,"checkedAt":397},"Auditor General of the City of Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002Fauditor-general.aspx",{"label":487,"url":488,"publisher":381,"checkedAt":397},"Integrity Commissioner and the Code of Conduct By-law","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002Fintegrity-commissioner.aspx",{"label":490,"url":392,"publisher":385,"checkedAt":397},"Making a campaign contribution in BC local elections",{"slug":492,"title":403,"race":417,"order":493,"pages":494,"aim":497,"headline":498,"summary":499,"intro":500,"questions":504,"context":523},"fight-for-vancouver",3,{"from":495,"to":496},12,26,"Expand library hours to be open 7 days a week, and give libraries the support they’re asking for, including funding for mental health workers, and better working conditions.","COPE's plan for the city: libraries, food, transit, climate, safety, the arts and elections","Fight for Vancouver is the longest section of COPE's platform. It covers libraries, pools and parks, groceries, small business, climate, transit, child care, safety, AI, the arts, fairness and voting, with commitments such as free transit for youth and 2,200 child care spaces.",[501,502,503],"The third section of COPE's platform, on pages 12 to 26, shares its name with the whole document. It covers most of what the city does outside housing. The parts deal with libraries, pools and parks, the cost of groceries, local business, a Climate Defence Strategy, transit, families and child care, public safety, artificial intelligence, the arts, fairness, and how Vancouver votes. The School Board part of this section has its own page on this site.","Among the specific commitments are libraries open 7 days a week, a new 50 metre pool, a public grocery pilot, a Buy Vancouver purchasing policy, a 30% tree canopy by 2050, free transit for everyone under 18, at least 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030, and peer-assisted care teams for mental health calls. COPE would also rename Dunsmuir Street to Ginger Goodwin Street and push for ranked ballots, wards and votes at 16.","Responsibility is spread widely in this section. Council controls city streets, zoning, city land, the budget and city bylaws. The elected Park Board runs parks, pools and community centres. Buses and SkyTrain are run by TransLink, a regional body. Child care licensing, health services, rules on who may vote and new taxing powers are provincial, and ports and headlight rules are federal.",[505,508,511,514,517,520],{"question":506,"answer":507},"What is COPE's Fight for Vancouver section?","Fight for Vancouver is the third section of COPE's 2026 platform. It covers libraries and parks, groceries, small business, climate, transit, families, safety, AI, the arts, fairness and elections (platform, pages 12 to 26).",{"question":509,"answer":510},"What would COPE do about transit in Vancouver?","COPE would work toward fast and free transit, starting with fare-free bus pilots, free transit for everyone under 18 and a low-income pass. It would add a Broadway bike lane and push to extend SkyTrain to UBC. TransLink runs transit, so most of these are requests to TransLink (platform, page 18).",{"question":512,"answer":513},"What is COPE's climate plan for Vancouver?","COPE would turn the city's climate adaptation plan into a Climate Defence Strategy, grow the tree canopy to 30% by 2050, rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit and oppose dredging and tankers in Burrard Inlet (platform, pages 16 and 17).",{"question":515,"answer":516},"What does COPE propose for public safety?","COPE would move mental health calls away from police toward peer-assisted care teams, set up an intimate partner violence task force, support safe supply and supervised consumption sites, and lower speed limits on high-risk streets (platform, pages 22 and 23).",{"question":518,"answer":519},"What does COPE want to change about Vancouver elections?","COPE would push for a ranked ballot for mayor starting in 2030, proportional representation with wards, votes for permanent residents and everyone over 16, and $25 Democracy Dollars vouchers. Voting rules are set in the Vancouver Charter, which only the Province can change (platform, page 26).",{"question":521,"answer":522},"Who would carry out COPE's Fight for Vancouver commitments?","Council controls city streets, zoning, land, the budget and bylaws, and the Park Board runs parks, pools and community centres. TransLink runs transit, the Province controls child care licensing, health care and voting rules, and the federal government controls ports and vehicle rules (platform, pages 12 to 26).",[524,528],{"label":525,"url":526,"publisher":527,"checkedAt":397},"Vancouver Fraser Port Authority: organization profile","https:\u002F\u002Ffederal-organizations.canada.ca\u002Fprofil.php?OrgID=VFPA&lang=en","Government of Canada",{"label":529,"url":530,"publisher":531,"checkedAt":397},"Vancouver Charter, sections 23 and 24: who may vote in Vancouver elections","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\u002Fcivix\u002Fdocument\u002Fid\u002Fcomplete\u002Fstatreg\u002Fvanch_02","Province of British Columbia",{"slug":533,"title":534,"race":535,"order":420,"pages":536,"aim":539,"headline":540,"summary":541,"intro":542,"questions":546,"context":562},"put-students-first","Put Students First at Vancouver School Board","School Board",{"from":537,"to":538},20,21,"Prioritize classrooms and services for students as first priority.","COPE's School Board platform: school meals, counsellors, open meetings, public school land","COPE's School Board platform would create a universal meal program for all VSB students, fund mental health counsellors in place of school liaison officers, reverse cuts to student support programs, live-stream board meetings and keep school land public.",[543,544,545],"In the PDF, COPE's School Board platform is part 3.7 of the Fight for Vancouver section, on pages 20 and 21. We list it as its own section here because it is the only part of the platform aimed at the Vancouver School Board, the body that runs the city's public schools. COPE is running candidates for School Board trustee.","The main items are a universal school meal program, mental health counsellors in place of school liaison officers, the return of programs for vulnerable students that COPE says were cut, more arts and sports, and the use of school buildings for child care and gardens. On governance, COPE would live-stream board meetings with public questions, hold fewer private meetings and add participatory budgeting. It would keep school land public and oppose public money for elite private schools.","The School Board controls its meetings, its programs, its buildings and how it spends the district budget. The Province sets school funding, the funding formula, class size money and grants to independent schools, so COPE's requests for more money, faster school building and fairer special education funding are things a COPE board could only ask the Province to do.",[547,550,553,556,559],{"question":548,"answer":549},"What is COPE's platform for the Vancouver School Board?","COPE would put classrooms first, create a universal meal program for all VSB students, fund mental health counsellors in place of school liaison officers, reverse cuts to programs for vulnerable students, live-stream board meetings and keep school land public (platform, pages 20 and 21).",{"question":551,"answer":552},"Who are COPE's School Board candidates?","Derrick O'Keefe, Gwen Giesbrecht, Melanie Cheng and Suzie Mah are running for Vancouver School Board with COPE (platform, page 20).",{"question":554,"answer":555},"Does COPE want to end police in Vancouver schools?","COPE would fund school mental health counsellors in place of school liaison officers, the Vancouver police officers who work in schools under a program run jointly with the School Board (platform, page 20).",{"question":557,"answer":558},"What does COPE say about selling school land?","COPE would treat school properties as public lands, protect them and use them for public benefit, in place of selling them to cover budget shortfalls (platform, page 20).",{"question":560,"answer":561},"Can a COPE School Board get more money for schools?","School funding and the funding formula are set by the Province. COPE says it would push the Province for more public school funding, smaller class sizes, faster school repairs and new schools, and special education funding that matches students' needs (platform, pages 20 and 21).",[563,566],{"label":564,"url":565,"publisher":531,"checkedAt":397},"Independent school funding","https:\u002F\u002Fwww2.gov.bc.ca\u002Fgov\u002Fcontent\u002Feducation-training\u002Fk-12\u002Fadministration\u002Fprogram-management\u002Findependent-schools\u002Ffunding",{"label":567,"url":568,"publisher":569,"checkedAt":397},"Vancouver Police Finally Reveal Names of School Liaison Officers","https:\u002F\u002Fthetyee.ca\u002FNews\u002F2025\u002F11\u002F17\u002FVancouver-Police-Reveal-Names-School-Liaison-Officers\u002F","The Tyee",[571,574,577,580,583,586],{"question":572,"answer":573},"What is in COPE's 2026 platform?","COPE's 2026 platform, Fight for Vancouver, has three sections. Fight for Housing covers rents, public housing and homelessness. The People's Audit is a review of City Hall after Ken Sim's term. Fight for Vancouver covers libraries and parks, food, small business, climate, transit, families, schools, safety, AI, the arts, fairness and elections (platform, pages 4 to 26).",{"question":575,"answer":576},"Who are COPE's candidates in the 2026 Vancouver election?","COPE has no candidate for mayor. Chloe Leslie, Devyani Singh, Sean Orr and Solomon Yi-Kieran are running for City Council. Jamie Han, Sacia Burton, T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss and Tamiko Suzuki are running for Park Board. Derrick O'Keefe, Gwen Giesbrecht, Melanie Cheng and Suzie Mah are running for School Board.",{"question":578,"answer":579},"Where can I read COPE's 2026 platform?","COPE publishes the PDF, titled Fight for Vancouver, on its website, votecope.ca, along with a black-and-white print version called its Election Program. On this site, every commitment links to the page of the PDF it comes from.",{"question":581,"answer":582},"What are COPE's biggest promises for 2026?","COPE would triple the Empty Homes Tax, buy apartment buildings for public housing and co-ops, and secure 20,000+ affordable homes. It would also bring back a Renters Office, tax mansions to end homelessness, and push for free transit, starting with everyone under 18 (platform, pages 5 to 18).",{"question":584,"answer":585},"Could COPE carry out its platform if its candidates win?","COPE is not running for mayor, and a Council decision needs six of the eleven votes, so its councillors would need support from others. Many items, such as rent rules, new taxes, transit fares and voting rules, belong to the Province or TransLink, where the city can only ask. Each commitment on these pages names the body that would have to act.",{"question":587,"answer":588},"Who wrote these pages about COPE's platform?","voche.me, an independent guide to the 2026 Vancouver election, wrote these pages from COPE's own PDF. COPE did not write or approve them. Every commitment is reported as something the party says it would do.","2026-platform",[],"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatforms\u002Fcope","Every commitment in COPE's 2026 platform, Fight for Vancouver, sorted by section, with the PDF page for each one and the government that would have to act. It covers housing, a review of City Hall, city services, transit, climate and the School Board.",{"text":594,"page":455},"Vancouver doesn’t have to be this way.","PLtANh7os_rFk9ZRBto9tHEKhHo7QWWEUM_8cevTFlA",[597,665,743,870],{"id":598,"title":599,"checkedAt":397,"context":600,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":601,"headline":606,"issues":607,"meta":608,"order":609,"pages":610,"paragraphs":611,"party":368,"pillar":415,"proposals":615,"questions":645,"slug":661,"source":13,"stem":662,"summary":663,"__hash__":664},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--permanently-affordable-public-housing.json","Permanently Affordable Public Housing",[],[602],{"value":603,"label":604,"page":605},"20,000+","Affordable homes COPE says it would negotiate, build and secure for Vancouver",7,"COPE on public housing: 20,000+ homes, a land value tax, a penalty on empty lots",[60],{},"2",{"from":605,"to":605},[612,613,614],"Page 7 of COPE's platform sets the party's main housing target: 20,000+ units of affordable housing for Vancouver. COPE lists the kinds of homes it means, including Indigenous housing, public housing, co-ops, community land trusts, non-profit housing, supportive housing, shelter-rate housing and modular housing. The platform describes shelter-rate housing as housing for people on fixed incomes. It also names middle-income housing for people on a living wage and housing that minimum-wage earners can afford.","The page also explains how COPE would pay for these homes. The party names taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots, city bonds, and pressure on senior governments. It supports a tax on land value and wants the public to capture the gain landowners get when a new transit line or a rezoning raises the price of their land. Under the slogan \"use it or lose it\", the party would put a penalty on land held empty for profit.","COPE says the city would act as lead negotiator for a group of stalled public, co-op and non-profit housing sites, seeking low-interest loans and senior government funding. Council can do this through its budget, its land and its zoning, but loans and grants would come from the provincial and federal governments. New taxes on wealth or land would need the Province, because the Vancouver Charter sets what the city may tax.",[616,621,625,629,632,636,640],{"title":617,"detail":618,"page":605,"authority":619,"authorityNote":620},"Negotiate, build and secure 20,000+ affordable homes","COPE would negotiate, build and secure 20,000+ units of affordable housing for Vancouver, including Indigenous housing, public housing, co-ops, community land trusts, non-profit housing, supportive housing, below-market inclusionary zoning, shelter-rate housing and modular housing.","city-with-others","Council controls zoning and city land, but most funding for supportive, social and co-op housing comes from the provincial and federal governments.",{"title":622,"detail":623,"page":605,"authority":619,"authorityNote":624},"Act as lead negotiator for stalled housing sites","The party would have the city bring together a group of stalled public, co-op and non-profit housing sites and use every tool available to negotiate low-interest loans, secure senior government funding and get affordable housing built.","The city can lead the talks, but the loans and funding the platform names come from senior governments and lenders.",{"title":626,"detail":627,"page":605,"authority":619,"authorityNote":628},"Finance public housing with taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots","COPE would finance permanently affordable public housing through taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots, through bonds, and through advocacy to senior governments.","The platform does not name the tax. Council sets the property tax rate, but the city's powers come from the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law that only the Province can change.",{"title":630,"detail":631,"page":605,"authority":619,"authorityNote":628},"Tax land value and capture landowner windfalls","The party supports taxation on land value. It would capture the gains landowners get from nearness to public amenities, from speculation and from zoning, and use them for public benefit.",{"title":633,"detail":634,"page":605,"authority":619,"authorityNote":635},"Use it or lose it: a penalty on land-banking","COPE says Vancouver does not need vacant lots. It would encourage development without displacement by placing a penalty on holding land empty for profit.","The platform does not say which tax or fee would carry the penalty. Any new type of tax would depend on powers the Province gives the city in the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":637,"detail":638,"page":605,"authority":619,"authorityNote":639},"Fight for housing at every income level","The party would fight for shelter-rate housing for people on fixed incomes, housing affordable to minimum-wage earners, and middle-income housing for people on a living wage.","Council can require and approve these homes through zoning, but most funding for below-market housing comes from senior governments.",{"title":641,"detail":642,"page":605,"authority":643,"authorityNote":644},"Affordable housing and services in every neighbourhood","COPE would make every neighbourhood welcoming to people on all incomes, with affordable housing and with accessible, affordable shops and services.","city-council","Council sets zoning, which decides what kinds of homes and shops each neighbourhood can have.",[646,649,652,655,658],{"question":647,"answer":648},"How many affordable homes does COPE promise to build in Vancouver?","COPE says it would negotiate, build and secure 20,000+ units of affordable housing for Vancouver, including public housing, co-ops, land trusts, non-profit, supportive, shelter-rate and modular housing (platform, page 7).",{"question":650,"answer":651},"How would COPE pay for public housing?","COPE would finance permanently affordable public housing through taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots, through bonds, and through advocacy to senior governments. It also supports a tax on land value (platform, page 7).",{"question":653,"answer":654},"What does COPE mean by use it or lose it?","COPE says Vancouver does not need vacant lots. Under the heading \"use it or lose it\", the party would place a penalty on land held empty for profit, to push owners to build without displacing anyone (platform, page 7).",{"question":656,"answer":657},"Does COPE support a land value tax in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE says it supports taxation on land value and would capture the gains landowners get from public amenities, speculation and zoning for public benefit. A new tax of this kind would need powers that only the Province can give the city (platform, page 7).",{"question":659,"answer":660},"Who would have to act for COPE's 20,000 homes to be built?","Council controls zoning and city land, so it can approve the homes and offer sites. COPE itself says the city would seek low-interest loans and senior government funding, so much of the money would have to come from the provincial and federal governments (platform, page 7).","permanently-affordable-public-housing","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--permanently-affordable-public-housing","COPE would negotiate, build and secure 20,000+ affordable homes in Vancouver, from public housing and co-ops to shelter-rate and modular housing. It would pay for them with taxes on wealth, mansions and empty lots, bonds, and money from senior governments.","sVIQwF_YCTEkDzhSFHaa9MM9LRONwNRLudQ4up7JQCw",{"id":666,"title":667,"checkedAt":397,"context":668,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":669,"headline":677,"issues":678,"meta":679,"order":680,"pages":681,"paragraphs":682,"party":368,"pillar":415,"proposals":686,"questions":720,"slug":739,"source":13,"stem":740,"summary":741,"__hash__":742},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--protect-renters.json","Protect Renters",[],[670,674],{"value":671,"label":672,"page":673},"1\u002F3","Share of Vancouver residents the party says can afford market rate housing",8,{"value":675,"label":676,"page":673},"84%","Share of new homes in the city's 10-year housing target that the party says are market rate","COPE's renter plan: a Renters Office, a landlord registry, repairs billed to landlords",[60],{},"3",{"from":673,"to":673},[683,684,685],"COPE's chapter on renters is built around one office. The party would bring back the Renters Office, \"with teeth\", as an advocate for tenants. It would track landlords and rents, help tenants bargain together, step in when people are being pushed out, and record rent history over time. COPE says the office would also impose penalties on rent increases beyond the legal maximum.","Other items set duties for landlords. The party would require landlords to keep units in safe condition, including heat control, working appliances, and freedom from black mold and pests, or the city would do the repairs and bill the owner. A Landlord Registry would track landlord activity. COPE would also ban rent-price collusion, including the use of software that suggests rents, and allow pets in all rentals.","Council makes rental and tenant-protection bylaws, so it could set up the office, the registry and the repair rule. The Province writes tenancy law and sets the maximum rent increase. Items that change what a lease may say, such as a pet rule or a duty to bargain with a tenant union, would need the Province. COPE also wants to turn the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy into a city law with stronger protections.",[687,691,695,700,704,708,712,716],{"title":688,"detail":689,"page":673,"authority":643,"authorityNote":690},"Bring back the Renters Office, with teeth","COPE would bring back the Renters Office and give tenants an advocate empowered to fight for them. The office would track landlords and rents, help tenants bargain collectively and intervene in displacement.","Council decides which offices the city runs and pays for them through the budget.",{"title":692,"detail":693,"page":673,"authority":643,"authorityNote":694},"Make landlords maintain units, or the city repairs and bills them","The party would make sure landlords keep units in safe condition, including temperature control, working amenities, and safety from black mold and pests. If they do not, the city would do the repairs and bill the landlord.","Council makes rental and tenant-protection bylaws, which can set standards for the upkeep of rental buildings.",{"title":696,"detail":697,"page":673,"authority":698,"authorityNote":699},"Allow pets in all rentals","COPE would allow pets in all rentals. The platform says renters should not have to choose between their family and a home.","province","What a lease may say about pets is part of tenancy law, which the Province sets.",{"title":701,"detail":702,"page":673,"authority":643,"authorityNote":703},"Crack down on bad landlords with a Landlord Registry","The party would track landlord activity through a Landlord Registry and impose real penalties on landlords who break the law for profit.","Council can create a city registry and set penalties in its own bylaws.",{"title":705,"detail":706,"page":673,"authority":619,"authorityNote":707},"Track rent history through the Renters Office","COPE would track rent history and growth over time through the Renters Office, impose penalties on rent increases beyond the maximum, and use real-time rent data to guide public policy.","The maximum rent increase is set by the Province. The city can collect rent data, but the platform does not say which city power would carry the penalties.",{"title":709,"detail":710,"page":673,"authority":619,"authorityNote":711},"Ban rent-price collusion","The party would ban rent-price collusion by any means, including algorithmic software, collaboration between landlords, or third-party intermediaries.","The platform does not say which government would pass the ban. The city makes rental bylaws, while tenancy law is provincial.",{"title":713,"detail":714,"page":673,"authority":698,"authorityNote":715},"Protect the right of tenants to organize","COPE would protect the right of tenants to form unions and require landlords to bargain with tenants in good faith.","Landlord and tenant duties are set in provincial tenancy law, which the city cannot change.",{"title":717,"detail":718,"page":673,"authority":643,"authorityNote":719},"Protect renters rights by law","The party would replace what it calls weak policies like the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) with strong laws that protect tenant rights in Vancouver.","Council can turn a city policy into a city bylaw on rental housing.",[721,724,727,730,733,736],{"question":722,"answer":723},"What is COPE's Renters Office?","COPE would bring back a Renters Office \"with teeth\" to act as an advocate for tenants. It would track landlords and rents, help tenants bargain collectively, intervene in displacement and impose penalties on rent increases beyond the maximum (platform, page 8).",{"question":725,"answer":726},"Would COPE make landlords fix their buildings?","Yes. COPE says landlords would have to keep units safe, including temperature control, working amenities, and protection from black mold and pests. If they do not, the city would do the repairs and bill the landlord (platform, page 8).",{"question":728,"answer":729},"Does COPE want to allow pets in all Vancouver rentals?","Yes. COPE says it would allow pets in all rentals, so renters do not have to choose between their family and a home. Pet rules in leases are part of provincial tenancy law, so the city would need the Province to act (platform, page 8).",{"question":731,"answer":732},"Does COPE support a landlord registry in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would track landlord activity through a Landlord Registry and impose real penalties on landlords who break the law for profit (platform, page 8).",{"question":734,"answer":735},"What does COPE say about rent-setting software?","COPE would ban rent-price collusion by any means, including algorithmic software, collaboration between landlords or third-party intermediaries (platform, page 8).",{"question":737,"answer":738},"Could a COPE council protect tenant unions on its own?","COPE says it would protect the right of tenants to organize into unions and require landlords to bargain with them in good faith. Landlord and tenant duties are set in provincial tenancy law, so this part of the plan would need the Province (platform, page 8).","protect-renters","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--protect-renters","COPE would bring back a Renters Office with power to track landlords and rents and help tenants bargain together. It would create a Landlord Registry, have the city do neglected repairs and bill landlords, allow pets in all rentals and ban rent-price collusion.","MG7DoURSAsZko0fhaWiF6C0iQUgT1fl0u0nghQslhro",{"id":744,"title":745,"checkedAt":397,"context":746,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":748,"headline":769,"issues":770,"meta":771,"order":772,"pages":773,"paragraphs":774,"party":368,"pillar":415,"proposals":779,"questions":847,"slug":866,"source":13,"stem":867,"summary":868,"__hash__":869},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--stop-the-loss-of-affordable-housing.json","Stop the Loss of Affordable Housing",[747],{"label":450,"url":451,"publisher":381,"checkedAt":397},[749,753,756,759,762,765],{"value":750,"label":751,"page":752},"47,000+","Affordable homes the party says Vancouver lost to rent increases and demovictions between 2016 and 2021",5,{"value":754,"label":755,"page":752},"$1,757","Average rent for a two bedroom purpose-built apartment in 2016, according to the platform",{"value":757,"label":758,"page":752},"$2,565","Average rent for the same apartment in 2024, according to the platform",{"value":760,"label":761,"page":752},"almost 50%","Increase in that rent from 2016 to 2024, as the platform calculates it",{"value":763,"label":764,"page":752},"24.94%","Inflation over the same period, according to the platform",{"value":766,"label":767,"page":768},"$20 million+","SRA fees the party says Ken Sim and ABC waived for a developer in one vote",6,"COPE on affordable homes: triple the Empty Homes Tax, buy apartments, stop demovictions",[60],{},"1",{"from":752,"to":768},[775,776,777,778],"The first housing chapter of COPE's platform is about homes that already exist. COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, says Vancouver lost over 47,000 affordable homes to rent increases and demovictions between 2016 and 2021. A demoviction is an eviction so that a building can be torn down and replaced. The party's answer is to keep older rental buildings standing, keep their rents low and move more of them out of the private market.","To do that, COPE would buy apartment buildings and turn them into public housing and co-ops. It would give tenants, and then the city, the first chance to buy a building that goes up for sale, and it would create a Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition Fund for land trusts, co-ops and non-profits. It would also triple the Empty Homes Tax, the city's tax on homes left empty, and spend the money on affordable housing.","A second group of items covers what happens when a building is redeveloped. The party would expand the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) across the city, make developers pay the full cost of moving tenants, and give renters a home of the same size in the same neighbourhood. Public workers, paid for by a fee on developers, would support tenants in place of relocation staff hired by developers.","Council can act alone on much of this: it sets the Empty Homes Tax, controls zoning and city land, and sets fees on developers. Closing the vacancy loophole, which lets rents rise without limit between tenants, is different. Rent increase limits are set by the Province, so COPE could only press for that change. Funding for new co-ops and public housing would also depend on the provincial and federal governments, which the platform says it would push.",[780,784,788,792,796,800,804,808,812,815,819,823,827,831,835,839,843],{"title":781,"detail":782,"page":752,"authority":698,"authorityNote":783},"Close the loopholes landlords use to raise rents","COPE says it would fight to keep rents low by closing the vacancy loophole, so that rent controls apply between one tenant and the next.","The Province sets rent increase limits and tenancy law, so the city can only press for this change.",{"title":785,"detail":786,"page":752,"authority":643,"authorityNote":787},"Triple the Empty Homes Tax","The party would triple the Empty Homes Tax to put more rental homes on the market and use the money to build affordable housing. The platform says COPE first proposed the tax in 2014 and meant it to grow over time, and that Ken Sim and ABC froze it and created new loopholes for developers.","The Empty Homes Tax is a City of Vancouver bylaw, the Vacancy Tax By-law, so Council sets its rate.",{"title":789,"detail":790,"page":752,"authority":619,"authorityNote":791},"Buy apartments and turn them into public housing and co-ops","COPE would buy apartment buildings and make them permanently affordable public housing and co-ops. It would create a right-of-first-refusal policy that gives tenants, and then the city, first priority to buy apartments that go up for sale, and a Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition Fund to help land trusts, co-ops and non-profits buy rental housing and prevent displacement.","Council can buy buildings and set up a fund through the city budget. The platform names land trusts, co-ops and non-profits as the groups that would use the fund.",{"title":793,"detail":794,"page":752,"authority":619,"authorityNote":795},"Support community-led land trusts","The party would support community-led land trusts that protect land from speculative development and create permanently affordable housing for public benefit.","Land trusts are run by community groups. The platform describes the city's role as support.",{"title":797,"detail":798,"page":768,"authority":619,"authorityNote":799},"Support, protect and expand co-op housing","COPE would renew leases for existing co-ops at no charge, give priority to new co-ops on city-owned land, and push other levels of government to make generational investments in co-op housing.","Council sets lease terms on land the city owns, but the larger investment the platform asks for would come from the provincial and federal governments.",{"title":801,"detail":802,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":803},"Protect land held by non-profit community groups","The party says land owned by faith-based groups and other charities or non-profits should be required to offer a right of first refusal to another non-market buyer before it is sold to the private sector.","Council would have to adopt the rule. The platform does not say which city power would make it binding on private sellers.",{"title":805,"detail":806,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":807},"Stop public land sell-offs","COPE would stop selling public land. The platform says public land has been given away to the rich and powerful and sold to cover budget shortfalls.","Council decides whether the city sells land it owns.",{"title":809,"detail":810,"page":768,"authority":619,"authorityNote":811},"Expand public land and create a city-wide public land trust","The party would keep and expand Vancouver's public land for public benefit and set up a city-wide public land trust under democratic community control. It would build permanently affordable public housing for every income level and in every neighbourhood, with the provincial and federal governments, host nations and non-profits.","Council controls city land, but the platform names the Province, the federal government, host nations and non-profits as partners in building the housing.",{"title":813,"detail":814,"page":768,"authority":619,"authorityNote":628},"Tax non-resident investors","COPE would tax non-resident investors and use the money to fund affordable housing for people who live in Vancouver.",{"title":816,"detail":817,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":818},"Make redevelopment fees cover replacement homes","The party would require that redevelopment fees for deeply affordable housing cover the full cost of replacement units. It would end the waivers of SRA conversion fees for developers, which the platform says pay for replacing affordable housing.","Council sets these city fees and decides whether to waive them.",{"title":820,"detail":821,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":822},"Stop demovictions with a city-wide anti-displacement policy","COPE would adopt a city-wide anti-displacement policy that protects tenants' rights, converts rentals into co-ops and gives priority to development that does not push people out.","Council sets city housing policy and decides which redevelopments are approved.",{"title":824,"detail":825,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":826},"Grow where there are single family homes, parking lots and storefronts","The party would plan the city's growth on single family lots, parking lots and storefronts, in place of tearing down affordable apartments.","Council sets zoning, which decides where new buildings can go.",{"title":828,"detail":829,"page":768,"authority":619,"authorityNote":830},"Retrofit existing affordable housing","COPE would retrofit existing affordable housing for earthquake safety and climate preparedness, and work to transfer ownership to tenants, non-profits or the city.","The city can fund work on buildings it owns, but most of this housing belongs to other owners whose agreement would be needed.",{"title":832,"detail":833,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":834},"Expand the tenant relocation and protection policy city-wide","The party would take what works from the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) and apply it across the city with new protections, so that forcing tenants out is no longer a workable business model.","The TRPP is a city policy, so Council can widen it.",{"title":836,"detail":837,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":838},"Make developers bear the full costs of relocation","COPE would make developers pay the full cost of moving tenants, and coordinate redevelopments so renters get a home of the same size, meeting the same accessibility needs, in their own neighbourhood.","Council sets the conditions attached to rezonings and development permits.",{"title":840,"detail":841,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":842},"Public workers to support tenants during developments","The party would appoint public workers, paid for by a fee on developers, to support tenants during redevelopment. The platform says the tenant relocation coordinators hired by developers sometimes ignore tenants or deny them compensation and support.","Council decides city staffing and sets fees on development.",{"title":844,"detail":845,"page":768,"authority":643,"authorityNote":846},"Use city-owned land for swing-site housing","COPE would use city-owned land for temporary housing for tenants during redevelopment, which could later become co-op or public housing.","Council decides how land the city owns is used.",[848,851,854,857,860,863],{"question":849,"answer":850},"What does COPE want to do about the Empty Homes Tax?","COPE would triple Vancouver's Empty Homes Tax and spend the money on affordable housing. The platform says COPE first proposed the tax in 2014 and that Ken Sim and ABC froze it and created loopholes for developers (platform, page 5).",{"question":852,"answer":853},"Would COPE buy apartment buildings in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE says the city would buy apartment buildings and make them permanently affordable public housing and co-ops. It would give tenants, and then the city, first priority to buy apartments that go up for sale, and create a Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition Fund for land trusts, co-ops and non-profits (platform, page 5).",{"question":855,"answer":856},"How would COPE stop demovictions in Vancouver?","COPE would adopt a city-wide anti-displacement policy, expand the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy across the city, and make developers pay the full cost of moving tenants. Renters would get a home of the same size in their own neighbourhood (platform, page 6).",{"question":858,"answer":859},"What is COPE's position on selling city land?","COPE says it would stop public land sell-offs and set up a city-wide public land trust under democratic community control. It would use public land to build permanently affordable public housing in every neighbourhood (platform, page 6).",{"question":861,"answer":862},"Can Vancouver City Council close the vacancy loophole on rents?","COPE says it would fight to close the vacancy loophole so rent controls apply between tenants. Rent increase limits and tenancy law are set by the Province, so a COPE council could press for the change but could not make it alone (platform, page 5).",{"question":864,"answer":865},"What does COPE say about co-op housing?","COPE would renew leases for existing co-ops at no charge, give priority to new co-ops on city-owned land, and push the other levels of government for generational investment in co-ops. It would also turn rental buildings into co-ops through its anti-displacement policy (platform, page 6).","stop-the-loss-of-affordable-housing","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--stop-the-loss-of-affordable-housing","COPE would triple Vancouver's Empty Homes Tax, buy apartment buildings to turn into public housing and co-ops, and stop demovictions with a city-wide anti-displacement policy. Under its platform, developers would also pay the full cost of moving tenants.","nx0FhLUZrY4FrdVtQSk_18sSzUS8Cvjx-24h98wQpvo",{"id":871,"title":872,"checkedAt":397,"context":873,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":874,"headline":890,"issues":891,"meta":892,"order":893,"pages":894,"paragraphs":895,"party":368,"pillar":415,"proposals":899,"questions":931,"slug":950,"source":13,"stem":951,"summary":952,"__hash__":953},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--tax-mansions-to-end-homelessness.json","Tax Mansions to End Homelessness",[],[875,878,881,884,887],{"value":876,"label":877,"page":421},"9%","Rise in homelessness for every $100 rise in median rent, according to the platform",{"value":879,"label":880,"page":421},"4,700","Homes the party says Vancouver will still be short of current need even if it meets its 2030 shelter-rate housing targets",{"value":882,"label":883,"page":421},"12%+","Increase in homelessness under Ken Sim, according to the platform",{"value":885,"label":886,"page":421},"42%","Share of respondents who the platform says named eviction as the cause of their homelessness",{"value":888,"label":889,"page":421},"8","Key principles of the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada that COPE would follow","COPE on homelessness: a mansion tax, tiny house villages, an end to street sweeps",[117,60],{},"4",{"from":421,"to":421},[896,897,898],"COPE links homelessness directly to rents. Its platform says homelessness rises by 9% for every $100 that median rent goes up, and that 42% of respondents in a 2025 city homelessness report named an eviction as the cause. The chapter's title states the party's main answer: tax the wealth held in large houses and use the money to build the homes needed to end homelessness.","In the short term, COPE says it would use all city powers to deploy emergency shelters quickly, along with supportive programs, meal programs, tiny house villages, daytime respite spaces and storage for people's belongings. It would form a partnership of Greater Vancouver cities to press the provincial and federal governments for funding, and it says tent cities will end only when people have a place to go.","The page also covers how the city treats people living outside. COPE would stop street sweeps, which the platform says cost people their belongings and ID, and would ban hostile architecture, meaning design that stops people from resting in public spaces. It would follow the eight principles of the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada. Council funds shelters and outreach, but health services and treatment are provincial and federal, and a new mansion tax would need powers from the Province.",[900,904,908,912,916,920,924,928],{"title":901,"detail":902,"page":421,"authority":619,"authorityNote":903},"Address homelessness with all available city powers","COPE would urgently use all city powers on homelessness, including the quick deployment of emergency shelters, supportive programs, meal programs, tiny house villages, daytime respite spaces to reduce street activity, and storage for unhoused residents' belongings.","Council funds shelter sites and city outreach, while health services and most housing funding come from the provincial and federal governments.",{"title":905,"detail":906,"page":421,"authority":619,"authorityNote":907},"A Greater Vancouver partnership to end homelessness","The party would start a partnership between cities in the Greater Vancouver area to prevent and end homelessness, and use it to press the provincial and federal governments for funding.","Each city would have to join, and the funding the platform seeks would come from the provincial and federal governments.",{"title":909,"detail":910,"page":421,"authority":619,"authorityNote":911},"End tent cities by providing affordable housing","COPE says tents will keep appearing in every neighbourhood until people have a place to go, and would end tent cities by providing affordable housing.","Council approves sites for housing, but funding for supportive and social housing comes mostly from senior governments.",{"title":913,"detail":914,"page":421,"authority":619,"authorityNote":915},"Stop street sweeps","The party would stop what it calls inhumane street sweeps. The platform says people lose their belongings, ID and other essentials during police activity aimed at homeless people, and calls for a human rights based approach.","Council directs city crews through city staff. The police department is directed by the Vancouver Police Board.",{"title":917,"detail":918,"page":421,"authority":619,"authorityNote":919},"Ban hostile architecture in public space","COPE would ban hostile architecture, design meant to stop people from resting or sheltering, in public spaces including transit hubs and community centres.","Council controls city streets and buildings, the Park Board runs community centres, and TransLink, a regional body, runs transit hubs.",{"title":921,"detail":922,"page":421,"authority":643,"authorityNote":923},"Follow the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments","The party would follow the 8 key principles of the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada for recognizing the human rights of people living in encampments.","Council sets city policy on how staff respond to encampments on city land.",{"title":925,"detail":926,"page":421,"authority":643,"authorityNote":927},"Restore the Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District zoning","COPE would restore the DEOD (Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District) zoning and end what it calls the developer windfall for condos in the Downtown Eastside.","Council sets zoning, including the zoning for the Downtown Eastside.",{"title":929,"detail":930,"page":421,"authority":619,"authorityNote":628},"Tax mansions to end homelessness","The party would tax the wealth held in mega-mansions and use the money to build the housing needed to end homelessness quickly.",[932,935,938,941,944,947],{"question":933,"answer":934},"What is COPE's mansion tax for?","COPE says it would tax the wealth held in mega-mansions and use the money to build the housing needed to end homelessness. The platform does not give a rate on this page. Any new type of tax would need powers that only the Province can give the city (platform, page 9).",{"question":936,"answer":937},"What would COPE do about homeless camps in Vancouver?","COPE says it would end tent cities by providing affordable housing, stop street sweeps and follow the 8 key principles of the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada (platform, page 9).",{"question":939,"answer":940},"Does COPE support tiny house villages?","Yes. COPE lists tiny house villages among the steps it would take with all available city powers, along with emergency shelters, meal programs, daytime respite spaces and storage for unhoused residents' belongings (platform, page 9).",{"question":942,"answer":943},"What is the DEOD and what does COPE want to do with it?","The DEOD is the Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District, a zoning area in the Downtown Eastside. COPE would restore it and end what it calls the developer windfall for condos in the neighbourhood (platform, page 9).",{"question":945,"answer":946},"Can Vancouver end homelessness without the Province?","COPE itself proposes a partnership of Greater Vancouver cities to press the provincial and federal governments for funding. Council funds shelters and city outreach, while health services, treatment and most housing funding come from senior governments (platform, page 9).",{"question":948,"answer":949},"Does COPE want to ban hostile architecture?","Yes. COPE would ban hostile architecture in public spaces, including transit hubs and community centres, and says the solution to homelessness is homes (platform, page 9).","tax-mansions-to-end-homelessness","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-housing--tax-mansions-to-end-homelessness","COPE would tax mansions to pay for ending homelessness and use every city power on emergency shelters, tiny house villages, meal programs and storage for belongings. It would stop street sweeps, ban hostile architecture and restore the Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District zoning.","CLxX_Mv8L5SebsspHw7yILhF6yn8C24tJ2fL_KvCXGE",[955,964,973,981,987,995,1001,1009,1016,1022,1030,1036,1042,1048,1054,1060,1068,1074,1080,1088,1096,1102,1108,1114,1120,1126,1132,1138,1142,1148,1155,1161,1167,1173,1179,1185,1191,1199,1205,1211,1216,1222,1228,1234,1240,1246,1252,1258,1265,1271,1277,1282,1288,1294,1300,1305,1311,1317,1323,1329,1335,1341,1347,1354,1360,1366,1372,1379,1385,1392,1398,1404,1409,1415,1420,1426,1432,1438,1444,1450,1456,1462,1468,1474,1479,1485,1491,1498,1504,1510,1515,1521,1526,1532,1538,1543,1548,1554,1559,1565,1571,1576,1582,1588,1593,1598,1603,1608,1614,1620,1626,1632,1638,1644,1650,1656,1662,1668,1674,1679,1685,1691,1697,1702,1708,1714,1720,1726,1732],{"slug":956,"name":957,"office":958,"ballotNumber":959,"currentRole":13,"headline":960,"sample":17,"party":961},"alex-tkach","Alex Tkach","Park Board","225","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 225.",{"name":962,"url":963},"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002F",{"slug":965,"name":966,"office":535,"ballotNumber":967,"currentRole":968,"headline":969,"sample":17,"party":970},"alfred-chien","Alfred Chien (錢育廷)","305","Vancouver School Board trustee","Seeking re-election as Vancouver School Board trustee.",{"name":971,"url":972},"ABC Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":974,"name":975,"office":535,"ballotNumber":976,"currentRole":13,"headline":977,"sample":17,"party":978},"alisha-masongsong","Alisha Masongsong","303","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 303.",{"name":979,"url":980},"Green Party of Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F",{"slug":982,"name":983,"office":958,"ballotNumber":984,"currentRole":13,"headline":985,"sample":17,"party":986},"allan-fawley","Allan Fawley","201","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 201.",{"name":962,"url":963},{"slug":988,"name":989,"office":958,"ballotNumber":990,"currentRole":13,"headline":991,"sample":17,"party":992},"amanda-bains","Amanda Bains","221","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 221.",{"name":993,"url":994},"Vancouver Liberals","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002F",{"slug":996,"name":997,"office":417,"ballotNumber":998,"currentRole":13,"headline":999,"sample":17,"party":1000},"amanda-boggan","Amanda Boggan","110","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 110.",{"name":962,"url":963},{"slug":1002,"name":1003,"office":535,"ballotNumber":1004,"currentRole":13,"headline":1005,"sample":17,"party":1006},"amarys-joseph","Amarys Joseph","319","Vote Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 319.",{"name":1007,"url":1008},"Vote Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votevancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1010,"name":1011,"office":1012,"ballotNumber":1013,"currentRole":1014,"headline":1015,"sample":17,"party":13},"amauri-caliman","Amauri Caliman","Mayor","55","Independent mayoral candidate","Independent candidate for mayor, ballot number 55.",{"slug":1017,"name":1018,"office":958,"ballotNumber":1019,"currentRole":13,"headline":1020,"sample":17,"party":1021},"amir-bajehkian","Amir Bajehkian","223","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 223.",{"name":993,"url":994},{"slug":1023,"name":1024,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1025,"currentRole":13,"headline":1026,"sample":17,"party":1027},"andy-lin","Andy Lin","140","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 140.",{"name":1028,"url":1029},"Bright Future Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brightfuturevancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1031,"name":1032,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1033,"currentRole":13,"headline":1034,"sample":17,"party":1035},"annette-reilly","Annette Reilly","102","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 102.",{"name":979,"url":980},{"slug":1037,"name":1038,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1039,"currentRole":13,"headline":1040,"sample":17,"party":1041},"arezo-zarrabian","Arezo Zarrabian","126","ABC Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 126.",{"name":971,"url":972},{"slug":1043,"name":1044,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1045,"currentRole":13,"headline":1046,"sample":17,"party":1047},"armor-valor","Armor Valor","125","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 125.",{"name":993,"url":994},{"slug":1049,"name":1050,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1051,"currentRole":13,"headline":1052,"sample":17,"party":1053},"bhavna-solecki","Bhavna Solecki","115","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 115.",{"name":1007,"url":1008},{"slug":1055,"name":1056,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1057,"currentRole":13,"headline":1058,"sample":17,"party":1059},"bilal-khan","Bilal Khan","122","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 122.",{"name":1028,"url":1029},{"slug":1061,"name":1062,"office":535,"ballotNumber":1063,"currentRole":13,"headline":1064,"sample":17,"party":1065},"blair-coleman","Blair Coleman","309","TrueBlue Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 309.",{"name":1066,"url":1067},"TrueBlue Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002F",{"slug":1069,"name":1070,"office":958,"ballotNumber":1071,"currentRole":13,"headline":1072,"sample":17,"party":1073},"breanne-smart","Breanne Smart","216","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 216.",{"name":979,"url":980},{"slug":1075,"name":1076,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1077,"currentRole":13,"headline":1078,"sample":17,"party":1079},"bridget-burns","Bridget Burns","141","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 141.",{"name":979,"url":980},{"slug":1081,"name":1082,"office":958,"ballotNumber":1083,"currentRole":13,"headline":1084,"sample":17,"party":1085},"brynja-marshall","Brynja Marshall","224","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 224.",{"name":1086,"url":1087},"Independent Parks Party","https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002F",{"slug":1089,"name":1090,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1091,"currentRole":13,"headline":1092,"sample":17,"party":1093},"caitlin-stockwell","Caitlin Stockwell","149","OneCity candidate for city council, ballot number 149.",{"name":1094,"url":1095},"OneCity","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1097,"name":1098,"office":958,"ballotNumber":1099,"currentRole":13,"headline":1100,"sample":17,"party":1101},"cam-rothery","Cam Rothery","213","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 213.",{"name":1086,"url":1087},{"slug":1103,"name":1104,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1105,"currentRole":13,"headline":1106,"sample":17,"party":1107},"camil-dumont","Camil Dumont","119","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 119.",{"name":979,"url":980},{"slug":1109,"name":1110,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1111,"currentRole":13,"headline":1112,"sample":17,"party":1113},"charles-kelly","Charles Kelly","117","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 117.",{"name":962,"url":963},{"slug":1115,"name":1116,"office":958,"ballotNumber":1117,"currentRole":13,"headline":1118,"sample":17,"party":1119},"cheryl-grant","Cheryl 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