[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":2412},["ShallowReactive",2],{"party-cope":3,"platform-cope-2026-platform":401,"platform-chapters-cope-2026-platform-fight-for-vancouver":596,"party-roster-COPE":1628},{"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",[597,726,855,978,1032,1112,1181,1259,1337,1462,1549],{"id":598,"title":599,"checkedAt":397,"context":600,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":605,"headline":619,"issues":620,"meta":621,"order":622,"pages":623,"paragraphs":624,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":628,"questions":703,"slug":722,"source":13,"stem":723,"summary":724,"__hash__":725},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--better-transit-and-transportation.json","Better Transit and Transportation",[601],{"label":602,"url":603,"publisher":604,"checkedAt":397},"HandyDART","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.translink.ca\u002Frider-guide\u002Ftransit-accessibility\u002Fhandydart","TransLink",[606,610,613,616],{"value":607,"label":608,"page":609},"$40,000","Yearly income below which people would get COPE's low-income transit pass",18,{"value":611,"label":612,"page":609},"under 18","Age group COPE would give free transit",{"value":614,"label":615,"page":609},"half","Share of Vancouver bus stops the platform says have no shelter or bench",{"value":617,"label":618,"page":609},"2021","Year the platform says the Province made transit free for children under 12 after COPE's campaign","COPE on transit: free rides for youth, a low-income pass, a Broadway bike lane",[165],{},"5",{"from":609,"to":609},[625,626,627],"COPE's long-term transit goal is a fast and free public transit system in Vancouver and across BC. The platform lists first steps: fare-free bus route pilots, free transit for all youth under 18, an affordable pass for people who earn less than $40,000 a year, and free transit on election days, holidays and around major community events. COPE points to its own record, saying its elected members pushed for free transit for children under 12, which the Province adopted in 2021.","For cycling and walking, the party would close gaps in the city's bike network, add protected bike lanes including one on Broadway, light the paths through parks, and link bike routes to every community centre. It would expand bike share and scooters under public ownership, give space to community bike repair groups, and put covered shelters and benches at bus stops. The platform says half of Vancouver's bus stops have neither.","Most transit items are requests to TransLink, the regional body that runs buses, SkyTrain and HandyDART. COPE would push to reverse TransLink service cuts, extend SkyTrain to UBC, link the Compass Card to bike share and scooters, add worker and rider seats on the TransLink Board and bring HandyDART under public control. The city owns its streets, so bike lanes and bus lanes are Council decisions.",[629,634,637,641,644,647,652,656,661,666,670,674,678,681,684,688,691,695,699],{"title":630,"detail":631,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"Fight for a fast and free public transit system","COPE would fight for a fast and free public transit system in Vancouver and across BC, and take first steps toward it right away.","regional","TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs the buses and SkyTrain, so the city can only press for this.",{"title":635,"detail":636,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"Fare-free bus route pilots","As a first step toward free transit, the party would run fare-free bus route pilots in Vancouver.",{"title":638,"detail":639,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":640},"Free transit for all youth under 18","COPE would expand free transit to all youth under the age of 18.","TransLink runs transit service. The platform says the Province made transit free for children under 12 in 2021, so a wider age group would depend on TransLink and the Province.",{"title":642,"detail":643,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"A low-income transit pass","The party would create an affordable transit pass for people who earn less than $40,000 a year.",{"title":645,"detail":646,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"Free transit on election days, holidays and major events","COPE would make transit free on election days, holidays and around major community events.",{"title":648,"detail":649,"page":609,"authority":650,"authorityNote":651},"Close the gaps in the cycling network","The party would give priority to active transportation and cycling by closing the gaps in the city-wide cycling network and expanding protected bike lanes.","city-council","The city owns and designs its streets and bike lanes.",{"title":653,"detail":654,"page":609,"authority":650,"authorityNote":655},"A Broadway bike lane","COPE would add new cycling routes, including a Broadway bike lane.","Broadway is a city street, and the city designs its own streets and bike lanes.",{"title":657,"detail":658,"page":609,"authority":659,"authorityNote":660},"Lighting and safety on park paths","The party would add better lighting and safety measures on transportation paths in public parks.","park-board","The Park Board controls paths and lighting inside parks.",{"title":662,"detail":663,"page":609,"authority":664,"authorityNote":665},"Connect bike and scooter routes to community centres","COPE would connect active transportation and micro-mobility networks, meaning routes for bikes and small electric vehicles such as scooters, to all community centres and public recreation facilities.","city-with-others","The city designs streets and bike routes, and the Park Board runs community centres and recreation sites.",{"title":667,"detail":668,"page":609,"authority":650,"authorityNote":669},"Support community bike repair","The party would give funding and space to community bike repair and recycling groups to make affordable bikes easier to get.","Council can fund community programs and offer city space.",{"title":671,"detail":672,"page":609,"authority":650,"authorityNote":673},"Expand bike share and scooters under public control","COPE would expand bike share, scooters and other small vehicles to give people more transportation options, and bring them under public community control and ownership.","The city controls how shared bikes and scooters use its streets.",{"title":675,"detail":676,"page":609,"authority":664,"authorityNote":677},"Covered bus shelters and benches","The party would invest in covered bus shelters and benches across the city so everyone waiting for a bus can do so in comfort and under cover. The platform says half of Vancouver's bus stops have no shelter or bench.","Bus stops sit on city streets, while TransLink runs the buses. The platform does not say which body would pay.",{"title":679,"detail":680,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"Improve public transit service","COPE would fight for better transit service with rapid transit, more frequent buses, SkyTrain, and upgrades that make transit more reliable and faster.",{"title":682,"detail":683,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"Extend rapid transit, including SkyTrain to UBC","The party would extend rapid transit across the Lower Mainland, including rapid buses and SkyTrain, and complete the SkyTrain line to UBC.",{"title":685,"detail":686,"page":609,"authority":664,"authorityNote":687},"Bus lanes to prevent bunching and delays","COPE supports road changes such as bus lanes that prevent buses from bunching together and reduce transit delays.","The city owns the streets where bus lanes would go, and TransLink runs the buses.",{"title":689,"detail":690,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":633},"Reverse TransLink cuts and restore bus frequency","The party would fight to reverse cuts to TransLink and restore bus frequency, especially in working-class neighbourhoods whose service was cut back after COVID.",{"title":692,"detail":693,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":694},"Link the Compass Card to bikes and scooters","COPE would push to link the Compass Card fare system with shared bikes and scooters as a step toward one unified public transit system.","The Compass Card is TransLink's fare card, so TransLink would decide.",{"title":696,"detail":697,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":698},"Worker and rider seats on the TransLink Board","The party would advocate for worker and rider representation on the TransLink Board.","TransLink is a regional body the city does not control, so the city can only advocate.",{"title":700,"detail":701,"page":609,"authority":632,"authorityNote":702},"Bring HandyDART under public control","COPE would continue the fight to bring HandyDART, the door-to-door transit service for people with disabilities, under public control to improve service.","HandyDART is a TransLink service, so TransLink would have to act.",[704,707,710,713,716,719],{"question":705,"answer":706},"Does COPE want free transit in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would fight for a fast and free transit system in Vancouver and BC, starting with fare-free bus route pilots, free transit for everyone under 18, a low-income pass for people earning under $40,000 a year, and free transit on election days and holidays (platform, page 18).",{"question":708,"answer":709},"Does COPE support a bike lane on Broadway?","Yes. COPE would add new cycling routes including a Broadway bike lane, close gaps in the city's cycling network and expand protected bike lanes (platform, pages 18 and 23).",{"question":711,"answer":712},"What does COPE say about SkyTrain to UBC?","COPE would push to extend rapid transit across the Lower Mainland, including completing the SkyTrain line to UBC (platform, page 18).",{"question":714,"answer":715},"Can Vancouver City Council make transit free?","No. TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs buses and SkyTrain. COPE's free transit items are things the city would press TransLink to do, while bike lanes and bus lanes on city streets are Council decisions (platform, page 18).",{"question":717,"answer":718},"What would COPE do about HandyDART?","COPE would continue the fight to bring HandyDART under public control to improve service for people with disabilities. HandyDART is a TransLink service (platform, page 18).",{"question":720,"answer":721},"What does COPE say about bus shelters in Vancouver?","COPE would invest in covered bus shelters and benches across the city. The platform says half of Vancouver's bus stops have no shelter or bench (platform, page 18).","better-transit-and-transportation","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--better-transit-and-transportation","COPE would work toward fast and free transit, starting with fare-free bus pilots, free transit for everyone under 18, a low-income pass for people earning under $40,000 a year and free rides on election days. It would add a Broadway bike lane and push for SkyTrain to UBC.","CeQVGUHW_ynyx1XV5sx8rqhJxiW1Tt1DcsKHEv7xkds",{"id":727,"title":728,"checkedAt":397,"context":729,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":733,"headline":753,"issues":754,"meta":755,"order":756,"pages":757,"paragraphs":758,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":763,"questions":832,"slug":851,"source":13,"stem":852,"summary":853,"__hash__":854},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--build-the-commons.json","Build the Commons",[730],{"label":731,"url":732,"publisher":531,"checkedAt":397},"Library Act, sections 4, 5 and 10: municipal library boards","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\u002Fcivix\u002Fdocument\u002Fid\u002Fcomplete\u002Fstatreg\u002F96264_01",[734,737,740,743,747,750],{"value":735,"label":736,"page":495},"7 days","How often COPE says libraries would be open each week",{"value":738,"label":739,"page":495},"24\u002F7","Hours of the public washrooms COPE would add",{"value":741,"label":742,"page":495},"$5","Economic benefit the platform says each dollar invested in library access generates",{"value":744,"label":745,"page":746},"50 metre","Length of the new pool COPE would build",13,{"value":748,"label":749,"page":746},"2022","Year of the plebiscite on a 50 metre pool that the party says it would respect",{"value":751,"label":752,"page":746},"almost 3 times","How many more pools per person the platform says Montreal has compared with Vancouver","COPE on libraries, pools and parks: 7-day libraries, a 50 metre pool, more off-leash space",[190],{},"1",{"from":495,"to":746},[759,760,761,762],"COPE uses the word commons for the places and services that everyone in Vancouver shares: libraries, parks, pools, community centres and washrooms. This chapter of the platform sets out how the party would expand them. It would keep libraries open 7 days a week, give them funding for mental health workers, and fully fund library programs for newcomers, seniors, families and teens, including digital literacy, help with tax filing and English classes.","Several items concern parks and recreation. The party would speed up upgrades to parks and community centres that have been poorly maintained, upgrade playgrounds in neighbourhoods being left behind, and add shade trees, water and off-leash space for dogs. It would build more public pools, respect the 2022 plebiscite by building a new 50 metre pool, and train and hire the lifeguards and swim instructors needed to keep pools open.","COPE also takes a position on who runs these places. It would keep the Park Board as an independent, elected body, ban private companies from profiting from public courts and fields, and oppose industrial infrastructure in parks. It would expand the Leisure Access Program, which the platform describes as helping residents of all incomes use city facilities. It would also help residents run their own projects, such as community fridges, maker spaces and free stores.","The work is split between bodies. The elected Park Board controls parks, community centres, pools and beaches. Vancouver Public Library is run by its own library board, and under BC's Library Act a city council appoints that board and approves and pays for its budget. Council also approves the capital plan that pays for new buildings such as pools. Items that cross these lines, such as shared use of school and park land, would need the three elected boards to agree.",[764,768,772,776,780,784,788,792,796,800,804,808,812,816,820,824,828],{"title":765,"detail":766,"page":495,"authority":664,"authorityNote":767},"Open libraries 7 days a week","COPE would expand library hours to 7 days a week and give libraries the support they ask for, including funding for mental health workers and better working conditions.","Under BC's Library Act a city library is managed by a library board, while Council appoints the board and approves and pays for its budget.",{"title":769,"detail":770,"page":495,"authority":664,"authorityNote":771},"More 24\u002F7 public washrooms","The party would increase the number of public washrooms open and accessible 24\u002F7, with permanent buildings and sanitation stations across the city.","Council controls city streets and buildings, and the Park Board controls washrooms in parks.",{"title":773,"detail":774,"page":495,"authority":664,"authorityNote":775},"Speed up park and community centre upgrades","COPE would speed up needed park, recreation and community centre upgrades, especially for community centres that have been poorly maintained for years.","The Park Board runs community centres, and Council approves the capital plan that pays for buildings.",{"title":777,"detail":778,"page":495,"authority":650,"authorityNote":779},"Support tool libraries and the circular economy","The party would support the growth of tool libraries, libraries of things, and a circular economy in which goods are repaired and reused.","Council can fund community programs and offer city space through its budget.",{"title":781,"detail":782,"page":495,"authority":659,"authorityNote":783},"Make Vancouver friendly to dogs and dog owners","COPE would improve tree cover at dog parks, add public access to water and dog waste bags, and create more off-leash spaces.","The Park Board controls parks, including dog parks and off-leash areas.",{"title":785,"detail":786,"page":495,"authority":650,"authorityNote":787},"Expand VanWifi","The party would expand VanWifi across the city for more free and open internet access, giving priority to areas that are now under-served.","The platform presents VanWifi as a city service, which Council would fund through the budget.",{"title":789,"detail":790,"page":495,"authority":659,"authorityNote":791},"Upgrade playgrounds and parks","COPE would upgrade playgrounds and parks where children play, with a focus on neighbourhoods that are being left behind.","The Park Board controls parks and playgrounds.",{"title":793,"detail":794,"page":495,"authority":664,"authorityNote":795},"Fully fund library programs","The party would fully fund library programs for newcomers, seniors, families and teens, including digital literacy, help with tax filing, and ESL (English as a second language) courses.","The library board runs these programs, and Council approves and pays for the board's budget.",{"title":797,"detail":798,"page":746,"authority":664,"authorityNote":799},"Work across the three elected boards","COPE would have City Council, the School Board and the Park Board work together to use public assets for the public good and grow Vancouver's social infrastructure.","Each of the three boards controls its own land and buildings, so all three would have to agree.",{"title":801,"detail":802,"page":746,"authority":664,"authorityNote":803},"An independent, democratic Park Board","The party affirms an independent, elected Park Board as essential to the care of Vancouver's commons. It would fund and empower the board to work for the public good and the long term, and protect public parks from sell-offs and development.","The Park Board is created by the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law that only the Province can change. Council approves the city's operating budget.",{"title":805,"detail":806,"page":746,"authority":659,"authorityNote":807},"Ban private profit from public amenities","COPE would ban private entities from collecting profits from public amenities such as tennis courts and fields, and oppose sharing agreements for public amenities that limit who can take part based on ability to pay.","The Park Board controls courts, fields and the agreements for their use.",{"title":809,"detail":810,"page":746,"authority":650,"authorityNote":811},"End the developer tax break behind gravel dog parks","The party would end the developer tax break that it says creates gravel pit dog parks and poor community gardens.","The platform does not name the tax break. City property tax rules and exemptions are set by Council within its powers.",{"title":813,"detail":814,"page":746,"authority":664,"authorityNote":815},"Build more public pools, including a 50 metre pool","COPE would build more public pools across the city, respect the 2022 plebiscite and build a new 50 metre pool in Vancouver. The platform says Montreal has almost three times as many pools per person as Vancouver.","The Park Board runs pools and plans new ones, and Council approves the capital plan that pays for them.",{"title":817,"detail":818,"page":746,"authority":659,"authorityNote":819},"Train and hire lifeguards and swim instructors","The party would train and hire the lifeguards and swim instructors needed to keep pools open and staffed, end line-ups, offer enough swimming lessons and keep people safe at Vancouver's beaches.","The Park Board runs pools and beaches and employs their staff.",{"title":821,"detail":822,"page":746,"authority":664,"authorityNote":823},"Support and expand the Leisure Access Program","COPE would support and expand the Leisure Access Program (LAP) so residents of all incomes can use the city's facilities and services.","The platform describes the program as covering city facilities and services, so both the Park Board, which runs recreation sites, and Council would act.",{"title":825,"detail":826,"page":746,"authority":664,"authorityNote":827},"Empower community-led initiatives","The party would help residents deliver services such as maker spaces, community fridges, free stores, and user-led upgrades to community facilities.","Council and the Park Board can offer space and funding, and community groups would run the services.",{"title":829,"detail":830,"page":746,"authority":659,"authorityNote":831},"Oppose private use of public land and industry in parks","COPE would oppose the takeover of public lands by private interests and oppose industrial infrastructure in public parks.","The Park Board controls what is built in parks.",[833,836,839,842,845,848],{"question":834,"answer":835},"Would COPE keep Vancouver libraries open every day?","Yes. COPE says it would expand library hours to 7 days a week and give libraries funding for mental health workers and better working conditions (platform, page 12).",{"question":837,"answer":838},"Does COPE support a 50 metre pool in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would build more public pools, respect the 2022 plebiscite and build a new 50 metre pool. It would also train and hire the lifeguards and swim instructors needed to keep pools open (platform, page 13).",{"question":840,"answer":841},"What is COPE's position on the Vancouver Park Board?","COPE supports an independent, elected Park Board. It says it would fund and empower the board and protect public parks from sell-offs and development (platform, page 13).",{"question":843,"answer":844},"What would COPE do for dog owners in Vancouver?","COPE would add tree cover at dog parks, public water and dog waste bags, and more off-leash spaces. It would also end the developer tax break it says creates gravel pit dog parks (platform, pages 12 and 13).",{"question":846,"answer":847},"Who would decide on COPE's pool and library plans?","The elected Park Board runs pools, parks and community centres, and Council approves the capital plan that pays for new buildings. Vancouver Public Library is run by a library board whose budget Council approves and pays for (platform, pages 12 and 13).",{"question":849,"answer":850},"Does COPE want to expand VanWifi?","Yes. COPE would expand VanWifi across the city for more free internet access, giving priority to areas that are now under-served (platform, page 12).","build-the-commons","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--build-the-commons","COPE would open libraries 7 days a week, add 24\u002F7 public washrooms, build more public pools including a 50 metre pool, and hire more lifeguards. It would expand VanWifi and the Leisure Access Program and protect parks from sell-offs and private profit.","d5Lw0HZyCubKRD9E81AXBWuPrAgmem7EtSrxkCqKTLs",{"id":856,"title":857,"checkedAt":397,"context":858,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":860,"headline":881,"issues":882,"meta":883,"order":884,"pages":885,"paragraphs":886,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":890,"questions":955,"slug":974,"source":13,"stem":975,"summary":976,"__hash__":977},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--climate-defence-strategy.json","Climate Defence Strategy",[859],{"label":525,"url":526,"publisher":527,"checkedAt":397},[861,865,869,872,875,878],{"value":862,"label":863,"page":864},"30% by 2050","Urban forest canopy target COPE sets",17,{"value":866,"label":867,"page":868},"6","Climate action targets the platform says Vancouver is failing to meet",16,{"value":870,"label":871,"page":868},"1% and 50%","The platform cites Oxfam International: the richest 1% emit more carbon than the poorest 50% of humanity combined",{"value":873,"label":874,"page":864},"619","People the platform says the 2021 heat dome killed in BC",{"value":876,"label":877,"page":864},"1.5 and 1.8 degrees","The platform cites a September 2026 UN Environment Programme report saying warming beyond 1.5 degrees is now unavoidable and could peak at 1.8 degrees with urgent action",{"value":879,"label":880,"page":864},"1956","Year by which the platform says the fossil fuel industry knew about the environmental impact of burning oil and gas","COPE on climate: a Climate Defence Strategy, 30% tree canopy by 2050, rejoin Sue Big Oil",[258,190],{},"4",{"from":868,"to":864},[887,888,889],"COPE's climate chapter starts from preparation. The party would turn Vancouver's Climate Change Adaptation Strategy into a full Climate Defence Strategy that upgrades public buildings and housing, protects the local food supply, and helps communities get ready for heat waves, snow storms and atmospheric rivers, which are long bands of heavy rain. The platform recalls that the 2021 heat dome killed 619 people in BC.","On cutting emissions, COPE would get the city back on track for 6 climate targets it says Vancouver is missing, from walkable neighbourhoods to zero-emission heating. It would grow the urban tree canopy to 30% by 2050 with native species, invest in transit and cycling, and support repair programs, tool libraries and free stores. It wants wind, water and solar power produced across the city, moving toward a community-led and worker-owned green energy grid.","Some items are about holding others to account. COPE would rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit against large polluters and oppose dredging and fossil fuel tankers in Burrard Inlet. The platform also states that taxing the wealthiest people is climate policy, citing Oxfam's finding that the richest 1% emit more carbon than the poorest 50%. Council controls city climate programs and buildings, the Park Board controls park trees, and the port is run by a federal port authority.",[891,895,899,903,907,911,915,919,923,926,931,935,939,943,947,951],{"title":892,"detail":893,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":894},"Turn the adaptation strategy into a Climate Defence Strategy","COPE would speed up Vancouver's Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and turn it into a full Climate Defence Strategy.","Council adopts the city's climate strategies and funds the work through its budget.",{"title":896,"detail":897,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":898},"Climate Defence: get more with less","As part of the Climate Defence Strategy, the party would invest in tool libraries, circular economy projects and zero-waste programs.","Council can fund these programs through the city budget.",{"title":900,"detail":901,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":902},"Climate Defence: upgrade public infrastructure and housing","The strategy would upgrade public infrastructure and housing to protect the city and save lives during future climate events.","Council approves the capital plan that pays for city infrastructure and buildings.",{"title":904,"detail":905,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":906},"Climate Defence: protect the food system","The strategy would protect the food system from climate shocks by investing in local food production and creating systems to cut food waste.","Council can fund local food programs and pass city rules on waste.",{"title":908,"detail":909,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":910},"Climate Defence: help communities prepare","The strategy would help communities prepare for climate events and disasters, including heat waves, snow storms and atmospheric rivers.","Council funds the city's emergency planning and community programs.",{"title":912,"detail":913,"page":868,"authority":664,"authorityNote":914},"Get back on track for 6 climate targets","COPE would get Vancouver back on track to meet 6 climate action targets it says the city is failing: walkable neighbourhoods, active transportation and transit, zero-emission vehicles, zero-emission space and water heating, low carbon materials and construction, and restored coasts and forests.","Council controls zoning, streets and the city's own building bylaw, while transit service is run by TransLink, a regional body.",{"title":916,"detail":917,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":918},"Lead the country on climate change","The party would meet and exceed IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) climate targets and use the City of Vancouver's public voice to push for climate justice provincially, federally and globally.","Council sets the city's own climate targets and positions.",{"title":920,"detail":921,"page":868,"authority":664,"authorityNote":922},"Support wind, water and solar energy","COPE would encourage renewable energy production across the city, coordinate climate-friendly energy upgrades at neighbourhood scale, and move the city from being a passive consumer of provincial energy toward a community-led and worker-owned green energy grid.","Council can encourage local energy through permits and city projects. The platform itself describes today's power supply as provincial.",{"title":270,"detail":924,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":925},"The party would hold the wealthiest people accountable for climate change by rejoining the \"Sue Big Oil\" lawsuit and making big polluters pay their share of the cost of the climate crisis.","Joining a lawsuit and paying for it is a Council decision.",{"title":927,"detail":928,"page":868,"authority":929,"authorityNote":930},"Oppose dredging of the Burrard Inlet and fossil fuel tankers","COPE would oppose dredging the Burrard Inlet and fight fossil fuel infrastructure and tankers in Vancouver's waters.","federal","The port is run by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, which operates under the federal Canada Marine Act and answers to the federal Minister of Transport, so the city can only object.",{"title":932,"detail":933,"page":868,"authority":650,"authorityNote":934},"Honour Indigenous rights and knowledge on climate","The party would honour Indigenous rights, knowledge and voices on climate. The platform cites Mi'kmaq Elder Albert Marshall's idea of \"two-eyed seeing\", which joins insights from western and Indigenous traditions.","Council sets how the city consults and works with Indigenous people on its climate plans.",{"title":936,"detail":937,"page":864,"authority":664,"authorityNote":938},"Grow the urban forest canopy to 30% by 2050","COPE would grow the urban forest canopy to 30% by 2050, with priority for climate-resilient native species.","The Park Board manages trees in parks, and Council controls city streets and land outside parks.",{"title":940,"detail":941,"page":864,"authority":659,"authorityNote":942},"Increase biodiversity in public parks","The party would increase biodiversity in public parks, plant native species and support healthy local ecosystems.","The Park Board controls planting and land care in parks.",{"title":944,"detail":945,"page":864,"authority":664,"authorityNote":946},"Invest in transit, active transportation and cycling","COPE would invest in affordable and reliable public transit, active transportation and cycling infrastructure to get drivers out of polluting cars and meet climate goals.","The city builds bike lanes and sidewalks on its own streets, while buses and SkyTrain are run by TransLink, a regional body.",{"title":948,"detail":949,"page":864,"authority":664,"authorityNote":950},"More green space in dense areas","The party would give priority to new green spaces and parks, especially in dense areas where it says parks are not keeping pace with development.","Council sets zoning for dense areas, and the Park Board designs and runs parks.",{"title":952,"detail":953,"page":864,"authority":650,"authorityNote":954},"Move toward a zero-waste economy","COPE would support circular economy projects and move quickly toward a zero-waste economy, backing tool libraries, community repair programs, free stores, and programs like FreeGeek that repair electronics and put them back into use.","Council can fund these programs and set city waste policy.",[956,959,962,965,968,971],{"question":957,"answer":958},"What is COPE's Climate Defence Strategy?","COPE would turn Vancouver's Climate Change Adaptation Strategy into a full Climate Defence Strategy. It would invest in tool libraries and zero-waste programs, upgrade public infrastructure and housing, protect the food system, and help communities prepare for heat waves, snow storms and atmospheric rivers (platform, page 16).",{"question":960,"answer":961},"Does COPE want Vancouver to rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit?","Yes. COPE says it would rejoin the \"Sue Big Oil\" lawsuit and make big polluters pay their share for the climate crisis (platform, page 16).",{"question":963,"answer":964},"What is COPE's tree canopy target for Vancouver?","COPE would grow the urban forest canopy to 30% by 2050, with priority for climate-resilient native species (platform, page 17).",{"question":966,"answer":967},"What does COPE say about Burrard Inlet?","COPE would oppose the dredging of the Burrard Inlet and fight fossil fuel infrastructure and tankers in Vancouver's waters. The port is run by a federal port authority, so the city can only object (platform, page 16).",{"question":969,"answer":970},"Does COPE support local renewable energy in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would encourage wind, water and solar energy production across the city and move toward a community-led and worker-owned green energy grid (platform, page 16).",{"question":972,"answer":973},"Who would carry out COPE's climate plan?","Council controls the city's climate strategies, buildings, streets and budget. The Park Board controls trees and planting in parks, TransLink runs transit, and the port falls under a federal authority (platform, pages 16 and 17).","climate-defence-strategy","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--climate-defence-strategy","COPE would turn Vancouver'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 fossil fuel tankers in Burrard Inlet. It wants a community-led, worker-owned green energy grid.","mQOkHSVDaIAGoLK1H95zm9Z7PIIrn5PIWAFPv33KDQQ",{"id":979,"title":980,"checkedAt":397,"context":981,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":982,"headline":983,"issues":984,"meta":986,"order":987,"pages":988,"paragraphs":990,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":994,"questions":1012,"slug":1028,"source":13,"stem":1029,"summary":1030,"__hash__":1031},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--dont-force-ai-on-vancouver.json","Don't Force A.I. on Vancouver",[],[],"COPE on AI: pause AI chat tools in schools, protect city data, oppose AI data centres",[985,212],"governance",{},"8",{"from":989,"to":989},23,[991,992,993],"COPE's platform has its own chapter on artificial intelligence. The party would pause the rollout of AI large language models, the systems behind AI chat tools, in Vancouver schools. It would consult parents and others and run a technology audit to set rules. The audit would cover student safety and privacy, effects on learning and mental health, the environmental cost of AI, the lack of AI use policies for students and staff, and the use of AI in public consultation.","For City Hall, COPE would set AI rules for managers, staff and elected officials so that public data and data about residents is never used to train AI systems owned by tech billionaires. Any city partnership with an outside company would have to protect personal data. The party would also oppose using AI to automate jobs, lay off workers or weaken labour rights.","Finally, COPE would oppose data centres for AI, which it calls \"AI Factories\", in Vancouver, and fight for rules that hold any such centre to account for water use, energy, noise and public health before it goes ahead. The school items would be decisions for the School Board. Council sets rules for city staff and data and controls zoning and permits for new buildings.",[995,1000,1004,1008],{"title":996,"detail":997,"page":989,"authority":998,"authorityNote":999},"Pause AI language models in Vancouver schools","COPE would pause the rollout of AI large language models (LLMs) in Vancouver schools, consult parents and others, and carry out a technology audit to set rules on student safety and privacy, effects on learning and mental health, open consultation on AI use, its climate and environmental impact, the lack of student and staff AI policies, and the validity of results when AI is used in public engagement.","school-board","The School Board runs Vancouver public schools and decides which tools they use.",{"title":1001,"detail":1002,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1003},"AI rules to protect public data","The party would set AI governance policies for managers, staff and elected officials so that public data and data about residents is never used to train AI systems owned by tech billionaires, and so that city partnerships with outside companies protect personal data.","Council sets the rules for the city's own staff, data and contracts.",{"title":1005,"detail":1006,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1007},"Oppose using AI to replace workers","COPE would oppose the use of AI to automate jobs, lay off workers and weaken labour rights.","Council decides how the city's own workforce and services are run. The platform does not say how it would act beyond city jobs.",{"title":1009,"detail":1010,"page":989,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1011},"Oppose AI data centres in Vancouver","The party would oppose building and running urban data centres for AI (\"AI Factories\") in Vancouver, and fight for strong rules that hold any AI data centre to account for water use, energy, noise and public health before a project goes ahead.","Council controls zoning and permits in the city. The wider rules the platform calls for would be set by other governments.",[1013,1016,1019,1022,1025],{"question":1014,"answer":1015},"Does COPE want to ban AI in Vancouver schools?","COPE would pause the rollout of AI large language models in Vancouver schools and run a technology audit with parents and others to set rules on safety, privacy, learning, mental health and the environment (platform, page 23).",{"question":1017,"answer":1018},"What is COPE's position on AI data centres?","COPE would oppose AI data centres, which it calls \"AI Factories\", in Vancouver, and fight for rules that hold any such project to account for water use, energy, noise and public health (platform, page 23).",{"question":1020,"answer":1021},"How would COPE protect Vancouver residents' data from AI?","COPE would set AI rules for city managers, staff and elected officials so that public data and data about residents is never used to train AI owned by tech billionaires, and so that city partnerships protect personal data (platform, page 23).",{"question":1023,"answer":1024},"Does COPE oppose using AI to cut city jobs?","Yes. COPE says it would oppose the use of AI to automate jobs, lay off workers and weaken labour rights (platform, page 23).",{"question":1026,"answer":1027},"Who decides whether AI is used in Vancouver schools?","The Vancouver School Board runs the city's public schools, so a pause on AI tools in classrooms would be a School Board decision. COPE is running candidates for the School Board as well as Council (platform, page 23).","dont-force-ai-on-vancouver","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--dont-force-ai-on-vancouver","COPE would pause the rollout of AI large language models in Vancouver schools until a technology audit is done, stop public data from training AI owned by tech billionaires, oppose using AI to replace workers, and oppose AI data centres in Vancouver.","h_qerMWMhclfig_aHQY-9oPsQZMSpYFD9lYHphY2iE8",{"id":1033,"title":1034,"checkedAt":397,"context":1035,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1036,"headline":1041,"issues":1042,"meta":1044,"order":1045,"pages":1046,"paragraphs":1047,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1052,"questions":1089,"slug":1108,"source":13,"stem":1109,"summary":1110,"__hash__":1111},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--fight-for-a-just-vancouver.json","Fight for a Just Vancouver",[],[1037],{"value":1038,"label":1039,"page":1040},"$100 million+","Rise in the annual police budget under Ken Sim, according to the platform",25,"COPE on fairness: a mansion tax, a living wage, a \"too hot to work\" bylaw",[231,1043,985],"economy",{},"10",{"from":1040,"to":1040},[1048,1049,1050,1051],"This chapter gathers COPE's commitments on fairness in the city. Its first item is a tax on wealth. COPE would use every option open to the city, and press other governments, to tax wealth in Vancouver through measures such as a Mansion Tax or a property tax that rises with property value. It would also seek new powers to raise money from those who can afford to pay, for public services and affordable housing.","On city work, COPE would restore the city's living wage policy, oppose privatization and public-private partnerships, and bring city contractors in as unionized city staff. It would pass a \"too hot to work\" bylaw setting safe temperatures in workplaces, kitchens included. The platform says the police budget has grown by over $100 million under Ken Sim while green bin pickups were cut and pool line-ups grew, and COPE would put money into pools, recreation and public services.","Other items concern rights and recognition. COPE would apply a disability justice lens to city policy, work with host nations and urban Indigenous groups on reconciliation, and rename Dunsmuir Street to Ginger Goodwin Street. It would join Burnaby, which the platform says has signed the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge. The party also states its commitment to global justice and its opposition to transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, antisemitism, ableism, Islamophobia, racism and all discrimination.","Council could act alone on the living wage, contracting, street names and city policy. A new tax on wealth would need powers from the Province, which writes the Vancouver Charter. Employment law is set by the provincial and federal governments, so the reach of a city workplace temperature bylaw would depend on what their laws allow. Funding for pools and recreation would be shared between Council, which approves the budget, and the Park Board, which runs those facilities.",[1053,1057,1061,1065,1069,1073,1077,1081,1085],{"title":1054,"detail":1055,"page":1040,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1056},"Tax wealth in Vancouver","COPE would use all options open to the city, and pressure all other levels of government, to tax wealth through measures such as a Mansion Tax or progressive taxation of property values. It would work to establish new powers to raise revenue from those who can afford to pay, to fund public services and affordable housing.","Council sets the property tax rate, but new taxing powers would have to come from the Province, which writes the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":1058,"detail":1059,"page":1040,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1060},"Restore the city's living wage policy","The party would restore the city's living wage policy and make sure Vancouver is an ethical employer.","Council sets pay and contract rules for the city's own workforce.",{"title":1062,"detail":1063,"page":1040,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1064},"Fund pools, recreation and public services","COPE would give pools, recreation facilities and public services the funding they need. The platform says the police budget has risen by over $100 million under Ken Sim while green bin pickups were cut, pool line-ups grew and planned community centre upgrades were halted.","Council approves the city budget and capital plan, and the Park Board runs pools and recreation centres.",{"title":1066,"detail":1067,"page":1040,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1068},"Apply a disability justice lens","The party would review city policies, systems, services, funding and structures through a disability justice lens to make Vancouver welcoming for people with disabilities.","Council sets city policy and directs city staff.",{"title":1070,"detail":1071,"page":1040,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1072},"Oppose privatization and bring contractors in-house","COPE would oppose privatization and public-private partnerships (PPPs), and work to bring city contractors in as unionized city employees.","Council decides how city services are delivered and who the city hires.",{"title":1074,"detail":1075,"page":1040,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1076},"A \"too hot to work\" bylaw","The party would establish a \"too hot to work\" bylaw that sets safe temperatures in workplaces, including kitchens.","Council would have to pass the bylaw. Employment law is set by the provincial and federal governments.",{"title":1078,"detail":1079,"page":1040,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1080},"Join the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge","COPE would make Vancouver an Apartheid-Free Community and, in the platform's words, join Burnaby in signing the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge.","Signing a pledge is a Council decision.",{"title":1082,"detail":1083,"page":1040,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1084},"A real city of reconciliation","The party would build working relationships with host nations and under-served urban Indigenous people, address anti-Indigenous racism and bias in institutions, support Indigenous land trusts, and work with host nations and urban Indigenous groups so their voices are always heard at City Hall.","Council sets how the city works with host nations and Indigenous groups, with their agreement.",{"title":1086,"detail":1087,"page":1040,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1088},"Rename Dunsmuir Street to Ginger Goodwin Street","COPE would rename Dunsmuir Street to Ginger Goodwin Street and review the city's street names, statues and plazas for names that go against Vancouver's values.","The street, statues and plazas belong to the city, so Council would decide.",[1090,1093,1096,1099,1102,1105],{"question":1091,"answer":1092},"Does COPE support a mansion tax in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would use every option open to the city, and press other governments, to tax wealth through measures such as a Mansion Tax or a property tax that rises with property value. New taxing powers would have to come from the Province (platform, page 25).",{"question":1094,"answer":1095},"What is COPE's \"too hot to work\" bylaw?","COPE would pass a bylaw setting safe temperatures in workplaces, including kitchens. Employment law is set by the provincial and federal governments, so the reach of a city bylaw would depend on their laws (platform, page 25).",{"question":1097,"answer":1098},"Does COPE want to rename Dunsmuir Street?","Yes. COPE would rename Dunsmuir Street to Ginger Goodwin Street and review the city's street names, statues and plazas for names that go against Vancouver's values (platform, page 25).",{"question":1100,"answer":1101},"What does COPE say about contracting out city work?","COPE would oppose privatization and public-private partnerships and work to bring city contractors in as unionized city employees. It would also restore the city's living wage policy (platform, page 25).",{"question":1103,"answer":1104},"Why does COPE say the police budget should be spent differently?","The platform says the police budget has risen by over $100 million under Ken Sim while green bin pickups were cut, pool line-ups grew and community centre upgrades were halted. COPE would give pools, recreation and public services the funding they need (platform, page 25).",{"question":1106,"answer":1107},"What is the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge in COPE's platform?","COPE would make Vancouver an Apartheid-Free Community and sign the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge, which the platform says Burnaby has signed. Signing would be a Council decision (platform, page 25).","fight-for-a-just-vancouver","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--fight-for-a-just-vancouver","COPE would press for wealth taxes such as a Mansion Tax, restore the city's living wage policy, bring city contractors in as unionized staff and pass a \"too hot to work\" bylaw. It would rename Dunsmuir Street to Ginger Goodwin Street and sign the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge.","_APr6lJPEnDoAtobRKEK8JagL0rcvSF4aXSiKhZG-60",{"id":1113,"title":1114,"checkedAt":397,"context":1115,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1116,"headline":1124,"issues":1125,"meta":1126,"order":866,"pages":1127,"paragraphs":1128,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1132,"questions":1161,"slug":1177,"source":13,"stem":1178,"summary":1179,"__hash__":1180},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--keep-families-in-vancouver.json","Keep Families in Vancouver",[],[1117,1121],{"value":1118,"label":1119,"page":1120},"2,200","New public child care spaces COPE would secure by 2030",19,{"value":1122,"label":1123,"page":1120},"~4,200","Shortfall of child care spaces for ages 0 to 5 that the platform says city staff noted in 2024 (the platform marks this figure as approximate)","COPE on families: 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030 and an affordability audit",[306,60],{},{"from":1120,"to":1120},[1129,1130,1131],"COPE's platform says Vancouver has the lowest share of family households in Metro Vancouver and that city staff counted a shortfall of child care spaces for children up to age 5 in 2024. This chapter is the party's plan to keep families in the city. It starts with an Affordability Audit for Families to find where costs hurt most, and a strategy to use public power where the market fails, such as affordable tutoring and sports.","Child care is the centre of the chapter. COPE would secure at least 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030 by bargaining with developers, providing public land and seeking money from senior governments. It would open drop-in child care at community centres and schools, speed up before-and-after school care at elementary schools, and track all child care spaces, private and public, against the city's targets.","COPE would also use city land for children's programs in theatre, science, sports and music, and make sure new housing includes homes large and cheap enough for families. Council can provide land and use zoning and development deals to create child care space. Licensing and operating money for child care come from the Province, and schools and community centres belong to the School Board and the Park Board.",[1133,1137,1141,1145,1149,1153,1157],{"title":1134,"detail":1135,"page":1120,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1136},"An Affordability Audit for Families","COPE would identify the costs that hit families hardest in Vancouver and create a strategy to use public power where the market is failing, including affordable programs for children such as tutoring and sports, and to lower everyday costs.","Council can direct staff to carry out the audit and fund the programs.",{"title":1138,"detail":1139,"page":1120,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1140},"At least 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030","The party would fight for and fund more public child care. It would bargain with developers, provide public land and seek money from senior governments to secure at least 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030.","The city creates child care space through zoning, city buildings and development deals, while licensing and operating funding are provincial.",{"title":1142,"detail":1143,"page":1120,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1144},"Drop-in child care at community centres and schools","COPE would set up drop-in spaces at community centres and schools so parents can get affordable, safe and reliable child care in public buildings.","Community centres are run by the Park Board and schools by the School Board, and child care licensing is provincial.",{"title":1146,"detail":1147,"page":1120,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1148},"Before-and-after school care at elementary schools","The party would speed up the creation of before-and-after school child care spaces at elementary schools across the city.","Schools belong to the School Board, and child care licensing and operating money come from the Province.",{"title":1150,"detail":1151,"page":1120,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1152},"Track and report on child care spaces","COPE would track and report on child care spaces, both private and public, to make sure the city meets its targets.","Council can direct city staff to collect and publish this data.",{"title":1154,"detail":1155,"page":1120,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1156},"City-owned space for children's programs","The party would use city-owned land for city-owned spaces for children's programs, including theatre, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), sports and recreation, education and music.","Council decides how city-owned land is used.",{"title":1158,"detail":1159,"page":1120,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1160},"Prioritize housing for families","COPE would make sure that public housing, and deals with private developers, secure homes large enough and affordable enough for families.","Council sets zoning and negotiates the terms of rezonings with developers.",[1162,1165,1168,1171,1174],{"question":1163,"answer":1164},"How many child care spaces would COPE create in Vancouver?","COPE says it would secure at least 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030 by bargaining with developers, providing public land and seeking money from senior governments (platform, page 19).",{"question":1166,"answer":1167},"What is COPE's Affordability Audit for Families?","COPE would find the costs that hit families hardest in Vancouver and create a strategy to use public power where the market fails, including affordable tutoring and sports for children (platform, page 19).",{"question":1169,"answer":1170},"Does COPE support drop-in child care at community centres?","Yes. COPE would set up drop-in child care at community centres and schools so parents can find affordable, safe and reliable care in public buildings (platform, page 19).",{"question":1172,"answer":1173},"Who pays for child care in Vancouver under COPE's plan?","The city can provide land, buildings and space through development deals. COPE itself says it would seek funding from senior governments, and child care licensing and operating money come from the Province (platform, page 19).",{"question":1175,"answer":1176},"What does COPE say about housing for families?","COPE says public housing and deals with private developers must secure homes large enough and affordable enough for families. The platform says Vancouver has the lowest share of family households in Metro Vancouver (platform, page 19).","keep-families-in-vancouver","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--keep-families-in-vancouver","COPE would secure at least 2,200 new public child care spaces by 2030, add drop-in child care at community centres and schools, and speed up before-and-after school care. An Affordability Audit for Families would look for ways to lower everyday costs.","9-Qf4I9KE1o-dNJN2A_Uuw2cwkAXHryPpgd1LQBRWd4",{"id":1182,"title":1183,"checkedAt":397,"context":1184,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1185,"headline":1193,"issues":1194,"meta":1195,"order":1196,"pages":1197,"paragraphs":1198,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1202,"questions":1239,"slug":1255,"source":13,"stem":1256,"summary":1257,"__hash__":1258},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--keep-the-arts-in-vancouver.json","Keep the Arts in Vancouver",[],[1186,1190],{"value":1187,"label":1188,"page":1189},"$11 billion+","GDP the platform says BC's cultural sector generated in 2024",24,{"value":1191,"label":1192,"page":1189},"129,000+","Jobs the platform says BC's cultural sector supported in 2024","COPE on the arts: a Cultural Land Trust, inflation-linked grants, an empty business tax",[295],{},"9",{"from":1189,"to":1189},[1199,1200,1201],"COPE's platform says Vancouver has the highest number of artists per person of any major city in Canada, and that arts funding has risen by less than inflation. The arts chapter aims to keep artists and venues in the city. Its first step is a Cultural Land Trust, which would hold space for the arts so it is not lost to rising land prices.","COPE would write a Vancouver Arts and Cultural Spaces Strategy that uses city land for galleries, venues, theatres and rehearsal spaces, and would encourage performances in empty commercial spaces. An empty business tax on industrial and commercial spaces would come with a program to turn vacant units into places for art. A new Creative City Navigator would help arts groups, festivals and venues deal with the city.","On funding, the party would raise operating grants for the arts and then tie them to inflation, and look at an arts endowment or a dedicated tax for steady funding. It would end the crackdown on DIY arts venues, support street performers and free festivals, and offer free access to museums and galleries through the library or the Leisure Access Pass. Council funds cultural grants and licenses venues and events, but a new type of tax would need powers from the Province.",[1203,1207,1211,1215,1219,1223,1227,1231,1235],{"title":1204,"detail":1205,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1206},"A Cultural Land Trust","COPE would reduce speculative pressure on artist spaces and protect Vancouver's arts through a Cultural Land Trust.","Council controls city-owned land and can fund a trust through its budget.",{"title":1208,"detail":1209,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1210},"A Vancouver Arts and Cultural Spaces Strategy","The party would create a strategy that uses city-owned land for galleries, venues, theatres and rehearsal spaces, and encourages the use of vacant commercial spaces for performance and art.","Council decides how city-owned land is used and sets zoning for commercial space.",{"title":1212,"detail":1213,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1214},"A Vancouver Arts, Culture, and Creative City Navigator","COPE would create a Navigator to support arts organizations, festivals and venues and help the city meet its arts and culture goals.","Council decides which city positions and services exist.",{"title":1216,"detail":1217,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1218},"Raise arts operating grants and tie them to inflation","The party would boost operating grants for Vancouver's arts sector, then tie them to inflation. It would also look at a municipal arts endowment or a dedicated tax revenue stream for long-term stability.","Council sets cultural grants in the city budget. A new dedicated tax would depend on the city's powers under the Vancouver Charter, which only the Province can change.",{"title":1220,"detail":1221,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1222},"End the crackdown on DIY arts venues","COPE would end the crackdown on DIY (do-it-yourself) arts venues and support independent, artist-run nightlife.","The city licenses venues and events and enforces its own rules on them.",{"title":1224,"detail":1225,"page":1189,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1226},"An empty business tax","The party would charge an empty business tax on industrial and commercial spaces, with a program to encourage use of vacant spaces for performance and art.","The platform does not say how the tax would work. Any new type of tax depends on the city's powers under the Vancouver Charter, which only the Province can change.",{"title":1228,"detail":1229,"page":1189,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1230},"Art and music in public spaces","COPE would bring art and music into public spaces by adding covered bandstands, encouraging street-corner performers and supporting free and low-cost festivals.","Council controls city streets and event permits, and the Park Board controls parks where bandstands could go.",{"title":1232,"detail":1233,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1234},"Support museums, galleries and civic theatres","The party would support the needs of museums, galleries, civic theatres and other cultural spaces, and offer free access through the Public Library or the Leisure Access Pass.","Council sets cultural grants in the city budget. Free passes through the library would also need the library board.",{"title":1236,"detail":1237,"page":1189,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1238},"Protect the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee","COPE would protect the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee and work with it to advance the arts in Vancouver.","Council creates its own advisory committees and decides whether they continue.",[1240,1243,1246,1249,1252],{"question":1241,"answer":1242},"What is COPE's Cultural Land Trust?","COPE would create a Cultural Land Trust to reduce speculative pressure on artist spaces and protect the arts in Vancouver (platform, page 24).",{"question":1244,"answer":1245},"Would COPE increase arts funding in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would boost operating grants for the arts and then tie them to inflation, and look at an arts endowment or a dedicated tax for long-term funding. The platform says arts funding has risen by less than inflation (platform, page 24).",{"question":1247,"answer":1248},"What does COPE say about DIY music venues?","COPE would end the crackdown on DIY arts venues and support independent, artist-run nightlife as part of Vancouver's culture (platform, page 24).",{"question":1250,"answer":1251},"Does COPE want an empty business tax in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would charge an empty business tax on industrial and commercial spaces, with a program to encourage use of vacant spaces for art and performance. A new type of tax would depend on powers only the Province can give the city (platform, page 24).",{"question":1253,"answer":1254},"Who would fund COPE's arts plan?","Council sets cultural grants in the city budget and controls city-owned land, so most of the plan is a Council decision. An endowment, a dedicated arts tax or an empty business tax would depend on the city's powers under the Vancouver Charter (platform, page 24).","keep-the-arts-in-vancouver","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--keep-the-arts-in-vancouver","COPE would protect artist spaces through a Cultural Land Trust, raise operating grants for the arts and tie them to inflation, end the crackdown on DIY arts venues and tax empty commercial and industrial spaces, with a program to use them for art and performance.","6o7-u9wI8NsU3OAo8ue0YbHNDtIQva76KpSwGr8r6Dw",{"id":1260,"title":1261,"checkedAt":397,"context":1262,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1263,"headline":1271,"issues":1272,"meta":1273,"order":1274,"pages":1275,"paragraphs":1276,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1280,"questions":1317,"slug":1333,"source":13,"stem":1334,"summary":1335,"__hash__":1336},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--make-groceries-more-affordable.json","Make Groceries More Affordable",[],[1264,1268],{"value":1265,"label":1266,"page":1267},"46%","Share of food in Canada that the platform says is wasted",14,{"value":1269,"label":1270,"page":1267},"almost 1\u002F4","Share of BC residents the platform says lack secure access to healthy food","COPE on food costs: a public grocery pilot, an edible food recovery law, free school meals",[1043,212],{},"2",{"from":1267,"to":1267},[1277,1278,1279],"COPE treats the price of groceries as something city government can act on. Its platform says 46% of food in Canada is wasted while almost 1\u002F4 of BC residents lack secure access to healthy food. The party's first step is an edible food recovery law aimed at big box stores and chain restaurants, so that food they would throw away goes to people.","COPE would also start a public grocery pilot project in the neighbourhoods with the most need, protect affordable community grocers from rent hikes and sell-offs, and use the city's buying power to buy in bulk from local farmers. That food would be sold at a discount to community grocers, non-profits, public grocers and school meal programs. The party would bring back the city's Food System Planner jobs to carry out the work.","Other items expand community food: linked community gardens, community kitchens, seed sharing, food storage and public food distribution networks run with community groups. COPE also wants a universal breakfast and lunch program at the Vancouver School Board, citing US research that grocery prices fell where such programs exist. Council would act on most of this, while school meals are a School Board program that depends on provincial school funding.",[1281,1285,1289,1293,1297,1301,1305,1309,1313],{"title":1282,"detail":1283,"page":1267,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1284},"An edible food recovery law","COPE would stop food waste with an edible food recovery law aimed at big box stores and chain restaurants, so that edible food is given to people in place of being thrown away.","The platform presents this as a city law, which Council would have to pass. It does not say which city power the law would rest on.",{"title":1286,"detail":1287,"page":1267,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1288},"Protect affordable community grocers","The party would protect affordable community grocers from rent hikes, sell-offs and rising prices, and invest in the local businesses that it says hold communities together.","Council can support grocers through zoning, city land and its budget.",{"title":1290,"detail":1291,"page":1267,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1292},"A public grocery pilot project","COPE would set up a public grocery pilot project to provide affordable groceries in the neighbourhoods with the most need.","Council can fund a city pilot through its budget and offer city-owned space.",{"title":1294,"detail":1295,"page":1267,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1296},"Reinstate Vancouver's Food System Planner roles","The party would bring back the city's Food System Planner jobs and make sure the department has enough staff and support to do its work.","Council decides city staffing through the budget.",{"title":1298,"detail":1299,"page":1267,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1300},"Coordinate the network of community gardens","COPE would link and coordinate community gardens to grow local food and increase access to growing space.","Some community gardens sit on city land and some in parks, so Council and the Park Board would both be involved.",{"title":1302,"detail":1303,"page":1267,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1304},"Public food distribution networks","The party would partner with community groups to fund and create public food distribution networks using publicly owned spaces and community kitchens.","The city can offer funding and space, and community groups would run the networks.",{"title":1306,"detail":1307,"page":1267,"authority":998,"authorityNote":1308},"Universal breakfast and lunch at Vancouver School Board","COPE would make sure no child is hungry with a universal breakfast and lunch program at the Vancouver School Board. The platform cites US research that grocery chains cut prices for everyone in areas with universal school meals for elementary students.","The School Board runs Vancouver's public schools, and school funding is set by the Province.",{"title":1310,"detail":1311,"page":1267,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1312},"Use the city's buying power to buy from local farmers","The party would use the city's buying power to buy in bulk from local farmers and sell the food at a discount to affordable community grocers, non-profits, public grocers and school meal programs.","Council sets the city's purchasing rules and budget.",{"title":1314,"detail":1315,"page":1267,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1316},"Expand meal programs, community kitchens and gardens","COPE would expand healthy and affordable meal programs, set up community kitchens, expand community gardens, seed sharing and food storage, and support skill sharing and training, working toward what it calls food justice and food security.","Council can fund these programs, while gardens in parks are managed by the Park Board.",[1318,1321,1324,1327,1330],{"question":1319,"answer":1320},"What is COPE's public grocery store plan?","COPE would set up a public grocery pilot project to provide affordable groceries in the Vancouver neighbourhoods with the most need (platform, page 14).",{"question":1322,"answer":1323},"Does COPE want a food waste law in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would pass an edible food recovery law aimed at big box stores and chain restaurants, so that edible food goes to people in place of being thrown away (platform, page 14).",{"question":1325,"answer":1326},"Does COPE support free school meals in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE backs a universal breakfast and lunch program at the Vancouver School Board. The School Board runs the schools, and school funding is set by the Province (platform, pages 14 and 20).",{"question":1328,"answer":1329},"How would COPE lower grocery prices?","COPE would use the city's buying power to buy in bulk from local farmers and sell the food at a discount to community grocers, non-profits, public grocers and school meal programs. It would also protect affordable community grocers from rent hikes and sell-offs (platform, page 14).",{"question":1331,"answer":1332},"Who would run COPE's food programs?","Council could fund the grocery pilot, the bulk buying and the Food System Planner jobs through the city budget. Community groups would run the distribution networks, and the School Board would run school meals (platform, page 14).","make-groceries-more-affordable","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--make-groceries-more-affordable","COPE would start a public grocery pilot in the neighbourhoods with the most need, pass an edible food recovery law for big box stores and chain restaurants, and use the city's buying power to buy food in bulk from local farmers. It also backs universal school breakfast and lunch.","f1PkiGT5-Y0MNFTSNUAU0dH63iQTTyLReyJ30BVzzdQ",{"id":1338,"title":1339,"checkedAt":397,"context":1340,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1349,"headline":1357,"issues":1358,"meta":1359,"order":1360,"pages":1361,"paragraphs":1362,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1367,"questions":1439,"slug":1458,"source":13,"stem":1459,"summary":1460,"__hash__":1461},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--make-the-city-safe-for-everyone.json","Make The City Safe for Everyone",[1341,1345],{"label":1342,"url":1343,"publisher":1344,"checkedAt":397},"Vancouver Police Board: meet the board","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouverpoliceboard.ca\u002Fabout\u002Fmeet-the-board\u002F","Vancouver Police Board",{"label":1346,"url":1347,"publisher":1348,"checkedAt":397},"Are headlights too bright? Nearly 380K Canadians told Ottawa their answer","https:\u002F\u002Fglobalnews.ca\u002Fnews\u002F11896769\u002Fare-headlights-too-bright-canada-public-consultation\u002F","Global News",[1350,1354],{"value":1351,"label":1352,"page":1353},"five","Calls to action for municipalities from Battered Women's Support Services that COPE would carry out",22,{"value":1355,"label":1356,"page":989},"almost 380,000","Responses the platform says Transport Canada's headlight consultation received","COPE on safety: care teams for mental health calls, a violence task force, safer streets",[141,117,165],{},"7",{"from":1353,"to":989},[1363,1364,1365,1366],"COPE's safety chapter treats safety as a wider question than policing. The party would plan city infrastructure for climate events and earthquakes, add suicide prevention barriers on bridges, and act on the five calls to action for cities from Battered Women's Support Services, including an intimate partner violence task force. It would make Vancouver a Restorative Justice City, which means responding to harm by bringing together the people affected, as set out in the Restorative City framework.","On health and drugs, COPE backs drug testing, safe supply and supervised consumption sites, along with voluntary treatment. It would restore the sex worker safety planning position that the platform says Ken Sim and ABC cut, and support safe workplaces and a safe exit from the sex trade. The party also lists what it calls ABC's safety failures, including cuts to cooling kits for heat waves and to climate retrofit funding.","On policing, COPE would take mental health calls out of police priorities and fund peer-assisted care teams (PACTs) in their place. It would challenge the legal structures that tie the city to what it calls unelected police boards, and seek an audit of the Vancouver Police Department. Council approves the police budget, but the Vancouver Police Board works under BC's Police Act, and most of its members are appointed by the Province.","The last part of the chapter is about streets. COPE would lower speed limits on high-risk streets, create permanent school zones, repaint crosswalks, fund curb cuts and add protected left turns. It also names ultra-bright headlights, and the platform credits a 2026 motion by Councillor Sean Orr with prompting a national consultation by Transport Canada, the federal transport department. Street design and speed limits on city streets are Council decisions, while headlight rules are a request to the federal government.",[1368,1372,1376,1380,1385,1389,1393,1397,1401,1405,1409,1413,1417,1421,1424,1427,1431,1435],{"title":1369,"detail":1370,"page":1353,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1371},"Plan for climate events and earthquakes","COPE would give priority to city planning and infrastructure upgrades for climate events and earthquakes to save lives and prevent future disasters.","Council approves the capital plan and the city's emergency planning.",{"title":1373,"detail":1374,"page":1353,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1375},"Stop intimate partner violence","The party would carry out the five calls to action for municipalities from Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS), including an Intimate Partner Violence task force, support for community victim services and transition houses, and better local data collection on intimate partner violence.","Council can create a task force and fund local services. The platform names community-based victim services and transition houses as the groups it would support.",{"title":1377,"detail":1378,"page":1353,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1379},"Infrastructure and programs to reduce suicide risk","COPE would support infrastructure that reduces the risk of suicide, such as barriers on bridges and other high-risk places, and programs to step in and support people in crisis.","The city controls its own bridges and streets, while crisis health services are provincial.",{"title":1381,"detail":1382,"page":1353,"authority":1383,"authorityNote":1384},"Expand voluntary treatment and fight stigma","The party would address mental health and addictions by expanding access to voluntary and compassionate treatment and frontline services, and by fighting stigma about drug use and poverty.","province","Health services and treatment beds are run by the Province, so the city can only press for more.",{"title":1386,"detail":1387,"page":1353,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1388},"Address the root causes of survival crime","COPE would fight to address the root causes of survival crime: mental health and addiction problems, and homelessness.","Council funds shelters and outreach, while health care and most housing funding come from senior governments.",{"title":1390,"detail":1391,"page":1353,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1392},"Make Vancouver a Restorative Justice City","The party would endorse and fund the Restorative City framework.","Council can endorse a framework and fund it through the city budget.",{"title":1394,"detail":1395,"page":1353,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1396},"Support evidence-based overdose responses","COPE would address the overdose crisis by supporting drug testing, safe supply programs and supervised consumption sites.","The city can support and give space to these services, but drug policy and health services are provincial and federal.",{"title":1398,"detail":1399,"page":1353,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1400},"Restore the sex worker safety planning position","The party would restore the sex worker safety planning position that the platform says Ken Sim and ABC cut, and support front-line services that protect vulnerable people from violence and exploitation. The platform says the position was created after the 2012 Pickton Commission.","Council decides city staff positions through the budget.",{"title":1402,"detail":1403,"page":1353,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1404},"Safety for people in the sex trade","COPE would expand support for the safety of people working in the sex trade and create policy so sex workers can work in safe environments, including the right to a safe exit from the industry.","Council can set city policy and fund support services.",{"title":1406,"detail":1407,"page":1353,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1408},"Move mental health calls away from police","The party would remove mental health calls from Vancouver Police Department priorities and move funding to community safety programs for acute mental health crises, such as peer-assisted care teams (PACTs).","Council approves the police budget, but the Vancouver Police Board directs the police department.",{"title":1410,"detail":1411,"page":1353,"authority":1383,"authorityNote":1412},"Challenge police board structures and audit the VPD","COPE would challenge the legal structures that it says tie the city to unelected police boards, and push for democratic community oversight and an audit of the Vancouver Police Department.","The Vancouver Police Board works under BC's Police Act, and most of its members are appointed by the Province, so only the Province can change that structure.",{"title":1414,"detail":1415,"page":1353,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1416},"Community safety programs for protests and events","The party would set up community safety programs that manage protests and community events with public safety captains, without adding to police budgets through overtime and overpolicing.","Council approves event permits and the city budget.",{"title":1418,"detail":1419,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1420},"Lower speed limits on high-risk streets","To reduce pedestrian deaths, COPE would lower speed limits on high-risk streets.","The city owns and designs its streets.",{"title":1422,"detail":1423,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1420},"Road upgrades and permanent school zones","The party would upgrade roads and create permanent school zones.",{"title":1425,"detail":1426,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":655},"A protected bike lane on Broadway","COPE lists support for a protected bike lane on Broadway among its steps to reduce pedestrian deaths.",{"title":1428,"detail":1429,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1430},"Better crosswalks and curb cuts","The party would improve and repaint pedestrian crossings and fund curb cuts, the ramps from sidewalk to street.","The city owns its sidewalks and crossings.",{"title":1432,"detail":1433,"page":989,"authority":929,"authorityNote":1434},"Tackle ultra-bright headlights","COPE would tackle ultra-bright headlights, which it says increase road risk. The platform says a 2026 motion by Sean Orr prompted a Transport Canada consultation that received almost 380,000 responses, and that the motion went to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, where cities across Canada endorsed it.","Transport Canada, the federal transport department, ran the national consultation on headlights, so the city can only press for change.",{"title":1436,"detail":1437,"page":989,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1438},"Expand protected left turns","The party would expand protected left-turn signals and road design, starting in the areas of greatest need.","The city owns its streets and traffic signals.",[1440,1443,1446,1449,1452,1455],{"question":1441,"answer":1442},"What would COPE do about mental health calls to police?","COPE would remove mental health calls from Vancouver Police Department priorities and move funding to community programs for mental health crises, such as peer-assisted care teams (PACTs). The party says alternatives to police as first responders can reduce costs (platform, page 22).",{"question":1444,"answer":1445},"Does COPE support safe supply and supervised consumption sites?","Yes. COPE says it would address the overdose crisis by supporting drug testing, safe supply programs and supervised consumption sites. Drug policy and health services are provincial and federal, so the city's role is support (platform, page 22).",{"question":1447,"answer":1448},"What does COPE propose on intimate partner violence?","COPE would carry out the five calls to action for municipalities from Battered Women's Support Services, including an Intimate Partner Violence task force, support for victim services and transition houses, and better local data (platform, page 22).",{"question":1450,"answer":1451},"Can Vancouver City Council control the police?","Council approves the police budget, but the Vancouver Police Board directs the department. The board works under BC's Police Act and most of its members are appointed by the Province. COPE says it would challenge that structure and seek an audit of the VPD (platform, page 22).",{"question":1453,"answer":1454},"What would COPE do about road safety in Vancouver?","COPE would lower speed limits on high-risk streets, create permanent school zones, repaint crosswalks, fund curb cuts, add protected left turns and support a protected bike lane on Broadway (platform, page 23).",{"question":1456,"answer":1457},"What does COPE say about ultra-bright headlights?","COPE would tackle ultra-bright headlights. The platform says Councillor Sean Orr's 2026 motion prompted a Transport Canada consultation that drew almost 380,000 responses. Transport Canada is a federal department, so the city can only press for change (platform, page 23).","make-the-city-safe-for-everyone","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--make-the-city-safe-for-everyone","COPE would move mental health calls away from police toward peer-assisted care teams, create an intimate partner violence task force, back safe supply and supervised consumption, and restore the sex worker safety position. It would lower speed limits on high-risk streets.","AiMH0pQtAbUdiZBlQ2dWrV60nMIqA_I9TZVySKXy_Do",{"id":1463,"title":1464,"checkedAt":397,"context":1465,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1469,"headline":1483,"issues":1484,"meta":1485,"order":1486,"pages":1487,"paragraphs":1488,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1492,"questions":1529,"slug":1545,"source":13,"stem":1546,"summary":1547,"__hash__":1548},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--protect-the-local-economy.json","Protect the Local Economy",[1466],{"label":1467,"url":1468,"publisher":531,"checkedAt":397},"Commercial Tenancy Act","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\u002Fcivix\u002Fdocument\u002Fid\u002Fcomplete\u002Fstatreg\u002F96057_01",[1470,1474,1477,1480],{"value":1471,"label":1472,"page":1473},"almost 3000","Local businesses the platform says have closed in Vancouver since 2020",15,{"value":1475,"label":1476,"page":1473},"18%","Share of those closures the platform says were due to landlord or lease issues",{"value":1478,"label":1479,"page":1473},"10.2%","Vancouver's storefront vacancy rate in 2025, according to the platform",{"value":1481,"label":1482,"page":1473},"5 to 7%","Storefront vacancy rate the platform calls normal","COPE on small business: Buy Vancouver, a Local Business Office, affordable storefronts",[1043],{},"3",{"from":1473,"to":1473},[1489,1490,1491],"COPE's economy chapter is aimed at local shops, restaurants and co-ops. The platform says almost 3000 local businesses have closed in Vancouver since 2020, that 18% of those closures were caused by landlord or lease problems, and that the storefront vacancy rate was 10.2% in 2025. The party would protect local businesses and, in its words, take on the big business oligopolies that threaten them.","Its main tools are city purchasing, city space and city rules. A Buy Vancouver policy would favour local producers when the city buys goods, which COPE says would also protect against US tariffs. New buildings would have to include a mix of shop sizes, and city-owned commercial space would be offered at affordable rents to social enterprises and co-ops. A Vancouver Local Business Office would help small businesses with permits and rules.","Council licenses businesses, sets permit fees and zones commercial land, so it could act on most of this chapter. Commercial leases are different: they fall under BC's Commercial Tenancy Act, a provincial law. COPE says it would push for standard leases, landlord duties and limits on rent hikes, which the city can only ask the Province to make. The party would also bring back the Community Benefits Agreement policy, which asks developers to create local jobs.",[1493,1497,1501,1505,1509,1513,1517,1521,1525],{"title":1494,"detail":1495,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1496},"A Buy Vancouver policy","COPE would introduce a Buy Vancouver policy that gives priority to local producers in city purchasing, supports a circular economy in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, builds resilience against US tariffs and creates jobs.","Council sets the purchasing rules for the city's own spending.",{"title":1498,"detail":1499,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1500},"Protect local shops and restaurants","The party would protect local shops and restaurants and take on the big business oligopolies it says threaten their ability to operate.","The platform does not name the tools. Council issues business licences, sets fees and zones commercial land.",{"title":1502,"detail":1503,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1504},"Support right-sized retail","COPE would require a mix of commercial unit sizes in new developments, limit oversized street-front shops on key corridors, and use zoning, incentives and city-owned land to create more affordable storefronts for local businesses, independent retailers, social enterprises and co-ops.","Council sets zoning and the conditions on new developments, and controls city-owned land.",{"title":1506,"detail":1507,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1508},"Affordable city-owned commercial space","The party would offer affordable city-owned commercial spaces to social enterprises, co-ops and sharing economy projects.","Council decides how city-owned property is leased.",{"title":1510,"detail":1511,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1512},"A Vancouver Local Business Office","COPE would create a Vancouver Local Business Office to help small businesses with permits, rules and resources.","Council decides which offices the city runs.",{"title":1514,"detail":1515,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1516},"Support worker co-ops","The party would support new and existing worker co-ops with waived fees, faster permits and city support.","Council sets city fees and controls the permit process.",{"title":1518,"detail":1519,"page":1473,"authority":1383,"authorityNote":1520},"Push for changes to commercial tenancy agreements","COPE would push for standard leases and negotiation rules, clear landlord responsibilities, and protection from rent hikes that it says ruin small and local businesses.","Commercial leases in BC fall under the provincial Commercial Tenancy Act, so the city can only press for change.",{"title":1522,"detail":1523,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1524},"Business licence reforms for start-ups","The party would reform business licences to make it easier for start-ups to begin, including letting businesses with different licence requirements share space and save on rent.","Council issues business licences and sets their rules.",{"title":1526,"detail":1527,"page":1473,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1528},"Reinstate the Community Benefits Agreement policy","COPE would bring back the Community Benefits Agreement policy so that developers create local jobs, support the local economy and give back to the communities they profit from.","Council sets the conditions it attaches to large developments.",[1530,1533,1536,1539,1542],{"question":1531,"answer":1532},"What is COPE's Buy Vancouver policy?","COPE would give priority to local producers when the City of Vancouver buys goods and services. The party says this would support a circular economy, build resilience against US tariffs and create jobs (platform, page 15).",{"question":1534,"answer":1535},"How would COPE help small businesses in Vancouver?","COPE would create a Vancouver Local Business Office to help with permits and rules, offer affordable city-owned commercial space, require a mix of shop sizes in new buildings and reform business licences so start-ups can share space (platform, page 15).",{"question":1537,"answer":1538},"Can Vancouver City Council cap commercial rents?","COPE says it would push for changes to commercial leases, including standard leases and limits on rent hikes. Commercial leases fall under BC's Commercial Tenancy Act, a provincial law, so the city can only press for change (platform, page 15).",{"question":1540,"answer":1541},"What does COPE say about storefront vacancies?","The platform says Vancouver's storefront vacancy rate was 10.2% in 2025 and calls 5 to 7% normal. COPE would use zoning, incentives and city-owned land to create more affordable storefronts (platform, page 15).",{"question":1543,"answer":1544},"Does COPE support worker co-ops?","Yes. COPE would support new and existing worker co-ops with waived fees, faster permits and city support, and offer them affordable city-owned commercial space (platform, page 15).","protect-the-local-economy","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--protect-the-local-economy","COPE would bring in a Buy Vancouver policy for city purchasing, create a Vancouver Local Business Office, and use zoning and city-owned land to create affordable storefronts. It would also reinstate the Community Benefits Agreement policy and press for fairer commercial leases.","I-5YP2LbtdqxH1nAvRDuJvaOj0ikm5wHd8fzipX1Dk8",{"id":1550,"title":1551,"checkedAt":397,"context":1552,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":1555,"headline":1568,"issues":1569,"meta":1570,"order":1571,"pages":1572,"paragraphs":1573,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":1577,"questions":1605,"slug":1624,"source":13,"stem":1625,"summary":1626,"__hash__":1627},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--take-democracy-back-from-the-billionaires.json","Take Democracy Back from the Billionaires",[1553,1554],{"label":529,"url":530,"publisher":531,"checkedAt":397},{"label":490,"url":392,"publisher":385,"checkedAt":397},[1556,1559,1562,1565],{"value":1557,"label":1558,"page":496},"2030","First election in which COPE wants a ranked ballot for mayor",{"value":1560,"label":1561,"page":496},"$25","Value of the Democracy Dollars voucher a resident could request",{"value":1563,"label":1564,"page":496},"16","Voting age COPE wants",{"value":1566,"label":1567,"page":496},"36.66%","Share of total votes across Council, School Board and Park Board that the platform's chart gives ABC in 2022","COPE on elections: ranked ballots for mayor, votes at 16, Democracy Dollars",[985],{},"11",{"from":496,"to":496},[1574,1575,1576],"COPE's last chapter is about how Vancouver elects its government. The party says that in 2022 ABC won less than 37% of all votes cast across Council, School Board and Park Board but took a majority on every board. Its answer is a new voting system. COPE says it secured a promise from the progressive parties to fight for a ranked ballot for mayor, like those used in New York and San Francisco, starting in 2030.","Over the longer term, COPE wants proportional representation with wards, where each part of the city elects several members in proportion to the votes. Its members have endorsed the model used in Portland, Oregon. The party would convene a citizens assembly, a group of residents brought together to study the question, to design a model for Vancouver. It would also give every resident the vote, including permanent residents and anyone over 16, and end voting by property owners who live elsewhere.","COPE would start a Democracy Dollars program, based on one in Seattle, where residents can ask for a $25 voucher of public money to give to a party or candidate. It would make transit free on election days and add polling stations, mobile voting and accessible options. Who may vote is set in the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law: today a voter must be 18 and a Canadian citizen. Campaign money is governed by the provincial Local Elections Campaign Financing Act. These changes would need the Province.",[1578,1582,1586,1590,1593,1597,1601],{"title":1579,"detail":1580,"page":496,"authority":1383,"authorityNote":1581},"A ranked ballot for mayor, starting in 2030","COPE says it secured a commitment from all progressive parties to fight for a ranked ballot for mayor, like in New York and San Francisco, starting in 2030. It would push the provincial government to give cities full control over their own electoral systems.","Vancouver's election rules are set in the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law that only the Province can change.",{"title":1583,"detail":1584,"page":496,"authority":650,"authorityNote":1585},"Use public tools to engage residents","The party would oppose what it calls the erosion of democracy in the era of Trump. In place of abolishing the elected Park Board, or cutting community engagement tools without suitable replacements, it would use advisory committees, public hearings, citizens assemblies, participatory budgeting and referendums.","Council sets up its own advisory committees and public consultation.",{"title":1587,"detail":1588,"page":496,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1589},"A Democracy Dollars program","COPE would create a Democracy Dollars program, based on one in Seattle, Washington, where residents can request a $25 voucher from public funds to give to local political parties or candidates.","Campaign money in BC local elections is governed by the provincial Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, so the program would have to fit that law or the Province would have to change it.",{"title":1591,"detail":1592,"page":496,"authority":1383,"authorityNote":1581},"Proportional representation, ranked ballots and wards","The party would fight for an electoral system that balances regional representation, proportionality and voter expression. COPE members have endorsed the model used in Portland, Oregon, with multi-member wards in a proportional system.",{"title":1594,"detail":1595,"page":496,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1596},"A citizens assembly on electoral reform","COPE would convene a citizens assembly to produce a model for Vancouver's elections, saying residents should have the final say on the electoral system.","Council can set up a citizens assembly, but any new voting system it proposes would need the Province to change the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":1598,"detail":1599,"page":496,"authority":1383,"authorityNote":1600},"Votes for all residents at 16, and an end to non-resident voting","The party would expand the right to vote to all residents, including permanent residents and everyone above the age of 16, and end voting by property owners who do not live in Vancouver.","The Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, says a voter must be 18 and a Canadian citizen, and allows non-resident property owners to vote. Only the Province can change it.",{"title":1602,"detail":1603,"page":496,"authority":664,"authorityNote":1604},"Make it easier to vote","COPE would make transit free on election days and make sure there are enough polling stations, including mobile voting stations, and accessibility options for seniors and people with disabilities.","Free transit is a decision for TransLink, a regional body. The platform treats polling stations as a city task.",[1606,1609,1612,1615,1618,1621],{"question":1607,"answer":1608},"Does COPE support ranked ballots in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE says it secured a commitment from the progressive parties to fight for a ranked ballot for mayor starting in 2030. Vancouver's election rules are set in the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, so the Province would have to agree (platform, page 26).",{"question":1610,"answer":1611},"Does COPE want to lower the voting age to 16 in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would expand the right to vote to all residents, including permanent residents and everyone above 16. Today the Vancouver Charter requires a voter to be 18 and a Canadian citizen, and only the Province can change it (platform, page 26).",{"question":1613,"answer":1614},"What are COPE's Democracy Dollars?","COPE would let residents request a $25 voucher from public funds to give to local political parties or candidates, based on a program in Seattle. Campaign money in BC local elections is governed by provincial law (platform, page 26).",{"question":1616,"answer":1617},"Does COPE want wards in Vancouver?","Yes. COPE would fight for proportional representation, ranked ballots and wards. Its members have endorsed the Portland, Oregon model of multi-member wards in a proportional system, and it would convene a citizens assembly to design a model for Vancouver (platform, page 26).",{"question":1619,"answer":1620},"Why does COPE want to change how Vancouver votes?","The platform says ABC received less than 37% of total votes across Council, School Board and Park Board in 2022 but won a majority on every board. COPE says residents should have the final say on the electoral system (platform, page 26).",{"question":1622,"answer":1623},"Would COPE end non-resident property owner voting?","Yes. COPE would end voting by property owners who do not live in Vancouver while giving the vote to permanent residents. The Vancouver Charter now lets non-resident property owners vote, and only the Province can change it (platform, page 26).","take-democracy-back-from-the-billionaires","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--take-democracy-back-from-the-billionaires","COPE would push for a ranked ballot for mayor starting in 2030, proportional representation with wards, and voting rights for permanent residents and everyone over 16. It would create $25 Democracy Dollars vouchers and convene a citizens assembly on electoral reform.","J8M2OrxDxcJ2aJ4zkLjq43yTv1PjStdL4CGAB0TgCnA",[1629,1638,1647,1655,1661,1669,1675,1683,1690,1696,1704,1710,1716,1722,1728,1734,1742,1748,1754,1762,1770,1776,1782,1788,1794,1800,1806,1812,1816,1822,1829,1835,1841,1847,1853,1859,1865,1873,1879,1885,1890,1896,1902,1908,1914,1920,1926,1932,1939,1945,1951,1956,1962,1968,1974,1979,1985,1991,1997,2003,2009,2015,2021,2028,2034,2040,2046,2053,2059,2066,2072,2078,2083,2089,2094,2100,2106,2112,2118,2124,2130,2136,2142,2148,2153,2159,2165,2172,2178,2184,2189,2195,2200,2206,2212,2217,2222,2228,2233,2239,2245,2250,2256,2262,2267,2272,2277,2282,2288,2294,2300,2306,2312,2318,2324,2330,2336,2342,2348,2353,2359,2365,2371,2376,2382,2388,2394,2400,2406],{"slug":1630,"name":1631,"office":1632,"ballotNumber":1633,"currentRole":13,"headline":1634,"sample":17,"party":1635},"alex-tkach","Alex Tkach","Park Board","225","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 225.",{"name":1636,"url":1637},"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002F",{"slug":1639,"name":1640,"office":535,"ballotNumber":1641,"currentRole":1642,"headline":1643,"sample":17,"party":1644},"alfred-chien","Alfred Chien (錢育廷)","305","Vancouver School Board trustee","Seeking re-election as Vancouver School Board trustee.",{"name":1645,"url":1646},"ABC Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1648,"name":1649,"office":535,"ballotNumber":1650,"currentRole":13,"headline":1651,"sample":17,"party":1652},"alisha-masongsong","Alisha Masongsong","303","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 303.",{"name":1653,"url":1654},"Green Party of Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F",{"slug":1656,"name":1657,"office":1632,"ballotNumber":1658,"currentRole":13,"headline":1659,"sample":17,"party":1660},"allan-fawley","Allan Fawley","201","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 201.",{"name":1636,"url":1637},{"slug":1662,"name":1663,"office":1632,"ballotNumber":1664,"currentRole":13,"headline":1665,"sample":17,"party":1666},"amanda-bains","Amanda Bains","221","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 221.",{"name":1667,"url":1668},"Vancouver Liberals","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002F",{"slug":1670,"name":1671,"office":417,"ballotNumber":1672,"currentRole":13,"headline":1673,"sample":17,"party":1674},"amanda-boggan","Amanda Boggan","110","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 110.",{"name":1636,"url":1637},{"slug":1676,"name":1677,"office":535,"ballotNumber":1678,"currentRole":13,"headline":1679,"sample":17,"party":1680},"amarys-joseph","Amarys Joseph","319","Vote Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 319.",{"name":1681,"url":1682},"Vote 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