[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1561},["ShallowReactive",2],{"party-cope":3,"platform-cope-2026-platform":401,"platform-chapter-cope-2026-platform-fight-for-vancouver-fight-for-a-just-vancouver":596,"platform-outline-cope-2026-platform":679,"party-roster-COPE":777},{"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",{"id":597,"title":598,"checkedAt":397,"context":599,"document":589,"extension":12,"figures":600,"headline":605,"issues":606,"meta":609,"order":610,"pages":611,"paragraphs":612,"party":368,"pillar":492,"proposals":617,"questions":656,"slug":675,"source":13,"stem":676,"summary":677,"__hash__":678},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fcope\u002Ffight-for-vancouver--fight-for-a-just-vancouver.json","Fight for a Just Vancouver",[],[601],{"value":602,"label":603,"page":604},"$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",[231,607,608],"economy","governance",{},"10",{"from":604,"to":604},[613,614,615,616],"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.",[618,623,628,632,636,640,644,648,652],{"title":619,"detail":620,"page":604,"authority":621,"authorityNote":622},"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.","city-with-others","Council sets the property tax rate, but new taxing powers would have to come from the Province, which writes the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":624,"detail":625,"page":604,"authority":626,"authorityNote":627},"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.","city-council","Council sets pay and contract rules for the city's own workforce.",{"title":629,"detail":630,"page":604,"authority":621,"authorityNote":631},"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":633,"detail":634,"page":604,"authority":626,"authorityNote":635},"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":637,"detail":638,"page":604,"authority":626,"authorityNote":639},"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":641,"detail":642,"page":604,"authority":621,"authorityNote":643},"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":645,"detail":646,"page":604,"authority":626,"authorityNote":647},"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":649,"detail":650,"page":604,"authority":626,"authorityNote":651},"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":653,"detail":654,"page":604,"authority":626,"authorityNote":655},"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.",[657,660,663,666,669,672],{"question":658,"answer":659},"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":661,"answer":662},"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":664,"answer":665},"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":667,"answer":668},"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":670,"answer":671},"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":673,"answer":674},"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. 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