[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":5512},["ShallowReactive",2],{"party-vancouver-liberals":3,"platform-vancouver-liberals-2026-platform":367,"platform-chapters-vancouver-liberals-2026-platform-all":582,"party-roster-Vancouver Liberals":1382,"parties-all":2165,"platforms-all":5499},{"id":4,"aliases":5,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":17,"history":18,"leadership":28,"logo":34,"meta":35,"money":36,"name":51,"news":52,"overview":58,"palette":63,"platform":68,"questions":280,"record":319,"registeredName":325,"rosterLabel":51,"slug":326,"sources":327,"stem":364,"summary":365,"website":330,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":366},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvancouver-liberals.json",[],"2026-09-26",{"hex":8,"note":9,"cites":10},"#d53f31","Read from the party website on September 22, 2026.",[11],"liberals-home","json",{"year":14,"note":15,"cites":16},2025,"Stated on the party website. We have not checked this against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[11],"A party founded in 2025, running the second-largest slate",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":22,"gaps":25,"entries":27},"unresearched",false,"2026-09-22",[23,24],"The party website","A web search for the party name with past Vancouver election results",[26],"Founding, past results and any name changes have not been checked for this party yet.",[],[29],{"role":30,"name":31,"cites":32},"Mayoral candidate","Kareem Allam",[11,33],"city-candidates",null,{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":38,"gaps":41,"searchUrl":43,"filings":44,"notes":45},"researched",[39,40],"The Elections BC local elections disclosure system","The Elections BC elector organization reporting rules",[42],"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",[],[46,47,48,49,50],"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.","Vancouver Liberals",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":53,"gaps":55,"entries":57},[54],"A web search for the party name, September 2026",[56],"No dated coverage index has been compiled for this party yet.",[],[59,60,61,62],"The Vancouver Liberals are running 19 candidates: Kareem Allam for mayor at ballot number 56, 7 for City Council, 6 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. Only ABC is running more.","The party site gives its registered name as the Vancouver Liberal Electors Association and its founding year as 2025, which makes it the newest party running a large slate.","Kareem Allam is described in our candidate records as a political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff.","Its most distinctive commitment is abolishing the Vancouver Building Code and adopting the provincial one instead, which is the opposite of the Green Party position.",{"accent":64,"onAccent":65,"tint":66,"ink":67},"#D43B2D","#FFFFFF","#F7E5E3","#7A261F",[69,95,120,141,156,200,216,238,251,271],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":71,"proposals":75,"questions":81,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":88,"gaps":90,"headline":93,"summary":94},"housing",[72,73,74],"This is one of the sharpest single splits on the 2026 ballot, and it turns on a power only Vancouver has.","Under the Vancouver Charter, Vancouver writes its own building rules. Every other municipality in British Columbia follows the provincial code. The Liberals would give that power up.","The argument for giving it up is that one code across the province is simpler and cheaper for builders. The argument against, which the Green Party makes, is that the local code is what lets Vancouver set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings.",[76],{"title":77,"detail":78,"cites":79,"authority":80},"Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code","The party commits to \"eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and just adopt the BC Building Code\".",[11],"Council holds this power under the Vancouver Charter and can choose to align with the provincial code.",[82],{"question":83,"answer":84,"cites":85},"What would change if Vancouver dropped its own building code?","Builders would follow the same rules here as in the rest of British Columbia, which is simpler for anyone building in more than one city. Vancouver would also lose the power to set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings, because that power comes from having its own code.",[11,86],"green-housing-x",true,[89],"The Vancouver Liberals home page",[91,92],"No housing supply target is published.","No affordable or rental housing commitment is published.","Abolish the Vancouver Building Code","The Vancouver Liberals would eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code instead.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":97,"proposals":100,"questions":111,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":112,"gaps":117,"headline":119},"homelessness",[98,99],"The party's homelessness position mirrors a citywide ban it opposes: it would reverse the prohibition on new supportive housing construction.","It ties this to a second, more specific commitment: requiring 24-hour public washrooms and showers in every new supportive housing project.",[101,107],{"title":102,"detail":103,"cites":104,"authority":106},"Reverse the ban on new supportive housing","On its first day, the party would reverse what it calls a ban on all new supportive housing construction in the city, to serve seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.",[105],"vl-issues","Approving supportive housing is a City land use and permitting decision.",{"title":108,"detail":109,"cites":110},"Require public washrooms and showers in new supportive housing","Every new supportive housing project in the city would be required to include 24-hour public washrooms and showers for people who are unhoused.",[105],[],[113,114,115,116],"The party's Issues page at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002Fissues","The party's dedicated Parks and Recreation plan PDF, linked from that page","The party website home page","The City of Vancouver official candidate list",[118],"No cost or date is given for either commitment beyond \"day one\" for the ban reversal.","Reverse the ban on new supportive housing, and require public washrooms in it",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":122,"proposals":125,"questions":136,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":137,"gaps":138,"headline":139,"summary":140},"public-safety",[123,124],"The Liberals are the only party on this ballot publishing a commitment on money laundering and Bitcoin ATMs.","They would also create a Firefighter Safety and Deployment Board, which is a new body rather than a change to an existing one.",[126,131],{"title":127,"detail":128,"cites":129,"authority":130},"Crack down on Bitcoin ATMs and money laundering","The party commits to \"crack down on Bitcoin ATMs, money laundering, and other root causes of crime\".",[11],"Money laundering enforcement is largely federal and provincial. The city licenses businesses.",{"title":132,"detail":133,"cites":134,"cost":135},"Increase long-term firefighter funding","The party would increase long-term funding for firefighters and create a Firefighter Safety and Deployment Board.",[11],"Not published",[],[89],[],"Crack down on money laundering and Bitcoin ATMs","The Vancouver Liberals would target Bitcoin ATMs, money laundering and what they call the root causes of crime, and increase long-term funding for firefighters.",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":143,"proposals":145,"questions":150,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":151,"gaps":152,"headline":147,"summary":155},"transport",[144],"The party has published no transit, cycling or street design commitment. Road maintenance appears only inside the front-line hiring commitment.",[146],{"title":147,"detail":148,"cites":149},"Road maintenance through new front-line staff","Road maintenance is named as one of the services the 400 new front-line unionized staff would improve.",[11],[],[89],[153,154],"No transit commitment is published.","No cycling or road safety commitment is published.","Road maintenance appears as one of the services the Vancouver Liberals’ 400 new front-line staff would improve. No transit or cycling commitment is published.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":158,"proposals":161,"questions":194,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":195,"gaps":196,"headline":198,"summary":199},"parks",[159,160],"The party publishes a dedicated Parks and Recreation plan, separate from its main issues page, that commits to keeping the Park Board elected and independent and gives it a bigger, steadier share of the City budget.","It also promises a $1.35 billion investment across parks, recreation and pools, and specific facility positions: 50-metre pools at the Aquatic Centre, removing parking meters at beaches and community centres, and an auditor general review of the PNE.",[162,168,173,177,182,186,190],{"title":163,"detail":164,"cites":165,"authority":167},"Keep the Park Board elected and reverse the move to abolish it","The party would fight efforts to remove the elected Park Board and repeal Council's motion calling for its abolition.",[166],"vl-parkplan","Only the province can abolish the Park Board by amending the Vancouver Charter. Council can withdraw its own request to the province.",{"title":169,"detail":170,"cites":171,"cost":172},"Create a Joint Budget Advisory Committee and restore funding to 9% of the city budget","A committee of Park Board commissioners, city councillors and both bodies' senior finance staff would guide the annual budget cycle, aiming to restore Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the total city budget within four years, with a three-year rolling budget framework.",[166],"A four-year path from 7.9% to 9% of the city's total budget",{"title":174,"detail":175,"cites":176},"Return facility management authority to the Park Board","The party would repeal the centralized facilities-management structure it says excludes the Park Board, restoring the Board's direct control of maintenance and capital planning for its own facilities.",[166],{"title":178,"detail":179,"cites":180,"cost":181},"A capital renewal plan for community centres","Each capital cycle would aim to build one new community centre and renew three more, following the existing Community Centre Strategy, with a $1.35 billion investment across parks, recreation and pools.",[105],"$1.35 billion",{"title":183,"detail":184,"cites":185},"50-metre pools at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre","The party opposes replacing the Aquatic Centre's 50-metre pool with a 25-metre pool.",[105],{"title":187,"detail":188,"cites":189},"Remove parking meters at beaches and community centres","The party would remove parking meters recently added at beaches and community centres.",[105],{"title":191,"detail":192,"cites":193},"An auditor general investigation into the PNE","The party calls for an investigation into cost overruns and operating deficits at the Pacific National Exhibition.",[105],[],[113,114,115,116],[197],"Most items name no specific dollar figure beyond the $1.35 billion total and the 7.9 to 9 percent target, and no completion date beyond the four-year budget goal.","Keep the elected Park Board, a Joint Budget Committee, and a capital renewal plan","Parks appear in the Vancouver Liberals’ published commitments as one of the services the 400 new front-line staff would improve.",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":202,"proposals":205,"questions":211,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":212,"gaps":213,"headline":214,"summary":215},"schools",[203,204],"The School Liaison Officer programme places police officers in schools. It has been ended and restarted in Vancouver in recent years and is one of the clearest dividing lines in the School Board race.","The party is running five School Board candidates.",[206],{"title":207,"detail":208,"cites":209,"authority":210},"Continue and evolve the School Liaison Officer programme","The party commits to supporting \"the continuance and evolution of the School Liaison Officer program\".",[11],"The Board of Education decides whether the programme runs in Vancouver schools.",[],[89],[],"Keep the School Liaison Officer programme","The Vancouver Liberals support continuing and evolving the School Liaison Officer programme, which places police officers in schools.",{"issue":217,"paragraphs":218,"proposals":222,"questions":233,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":234,"gaps":235,"headline":236,"summary":237},"taxes-and-budget",[219,220,221],"These two commitments sit together because one is a saving and the other is a cost, and the party has published a figure for the saving but not for the hiring.","The 400 staff would work on garbage pickup, road maintenance and parks and recreation facilities. The party has not published what they would cost.","The $800 million figure and the name \"Second City Hall\" are the party’s own description of the project. We have not checked it against the city capital plan.",[223,229],{"title":224,"detail":225,"cites":226,"cost":227,"authority":228},"Cancel the $800 million second city hall","The party commits to cancelling what it calls the \"$800-Million Second City Hall\" project.",[11],"$800 million, as described by the party","Council approves capital projects.",{"title":230,"detail":231,"cites":232,"cost":135},"Hire 400 new front-line unionized staff","The 400 staff would improve garbage pickup, road maintenance and parks and recreation facilities.",[11],[],[89],[],"Cancel the $800 million second city hall and hire 400 staff","The Vancouver Liberals would cancel an $800 million project they call the \"Second City Hall\" and hire 400 new front-line unionized staff.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":240,"proposals":242,"questions":247,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":248,"gaps":249,"headline":244},"climate",[241],"The party's one climate-specific position is about the shrinking tree canopy, stated as a problem with no measure yet attached.",[243],{"title":244,"detail":245,"cites":246},"A tree canopy strategy","The party says Vancouver's tree canopy is shrinking, driving up electricity use and worsening air quality and livability, and commits to a tree canopy strategy, without stating a canopy target or a date.",[105],[],[113,114,115,116],[250],"No target percentage, cost or date is given for the strategy.",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":253,"proposals":256,"questions":266,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":267,"gaps":268,"headline":270},"culture",[254,255],"The party's clearest culture commitment is a reserved-land program for artists, cutting their property taxes in half.","It also promises to lower festival organizers' policing fees, tying this to affordability for community events.",[257,262],{"title":258,"detail":259,"cites":260,"cost":261},"An Artist Land Reserve in four locations","The party would establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, providing studio space and cutting property taxes in half for artists and creatives there.",[105],"Property tax cut in half for participating artists; no total program cost published",{"title":263,"detail":264,"cites":265},"Lower policing fees for festivals","The party would find a way to make policing more affordable for community events and festivals, after what it says have been rising fees under the current Council.",[105],[],[113,114,115,116],[269],"No dollar figure is given for the tax cut's cost to the city, and no date is set for either commitment.","An Artist Land Reserve, and cheaper festival policing fees",{"issue":272,"paragraphs":273,"proposals":274,"questions":275,"state":276,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":6,"searched":277,"gaps":278},"child-care",[],[],[],"none-published",[113,114,115,116],[279],"No child care commitment appears anywhere on the party's issues page or its linked plan documents.",[281,285,289,293,297,301,305,309,313],{"question":282,"answer":283,"cites":284},"Who leads the Vancouver Liberals?","Kareem Allam is the mayoral candidate, at ballot number 56. Our candidate records describe him as a political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff.",[11,33],{"question":286,"answer":287,"cites":288},"How many candidates are they running?","19: Kareem Allam for mayor, 7 for City Council, 6 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. That is the second-largest slate on the ballot after ABC.",[33],{"question":290,"answer":291,"cites":292},"When was the party founded?","Its website states 2025. We have not checked that against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[11],{"question":294,"answer":295,"cites":296},"What is their most distinctive commitment?","Eliminating the Vancouver Building Code and adopting the provincial one instead. Vancouver is the only BC city with its own building code, and the Green Party would keep it. This is one of the sharpest splits on the ballot.",[11,86],{"question":298,"answer":299,"cites":300},"What would the 400 new staff do?","Garbage pickup, road maintenance, and parks and recreation facilities. They would be unionized front-line staff. The party has not published what they would cost.",[11],{"question":302,"answer":303,"cites":304},"What is the \"Second City Hall\" they would cancel?","The party describes an $800 million project by that name and commits to cancelling it. The name and the figure are the party’s own description, and we have not checked them against the city capital plan.",[11],{"question":306,"answer":307,"cites":308},"Where do they stand on police in schools?","They support continuing and evolving the School Liaison Officer programme, which places police officers in schools. The Board of Education decides whether it runs.",[11],{"question":310,"answer":311,"cites":312},"Do they have a published housing supply plan?","No. The one published commitment touching housing is abolishing the Vancouver Building Code. We found no supply target, affordability commitment or rental policy on September 22, 2026.",[11],{"question":314,"answer":315,"cites":316},"Where can I see their campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027.",[317,318],"ebc-search","ebc-org",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":320,"gaps":322,"entries":324},[23,321],"The City of Vancouver council and board decision records",[323],"No decision, vote or funded-work record has been checked for this party yet.",[],"Vancouver Liberal Electors Association","vancouver-liberals",[328,332,338,343,346,349,353,356,359],{"id":11,"label":329,"url":330,"publisher":51,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Vancouver Liberals home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002F","subject",{"id":86,"label":333,"url":334,"publisher":335,"kind":336,"publishedAt":337,"checkedAt":21},"Pete Fry unveils Green Party of Vancouver housing plan","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Fpete-fry-green-party-vancouver-housing","Daily Hive","news","2026-09-16",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"Who is running: official 2026 candidate list","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002F2026-candidate-information.aspx","City of Vancouver","government",{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"Local elections disclosure statement search","Elections BC",{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"Elector organizations: registration and financial reporting duties","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Felector-organizations\u002F",{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"ebc-contrib","Making a campaign contribution","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Fmaking-a-campaign-contribution\u002F",{"id":105,"label":354,"url":355,"publisher":51,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"Kareem's Plan for a Better Vancouver (Issues page)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002Fissues",{"id":166,"label":357,"url":358,"publisher":51,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"Vancouver Liberals: Our Plan for Parks and Recreation Facilities (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Fassets.nationbuilder.com\u002Fvancouverliberals\u002Fpages\u002F233\u002Fattachments\u002Foriginal\u002F1787255366\u002FVancouver_Liberals_Park_Plan.pdf?1787255366",{"id":360,"label":361,"url":362,"publisher":51,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"vl-ipv-policy","Vancouver Liberals: Intimate Partner Violence Policy (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Fassets.nationbuilder.com\u002Fvancouverliberals\u002Fpages\u002F233\u002Fattachments\u002Foriginal\u002F1789599508\u002FVancouver_Liberals_IPV_Policy.pdf?1789599508","2026-09-30","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvancouver-liberals","The Vancouver Liberals are running 19 candidates behind mayoral candidate Kareem Allam, the second-largest slate on the ballot. Their commitments include hiring 400 front-line staff and cancelling an $800 million city hall project.","LoE0qDMondKgLHT6NEJ0H2OwzNMRTCFMOYkf5qAkMts",{"id":368,"title":369,"checkedAt":363,"context":370,"corrections":371,"extension":12,"headline":372,"intro":373,"meta":377,"pageCount":34,"party":326,"pillars":378,"questions":552,"slug":574,"sourceId":105,"sourceIds":575,"stem":576,"summary":577,"tagline":578,"updatedAt":580,"url":355,"__hash__":581},"platforms\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatforms\u002Fvancouver-liberals.json","Kareem's Plan for a Better Vancouver",[],[],"The Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan for Vancouver, topic by topic",[374,375,376],"The Vancouver Liberals publish their 2026 platform as a web page called \"Kareem's Plan for a Better Vancouver,\" named for their mayoral candidate, Kareem Allam. The page says it was last updated on August 19, 2026, and that the party will add to it as it consults residents. It links to two short PDFs: a two-page plan for parks and recreation, and a one-page policy on intimate partner violence. The Vancouver Liberals are a municipal party, separate from the federal Liberal Party of Canada.","These pages follow the party's own topics: affordability and accountability, public safety, jobs and the economy, transit, health and the environment, and parks and recreation. Each topic is split into chapter pages that list every commitment in the party's words, with a link to the page or PDF it comes from. We added one thing the party does not give: which government would have to act for each commitment, and why.","Commitments covered here include hiring 400 unionized front-line city workers, cancelling what the party calls an $800 million second city hall, dropping the Vancouver Building Code, banning Bitcoin ATMs, making the SkyTrain to UBC the top transit priority, and keeping the elected Park Board with a larger share of the city budget.",{},[379,408,435,463,495,523],{"slug":380,"title":381,"race":382,"order":383,"aim":384,"headline":385,"summary":386,"intro":387,"questions":391,"context":407},"affordability-and-accountability","Affordability and Accountability","City Council",1,"The Vancouver Liberals believe Vancouver deserves leadership focused on accountability, affordability, public safety, and delivering results people can actually see in their communities.","Vancouver Liberals on City Hall: 400 workers, cancel a $800m building, ethics reform","Affordability and Accountability is the first topic in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan. It proposes 400 new front-line city workers, cancelling a $800 million second city hall, a yacht tax, dropping the Vancouver Building Code, a lobbyist registry and a citizens' assembly on wards.",[388,389,390],"The Vancouver Liberals open their issues page with Affordability and Accountability. The party says city services are getting worse while property taxes rise, and it blames Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver. It sets out its aim as leadership \"focused on accountability, affordability, public safety, and delivering results people can actually see in their communities.\"","The topic has two parts. The first is about spending and services: 400 unionized front-line workers, cancelling what the party calls an $800 million second city hall, a tax on yachts over 40 feet, a ban on foreign travel for councillors and staff, an audit of the halted Art Gallery project, and faster housing approvals through the provincial building code and a single approvals department. The second is about City Hall ethics: a lobbyist registry, cheaper freedom of information requests, a stronger Integrity Commissioner, cryptocurrency disclosure, and a citizens' assembly on electing councillors by ward.","Almost all of this sits with City Council, which sets the budget, the capital plan, its own rules and Vancouver's own building bylaw. The yacht tax and any change to the voting system touch the Vancouver Charter, which only the Province can change.",[392,395,398,401,404],{"question":393,"answer":394},"What are the Vancouver Liberals' main promises on city spending?","The Vancouver Liberals would hire 400 unionized front-line workers, cancel what they call Ken Sim's $800 million second city hall, ban foreign travel for councillors and staff, and tax yachts over 40 feet. They also call for an Auditor General investigation of the halted Art Gallery project (party issues page).",{"question":396,"answer":397},"What do the Vancouver Liberals propose for housing?","The Vancouver Liberals would drop the Vancouver Building Code and follow the BC Building Code, and merge the twelve departments they say approve new housing into one. Elsewhere they would reverse what they call a ban on supportive housing and build affordable housing in every part of the city (party issues page).",{"question":399,"answer":400},"What would the Vancouver Liberals change at City Hall?","The party would create a lobbyist registry, reduce freedom of information fees, review and strengthen the Integrity Commissioner's office and the Code of Conduct, and require politicians to disclose cryptocurrency. It would also set up a citizens' assembly on a ward system (party issues page).",{"question":402,"answer":403},"Why do the Vancouver Liberals say Vancouver needs a change?","The Vancouver Liberals say property taxes went up 26% under Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver while library hours were cut, the renters' office closed and services got worse. Those figures and claims are the party's own (party issues page).",{"question":405,"answer":406},"Can City Council deliver the Vancouver Liberals' accountability plan alone?","Most of it, yes. Council sets the budget, the capital plan and its own rules, and controls Vancouver's building bylaw. The Vancouver Charter sets which taxes the city may charge and creates the city's government, and only the Province can change it, which matters for the yacht tax and any move to wards.",[],{"slug":121,"title":409,"race":382,"order":410,"aim":411,"headline":412,"summary":413,"intro":414,"questions":418,"context":434},"Public Safety",2,"Vancouver needs stronger action against the financial networks enabling crime in our communities.","Vancouver Liberals on public safety: money laundering, firefighters and partner violence","Public Safety in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan targets money laundering through a Bitcoin ATM ban and the closing of unchecked currency exchanges. It also backs firefighters, a meth strategy and police liaison officers in schools, and declares intimate partner violence a crisis.",[415,416,417],"Public Safety is the second topic on the Vancouver Liberals' issues page, and its largest theme is money laundering. The party says crime money moves through Bitcoin ATMs, currency exchanges and payday loan shops, and it would ban or replace them. It states its aim as: \"Vancouver needs stronger action against the financial networks enabling crime in our communities.\"","The topic also covers firefighters, for whom the party would support staffing, long-term funding and open deployment planning; a long-term methamphetamine strategy for Vancouver and BC; and keeping the School Liaison Officer Program in schools. A one-page PDF adds the party's intimate partner violence policy, which would declare a public health and public safety crisis and work with the Vancouver Police Board on the police response.","Power over these items is spread out. Council approves the police and fire budgets and controls business licences. The Vancouver Police Board directs the police, the Board of Education runs schools, and criminal law, treatment and drug policy belong to the provincial and federal governments.",[419,422,425,428,431],{"question":420,"answer":421},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' public safety platform?","The Vancouver Liberals focus on money laundering, with a ban on Bitcoin ATMs and the phasing out of unchecked currency exchanges and payday loan shops. They also back firefighters, a meth strategy for BC, police liaison officers in schools, and a crisis declaration on intimate partner violence (party issues page).",{"question":423,"answer":424},"Do the Vancouver Liberals want more police?","The Vancouver Liberals' public safety section focuses on money laundering, firefighter funding, a meth strategy, the School Liaison Officer Program and the police response to intimate partner violence. It contains no commitment to hire more police officers (party issues page).",{"question":426,"answer":427},"Who controls the Vancouver police?","The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department, and Council approves the police budget. That is why the Vancouver Liberals say they would work with the Police Board on intimate partner violence (party intimate partner violence policy).",{"question":429,"answer":430},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about crypto and crime?","The Vancouver Liberals say Bitcoin is how international drug cartels move money in Vancouver. They would ban Bitcoin ATMs and stop ideas like heating city pools with bitcoin servers (party issues page).",{"question":432,"answer":433},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support police in schools?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals support keeping the School Liaison Officer Program in place. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, so the program's future in them is a board decision (party issues page).",[],{"slug":436,"title":437,"race":382,"order":438,"aim":439,"headline":440,"summary":441,"intro":442,"questions":446,"context":462},"jobs-and-economy","Jobs and Economy",3,"After years of rising taxes, growing frustration, and a City Hall that has lost its way, Vancouver Liberals are fighting for a new direction focused on affordability, accountability, public safety, jobs, and long-term growth.","Vancouver Liberals on jobs: industrial land, an Artist Land Reserve and CANZUK","Jobs and Economy in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan proposes an Industrial Land Reserve, an Artist Land Reserve in four places with property taxes cut in half, zoning that lets small businesses make and sell in one space, a CANZUK headquarters bid and no AI data centres in the city.",[443,444,445],"The Vancouver Liberals' Jobs and Economy topic starts from the claim that rising costs are pushing young people and creative workers out of Vancouver. The party describes its goal as \"a new direction focused on affordability, accountability, public safety, jobs, and long-term growth.\"","Its main tools are land and zoning. The party would create an Industrial Land Reserve to keep job space in the city, and an Artist Land Reserve in four locations with studios and property taxes cut in half. It would update old bylaws so that small businesses can make and sell goods in one space, and it says AI data centres do not belong on Vancouver's most expensive land. It would also promote Vancouver as home of a future CANZUK headquarters and follow the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on AI chatbot accounts for students.","Zoning, business licences and the property tax rate belong to City Council. An alliance between countries is a federal matter, and school decisions belong to the Board of Education.",[447,450,453,456,459],{"question":448,"answer":449},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' economic plan?","The Vancouver Liberals would create an Industrial Land Reserve and an Artist Land Reserve, change zoning so small businesses can make and sell goods in one space, and promote Vancouver as home of a CANZUK headquarters. They say these steps would bring young people back (party issues page).",{"question":451,"answer":452},"What do the Vancouver Liberals propose for artists?","The Vancouver Liberals would establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, with studios and property taxes cut in half. The party also says money from its yacht tax would fund property tax cuts for the creative sector (party issues page).",{"question":454,"answer":455},"Do the Vancouver Liberals want to protect industrial land?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals would set up an Industrial Land Reserve, with affordable housing around it. The party says Mayor Ken Sim plans to eliminate the city's remaining industrial land (party issues page).",{"question":457,"answer":458},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' position on AI?","The Vancouver Liberals say Canada needs its own AI data centres, but they would not approve them on Vancouver's expensive land, naming Mount Pleasant. For schools, they would align with the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on AI chatbot accounts for students (party issues page).",{"question":460,"answer":461},"Can Vancouver City Council create an Industrial Land Reserve?","Council zones commercial and industrial land under the Vancouver Charter, so the Vancouver Liberals' land reserves are city decisions. The CANZUK headquarters bid depends on national governments (party issues page).",[],{"slug":464,"title":465,"race":382,"order":466,"aim":467,"headline":468,"summary":469,"intro":470,"questions":474,"context":490},"transit-and-transportation","Transit and Transportation",4,"Completing the UBC SkyTrain extension will connect Western Canada’s largest research centre with Western Canada’s largest employment hub, improving mobility for students, workers, and families.","Vancouver Liberals on transit: SkyTrain to UBC, construction relief, Terry Fox airport","Transit and Transportation in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan makes finishing the SkyTrain to UBC the party's top transportation priority. It adds a 50% property tax cut for businesses hit by station construction, incentives for landlords to lower rent, and renaming YVR after Terry Fox.",[471,472,473],"The Vancouver Liberals' transit topic centres on the SkyTrain line to UBC. The party says stopping the line at Arbutus is no longer practical, and it would make finishing it to UBC its top transportation priority. The topic opens with the party's case that the line \"will connect Western Canada’s largest research centre with Western Canada’s largest employment hub.\"","The party also wants to protect businesses near new stations. It would cut their property taxes by 50% for as long as construction lasts and offer incentives to commercial landlords who lower their rent. The last item proposes renaming YVR as Terry Fox International Airport.","TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs SkyTrain, so the city can push for the line and plan its streets around it. Property taxes are set by Council. The airport is owned by the federal government through Transport Canada, so the city can only ask for a new name.",[475,478,481,484,487],{"question":476,"answer":477},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' transit plan?","The Vancouver Liberals would make finishing the SkyTrain to UBC their top transportation priority, cut property taxes 50% for businesses affected by station construction, and offer incentives to landlords who lower their rent. They also propose renaming YVR as Terry Fox International Airport (party issues page).",{"question":479,"answer":480},"Where do the Vancouver Liberals stand on the UBC SkyTrain?","The Vancouver Liberals support finishing the SkyTrain line to UBC and call it their top transportation priority. The party says transit to UBC has been over capacity for years (party issues page).",{"question":482,"answer":483},"Do the Vancouver Liberals have a cycling plan?","The Vancouver Liberals' transit topic has no commitment on bike lanes or street design. It covers the SkyTrain to UBC, support for businesses near construction and renaming YVR (party issues page).",{"question":485,"answer":486},"Who decides whether SkyTrain reaches UBC?","TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs SkyTrain. The Vancouver Liberals' priority on the UBC line means the city would press for it and plan its streets around it.",{"question":488,"answer":489},"Why do the Vancouver Liberals want to rename Vancouver's airport?","The Vancouver Liberals propose renaming YVR as Terry Fox International Airport in recognition of Terry Fox's legacy, and say great cities honour their greatest people. Transport Canada owns the airport, so the city can only ask (party issues page).",[491],{"label":492,"url":493,"publisher":494,"checkedAt":363},"List of airports owned by Transport Canada and leased to airport authorities","https:\u002F\u002Ftc.canada.ca\u002Fen\u002Faviation\u002Foperating-airports-aerodromes\u002Flist-airports-owned-transport-canada","Transport Canada",{"slug":496,"title":497,"race":382,"order":498,"aim":499,"headline":500,"summary":501,"intro":502,"questions":506,"context":522},"health-and-environment","Health and Environment",5,"Our city streets and parks are covered with animal and human poop, a clear sign of how City Hall is failing to do its basic job.","Vancouver Liberals on health: washrooms, supportive housing, clinics and rats","Health and Environment in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan proposes new public washrooms, 24-hour bathrooms and showers in new supportive housing, reversing what the party calls a supportive housing ban, half property tax for clinics, Downtown Eastside Wi-Fi, a rat panel and more recycling depots.",[503,504,505],"The Vancouver Liberals' Health and Environment topic opens with the state of the streets. The party says streets and parks are covered with animal and human waste, and that Vancouver has the fewest public bathrooms of any major city in North America. Its answer is new public washrooms across the city, and a rule that every new supportive housing project include public bathrooms and showers open 24 hours a day.","The topic also covers housing and local services. The party would reverse on day one what it calls a ban on new supportive housing, cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics, help bring free public Wi-Fi to the Downtown Eastside, oppose cuts to the public library, form an expert panel on rats and open more recycling depots. It raises noise from loud vehicles and a shrinking tree canopy, but gives no action for either.","Council funds city facilities, sets the property tax rate and decides where supportive housing is approved, so most of these items are city decisions. Health services, treatment and drug policy belong to the Province and the federal government.",[507,510,513,516,519],{"question":508,"answer":509},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' health platform?","The Vancouver Liberals would build new public washrooms, require 24-hour public bathrooms and showers in new supportive housing, reverse what they call a supportive housing ban, and cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics (party issues page).",{"question":511,"answer":512},"How would the Vancouver Liberals help people find a family doctor?","The Vancouver Liberals would cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics in Vancouver, which they say would help practices stay open and draw new doctors. Doctor supply and health care funding are provincial and federal (party issues page).",{"question":514,"answer":515},"What do the Vancouver Liberals propose on the environment?","The Vancouver Liberals would open more recycling depots, starting where they are most needed, and say Vancouver recycles only 51% of its beverage containers. They name a tree canopy strategy but give no target or action for it (party issues page).",{"question":517,"answer":518},"What would the Vancouver Liberals do for the Downtown Eastside?","The Vancouver Liberals would work with Downtown Eastside organizations to help deploy free public Wi-Fi. They would also require public bathrooms and showers open 24 hours a day in new supportive housing (party issues page).",{"question":520,"answer":521},"Can City Council build more supportive housing in Vancouver?","Council decides where supportive housing is approved, so it can allow new projects and attach conditions, as the Vancouver Liberals propose. Health services and treatment come from the Province and the federal government (party issues page).",[],{"slug":524,"title":525,"race":526,"order":527,"aim":528,"headline":529,"summary":530,"intro":531,"questions":535,"context":551},"parks-and-recreation","Parks and Recreation","Park Board",6,"The Vancouver Liberals are committed to rebuilding a strong, independent, and well-supported Vancouver Park Board that has the tools, budget stability, and modern facilities needed to serve residents.","Vancouver Liberals on parks: keep the Park Board, 9% of the budget, $1.35B for pools","Parks and Recreation in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan keeps the Park Board elected, raises its funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city budget, returns facility control to it, aims for a new community centre each capital cycle, commits $1.35 billion and removes beach parking meters.",[532,533,534],"Parks and Recreation is the last topic on the Vancouver Liberals' issues page, and the party adds a two-page parks plan in PDF form. It describes its aim as \"rebuilding a strong, independent, and well-supported Vancouver Park Board that has the tools, budget stability, and modern facilities needed to serve residents.\"","The parks plan would keep the Park Board elected, repeal the Mayor's motion to abolish it, create a joint budget committee with Council, raise Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city budget in four years, and return control of recreation facilities to the board. It would aim to build one new community centre and renew three more in every capital cycle. The issues page adds a $1.35 billion investment in parks, recreation and pools, 50-metre pools at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, the removal of parking meters at beaches and community centres, an auditor general investigation of the PNE and cheaper policing for festivals.","Vancouver is the only major Canadian city with a separately elected park board. Its commissioners control parks, community centres, pools and beaches. Council approves the city budget and capital plan that pay for them, and only the Province can change the Vancouver Charter that creates the board.",[536,539,542,545,548],{"question":537,"answer":538},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' parks plan?","The Vancouver Liberals would keep the Park Board elected, raise its funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city budget in four years, give it back control of its facilities, and aim for one new and three renewed community centres each capital cycle. They also commit $1.35 billion to parks, recreation and pools (party park plan; party issues page).",{"question":540,"answer":541},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support the elected Park Board?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say the Park Board must stay elected and independent. They would fight efforts to remove it and repeal the Mayor's motion at City Council that called for its abolition (party park plan).",{"question":543,"answer":544},"What would the Vancouver Liberals do about parking at Vancouver beaches?","The Vancouver Liberals would remove every parking meter in front of beaches and community centres within their first year. The party says Mayor Ken Sim added hundreds of new meters at these sites (party issues page).",{"question":546,"answer":547},"Who are the Vancouver Liberals' Park Board candidates?","The Vancouver Liberals are running Amanda Bains, Amir Bajehkian, Mark Halyk, Scott Jensen, Shayla Bird and Tricia Barker for Park Board in the October 17, 2026 election.",{"question":549,"answer":550},"Can the Park Board raise its own budget?","Council approves the city's budget, which sets the Park Board's share. That is why the Vancouver Liberals propose a joint budget committee of commissioners and councillors and a goal of raising the board's share from 7.9% to 9% (party park plan).",[],[553,556,559,562,565,568,571],{"question":554,"answer":555},"What is in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 platform?","The Vancouver Liberals' platform, \"Kareem's Plan for a Better Vancouver,\" covers affordability and accountability, public safety, jobs and the economy, transit, health and the environment, and parks and recreation. A separate parks plan and an intimate partner violence policy add detail. This site has a page for each part.",{"question":557,"answer":558},"Who are the Vancouver Liberals candidates in the 2026 Vancouver election?","Kareem Allam is the Vancouver Liberals' candidate for mayor. Armor Valor, Devin Clemens, Jessica Walton, John Coupar, Michael Wu, Moira Stilwell and Victoria Jung are running for City Council. Amanda Bains, Amir Bajehkian, Mark Halyk, Scott Jensen, Shayla Bird and Tricia Barker are running for Park Board, and Darren Boidman, Isabel Ochoa Prieto, Ishi Dinim, Joshua Cameron and Noosha Mehdian for School Board.",{"question":560,"answer":561},"When was the Vancouver Liberals platform last updated?","The party's issues page says it was last updated on August 19, 2026. The page also says the platform will be added to as the party consults Vancouver residents before the October 17, 2026 election.",{"question":563,"answer":564},"Are the Vancouver Liberals part of the federal Liberal Party?","The Vancouver Liberals are a municipal party running candidates for Vancouver's mayor, City Council, Park Board and School Board. The federal Liberal Party of Canada is a separate organization. Their registered name, according to the party's website, is the Vancouver Liberal Electors Association.",{"question":566,"answer":567},"Where can I read the Vancouver Liberals' platform?","The platform is the Issues page on vancouverliberals.com, which links to the party's parks and recreation plan and its intimate partner violence policy as PDFs. Each commitment on these pages links back to the party source it comes from.",{"question":569,"answer":570},"Could the Vancouver Liberals carry out their whole platform if they win?","Some commitments are within the power of City Council, the Park Board or the School Board. Others, such as the SkyTrain to UBC, a meth strategy for BC or renaming YVR, depend on TransLink, the Province or the federal government, and the party could only press them. Each commitment on these pages is labelled with the body that would have to act.",{"question":572,"answer":573},"Who wrote these pages about the Vancouver Liberals platform?","voche.me, an independent guide to the 2026 Vancouver election, wrote these pages from the party's own web page and PDFs. The Vancouver Liberals did not write or approve them. Every commitment is reported as something the party says it would do.","2026-platform",[166,360],"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatforms\u002Fvancouver-liberals","Every commitment in the Vancouver Liberals' 2026 plan, from their issues page, their parks plan and their intimate partner violence policy, sorted by topic, with the government that would have to act on each one. Covers City Council, Park Board and School Board matters.",{"text":579},"Together, we can build a city that works for everyone.","2026-08-19","c-6ZG_4egyEO4M2Xy1nlLP12eAXWelhNsp7y7wNWwA8",[583,675,741,805,851,903,954,1013,1097,1156,1205,1269,1327],{"id":584,"title":585,"checkedAt":363,"context":586,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":587,"headline":609,"issues":610,"meta":612,"order":613,"pages":34,"paragraphs":614,"party":326,"pillar":380,"proposals":619,"questions":649,"slug":671,"source":34,"stem":672,"summary":673,"__hash__":674},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Faffordability-and-accountability--spending-services-and-housing-approvals.json","Spending, Services and Housing Approvals",[],[588,591,594,597,600,603,606],{"value":589,"label":590},"400","New unionized front-line city workers the party would hire",{"value":592,"label":593},"$800 million","The party's cost figure for the second city hall it would cancel",{"value":595,"label":596},"40 feet","Yacht length above which the party's luxury yacht tax would apply",{"value":598,"label":599},"26%","Property tax increase the party says happened under Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver",{"value":601,"label":602},"$13 million","Amount the party says the city spent on World Cup tickets",{"value":604,"label":605},"roughly $150 million to nearly $600 million","The party's figures for the Art Gallery project's cost at the start and before it was halted",{"value":607,"label":608},"12","City departments the party says approve new housing construction today","Vancouver Liberals: 400 city workers, no $800m second city hall, one housing office",[217,70,611],"governance",{},"1",[615,616,617,618],"The Vancouver Liberals open their issues page with a section on cost and accountability at City Hall. The party says city services are failing, and points to potholes, shorter library hours, missed garbage pickups and dirty streets. Its answer is to hire 400 unionized front-line workers to do that work. To pay for services, the party says it would cancel a planned office building it calls Ken Sim's $800 million second city hall and move the money to things like pools and parks.","The page also proposes a tax on luxury yachts over 40 feet. The party says these boats use city infrastructure without paying their share, and that the money would fund property tax cuts for family doctors, walk-in clinics, food banks and the creative sector. Under the heading on fiscal management, the party says property taxes rose 26% under Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver, and it would ban foreign travel for councillors and city staff. It also asks for an independent Auditor General investigation into the halted new Art Gallery project, whose costs the party says \"spiraled from roughly $150 million to nearly $600 million.\"","Two items are about how housing gets approved. The party would remove the Vancouver Building Code, the city's own set of construction rules, and use the BC Building Code that the rest of the province follows. It would also merge the twelve city departments that it says approve new housing into one.","Most of these steps sit with City Council, which sets the budget, approves capital projects and controls Vancouver's own building bylaw. The yacht tax is less clear. The Vancouver Charter sets which taxes the city may charge, and only the Province can change it.",[620,625,628,633,637,641,645],{"title":621,"detail":622,"authority":623,"authorityNote":624},"Hire 400 unionized front-line workers","The Vancouver Liberals say they would hire 400 unionized front-line workers to deliver city services. The party links this to potholes, library hours, garbage pickup and street cleaning.","city-council","Council approves the city's operating budget, which pays for city staff.",{"title":224,"detail":626,"authority":623,"authorityNote":627},"The party would cancel what it calls Ken Sim's $800 million second city hall, which it describes as office space for managers, and put the money into services such as pools and parks.","Council approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for city buildings.",{"title":629,"detail":630,"authority":631,"authorityNote":632},"Luxury yacht tax on boats over 40 feet","The party would put a tax on luxury yachts over 40 feet. It says the money would fund property tax cuts for family doctors, walk-in clinics, food banks and Vancouver's creative sector.","city-with-others","The Vancouver Charter, which only the Province can change, sets the taxes the city may charge, and the platform does not say which power the yacht tax would use.",{"title":634,"detail":635,"authority":623,"authorityNote":636},"Ban foreign travel for councillors and staff","The party would ban foreign travel for councillors and city staff. It names trips to the Junos and $13 million spent on World Cup tickets as examples of what it wants to stop.","Council sets the spending rules for its own members and approves the budget for city staff.",{"title":638,"detail":639,"authority":623,"authorityNote":640},"Auditor General investigation into the Art Gallery project","The party calls for an independent Auditor General investigation into the new Art Gallery project and all related spending. It says costs \"spiraled from roughly $150 million to nearly $600 million\" before the project was halted.","Council can ask for a review of city spending. The platform does not say which auditor would carry it out.",{"title":642,"detail":643,"authority":623,"authorityNote":644},"Remove the Vancouver Building Code","The party would remove the Vancouver Building Code and follow the same building rules as the rest of British Columbia. It says Vancouver is the only city in BC with its own code and calls it an extra step for people who want to build housing.","Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can choose to replace it with the provincial code.",{"title":646,"detail":647,"authority":623,"authorityNote":648},"Merge twelve housing approval departments into one","The party would consolidate the twelve departments that it says now approve new housing construction into a single department, to make applications and approvals simpler.","These departments are part of the city's own staff, so the change sits with the city.",[650,653,656,659,662,665,668],{"question":651,"answer":652},"Would the Vancouver Liberals cancel the second city hall?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say they would cancel what they call Ken Sim's $800 million second city hall, which they describe as office space for managers. The party says the money would go to services such as pools and parks. The cost figure is the party's own (party issues page).",{"question":654,"answer":655},"What would the Vancouver Liberals' 400 new city workers do?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would hire 400 unionized front-line workers to deliver city services. The party links them to fixing potholes, keeping library hours, picking up garbage and cleaning streets. The page does not give a cost (party issues page).",{"question":657,"answer":658},"Does the Vancouver Liberal party want a tax on yachts?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals propose a tax on luxury yachts over 40 feet. The party says the money would pay for property tax cuts for family doctors, walk-in clinics, food banks and the creative sector. The Vancouver Charter sets which taxes the city may charge, and the party does not say which power it would use (party issues page).",{"question":660,"answer":661},"What do the Vancouver Liberals want to do about the Vancouver Building Code?","The Vancouver Liberals would remove the Vancouver Building Code and use the BC Building Code instead. The party says having its own code adds a step for people building housing. Council has this power because the Vancouver Charter gives the city its own building bylaw (party issues page).",{"question":663,"answer":664},"How would the Vancouver Liberals speed up housing approvals?","The party says twelve city departments now approve new housing, and it would merge them into one. It would also drop the city's own building code and follow the provincial one. Both steps are within the city's control (party issues page).",{"question":666,"answer":667},"Would the Vancouver Liberals ban travel for city councillors?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would ban foreign travel for councillors and city staff. The party names trips to the Junos and $13 million spent on World Cup tickets as spending it wants to stop (party issues page).",{"question":669,"answer":670},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about the new Vancouver Art Gallery project?","The Vancouver Liberals call for an independent Auditor General investigation into the Art Gallery project and all spending linked to it. The party says costs \"spiraled from roughly $150 million to nearly $600 million\" before the project was halted. Those figures are the party's own (party issues page).","spending-services-and-housing-approvals","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Faffordability-and-accountability--spending-services-and-housing-approvals","The Vancouver Liberals say they would hire 400 unionized front-line city workers, cancel what they call an $800 million second city hall, tax yachts over 40 feet, ban foreign travel for councillors and staff, drop the Vancouver Building Code and merge 12 housing approval departments into one.","hdlBnqaYa-EthogL0dLK02SOaz3ssPfLc5SRaOVU3Rw",{"id":676,"title":677,"checkedAt":363,"context":678,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":679,"headline":680,"issues":681,"meta":682,"order":683,"pages":34,"paragraphs":684,"party":326,"pillar":380,"proposals":689,"questions":718,"slug":737,"source":34,"stem":738,"summary":739,"__hash__":740},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Faffordability-and-accountability--transparency-and-governance.json","Transparency and Governance",[],[],"Vancouver Liberals on City Hall ethics: lobbyist registry, cheaper records, ward vote",[611],{},"2",[685,686,687,688],"Several entries on the Vancouver Liberals' issues page deal with how City Hall makes decisions and how the public can check them. The party says the federal and provincial governments each keep a lobbyist registry, a public list of people paid to influence officials, and that Vancouver should have one too. It would also lower the fees for freedom of information requests, which are the formal way a member of the public asks the city for its records. The party says ABC Vancouver promised openness and then made those requests more expensive.","The Integrity Commissioner is the official who looks into complaints about the conduct of elected officials. The party would strengthen that office, order an independent outside review of it, and strengthen the Code of Conduct, the written rules elected officials must follow. It says the aim is an office that stays independent and free from political pressure. On disclosure, the party says the financial interests that politicians must report when they take office should also cover cryptocurrency holdings and accounts.","The last item is about how councillors are elected. The party describes Vancouver's current system as at-large voting, where every councillor is elected by voters across the whole city, and says this makes campaigns expensive and leaves many neighbourhoods without their own representative. It supports looking at a ward system, where each district of the city elects its own councillor, and would set up a citizens' assembly, a group of residents asked to study the question, to make recommendations for a public referendum.","The party presents most of these steps as Council decisions, and Council does set its own meeting rules, committees and reporting. The Vancouver Charter creates the city's government and sets its powers, and only the Province can change that act. The platform does not say whether a ward system would need such a change.",[690,694,698,702,706,710,714],{"title":691,"detail":692,"authority":623,"authorityNote":693},"Create a city lobbyist registry","The Vancouver Liberals would create a lobbyist registry for the city, a public list of people paid to influence city decisions. The party says the federal and provincial governments each already have one.","Council sets its own rules for how it deals with the public and can create a registry for City Hall.",{"title":695,"detail":696,"authority":623,"authorityNote":697},"Reduce freedom of information costs","The party would reduce the cost of freedom of information requests, the formal way to ask the city for its records. It says Ken Sim made these requests more expensive.","The party presents this as a City Hall decision. The platform does not say which fees would change or by how much.",{"title":699,"detail":700,"authority":623,"authorityNote":701},"Strengthen the Integrity Commissioner's office","The party would strengthen the office of the Integrity Commissioner so that elected officials are held to account for their actions.","Council approves the city's operating budget, which pays for the office, and the party presents the change as a Council decision.",{"title":703,"detail":704,"authority":623,"authorityNote":705},"Independent external review of the Integrity Commissioner's office","The party would introduce an independent external review of the Integrity Commissioner's office, to keep it transparent, independent and free from political interference.","The party presents the review as a step it would take on Council.",{"title":707,"detail":708,"authority":623,"authorityNote":709},"Strengthen the Code of Conduct for elected officials","The party would strengthen the Code of Conduct for elected officials, the written rules on how councillors must behave.","The party presents this as a Council decision on the rules for its own members.",{"title":711,"detail":712,"authority":631,"authorityNote":713},"Cryptocurrency disclosure for politicians","The party says the financial interests that politicians must disclose when they take office should also include cryptocurrency holdings and accounts.","The platform does not say whether the city would add this rule for its own members or ask the Province to change the disclosure rules.",{"title":715,"detail":716,"authority":631,"authorityNote":717},"A citizens' assembly on a ward system","The party supports exploring a ward system, where each local district elects its own councillor. It would convene a citizens' assembly to study the question and bring recommendations forward for a public referendum.","Council can set up an assembly to advise it. The Vancouver Charter creates the city's government, only the Province can change that act, and the platform does not say whether wards would need such a change.",[719,722,725,728,731,734],{"question":720,"answer":721},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support a ward system for Vancouver?","The Vancouver Liberals support exploring a ward system, where each district of the city would elect its own councillor. The party would set up a citizens' assembly to study it and bring recommendations to a public referendum. It says the change should be decided by voters (party issues page).",{"question":723,"answer":724},"Would the Vancouver Liberals create a lobbyist registry at City Hall?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say Vancouver should follow the federal and provincial governments and keep a lobbyist registry, a public list of people paid to influence officials. Council could create one for City Hall (party issues page).",{"question":726,"answer":727},"What would the Vancouver Liberals do about freedom of information fees?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would reduce the cost of freedom of information requests, the formal way to ask the city for its records. The party says fees went up under Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver (party issues page).",{"question":729,"answer":730},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' plan for the Integrity Commissioner?","The party would strengthen the Integrity Commissioner's office, order an independent outside review of it, and strengthen the Code of Conduct for elected officials. The Vancouver Liberals say the goal is an office that stays independent and free from political interference (party issues page).",{"question":732,"answer":733},"Do the Vancouver Liberals want politicians to disclose cryptocurrency?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say the financial interests politicians must disclose when they take office should include cryptocurrency holdings and accounts (party issues page).",{"question":735,"answer":736},"Can Vancouver City Council switch to wards on its own?","Council can set up a citizens' assembly to advise it, as the Vancouver Liberals propose, and the party says the final choice would go to a public referendum. The Vancouver Charter creates the city's government and only the Province can change it. The party does not say whether wards would need such a change (party issues page).","transparency-and-governance","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Faffordability-and-accountability--transparency-and-governance","The Vancouver Liberals say they would create a city lobbyist registry, cut the cost of freedom of information requests, review and strengthen the Integrity Commissioner's office and the Code of Conduct, add cryptocurrency to politicians' disclosures, and set up a citizens' assembly on wards.","apNNRACI8_d55ICx3eaKzBvrWrqrzrP1fHaNPLjuxlk",{"id":742,"title":743,"checkedAt":363,"context":744,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":745,"headline":752,"issues":753,"meta":755,"order":683,"pages":34,"paragraphs":756,"party":326,"pillar":496,"proposals":761,"questions":782,"slug":801,"source":34,"stem":802,"summary":803,"__hash__":804},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fhealth-and-environment--clinics-libraries-and-city-services.json","Clinics, Libraries, Wi-Fi, Rats and Recycling",[],[746,749],{"value":747,"label":748},"51%","Share of beverage containers the party says Vancouver recycles, which it calls the lowest rate in the region",{"value":750,"label":751},"second-highest","Vancouver's rank for the number of rats among major Canadian cities, according to the party","Vancouver Liberals: half property tax for clinics, a rat panel, more recycling depots",[239,754,96],"economy",{},[757,758,759,760],"The rest of the Vancouver Liberals' health and environment section is a list of separate local proposals. The first is about doctors. The party says too many young people have no family doctor, and it would cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics in Vancouver, to help existing practices and draw new doctors to the city. Its yacht tax proposal names these clinics among the groups the money would help.","Two items deal with public services. The party would work with Downtown Eastside organizations to help deploy free public Wi-Fi, which it calls essential for safety, health care and essential services. It publishes this item in both French and English. It also says it stands with Vancouver Public Library workers and opposes cuts to library services, calling libraries one of the most important third places, meaning public spaces outside home and work where people meet.","The last two are about the city's environment. The party says Vancouver has the second-highest number of rats of any major city in Canada and is close to passing Toronto, and it would put together a panel of experts, which it calls a blue-ribbon panel, to bring the problem under control. It also says Vancouver recycles only 51% of its beverage containers, the lowest rate in the region, and blames too few Return-It depots. It would open more depots, starting where they are needed most.","The section also raises noise from loud cars and motorcycles at night, and a shrinking tree canopy, which it says is raising electricity use and harming air quality. It names a noise policy and a tree canopy strategy but gives no action for either, so they are not listed as commitments here. Council sets the tax rate, the city budget and business licences, so most of these items are city decisions.",[762,766,770,774,778],{"title":763,"detail":764,"authority":623,"authorityNote":765},"Cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics","The Vancouver Liberals would cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics in the City of Vancouver, to help existing practices and attract new doctors.","Council sets the property tax rate each year, though the platform does not explain how a lower rate would apply to clinics alone.",{"title":767,"detail":768,"authority":631,"authorityNote":769},"Free public Wi-Fi in the Downtown Eastside","The party would work with Downtown Eastside organizations to help deploy free public Wi-Fi, which it says is essential for safety, health care access and essential services.","The party describes this as work with community organizations, so the city would act with partners.",{"title":771,"detail":772,"authority":623,"authorityNote":773},"Oppose cuts to the Vancouver Public Library","The party says it stands with Vancouver Public Library workers and opposes cuts that weaken library spaces and community services across Vancouver.","Council approves the city's operating budget each year, and the party links library hours to city spending.",{"title":775,"detail":776,"authority":623,"authorityNote":777},"An expert panel on rats","The party would put together a panel of experts, which it calls a blue-ribbon panel, to help gain control of Vancouver's rat problem. It says the city has the second-highest number of rats of any major Canadian city.","Council can set up an advisory panel and fund the city's own response.",{"title":779,"detail":780,"authority":631,"authorityNote":781},"Open more recycling depots","The party would open more recycling depots across the city, starting in the areas that need them most. It says Vancouver recycles 51% of its beverage containers, the lowest rate in the region.","The platform does not say who would run the new depots. The city controls zoning and business licences for depot sites.",[783,786,789,792,795,798],{"question":784,"answer":785},"Would the Vancouver Liberals cut taxes for doctors' offices?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals would cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics in Vancouver. The party says this would help keep practices open and draw new doctors, since too many young people have no family doctor (party issues page).",{"question":787,"answer":788},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' plan for rats?","The Vancouver Liberals would set up a panel of experts to help get Vancouver's rat problem under control. The party says the city has the second-highest number of rats of any major Canadian city and is close to passing Toronto (party issues page).",{"question":790,"answer":791},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about recycling?","The Vancouver Liberals say Vancouver recycles only 51% of its beverage containers, the lowest rate in the region, because there are too few Return-It depots. They would open more depots, starting where they are needed most (party issues page).",{"question":793,"answer":794},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support free Wi-Fi in the Downtown Eastside?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals would work with Downtown Eastside organizations to help deploy free public Wi-Fi, which the party calls essential for safety, health care and essential services (party issues page).",{"question":796,"answer":797},"Where do the Vancouver Liberals stand on library cuts?","The Vancouver Liberals say they stand with Vancouver Public Library workers and oppose cuts to library services. The party also says library hours were cut under Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver (party issues page).",{"question":799,"answer":800},"Do the Vancouver Liberals have a tree canopy plan?","The Vancouver Liberals list a tree canopy strategy as a heading and say the number of trees in Vancouver is going down, raising electricity use and harming air quality. The page gives no target, date or action for the strategy (party issues page).","clinics-libraries-and-city-services","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fhealth-and-environment--clinics-libraries-and-city-services","The Vancouver Liberals say they would cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics, help deploy free public Wi-Fi in the Downtown Eastside, oppose library cuts, form a panel of experts on rats and open more recycling depots in the areas that need them most.","FVKtBpoGe60LxuI5Oa0-fWvk-YVEl-JYj5PpKaFJHYo",{"id":806,"title":807,"checkedAt":363,"context":808,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":809,"headline":810,"issues":811,"meta":812,"order":613,"pages":34,"paragraphs":813,"party":326,"pillar":496,"proposals":818,"questions":831,"slug":847,"source":34,"stem":848,"summary":849,"__hash__":850},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fhealth-and-environment--washrooms-and-supportive-housing.json","Public Washrooms and Supportive Housing",[],[],"Vancouver Liberals: new public washrooms and reversing the supportive housing ban",[96,70],{},[814,815,816,817],"Public washrooms come up more than once in the Vancouver Liberals' health section. The party says the city's streets and parks are covered with animal and human waste, and that Vancouver has the fewest public bathrooms of any major city in North America. It warns that the shortage could cause bigger public health problems when soccer fans arrive for the World Cup. Along with sending its new front-line workers to clean streets, it would build new public washrooms across the city.","The party joins washrooms to housing. It says public projects should give the largest possible social benefit, so every new supportive housing project in Vancouver would be required to include public bathrooms and showers open 24 hours a day for people who are unhoused. Supportive housing means homes that come with on-site help, such as health or social services.","The third item is about whether supportive housing gets built at all. The party says that under Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver, all types of new supportive housing construction have been banned. It calls this a cruel ban and says it would reverse it on its first day in office, so that seniors, veterans and people with disabilities get the support they need. The claim of a ban is the party's own description.","Council funds city facilities and decides where supportive housing is approved, so all three steps rest with City Council. Health services, treatment beds and drug policy belong to the Province and the federal government, and the platform does not say what it would ask of them.",[819,823,827],{"title":820,"detail":821,"authority":623,"authorityNote":822},"Build new public washrooms across the city","The Vancouver Liberals would build new public washrooms across Vancouver, along with using new front-line workers to clean up streets. The party links the need to public health and to visitors coming for the World Cup.","Council approves the capital plan that pays for city facilities, while washrooms inside parks would also involve the Park Board.",{"title":824,"detail":825,"authority":623,"authorityNote":826},"24-hour public bathrooms and showers in new supportive housing","Every new supportive housing project in the City of Vancouver would be required to include 24-hour public bathrooms and showers for people who are unhoused.","Council decides where supportive housing is approved, so it could attach this condition to new projects.",{"title":828,"detail":829,"authority":623,"authorityNote":830},"Reverse the ban on new supportive housing on day one","The party says all types of new supportive housing construction have been banned under Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver, and it would reverse that ban on day one to support seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.","Council decides where supportive housing is approved and sets the city's housing policy.",[832,835,838,841,844],{"question":833,"answer":834},"What would the Vancouver Liberals do about public washrooms?","The Vancouver Liberals would build new public washrooms across Vancouver and require 24-hour public bathrooms and showers in every new supportive housing project. The party says Vancouver has the fewest public bathrooms of any major city in North America (party issues page).",{"question":836,"answer":837},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support supportive housing?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver have banned all types of new supportive housing construction, and they would reverse that ban on day one. The party names seniors, veterans and people with disabilities as the people it wants to serve (party issues page).",{"question":839,"answer":840},"Would the Vancouver Liberals put showers in supportive housing buildings?","Yes. Under the Vancouver Liberals, every new supportive housing project in the city would have to include public bathrooms and showers open 24 hours a day for people who are unhoused (party issues page).",{"question":842,"answer":843},"Who decides whether supportive housing is built in Vancouver?","City Council decides where supportive housing is approved. The Vancouver Liberals say they would use that power to reverse what they call a ban on new supportive housing. Health services and treatment are provincial and federal (party issues page).",{"question":845,"answer":846},"Why do the Vancouver Liberals link public washrooms to the World Cup?","The Vancouver Liberals say the city's lack of public washrooms could cause bigger public health problems as thousands of soccer fans visit for the World Cup. They would build new washrooms across the city (party issues page).","washrooms-and-supportive-housing","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fhealth-and-environment--washrooms-and-supportive-housing","The Vancouver Liberals say they would build new public washrooms across Vancouver, require 24-hour public bathrooms and showers in every new supportive housing project, and on day one reverse what they call a ban on new supportive housing for seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.","KyFHRC1F6fGBcWpCBjbYVJHgkqV54U8Xqlziso1N7JQ",{"id":852,"title":853,"checkedAt":363,"context":854,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":855,"headline":862,"issues":863,"meta":864,"order":683,"pages":34,"paragraphs":865,"party":326,"pillar":436,"proposals":870,"questions":883,"slug":899,"source":34,"stem":900,"summary":901,"__hash__":902},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fjobs-and-economy--artists-and-ai.json","Creative Spaces and AI",[],[856,859],{"value":857,"label":858},"4","Locations for the party's Artist Land Reserve",{"value":860,"label":861},"half","Share of property taxes the party would cut for the Artist Land Reserve","Vancouver Liberals: an Artist Land Reserve with half property tax, no AI data centres",[252,754,201],{},[866,867,868,869],"Two parts of the Vancouver Liberals' economy section deal with the creative economy and with artificial intelligence. The party says Vancouver has the highest concentration of artists and creative workers in Canada, and that rising costs and taxes are pushing them out. It would establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, offering resources such as studios and cutting property taxes in half for those who work there. Elsewhere on the page the party calls it North America's first Artist Land Reserve.","On AI, the party says Canada should have its own AI data centres for national security, sovereignty, health care and the economy, and should not rely fully on the United States. It also says it would not approve them in Vancouver. It asks why the city's most expensive land should hold them, and says building one in Mount Pleasant during a housing shortage makes no sense.","The same entry turns to schools. The party says students use AI whether or not it is allowed, and that results improve where AI is part of the curriculum with ethics and oversight. It would align with the position of the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on giving students AI chatbot accounts.","Council controls zoning and sets the property tax rate, so the land reserve and data centre siting are city matters, though the platform does not explain how a tax cut for one group would work. Classroom decisions belong to the Board of Education, which runs Vancouver public schools.",[871,874,878],{"title":258,"detail":872,"authority":623,"authorityNote":873},"The Vancouver Liberals would establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, providing resources like studios and cutting property taxes in half.","Council zones land and sets the property tax rate each year, though the platform does not say which power would allow a lower tax for one group.",{"title":875,"detail":876,"authority":623,"authorityNote":877},"No AI data centres on Vancouver's costly land","The party says it would not approve building AI data centres in the city, asking why Vancouver's most expensive land should be used for them. It names Mount Pleasant as a place where it says a data centre would make no sense during a housing shortage.","Council sets zoning and approves development permits, which decide where a data centre could be built.",{"title":879,"detail":880,"authority":881,"authorityNote":882},"Align with the Province and BC Teachers' Federation on student AI chatbot accounts","The party would align with the position of the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on providing students with AI chatbot accounts. It says student results improve where AI is part of the curriculum with ethics and oversight.","school-board","The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, and the party says it would follow the Province's position.",[884,887,890,893,896],{"question":885,"answer":886},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' Artist Land Reserve?","The Vancouver Liberals would set up an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across Vancouver, with resources such as studios and property taxes cut in half. The party calls it North America's first Artist Land Reserve (party issues page).",{"question":888,"answer":889},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support AI data centres in Vancouver?","The Vancouver Liberals say Canada should have its own AI data centres, but they would not approve them in Vancouver. The party says the city's land is too expensive and names Mount Pleasant as the wrong place during a housing shortage (party issues page).",{"question":891,"answer":892},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about AI in schools?","The Vancouver Liberals say students use AI whether or not it is allowed, and that results improve where it is taught with ethics and oversight. The party would align with the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on giving students AI chatbot accounts (party issues page).",{"question":894,"answer":895},"Can the city cut property taxes in half for artists?","Council sets the property tax rate each year under the Vancouver Charter. The Vancouver Liberals propose cutting property taxes in half for their Artist Land Reserve, but the platform does not explain which power would let the city charge one group less (party issues page).",{"question":897,"answer":898},"Why do the Vancouver Liberals want an Artist Land Reserve?","The Vancouver Liberals say Vancouver has the highest concentration of artists and creatives in Canada, and that rising costs and taxes are pushing them out. The land reserve is their plan to keep studio space in the city (party issues page).","artists-and-ai","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fjobs-and-economy--artists-and-ai","The Vancouver Liberals say they would create an Artist Land Reserve in four places with studios and property taxes cut in half, would not approve AI data centres on Vancouver's costly land, and would follow the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation on giving students AI chatbot accounts.","mQhzp94q53lpYwI87BI9pGlNz9NGcTZXOw4wXft83Pc",{"id":904,"title":905,"checkedAt":363,"context":906,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":907,"headline":908,"issues":909,"meta":910,"order":613,"pages":34,"paragraphs":911,"party":326,"pillar":436,"proposals":916,"questions":934,"slug":950,"source":34,"stem":951,"summary":952,"__hash__":953},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fjobs-and-economy--jobs-and-industrial-land.json","Jobs, Industrial Land and Small Business",[],[],"Vancouver Liberals on jobs: an Industrial Land Reserve, maker zoning and a CANZUK bid",[754,70],{},[912,913,914,915],"The Vancouver Liberals' jobs section starts from a worry about who is leaving the city. The party says Vancouver has one of the oldest populations of any city in Canada and that rising costs push young people out. Its answer is to bring them back with more good jobs and more affordable housing in every part of the city.","Land for work is the core of the section. The party says Mayor Ken Sim has a plan to eliminate the city's remaining industrial land, and it would set up an Industrial Land Reserve instead, keeping that land for jobs and surrounding it with affordable housing. It also says old industrial-era bylaws stop small businesses from making and selling goods such as candles, clothing or handmade items in the same space, and it would modernize zoning and business rules for small businesses, entrepreneurs and creators.","The last item looks beyond Canada. The party describes CANZUK as a future alliance between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The party says it would champion Vancouver as the home for a CANZUK headquarters, which it says would bring jobs, trade, talent and a stronger role for YVR, Vancouver's airport, as a gateway to Asia and the Pacific.","Zoning and business licences belong to Council, so the land reserve and the bylaw changes are city decisions. An alliance between countries, and where its offices go, would be decided by national governments, so the city could only make its case.",[917,921,925,929],{"title":918,"detail":919,"authority":623,"authorityNote":920},"Bring young people back with jobs and affordable housing","The Vancouver Liberals say they would bring young people back to Vancouver by creating more good jobs and building more affordable housing in every part of the city.","Council sets zoning and approves housing and business permits, which are its main tools for housing and job space.",{"title":922,"detail":923,"authority":623,"authorityNote":924},"Establish an Industrial Land Reserve","The party would establish an Industrial Land Reserve to keep jobs in the city, surrounded by affordable housing so that people can build careers and keep their families in Vancouver. It says Ken Sim plans to eliminate the city's remaining industrial land.","Council zones commercial and industrial land under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":926,"detail":927,"authority":623,"authorityNote":928},"Modernize zoning and business rules for small businesses","The party would modernize zoning and business rules so that small businesses, entrepreneurs and creators can work in the city. It says many areas still stop small businesses from making and selling products like candles, clothing or handmade goods in the same space.","Council sets zoning and issues business licences.",{"title":930,"detail":931,"authority":932,"authorityNote":933},"Vancouver as home of a CANZUK headquarters","The party would champion Vancouver as the home for the headquarters of a future CANZUK alliance between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It says this would bring jobs, trade, talent and a stronger YVR.","federal","An alliance between countries is a matter for the federal government, so the city can only promote itself as a location.",[935,938,941,944,947],{"question":936,"answer":937},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' plan for industrial land?","The Vancouver Liberals would set up an Industrial Land Reserve to keep jobs in Vancouver, with affordable housing around it. The party says Mayor Ken Sim plans to eliminate the city's remaining industrial land. Council controls zoning, so this is a city decision (party issues page).",{"question":939,"answer":940},"Why do the Vancouver Liberals talk about CANZUK?","The Vancouver Liberals want Vancouver to be the home of the headquarters of a future CANZUK alliance between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The party says it would bring jobs, trade and talent. An alliance between countries is a federal matter, so the city could only promote itself (party issues page).",{"question":942,"answer":943},"Would the Vancouver Liberals let small businesses make and sell products in one space?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say old industrial-era bylaws stop small businesses from making and selling goods like candles or clothing in the same space, and they would modernize zoning and business rules to allow it (party issues page).",{"question":945,"answer":946},"How would the Vancouver Liberals keep young people in Vancouver?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would bring young people back by creating more good jobs and building more affordable housing in every part of the city. The party says Vancouver has one of the oldest populations of any city in Canada (party issues page).",{"question":948,"answer":949},"Can Vancouver City Council protect industrial land on its own?","Yes. Council zones commercial and industrial land under the Vancouver Charter, so the Vancouver Liberals' Industrial Land Reserve and their zoning changes for small businesses are within the city's power (party issues page).","jobs-and-industrial-land","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fjobs-and-economy--jobs-and-industrial-land","The Vancouver Liberals say they would create an Industrial Land Reserve, change zoning so small businesses can make and sell goods in one space, bring young people back with jobs and affordable housing in every part of the city, and promote Vancouver as headquarters of a future CANZUK alliance.","XJlHCPbGrT1KpjDXZD36lHFI41RVhBZSu-QIA4LevAo",{"id":955,"title":956,"checkedAt":363,"context":957,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":958,"headline":964,"issues":965,"meta":966,"order":683,"pages":34,"paragraphs":967,"party":326,"pillar":524,"proposals":972,"questions":993,"slug":1009,"source":166,"stem":1010,"summary":1011,"__hash__":1012},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fparks-and-recreation--facilities-and-capital-renewal.json","Facility Oversight and Capital Renewal",[],[959,961],{"value":613,"label":960},"New community centre the party would aim to build in every capital cycle",{"value":962,"label":963},"3","Existing community centres the party would aim to renew and update in every capital cycle","Vancouver Liberals: Park Board control of its buildings, a new community centre each cycle",[157,217],{},[968,969,970,971],"The second half of the Vancouver Liberals' parks plan is about the buildings the Park Board runs. The party says everyone should be clear that the Park Board is in charge of parks and recreation facilities. Today, according to the plan, that work sits with a centralized city structure it calls REFM, a facilities-management structure that excludes the Park Board. The party would repeal that structure and return facility oversight directly to the board.","The plan lists what the party expects from that change: clear authority for the Park Board over recreation facility management, direct control of maintenance and capital planning, quicker decisions on operations and building projects, and a structure that allows transparent, accountable planning.","The last section is headed \"Get serious about capital renewal.\" Capital renewal means replacing or rebuilding old buildings. The party would launch a capital plan to build new, energy-efficient, modern recreation centres in place of aging ones, with the goals of lower operating and energy costs, more program space and access, lower long-term costs, and buildings that meet modern standards. For every capital cycle, the city's multi-year building budget, it would aim to build one new community centre and renew and update three more, following the existing Community Centre Strategy.","These steps need both bodies. The Park Board runs community centres, pools and rinks, while Council approves the capital plan that pays for buildings and controls how city staff are organized.",[973,977,981,985,989],{"title":974,"detail":975,"authority":631,"authorityNote":976},"Make clear the Park Board runs parks and recreation facilities","The Vancouver Liberals would provide clarity for all that the Park Board is in charge of Vancouver's parks and recreation facilities.","The Park Board controls parks and community centres, and Council would have to agree on which city staff look after its buildings.",{"title":978,"detail":979,"authority":631,"authorityNote":980},"Repeal the central REFM facilities structure","The party would repeal the centralized facilities-management structure the plan calls REFM, which it says excludes the Park Board, and restore facility oversight directly to the Park Board. It says this would give the board clear authority over recreation facility management, direct control of maintenance and capital planning, quicker decisions and more transparent planning.","The plan describes a centralized city structure, so Council would have to agree to hand facility work back to the Park Board.",{"title":982,"detail":983,"authority":631,"authorityNote":984},"A capital plan for new energy-efficient recreation centres","The party would launch a capital plan to build new, energy-efficient, modern recreation centres to replace aging and outdated facilities, aiming for lower operating and energy costs, more program capacity and accessibility, lower long-term costs, and facilities built to modern standards and community needs.","Council approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for buildings, and the Park Board runs recreation centres.",{"title":986,"detail":987,"authority":631,"authorityNote":988},"Build one new community centre each capital cycle","For every capital cycle, the party would aim to build one new community centre.","New community centres need money in the capital plan, which Council approves, and the Park Board runs them once built.",{"title":990,"detail":991,"authority":631,"authorityNote":992},"Renew three more community centres each capital cycle","For every capital cycle, the party would aim to renew and update three additional community centres, following the Community Centre Strategy.","Renewals are paid for through the capital plan Council approves, and the Park Board decides the work on its own centres.",[994,997,1000,1003,1006],{"question":995,"answer":996},"How many community centres would the Vancouver Liberals build?","The Vancouver Liberals' parks plan says that for every capital cycle they would aim to build one new community centre and renew and update three more, following the Community Centre Strategy (party park plan).",{"question":998,"answer":999},"What is REFM in the Vancouver Liberals' parks plan?","REFM is the name the Vancouver Liberals' plan uses for a central city facilities-management structure that, according to the party, excludes the Park Board. The party would repeal it and return control of recreation facilities to the Park Board (party park plan).",{"question":1001,"answer":1002},"Would the Vancouver Liberals give the Park Board control of community centres?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say the Park Board should be clearly in charge of parks and recreation facilities, with direct control of maintenance and capital planning. Council would have to agree, since the plan describes the current structure as a centralized city one (party park plan).",{"question":1004,"answer":1005},"Do the Vancouver Liberals plan to replace old recreation centres?","Yes. The party would launch a capital plan to build new, energy-efficient, modern recreation centres in place of aging ones. The Vancouver Liberals say this would lower operating and energy costs and add program space (party park plan).",{"question":1007,"answer":1008},"Who pays for new community centres in Vancouver?","Council approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for city buildings, and the Park Board runs community centres. The Vancouver Liberals' plan to build and renew centres in each capital cycle would need both bodies to act (party park plan).","facilities-and-capital-renewal","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fparks-and-recreation--facilities-and-capital-renewal","The Vancouver Liberals' parks plan says they would return control of recreation facilities to the Park Board by repealing a central city facilities structure, launch a capital plan for new energy-efficient recreation centres, and aim to build one new community centre and renew three more in every capital cycle.","bqzfaEqC1nFHaRQCsRH-JySobQmTnbVVb0QppL1x9G4",{"id":1014,"title":1015,"checkedAt":363,"context":1016,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":1017,"headline":1030,"issues":1031,"meta":1032,"order":613,"pages":34,"paragraphs":1033,"party":326,"pillar":524,"proposals":1038,"questions":1077,"slug":1093,"source":166,"stem":1094,"summary":1095,"__hash__":1096},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fparks-and-recreation--park-board-governance-and-budget.json","An Elected Park Board and a Better Budget Process",[],[1018,1021,1024,1027],{"value":1019,"label":1020},"7.9%","The Park Board's current share of the city budget, according to the party",{"value":1022,"label":1023},"9%","The share of the city budget the party would restore to the Park Board",{"value":1025,"label":1026},"4 years","Time the party gives itself to raise Park Board funding to 9% of the city budget",{"value":1028,"label":1029},"3 years","Length of the rolling budget framework the party proposes for the Park Board","Vancouver Liberals: keep the Park Board elected, raise its share to 9% of the budget",[157,217,611],{},[1034,1035,1036,1037],"The Vancouver Liberals publish a separate two-page plan for parks and recreation, linked from their issues page. It opens by saying the party wants a strong, independent Park Board with the tools, budget stability and modern facilities it needs. The first section says the Park Board must stay elected and independent. The party would fight all efforts, by the current Mayor or anyone else, to remove it, and would repeal the Mayor's motion at City Council that called for abolishing the board.","The second section is about money. The party would create a Joint Budget Advisory Committee of Park Board commissioners, city councillors, the city's general manager of finance and the Park Board's general manager. This committee would guide the yearly budget and set shared expectations. The plan lists financial goals for it: earlier access to accurate forecasts, a pre-budget outlook issued jointly each year, service levels matched to approved funding, clear reporting in line with guidance from the Office of the Auditor General, and a rise in Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city's total budget within four years.","The plan also sets out a three-year rolling budget for the Park Board. Year 1 would be approved and years 2 and 3 forecast, with year 4 set jointly through the advisory committee. The budget would adjust each year for inflation, population growth and the renewal of aging assets, with the goal of fewer swings from year to year and steadier long-term planning.","Vancouver is the only major Canadian city with a separately elected park board, and that board exists under the Vancouver Charter, which only the Province can change. Council approves the city's budget, including the Park Board's share, so the funding and committee steps need both bodies to agree.",[1039,1044,1048,1052,1056,1060,1065,1069,1073],{"title":1040,"detail":1041,"authority":1042,"authorityNote":1043},"Fight all efforts to remove the elected Park Board","The Vancouver Liberals would fight all efforts, by the current Mayor and anyone else, to remove Vancouver's elected Park Board.","province","The Park Board exists under the Vancouver Charter, and only the Province can change that act.",{"title":1045,"detail":1046,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1047},"Repeal the Mayor's motion to abolish the Park Board","The party would repeal the Mayor's motion at City Council that called for abolishing the Park Board.","Council can repeal its own motion by a vote.",{"title":1049,"detail":1050,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1051},"Create a Joint Budget Advisory Committee","The party would create a Joint Budget Advisory Committee of Park Board commissioners, city councillors, the city's general manager of finance and the Park Board general manager, to guide the annual budget cycle and set shared expectations for financial planning.","Council and the Park Board would both have to agree to form a joint committee.",{"title":1053,"detail":1054,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1055},"Earlier access to accurate financial forecasts","The party sets a financial goal of earlier access to accurate financial forecasts for the Park Board's budget.","The plan places both the city's and the Park Board's senior finance staff in the budget process, so both bodies would be involved.",{"title":1057,"detail":1058,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1059},"A jointly issued annual pre-budget outlook","The party sets a goal of a pre-budget outlook issued jointly by the city and the Park Board each year.","A joint report needs both Council and the Park Board to take part.",{"title":1061,"detail":1062,"authority":1063,"authorityNote":1064},"Match service levels to approved funding","The party sets a goal of aligning the Park Board's service levels with the funding that is approved for them.","park-board","The Park Board decides how its programs and services are run within the money it receives.",{"title":1066,"detail":1067,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1068},"Clear reporting in line with Auditor General guidance","The party sets a goal of clear, consistent reporting and performance measures aligned with guidance from the OAG, the Office of the Auditor General.","Both Council and the Park Board would set the reporting rules for the Park Board's budget.",{"title":1070,"detail":1071,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1072},"Restore Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city budget","The party sets a goal of restoring Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the global city budget within four years.","Council approves the city's operating budget, which sets the Park Board's share.",{"title":1074,"detail":1075,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1076},"A three-year rolling budget for the Park Board","The party would set up a three-year rolling budget that approves Year 1, forecasts Years 2 and 3, sets Year 4 jointly through the Joint Budget Advisory Committee, adjusts each year for inflation, population growth and asset renewal, and reduces swings from year to year to support long-term program and capital planning.","Council approves the city budget and the Park Board plans its own spending, so both would have to adopt the framework.",[1078,1081,1084,1087,1090],{"question":1079,"answer":1080},"Do the Vancouver Liberals want to keep the Park Board?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say the Park Board must stay elected and independent. They would fight every effort to remove it and repeal the Mayor's motion at City Council that called for its abolition (party park plan).",{"question":1082,"answer":1083},"How much money would the Vancouver Liberals give the Park Board?","The Vancouver Liberals' parks plan sets a goal of raising Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city's total budget within four years. Council approves the city budget, so it would have to agree (party park plan).",{"question":1085,"answer":1086},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' Joint Budget Advisory Committee?","It is a committee the Vancouver Liberals would create, made up of Park Board commissioners, city councillors, the city's general manager of finance and the Park Board general manager. It would guide the yearly budget and set shared expectations for financial planning (party park plan).",{"question":1088,"answer":1089},"Who decides whether Vancouver keeps its elected Park Board?","The Park Board exists under the Vancouver Charter, and only the Province can change that act. Council can repeal its own motion, which is why the Vancouver Liberals promise to repeal the Mayor's motion and to fight efforts to remove the board (party park plan).",{"question":1091,"answer":1092},"What is a three-year rolling budget in the Vancouver Liberals' parks plan?","The Vancouver Liberals would approve the Park Board's budget for one year and forecast the next two, then set the fourth year jointly through the advisory committee. The budget would adjust each year for inflation, population growth and asset renewal (party park plan).","park-board-governance-and-budget","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fparks-and-recreation--park-board-governance-and-budget","The Vancouver Liberals' parks plan says they would fight every effort to remove the elected Park Board, repeal the Mayor's motion calling for its abolition, create a Joint Budget Advisory Committee, and restore Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the city budget in four years.","t7jxG1SMp5WGkMOHd4bzYwfoNZRPEbdVK-WrNMYWVEQ",{"id":1098,"title":1099,"checkedAt":363,"context":1100,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":1101,"headline":1110,"issues":1111,"meta":1112,"order":962,"pages":34,"paragraphs":1113,"party":326,"pillar":524,"proposals":1118,"questions":1136,"slug":1152,"source":34,"stem":1153,"summary":1154,"__hash__":1155},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fparks-and-recreation--pools-parking-festivals-and-the-pne.json","Pools, Parking, Festivals and the PNE",[],[1102,1104,1107],{"value":181,"label":1103},"Investment in parks, recreation and pools the party commits to",{"value":1105,"label":1106},"50 metres","Pool length the party wants at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, against the 25-metre pools it opposes",{"value":1108,"label":1109},"first year","Time by which the party says it would remove every parking meter at beaches and community centres","Vancouver Liberals: $1.35B for parks and pools, no beach parking meters, a PNE audit",[157,252,217],{},[1114,1115,1116,1117],"The parks section of the Vancouver Liberals' issues page carries the party's largest dollar figure. It says investing in parks, libraries and community spaces is how a city reduces crime, and it commits to what it calls a historic $1.35 billion investment in parks, recreation and pools, alongside its 400 new front-line workers. The party says Vancouver has the fewest public swimming pools per person in Canada, and it publishes that point in French and English.","On pools, the party says the Vancouver Aquatic Centre deserves 50-metre pools, and it opposes building 25-metre pools there instead. On parking, it says Mayor Ken Sim added hundreds of new parking meters at community centres and beaches. Within the first year of a Vancouver Liberal government, it would remove every parking meter in front of beaches and community centres across the city.","Two items reach beyond parks. The party says attendance at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is falling, with large cost overruns on building projects and big operating deficits, and it calls for an auditor general investigation. It also says festival organizers now pay higher policing fees, which raises the cost of community events and adds to what it calls Vancouver's no fun city reputation. Pointing to the rise in the police budget, it would find a fair way to make policing affordable for all community events.","The Park Board controls parks, community centres, pools and beaches, while Council approves the capital plan that pays for big building projects. Council also approves the police budget, and the Vancouver Police Board directs the department.",[1119,1123,1126,1129,1132],{"title":1120,"detail":1121,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1122},"$1.35 billion for parks, recreation and pools","The Vancouver Liberals commit to what they call a historic $1.35 billion investment in parks, recreation and pools, alongside 400 new front-line workers.","Council approves the capital plan and budget that would hold this money, and the Park Board runs the parks, pools and community centres it would pay for.",{"title":183,"detail":1124,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1125},"The party says the Vancouver Aquatic Centre should have 50-metre pools, and opposes 25-metre pools there.","The Park Board runs city pools, and Council approves the capital plan that pays for rebuilding them.",{"title":187,"detail":1127,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1128},"Within the first year of a Vancouver Liberal government, the party would remove every parking meter in front of beaches and community centres across the city. It says Ken Sim added hundreds of new meters at these sites.","Beaches and community centres are run by the Park Board, and Council sets parking rules on city streets, so either body may have to act depending on where a meter stands.",{"title":191,"detail":1130,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1131},"The party calls for an auditor general investigation into the PNE. It says attendance is falling and that there are large cost overruns on capital projects and big operating deficits.","The party presents this as a City Hall decision. The platform does not say which auditor would carry out the investigation.",{"title":1133,"detail":1134,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1135},"Make policing affordable for festivals and community events","The party would find a fair way to make policing affordable for all community events. It says festival organizers are paying higher policing fees under Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver, while the police budget has risen.","Council approves the police budget, and the Vancouver Police Board directs the police department.",[1137,1140,1143,1146,1149],{"question":1138,"answer":1139},"Would the Vancouver Liberals remove parking meters at Vancouver beaches?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say that within their first year they would remove every parking meter in front of beaches and community centres across the city. The party says Mayor Ken Sim added hundreds of new meters at these sites (party issues page).",{"question":1141,"answer":1142},"What do the Vancouver Liberals want for the Vancouver Aquatic Centre?","The Vancouver Liberals say the Vancouver Aquatic Centre should have 50-metre pools, and they oppose building 25-metre pools there. The party says Vancouver has the fewest public swimming pools per person in Canada (party issues page).",{"question":1144,"answer":1145},"How much would the Vancouver Liberals spend on parks?","The Vancouver Liberals commit to what they call a historic $1.35 billion investment in parks, recreation and pools. The page does not say over how many years or how it would be paid for (party issues page).",{"question":1147,"answer":1148},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about the PNE?","The Vancouver Liberals call for an auditor general investigation into the PNE. The party says attendance is falling, with large cost overruns on capital projects and big operating deficits (party issues page).",{"question":1150,"answer":1151},"Would the Vancouver Liberals make festivals cheaper to run?","The Vancouver Liberals say festival organizers pay higher policing fees under Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver, and they would find a fair way to make policing affordable for all community events. Council approves the police budget, and the Vancouver Police Board directs the department (party issues page).","pools-parking-festivals-and-the-pne","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fparks-and-recreation--pools-parking-festivals-and-the-pne","The Vancouver Liberals say they would invest $1.35 billion in parks, recreation and pools, keep 50-metre pools at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, remove every parking meter at beaches and community centres within a year, call for an auditor general investigation of the PNE and lower festival policing costs.","MowuqsWLmtoowu1_xECOYTaC15ysEAOs6Yyu1a_972E",{"id":1157,"title":1158,"checkedAt":363,"context":1159,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":1160,"headline":1164,"issues":1165,"meta":1166,"order":683,"pages":34,"paragraphs":1167,"party":326,"pillar":121,"proposals":1172,"questions":1185,"slug":1201,"source":34,"stem":1202,"summary":1203,"__hash__":1204},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fpublic-safety--firefighters-meth-and-school-safety.json","Firefighters, Methamphetamine and School Safety",[],[1161],{"value":1162,"label":1163},"nearly 74,000","Calls the party says Vancouver firefighters answered last year","Vancouver Liberals on firefighters, a meth strategy and police liaison officers in schools",[121,201,96],{},[1168,1169,1170,1171],"Three entries on the Vancouver Liberals' public safety list deal with emergency services, drugs and schools. On fire services, the party says firefighters responded to nearly 74,000 calls last year, from overdoses and mental health crises to fires and medical emergencies, while under pressure on staffing and resources. It would support proper staffing, long-term funding and transparent deployment planning, meaning a public plan for where crews and trucks are placed.","On drugs, the party says methamphetamine is a leading cause of violent incidents. It calls for a thoughtful, long-term meth strategy for Vancouver and BC that focuses on safety, treatment and recovery, and points to a plan it says Wab Kinew is working on in Manitoba.","On schools, the party supports keeping the School Liaison Officer Program, which the party says supports safer schools and stronger relationships between students, families and local officers. The page links the program's results to Victoria Jung, whom it describes as a Vancouver Liberal School Board chair. Jung is a Vancouver Liberals candidate for City Council in 2026.","Each item sits with a different body. Fire and rescue services report to the city, so Council sets their budget. Treatment and drug policy are provincial and federal, so a meth strategy for BC is something the party could only ask for. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, so the program's place in them is a board decision.",[1173,1177,1181],{"title":1174,"detail":1175,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1176},"Proper staffing, long-term funding and deployment planning for firefighters","The Vancouver Liberals would support proper staffing, long-term funding and transparent deployment planning so that firefighters have the resources they need. The party says firefighters answered nearly 74,000 calls last year.","Fire and rescue services report to the city, and Council approves their budget.",{"title":1178,"detail":1179,"authority":1042,"authorityNote":1180},"A long-term methamphetamine strategy for Vancouver and BC","The party calls for a thoughtful, long-term meth strategy that focuses on safety, treatment and recovery in Vancouver and BC, like the plan it says Wab Kinew is working on in Manitoba.","Health services, treatment beds and drug policy are provincial and federal, so the city can only press for this strategy.",{"title":1182,"detail":1183,"authority":881,"authorityNote":1184},"Keep the School Liaison Officer Program","The party supports keeping the School Liaison Officer Program in place, which it says helps make schools safe and builds relationships between students, families and local officers.","The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, so whether the program continues in them is the board's decision.",[1186,1189,1192,1195,1198],{"question":1187,"answer":1188},"What would the Vancouver Liberals do for Vancouver firefighters?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would support proper staffing, long-term funding and transparent deployment planning for firefighters. The party says firefighters answered nearly 74,000 calls last year. Fire and rescue services report to the city, so Council sets their budget (party issues page).",{"question":1190,"answer":1191},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support police liaison officers in schools?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals support keeping the School Liaison Officer Program, which they say builds relationships between students, families and local police officers. The party credits Victoria Jung, now one of its City Council candidates, with support for the program (party issues page).",{"question":1193,"answer":1194},"Who decides whether the School Liaison Officer Program stays in Vancouver schools?","The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, so the program's place in them is a School Board decision. The Vancouver Liberals are running candidates for School Board and say they support keeping it (party issues page).",{"question":1196,"answer":1197},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' position on methamphetamine?","The Vancouver Liberals call for a long-term meth strategy for Vancouver and BC that focuses on safety, treatment and recovery. The party says meth is a leading cause of violent incidents. Treatment and drug policy are provincial and federal, so the city can only ask for this (party issues page).",{"question":1199,"answer":1200},"Why do the Vancouver Liberals mention Wab Kinew and Manitoba?","The Vancouver Liberals point to a methamphetamine plan they say Wab Kinew is working on in Manitoba, as a model for the long-term meth strategy they want for Vancouver and BC (party issues page).","firefighters-meth-and-school-safety","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fpublic-safety--firefighters-meth-and-school-safety","The Vancouver Liberals say they would support proper staffing, long-term funding and open deployment planning for Vancouver firefighters, call for a long-term methamphetamine strategy for Vancouver and BC, and keep the School Liaison Officer Program in Vancouver schools.","IwNfAK7T94lRkRgO5nYMFinSJ-E3uWlQwpkdLzoKKxk",{"id":1206,"title":1207,"checkedAt":363,"context":1208,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":1209,"headline":1213,"issues":1214,"meta":1215,"order":962,"pages":34,"paragraphs":1216,"party":326,"pillar":121,"proposals":1221,"questions":1246,"slug":1265,"source":360,"stem":1266,"summary":1267,"__hash__":1268},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fpublic-safety--intimate-partner-violence.json","Intimate Partner Violence Policy",[],[1210],{"value":1211,"label":1212},"June 2025","When the party says Dr. Kim Stanton's review was released","Vancouver Liberals on intimate partner violence: declare a crisis, push police and Province",[121,272],{},[1217,1218,1219,1220],"The Vancouver Liberals set out their position on intimate partner violence, meaning violence by a current or former partner, in a one-page policy linked from their issues page. The party says it is the only party committed to treating this crisis with the seriousness it deserves. It would have the city declare intimate partner violence a public health and public safety crisis, and support an action plan led by victim-survivors, the people who have lived through this violence.","Most of the policy is about the police. The party would work with the Vancouver Police Board on a strategic plan for how the police respond, with two goals: a more responsive Intimate Partner Violence Unit, and compliance with the Violence Against Women in Relationships (VAWIR) policy. VAWIR is the Ministry of Attorney General's set of guidelines for police and Crown prosecutors. The party wants every incident of domestic and intimate partner violence investigated thoroughly, and says the guidelines are not being followed today.","The policy also says the party supports five policy actions put forward by Battered Women Support Services, though it does not list them. It would ask the Province to act on the recommendations of Dr. Kim Stanton's review of how BC's legal system treats intimate partner violence and sexual violence, which the party says was released in June 2025. It would also ask other governments for action on child care and housing for women, children and gender diverse people who face violence.","Council can pass a declaration on its own. The police are directed by the Vancouver Police Board, so the party could only work with that board. The policy itself describes the review and the child care and housing items as advocacy to other governments, and child care licensing and funding are provincial.",[1222,1226,1230,1234,1238,1242],{"title":1223,"detail":1224,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1225},"Declare intimate partner violence a public health and public safety crisis","The Vancouver Liberals would declare intimate partner violence a public health and public safety crisis.","Council can pass a declaration by its own vote.",{"title":1227,"detail":1228,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1229},"Support a victim-survivor led action plan","The party would support an action plan led by victim-survivors to address what it calls this epidemic.","The policy does not say who would write or fund the plan, and health services are provincial and federal.",{"title":1231,"detail":1232,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1233},"A Police Board strategic plan for a more responsive Intimate Partner Violence Unit","The party would work with the Vancouver Police Board on a strategic plan for the police response to intimate partner violence. The goals are a more responsive Intimate Partner Violence Unit, compliance with the Ministry of Attorney General's Violence Against Women in Relationships (VAWIR) guidelines for police and Crown prosecutors, and thorough investigation of every incident of domestic and intimate partner violence.","The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department, so Council members can only work with the board on this.",{"title":1235,"detail":1236,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1237},"Support the policy actions of Battered Women Support Services","The party says it supports the five policy actions put forward by Battered Women Support Services. The PDF does not list the actions.","The policy does not name the actions, so it is not clear which government would carry each one out.",{"title":1239,"detail":1240,"authority":1042,"authorityNote":1241},"Press the Province on Dr. Kim Stanton's review","The party would advocate for the provincial government to follow through on the recommendations of Dr. Kim Stanton's systemic review of BC's legal system's treatment of intimate partner violence and sexual violence, which the party says was released in June 2025.","The policy itself calls this advocacy to the provincial government, so the city can only press for it.",{"title":1243,"detail":1244,"authority":1042,"authorityNote":1245},"Ask other governments for child care and housing for people facing violence","The party would advocate to other levels of government for action on child care and housing to support women, children and gender diverse people experiencing violence.","The policy calls this advocacy to other levels of government, and child care licensing and funding are provincial.",[1247,1250,1253,1256,1259,1262],{"question":1248,"answer":1249},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' policy on intimate partner violence?","The Vancouver Liberals would declare intimate partner violence a public health and public safety crisis and support an action plan led by victim-survivors. They would also work with the Vancouver Police Board on a more responsive Intimate Partner Violence Unit (party intimate partner violence policy).",{"question":1251,"answer":1252},"What would the Vancouver Liberals change about how police handle domestic violence?","The party would work with the Vancouver Police Board on a strategic plan so that the police follow the Ministry of Attorney General's Violence Against Women in Relationships guidelines and investigate every incident of domestic and intimate partner violence thoroughly. The Vancouver Liberals say those guidelines are not being followed today (party intimate partner violence policy).",{"question":1254,"answer":1255},"Can Vancouver City Council order the police to change how they handle intimate partner violence?","The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department, and Council approves the police budget. That is why the Vancouver Liberals say they would work with the Police Board on a strategic plan, and the city can declare a crisis by its own vote (party intimate partner violence policy).",{"question":1257,"answer":1258},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about Dr. Kim Stanton's review?","The Vancouver Liberals would push the provincial government to follow through on the recommendations of Dr. Kim Stanton's review of how BC's legal system treats intimate partner violence and sexual violence. The party says the review was released in June 2025 (party intimate partner violence policy).",{"question":1260,"answer":1261},"Which group's policy actions do the Vancouver Liberals support on gender-based violence?","The Vancouver Liberals say they support five policy actions put forward by Battered Women Support Services. Their policy does not list what those actions are (party intimate partner violence policy).",{"question":1263,"answer":1264},"Do the Vancouver Liberals have a housing or child care plan for survivors of violence?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would ask other levels of government for action on child care and housing to support women, children and gender diverse people experiencing violence. The policy gives no city program of its own (party intimate partner violence policy).","intimate-partner-violence","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fpublic-safety--intimate-partner-violence","The Vancouver Liberals say they would declare intimate partner violence a public health and public safety crisis, back a victim-survivor led action plan, work with the Vancouver Police Board on a more responsive Intimate Partner Violence Unit, and press the Province to act on Dr. Kim Stanton's review.","zIglalED9p7Cl7nThsoR3HOt02xKKOBhG6jF91JH_ew",{"id":1270,"title":1271,"checkedAt":363,"context":1272,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":1277,"headline":1278,"issues":1279,"meta":1280,"order":613,"pages":34,"paragraphs":1281,"party":326,"pillar":121,"proposals":1286,"questions":1307,"slug":1323,"source":34,"stem":1324,"summary":1325,"__hash__":1326},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fpublic-safety--money-laundering-and-organized-crime.json","Money Laundering and Organized Crime",[1273],{"label":1274,"url":1275,"publisher":1276,"checkedAt":363},"FINTRAC: Canada's financial intelligence unit and anti-money laundering supervisor","https:\u002F\u002Ffintrac-canafe.canada.ca\u002Fintro-eng","Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)",[],"Vancouver Liberals on crime money: ban Bitcoin ATMs, phase out exchanges, payday loans",[121,754],{},[1282,1283,1284,1285],"Money laundering is the Vancouver Liberals' main public safety theme. Laundering means moving money made from crime through ordinary businesses so that it looks legal. The party says it is one of the root causes of crime in the city, and that international drug cartels use Bitcoin to move money. It points to warnings from FINTRAC, the federal agency that supervises Canada's anti-money laundering rules, and from the Vancouver Police Department that Bitcoin ATMs are often linked to laundering, fraud, organized crime and drug trafficking.","The party's answer is to shut down Bitcoin ATMs in Vancouver. It says that hundreds of machines still operate despite a unanimous vote to ban them. It would also gradually eliminate currency exchanges that allow unchecked transactions, and shut down money marts it says are used to launder money, replacing payday loan shops with trusted institutions such as Pigeon Park Savings. It says it would stop what it calls ridiculous ideas like heating city pools with bitcoin servers.","The page frames its approach with a reference to the television crime boss Tony Soprano: the party says it would go after criminals at the top of the crime pyramid and stop the proceeds of crime there. It links the disorder on city streets to what it calls drug kingpins living in penthouses in Coal Harbour and Yaletown.","The city's main tool here is the business licence, which Council controls, along with zoning that decides where kinds of shops may open. Criminal law and the rules on money laundering are federal, so arrests and charges belong to the police and federal agencies.",[1287,1291,1295,1299,1303],{"title":1288,"detail":1289,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1290},"Ban Bitcoin ATMs","The Vancouver Liberals would ban Bitcoin ATMs in Vancouver and take stronger action against criminal activity tied to organized crime and the toxic drug crisis. The party says hundreds of machines still operate despite a unanimous vote to ban them.","The city issues business licences, which it can use on machine operators, while criminal law and money laundering rules are federal.",{"title":1292,"detail":1293,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1294},"Gradually eliminate unchecked currency exchanges","The party would gradually eliminate currency exchanges that provide unchecked transactions, and shut down unregulated currency exchanges it says are used to launder criminal proceeds.","The city licenses businesses and zones commercial land, while rules on money transfers and laundering are federal.",{"title":1296,"detail":1297,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1298},"Replace money marts and payday loan shops with trusted institutions","The party would shut down money marts used to launder criminal proceeds and replace payday loan shops with trusted institutions like Pigeon Park Savings.","The city controls business licences and zoning, and the platform does not say how it would bring a financial institution in to replace these shops.",{"title":1300,"detail":1301,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1302},"Stop heating pools with bitcoin servers","The party says it would shut down ideas like heating city pools with bitcoin servers.","Council approves city projects and the Park Board runs the pools, so either body could decline such a plan.",{"title":1304,"detail":1305,"authority":631,"authorityNote":1306},"Go after criminals at the top of the crime pyramid","The party says its plan is to go after what it calls Tony Soprano level criminals and stop the proceeds of crime at the top of the crime pyramid.","The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department and criminal law is federal, so Council's part is the police budget and city licensing.",[1308,1311,1314,1317,1320],{"question":1309,"answer":1310},"Do the Vancouver Liberals want to ban Bitcoin ATMs?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say they would ban Bitcoin ATMs in Vancouver. The party says FINTRAC and the Vancouver Police Department have linked the machines to money laundering, fraud and organized crime, and that hundreds still operate despite a unanimous vote to ban them (party issues page).",{"question":1312,"answer":1313},"What is the Vancouver Liberals' plan for money laundering?","The Vancouver Liberals would ban Bitcoin ATMs, gradually eliminate currency exchanges that allow unchecked transactions, and replace payday loan shops with trusted institutions such as Pigeon Park Savings. The party calls money laundering a root cause of crime (party issues page).",{"question":1315,"answer":1316},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about payday loan shops?","The Vancouver Liberals say they would replace payday loan shops with trusted institutions like Pigeon Park Savings, and shut down money marts they say are used to launder criminal proceeds. The party does not say how the replacements would be brought in (party issues page).",{"question":1318,"answer":1319},"Can Vancouver City Council stop money laundering on its own?","No. Criminal law and money laundering rules are federal. Council controls business licences and zoning, which is how the Vancouver Liberals' ban on Bitcoin ATMs and currency exchanges would work at city level. The Vancouver Police Board directs the police (party issues page).",{"question":1321,"answer":1322},"What do the Vancouver Liberals mean by going after Tony Soprano level criminals?","Tony Soprano is the crime boss in the television series The Sopranos, and the Vancouver Liberals use the name for the people they want to target. The party says it would go after criminals at the top of the crime pyramid and stop the proceeds of crime there (party issues page).","money-laundering-and-organized-crime","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Fpublic-safety--money-laundering-and-organized-crime","The Vancouver Liberals say they would ban Bitcoin ATMs, gradually eliminate currency exchanges and money marts used to launder money, replace payday loan shops with trusted institutions like Pigeon Park Savings, and stop ideas such as heating pools with bitcoin servers.","9BkoiQo4TV0nkdzZNYCFSy5US8r10LWiu3icHQlinNE",{"id":1328,"title":1329,"checkedAt":363,"context":1330,"document":574,"extension":12,"figures":1332,"headline":1336,"issues":1337,"meta":1338,"order":613,"pages":34,"paragraphs":1339,"party":326,"pillar":464,"proposals":1344,"questions":1362,"slug":1378,"source":34,"stem":1379,"summary":1380,"__hash__":1381},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Ftransit-and-transportation--skytrain-to-ubc-and-yvr.json","SkyTrain to UBC, Business Support and YVR",[1331],{"label":492,"url":493,"publisher":494,"checkedAt":363},[1333],{"value":1334,"label":1335},"50%","Property tax cut the party would give businesses affected by SkyTrain construction","Vancouver Liberals on transit: SkyTrain to UBC first, tax relief near construction",[142,754],{},[1340,1341,1342,1343],"The Vancouver Liberals' transit section is short and centred on one line. The party says transit to UBC has been over capacity for years, and that with major development coming on Broadway and in the Endowment Lands, ending the SkyTrain line at Arbutus no longer works. It would make finishing the SkyTrain to UBC its top transportation priority, linking what it calls Western Canada's largest research centre with Western Canada's largest employment hub.","The party also looks at the cost of building. It says SkyTrain construction often cuts foot traffic and revenue for nearby shops. For businesses affected by new stations, it would reduce property taxes by 50% for as long as construction lasts, and introduce incentives for commercial landlords who lower rent for those tenants. The platform does not say what form those incentives would take.","The section ends with a proposal to rename YVR, Vancouver International Airport, as Terry Fox International Airport, in recognition of Terry Fox's legacy. The party says it would call on leaders and the public to support the change.","Only part of this is up to the city. TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs SkyTrain, so the city can push for the UBC line and plan its streets around it. Property taxes are set by Council. The airport is owned by the federal government through Transport Canada and leased to an airport authority, so the city can only ask for a new name.",[1345,1350,1354,1358],{"title":1346,"detail":1347,"authority":1348,"authorityNote":1349},"Make the SkyTrain to UBC the top transportation priority","The Vancouver Liberals would make finishing the SkyTrain extension to UBC their top transportation priority. The party says stopping the line at Arbutus is no longer practical given crowding on UBC transit and new development on Broadway and in the Endowment Lands.","regional","TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs SkyTrain, so the city can only press for the extension and plan its streets around it.",{"title":1351,"detail":1352,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1353},"Cut property taxes 50% for businesses during SkyTrain construction","The party would reduce property taxes by 50% for businesses affected by new SkyTrain stations, for the duration of construction.","Council sets the property tax rate each year, though the platform does not say which power would let it charge some businesses less.",{"title":1355,"detail":1356,"authority":623,"authorityNote":1357},"Incentives for landlords who lower rent for affected businesses","The party would introduce incentives for commercial landlords to lower rent for tenants affected by SkyTrain construction, so those businesses stay stable while transit is built.","The platform does not name the incentive, and the city's tools for business property are its tax rate, fees and licences.",{"title":1359,"detail":1360,"authority":932,"authorityNote":1361},"Rename YVR as Terry Fox International Airport","The party proposes renaming YVR Airport as Terry Fox International Airport, in recognition of Terry Fox's legacy, and calls on leaders and the public to support the change.","Transport Canada owns the airport and leases it to the Vancouver International Airport Authority, so the city can only ask for the change.",[1363,1366,1369,1372,1375],{"question":1364,"answer":1365},"Do the Vancouver Liberals support the SkyTrain to UBC?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals say finishing the SkyTrain to UBC would be their top transportation priority. The party says stopping the line at Arbutus is no longer practical. TransLink, a regional body, runs SkyTrain, so the city can only press for it (party issues page).",{"question":1367,"answer":1368},"How would the Vancouver Liberals help businesses near SkyTrain construction?","The Vancouver Liberals would cut property taxes by 50% for affected businesses while construction lasts, and offer incentives to commercial landlords who lower their rent. The party does not say what the incentives would be (party issues page).",{"question":1370,"answer":1371},"Do the Vancouver Liberals want to rename Vancouver airport after Terry Fox?","Yes. The Vancouver Liberals propose renaming YVR as Terry Fox International Airport and call on leaders and the public to support it. Transport Canada owns the airport and leases it to an airport authority, so the city can only ask (party issues page).",{"question":1373,"answer":1374},"Can Vancouver City Council build the SkyTrain to UBC?","No. TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs SkyTrain. The Vancouver Liberals say the UBC line would be their top transportation priority, which means the city would push for it and plan its streets around it (party issues page).",{"question":1376,"answer":1377},"What do the Vancouver Liberals say about cycling and roads?","The Vancouver Liberals' transit section covers the SkyTrain to UBC, help for businesses near construction and renaming YVR. It has no commitment on bike lanes or street design. The party's 400 new front-line workers are linked to fixing potholes (party issues page).","skytrain-to-ubc-and-yvr","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fvancouver-liberals\u002Ftransit-and-transportation--skytrain-to-ubc-and-yvr","The Vancouver Liberals say finishing the SkyTrain line to UBC would be their top transportation priority. They would cut property taxes 50% for businesses during station construction, reward landlords who lower rent for affected tenants, and propose renaming YVR as Terry Fox International 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Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002F",{"slug":1392,"name":1393,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1395,"currentRole":1396,"headline":1397,"sample":20,"party":1398},"alfred-chien","Alfred Chien (錢育廷)","School Board","305","Vancouver School Board trustee","Seeking re-election as Vancouver School Board trustee.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},"ABC Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1402,"name":1403,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1404,"currentRole":34,"headline":1405,"sample":20,"party":1406},"alisha-masongsong","Alisha Masongsong","303","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 303.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},"Green Party of Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F",{"slug":1410,"name":1411,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1412,"currentRole":34,"headline":1413,"sample":20,"party":1414},"allan-fawley","Allan Fawley","201","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 201.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1416,"name":1417,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1418,"currentRole":34,"headline":1419,"sample":20,"party":1420},"amanda-bains","Amanda Bains","221","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 221.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1422,"name":1423,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1424,"currentRole":34,"headline":1425,"sample":20,"party":1426},"amanda-boggan","Amanda Boggan","110","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 110.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1428,"name":1429,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1430,"currentRole":34,"headline":1431,"sample":20,"party":1432},"amarys-joseph","Amarys Joseph","319","Vote Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 319.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},"Vote Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votevancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1436,"name":1437,"office":1438,"ballotNumber":1439,"currentRole":1440,"headline":1441,"sample":20,"party":34},"amauri-caliman","Amauri Caliman","Mayor","55","Independent mayoral candidate","Independent candidate for mayor, ballot number 55.",{"slug":1443,"name":1444,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1445,"currentRole":34,"headline":1446,"sample":20,"party":1447},"amir-bajehkian","Amir Bajehkian","223","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 223.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1449,"name":1450,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1451,"currentRole":34,"headline":1452,"sample":20,"party":1453},"andy-lin","Andy Lin","140","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 140.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},"Bright Future Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brightfuturevancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1457,"name":1458,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1459,"currentRole":34,"headline":1460,"sample":20,"party":1461},"annette-reilly","Annette Reilly","102","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 102.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":1463,"name":1464,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1465,"currentRole":34,"headline":1466,"sample":20,"party":1467},"arezo-zarrabian","Arezo Zarrabian","126","ABC Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 126.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1469,"name":1470,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1471,"currentRole":34,"headline":1472,"sample":20,"party":1473},"armor-valor","Armor Valor","125","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 125.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1475,"name":1476,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1477,"currentRole":34,"headline":1478,"sample":20,"party":1479},"bhavna-solecki","Bhavna Solecki","115","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 115.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":1481,"name":1482,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1483,"currentRole":34,"headline":1484,"sample":20,"party":1485},"bilal-khan","Bilal Khan","122","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 122.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},{"slug":1487,"name":1488,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1489,"currentRole":34,"headline":1490,"sample":20,"party":1491},"blair-coleman","Blair Coleman","309","TrueBlue Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 309.",{"name":1492,"url":1493},"TrueBlue Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002F",{"slug":1495,"name":1496,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1497,"currentRole":34,"headline":1498,"sample":20,"party":1499},"breanne-smart","Breanne Smart","216","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 216.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":1501,"name":1502,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1503,"currentRole":34,"headline":1504,"sample":20,"party":1505},"bridget-burns","Bridget Burns","141","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 141.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":1507,"name":1508,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1509,"currentRole":34,"headline":1510,"sample":20,"party":1511},"brynja-marshall","Brynja Marshall","224","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 224.",{"name":1512,"url":1513},"Independent Parks Party","https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002F",{"slug":1515,"name":1516,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1517,"currentRole":34,"headline":1518,"sample":20,"party":1519},"caitlin-stockwell","Caitlin Stockwell","149","OneCity candidate for city council, ballot number 149.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},"OneCity","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1523,"name":1524,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1525,"currentRole":34,"headline":1526,"sample":20,"party":1527},"cam-rothery","Cam Rothery","213","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 213.",{"name":1512,"url":1513},{"slug":1529,"name":1530,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1531,"currentRole":34,"headline":1532,"sample":20,"party":1533},"camil-dumont","Camil Dumont","119","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 119.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":1535,"name":1536,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1537,"currentRole":34,"headline":1538,"sample":20,"party":1539},"charles-kelly","Charles Kelly","117","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 117.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1541,"name":1542,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1543,"currentRole":34,"headline":1544,"sample":20,"party":1545},"cheryl-grant","Cheryl Grant","232","ABC Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 232.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1547,"name":1548,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1549,"currentRole":34,"headline":1550,"sample":20,"party":1551},"chloe-leslie","Chloe Leslie","124","COPE candidate for city council, ballot number 124.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},"COPE","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F",{"slug":1555,"name":1556,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1557,"currentRole":34,"headline":1558,"sample":20,"party":1559},"chris-qiu","Chris Qiu (仇云霞)","227","ABC Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 227.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1561,"name":1562,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1563,"currentRole":34,"headline":1564,"sample":20,"party":1565},"christian-kyle","Christian Kyle","218","ABC Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 218.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1567,"name":1568,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1569,"currentRole":1396,"headline":1397,"sample":20,"party":34},"christopher-jk-richardson","Christopher JK Richardson","317",{"slug":1571,"name":1572,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1573,"currentRole":34,"headline":1574,"sample":20,"party":1575},"christopher-lee","Christopher Lee (李基鵬)","325","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 325.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":1577,"name":1578,"office":1438,"ballotNumber":1579,"currentRole":1580,"headline":1581,"sample":20,"party":1582},"colleen-hardwick","Colleen Hardwick","50","Former Vancouver city councillor","Former Vancouver city councillor running for mayor.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1584,"name":1585,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1586,"currentRole":34,"headline":1587,"sample":20,"party":1588},"darren-boidman","Darren Boidman","300","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 300.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1590,"name":1591,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1592,"currentRole":34,"headline":1593,"sample":20,"party":1594},"david-grewal","David Grewal","138","ABC Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 138.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1596,"name":1597,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1598,"currentRole":34,"headline":1599,"sample":20,"party":1600},"derrick-o-keefe","Derrick O'Keefe","323","COPE candidate for the School Board, ballot number 323.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":1602,"name":1603,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1604,"currentRole":34,"headline":1605,"sample":20,"party":1606},"devin-clemens","Devin Clemens","128","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 128.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1608,"name":1609,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1610,"currentRole":34,"headline":1611,"sample":20,"party":1612},"devyani-singh","Devyani Singh","121","COPE candidate for city council, ballot number 121.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":1614,"name":1615,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1616,"currentRole":34,"headline":1617,"sample":20,"party":1618},"dominic-denofrio","Dominic Denofrio","230","OneCity candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 230.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":1620,"name":1621,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1622,"currentRole":34,"headline":1623,"sample":20,"party":1624},"eric-redmond","Eric Redmond","136","Affordable Housing candidate for city council, ballot number 136.",{"name":1625,"url":1626},"Affordable Housing","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.affordablehousingvancouver.ca\u002F",{"slug":1628,"name":1629,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1630,"currentRole":34,"headline":1631,"sample":20,"party":1632},"frances-bula","Frances Bula","146","OneCity candidate for city council, ballot number 146.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":1634,"name":1635,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1636,"currentRole":34,"headline":1637,"sample":20,"party":1638},"geoff-teoli","Geoff Teoli","105","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 105.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":1640,"name":1641,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1642,"currentRole":34,"headline":1643,"sample":20,"party":34},"guy-dube","Guy Dubé","151","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 151.",{"slug":1645,"name":1646,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1647,"currentRole":34,"headline":1648,"sample":20,"party":1649},"gwen-giesbrecht","Gwen Giesbrecht","324","COPE candidate for the School Board, ballot number 324.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":1651,"name":1652,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1653,"currentRole":34,"headline":1654,"sample":20,"party":1655},"ibrahima-cisse","Ibrahima Cisse","148","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 148.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},{"slug":1657,"name":1658,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1659,"currentRole":34,"headline":1660,"sample":20,"party":1661},"iona-bonamis","Iona Bonamis (陶思穎)","113","OneCity candidate for city council, ballot number 113.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":1663,"name":1664,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1665,"currentRole":34,"headline":1666,"sample":20,"party":1667},"isabel-ochoa-prieto","Isabel Ochoa Prieto","308","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 308.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1669,"name":1670,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1671,"currentRole":34,"headline":1672,"sample":20,"party":1673},"ishi-dinim","Ishi Dinim","326","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 326.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1675,"name":1676,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1677,"currentRole":34,"headline":1678,"sample":20,"party":1679},"jamie-han","Jamie Han","205","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 205.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":1681,"name":1682,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1683,"currentRole":34,"headline":1684,"sample":20,"party":1685},"jarrett-hagglund","Jarrett Hagglund","100","OneCity candidate for city council, ballot number 100.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":1687,"name":1688,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1689,"currentRole":1690,"headline":1691,"sample":20,"party":1692},"jas-virdi","Jas Virdi","228","Vancouver Park Board commissioner","Seeking re-election as Vancouver Park Board commissioner.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1694,"name":1695,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1696,"currentRole":34,"headline":1697,"sample":20,"party":1698},"jay-bailey","Jay Bailey","234","ABC Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 234.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1700,"name":1701,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1702,"currentRole":34,"headline":1703,"sample":20,"party":1704},"jessica-walton","Jessica Walton","118","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 118.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1706,"name":1707,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1708,"currentRole":34,"headline":1709,"sample":20,"party":34},"job-zhao","Job Zhao","108","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 108.",{"slug":1711,"name":1712,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1713,"currentRole":34,"headline":1714,"sample":20,"party":1715},"john-boychuk","John Boychuk","132","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 132.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":1717,"name":1718,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1719,"currentRole":34,"headline":1720,"sample":20,"party":1721},"john-coupar","John Coupar","134","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 134.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1723,"name":1724,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1725,"currentRole":34,"headline":1726,"sample":20,"party":1727},"john-irwin","John Irwin","217","OneCity candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 217.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":1729,"name":1730,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1731,"currentRole":34,"headline":1732,"sample":20,"party":34},"john-jones","John Jones","104","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 104.",{"slug":1734,"name":1735,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1736,"currentRole":34,"headline":1737,"sample":20,"party":1738},"jon-girard","Jon Girard","204","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 204.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1740,"name":1741,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1742,"currentRole":34,"headline":1743,"sample":20,"party":1744},"jonathan-weisman","Jonathan Weisman","127","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 127.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1746,"name":1747,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1748,"currentRole":34,"headline":1749,"sample":20,"party":1750},"josh-gordon","Josh Gordon","150","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 150.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1752,"name":1753,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1754,"currentRole":34,"headline":1755,"sample":20,"party":1756},"joshua-cameron","Joshua Cameron","329","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 329.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1758,"name":1759,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1760,"currentRole":34,"headline":1761,"sample":20,"party":1762},"joyce-gillespie","Joyce Gillespie","101","ABC Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 101.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1764,"name":1765,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1766,"currentRole":34,"headline":1767,"sample":20,"party":1768},"judith-kasiama","Judith Kasiama","120","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 120.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},{"slug":1770,"name":1771,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1772,"currentRole":34,"headline":1773,"sample":20,"party":1774},"julie-strilesky","Julie Strilesky","330","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 330.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":1776,"name":31,"office":1438,"ballotNumber":1777,"currentRole":1778,"headline":1779,"sample":20,"party":1780},"kareem-allam","56","Political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff","Vancouver Liberals candidate for mayor, ballot number 56.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1782,"name":1783,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1784,"currentRole":34,"headline":1785,"sample":20,"party":1786},"kat-nystedt","Kat Nystedt","322","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 322.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1788,"name":1789,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1790,"currentRole":34,"headline":1791,"sample":20,"party":1792},"kathleen-larsen","Kathleen 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(周楠)","144","Vancouver city councillor","Seeking re-election as Vancouver city councillor.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1820,"name":1821,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1822,"currentRole":34,"headline":1823,"sample":20,"party":1824},"leonard-vanderstar","Leonard Vanderstar","202","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 202.",{"name":1512,"url":1513},{"slug":1826,"name":1827,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1828,"currentRole":34,"headline":1829,"sample":20,"party":1830},"lina-vargas","Lina Vargas","327","ABC Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 327.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1832,"name":1833,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1834,"currentRole":1816,"headline":1817,"sample":20,"party":1835},"lisa-dominato","Lisa Dominato","137",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1837,"name":1838,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1839,"currentRole":34,"headline":1840,"sample":20,"party":1841},"lorraine-lowe","Lorraine Lowe (刘黛明)","129","ABC Vancouver candidate for 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209.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1866,"name":1867,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1868,"currentRole":34,"headline":1869,"sample":20,"party":1870},"mark-halyk","Mark Halyk","208","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 208.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1872,"name":1873,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1874,"currentRole":34,"headline":1875,"sample":20,"party":1876},"matt-kroeker","Matt Kroeker","312","ABC Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 312.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1878,"name":1879,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1880,"currentRole":34,"headline":1881,"sample":20,"party":1882},"mayeli-alvarez","Mayeli Alvarez","219","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 219.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1884,"name":1885,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1886,"currentRole":34,"headline":1887,"sample":20,"party":1888},"melanie-cheng","Melanie Cheng","314","COPE candidate for the School Board, ballot number 314.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":1890,"name":1891,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1892,"currentRole":34,"headline":1893,"sample":20,"party":1894},"michael-robert-caditz","Michael Robert Caditz","226","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 226.",{"name":1512,"url":1513},{"slug":1896,"name":1897,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1898,"currentRole":34,"headline":1899,"sample":20,"party":1900},"michael-wu","Michael Wu","145","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 145.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1902,"name":1903,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1904,"currentRole":1816,"headline":1817,"sample":20,"party":1905},"mike-klassen","Mike Klassen","103",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1907,"name":1908,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1909,"currentRole":34,"headline":1910,"sample":20,"party":1911},"mohadeseh-gharib-p-arasi","Mohadeseh Gharib P. Arasi","152","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 152.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},{"slug":1913,"name":1914,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1915,"currentRole":34,"headline":1916,"sample":20,"party":1917},"moira-stilwell","Moira Stilwell","139","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 139.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1919,"name":1920,"office":1438,"ballotNumber":1921,"currentRole":1922,"headline":1923,"sample":20,"party":1924},"muhammad-ahmad","Muhammad Ahmad","53","Communications professional and community advocate","Communications professional and community advocate running for mayor.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},{"slug":1926,"name":1927,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1928,"currentRole":34,"headline":1929,"sample":20,"party":1930},"naomi-chocyk","Naomi Chocyk","154","TrueBlue Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 154.",{"name":1492,"url":1493},{"slug":1932,"name":1933,"office":526,"ballotNumber":1934,"currentRole":34,"headline":1935,"sample":20,"party":1936},"niknaz-alemi","Niknaz Alemi","231","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 231.",{"name":1512,"url":1513},{"slug":1938,"name":1939,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1940,"currentRole":34,"headline":1941,"sample":20,"party":34},"noi-soudarack","Noi Soudarack","153","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 153.",{"slug":1943,"name":1944,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1945,"currentRole":34,"headline":1946,"sample":20,"party":1947},"noosha-mehdian","Noosha Mehdian","313","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 313.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":1949,"name":1950,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1951,"currentRole":34,"headline":1952,"sample":20,"party":34},"parris-j-williams","Parris J. Williams","143","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 143.",{"slug":1954,"name":1955,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1956,"currentRole":34,"headline":1957,"sample":20,"party":1958},"patrick-sauriol","Patrick Sauriol","142","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 142.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":1960,"name":1961,"office":1438,"ballotNumber":1962,"currentRole":1816,"headline":1963,"sample":20,"party":1964},"pete-fry","Pete Fry","51","Vancouver city councillor running for mayor.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":1966,"name":1967,"office":382,"ballotNumber":1968,"currentRole":1816,"headline":1817,"sample":20,"party":1969},"peter-meiszner","Peter Meiszner","109",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1971,"name":1972,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":1973,"currentRole":1396,"headline":1397,"sample":20,"party":1974},"preeti-faridkot","Preeti 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316.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":1999,"name":2000,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2001,"currentRole":34,"headline":2002,"sample":20,"party":34},"rollergirl","ROLLERGIRL","133","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 133.",{"slug":2004,"name":2005,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":2006,"currentRole":34,"headline":2007,"sample":20,"party":2008},"rory-brown","Rory Brown","302","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 302.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":2010,"name":2011,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2012,"currentRole":34,"headline":2013,"sample":20,"party":2014},"sacia-burton","Sacia Burton","215","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 215.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":2016,"name":2017,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2018,"currentRole":1816,"headline":1817,"sample":20,"party":2019},"sarah-kirby-yung","Sarah 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Breshears","321","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 321.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":2048,"name":2049,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":2050,"currentRole":34,"headline":2051,"sample":20,"party":2052},"shirley-sio","Shirley Sio (邵己凌)","310","ABC Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 310.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":2054,"name":2055,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2056,"currentRole":34,"headline":2057,"sample":20,"party":2058},"solomon-yi-kieran","Solomon Yi-Kieran","155","COPE candidate for city council, ballot number 155.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":2060,"name":2061,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2062,"currentRole":34,"headline":2063,"sample":20,"party":2064},"spencer-van-vloten","Spencer van Vloten","212","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 212.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":2066,"name":2067,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2068,"currentRole":34,"headline":2069,"sample":20,"party":2070},"stephanie-smith","Stephanie Smith","147","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 147.",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":2072,"name":2073,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2074,"currentRole":34,"headline":2075,"sample":20,"party":2076},"stephen-menon","Stephen Menon","200","Vote Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 200.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":2078,"name":2079,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2080,"currentRole":34,"headline":2081,"sample":20,"party":2082},"stephen-molnar","Stephen Molnar","207","ABC Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 207.",{"name":1399,"url":1400},{"slug":2084,"name":2085,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":2086,"currentRole":34,"headline":2087,"sample":20,"party":2088},"steve-cardwell","Steve Cardwell","328","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 328.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":2090,"name":2091,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2092,"currentRole":34,"headline":2093,"sample":20,"party":2094},"steve-jedreicich","Steve Jedreicich","112","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 112.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":2096,"name":2097,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2098,"currentRole":34,"headline":2099,"sample":20,"party":2100},"summit-wannamaker","Summit Wannamaker","210","Vote Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 210.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":2102,"name":2103,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":2104,"currentRole":1396,"headline":1397,"sample":20,"party":2105},"suzie-mah","Suzie Mah","304",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":2107,"name":2108,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2109,"currentRole":34,"headline":2110,"sample":20,"party":2111},"t-uy-t-tanat-cease-wyss","T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss","203","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 203.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":2113,"name":2114,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2115,"currentRole":34,"headline":2116,"sample":20,"party":2117},"tamiko-suzuki","Tamiko Suzuki","206","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 206.",{"name":1552,"url":1553},{"slug":2119,"name":2120,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":2121,"currentRole":34,"headline":2122,"sample":20,"party":2123},"tasha-doucas","Tasha Doucas","306","Vote Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 306.",{"name":1433,"url":1434},{"slug":2125,"name":2126,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2127,"currentRole":1690,"headline":1691,"sample":20,"party":2128},"tom-digby","Tom Digby","222",{"name":1407,"url":1408},{"slug":2130,"name":2131,"office":1394,"ballotNumber":2132,"currentRole":34,"headline":2133,"sample":20,"party":2134},"travers-fenton","Travers Fenton","307","TrueBlue Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 307.",{"name":1492,"url":1493},{"slug":2136,"name":2137,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2138,"currentRole":34,"headline":2139,"sample":20,"party":2140},"tricia-barker","Tricia Barker","229","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 229.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":2142,"name":2143,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2144,"currentRole":34,"headline":2145,"sample":20,"party":2146},"tyler-petersen","Tyler Petersen","214","OneCity candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 214.",{"name":1520,"url":1521},{"slug":2148,"name":2149,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2150,"currentRole":1396,"headline":2151,"sample":20,"party":2152},"victoria-jung","Victoria Jung","107","Vancouver School Board trustee running for city council.",{"name":51,"url":330},{"slug":2154,"name":2155,"office":526,"ballotNumber":2156,"currentRole":34,"headline":2157,"sample":20,"party":2158},"wah-gee","Wah Gee","233","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 233.",{"name":1389,"url":1390},{"slug":2160,"name":2161,"office":382,"ballotNumber":2162,"currentRole":34,"headline":2163,"sample":20,"party":2164},"yadwinder-mangat","Yadwinder Mangat","116","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 116.",{"name":1454,"url":1455},[2166,2591,2736,2960,3302,3637,3889,4201,4759,5013,5172],{"id":2167,"aliases":2168,"checkedAt":21,"declaredColour":2169,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":2174,"history":2175,"leadership":2179,"logo":34,"meta":2183,"money":2184,"name":1399,"news":2189,"overview":2193,"palette":2197,"platform":2200,"questions":2465,"record":2502,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":1399,"slug":2549,"sources":2550,"stem":2588,"summary":2589,"website":1400,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":2590},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fabc-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":2170,"note":2171,"cites":2172},"#0D6068","Assigned by voche.me. No brand colour could be read from the party site.",[2173],"abc-home","The governing party, running the mayor and 23 more candidates",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2176,"gaps":2177,"entries":2178},[23,24],[26],[],[2180],{"role":2181,"name":1801,"cites":2182},"Mayor and mayoral candidate",[2173,33],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2185,"gaps":2186,"searchUrl":43,"filings":2187,"notes":2188},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2190,"gaps":2191,"entries":2192},[54],[56],[],[2194,2195,2196],"ABC Vancouver goes into the October 17, 2026 election as the governing party. Ken Sim has been mayor since 2022 and is running again at ballot number 54.","ABC is running 24 candidates, more than any other party: the mayor, 9 for City Council, 7 for Park Board and 7 for School Board. It is one of only two parties running a full or near-full slate in all four races.","Its published platform is organised into five headings: public safety and street disorder, affordability and accountability at City Hall, jobs and economy, restoring Vancouver, and raising Vancouver. Several of its commitments carry a number attached, which is unusual on this ballot and makes them easier to check later.",{"accent":2170,"onAccent":65,"tint":2198,"ink":2199},"#E3F5F7","#1F727A",[2201,2223,2245,2290,2307,2351,2373,2414,2422,2441],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":2202,"proposals":2206,"questions":2213,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2214,"gaps":2218,"headline":2221,"summary":2222},[2203,2204,2205],"Housing does not have its own heading in ABC’s published platform. The one commitment that bears on it directly is a promise to make permitting faster and easier, which sits under \"Restoring Vancouver\".","We looked for a housing target, an affordable housing commitment and a rental protection policy on the party website on September 22, 2026 and found none published.","This is a finding about the published platform on that date, and it is not a statement about what ABC would do in office.",[2207],{"title":2208,"detail":2209,"cites":2210,"authority":2212},"Make City Hall permitting faster and easier","The platform commits to making permitting faster and easier and to continuing to streamline City Hall operations.",[2211],"abc-platform","Council and city staff control the permit process.",[],[2215,2216,2217],"The ABC Vancouver platform page","The ABC Vancouver home page","A web search for ABC Vancouver housing policy, September 2026",[91,2219,2220],"No affordable or non-market housing commitment is published.","No rental or tenant protection policy is published.","Faster permits, and no published housing target","ABC’s published platform commits to making City Hall permitting faster and easier. It does not publish a housing supply target, an affordability target or a rental policy.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":2224,"proposals":2227,"questions":2237,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2238,"gaps":2239,"headline":2243,"summary":2244},[2225,2226],"ABC does not publish a separate homelessness section. Its commitments that touch the subject are the same ones that appear under public safety: more than 100 involuntary care beds, moving drug consumption sites away from schools and parks, and good neighbour agreements for public housing where there is street disorder.","We found no published commitment on shelter spaces, encampments or supportive housing supply on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[2228,2233],{"title":2229,"detail":2230,"cites":2231,"authority":2232},"Fight for 100 plus involuntary care beds","The same commitment that appears under public safety. ABC would press the province to fund more than 100 involuntary care beds.",[2211,2173],"Provincial.",{"title":2234,"detail":2235,"cites":2236},"Non-profit oversight for public housing with street disorder","ABC would add non-profit oversight and a good neighbour agreement for all public housing where street disorder is an issue.",[2211],[],[2215,2216],[2240,2241,2242],"No shelter space commitment is published.","No supportive housing supply commitment is published.","No encampment policy is published.","Treatment beds and drug sites, handled as a safety question","ABC addresses homelessness and drugs inside its public safety heading, through involuntary care beds, drug site locations and oversight of public housing.",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":2246,"proposals":2250,"questions":2276,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2285,"gaps":2287,"headline":2288,"summary":2289},[2247,2248,2249],"Public safety is the first heading on ABC’s published platform, and it is the area where the party has put the most specific commitments in writing.","Two of these reach beyond what a city council can do on its own. Involuntary care beds and drug consumption site rules are provincial decisions. ABC’s own wording is that it will \"fight for\" the beds, which is a request to the province rather than a promise the city can keep by itself.","ABC also placed two questions on the October 17 ballot alongside the candidate races. One asks whether the city should strengthen its laws against open-air hard drug use. The other asks whether the city should formally request that the province convert part of the old St Paul’s Hospital, or a similar site, into a secure facility with voluntary and involuntary care beds.",[2251,2257,2262,2267,2272],{"title":2252,"detail":2253,"cites":2254,"authority":2256},"Ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces","ABC would change city bylaws to forbid using hard drugs in public. A plebiscite question on the same subject appears on the October 17 ballot.",[2211,2255],"plebiscite","City Council sets bylaws. Drug possession law is federal and provincial.",{"title":2258,"detail":2259,"cites":2260,"authority":2261},"Give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs","The platform commits to \"give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs\". The wording of the tool is not published.",[2211],"The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department. Council approves its budget.",{"title":2263,"detail":2264,"cites":2265,"cost":135,"authority":2266},"Fight for 100 plus involuntary care beds in Vancouver","ABC would press the province to fund more than 100 involuntary care beds for people with severe substance use and mental health disorders.",[2211,2173],"Health care, including involuntary care, is a provincial responsibility.",{"title":2268,"detail":2269,"cites":2270,"authority":2271},"Move drug consumption sites away from schools and parks","The platform commits to \"mandate provincial drug consumption sites away from schools & parks\".",[2211],"These sites are approved and funded provincially.",{"title":2273,"detail":2274,"cites":2275},"Good neighbour agreements for public housing with street disorder","ABC would add non-profit oversight and require a good neighbour agreement for all public housing where street disorder is an issue.",[2211],[2277,2281],{"question":2278,"answer":2279,"cites":2280},"Can a city council ban drug use in public by itself?","A council can pass a bylaw about behaviour in public space, and it can direct city staff to enforce it. It cannot change the criminal law, and it cannot order the police, because the Vancouver Police Board directs the department. ABC also put the question to voters as a plebiscite on October 17, which does not by itself change any law.",[2211,2255],{"question":2282,"answer":2283,"cites":2284},"What are involuntary care beds?","These are hospital or facility beds where a person can be kept and treated without agreeing to it, under provincial mental health law. Vancouver city council does not run them, fund them or decide who goes into one. A city can ask the province for more of them, which is what ABC has committed to do.",[2211],[2215,2216,2286],"The City of Vancouver notice on the plebiscite questions",[],"Ban open-air hard drug use and give police a seizure tool","ABC would ban hard drug use in public spaces, push the province for more than 100 involuntary care beds, and move drug consumption sites away from schools and parks.",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":2291,"proposals":2293,"questions":2302,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2303,"gaps":2304,"headline":2305,"summary":2306},[2292],"ABC’s published transport commitments come from the affordability and infrastructure parts of its platform rather than a transport section.",[2294,2298],{"title":2295,"detail":2296,"cites":2297},"Prioritise road and sidewalk repair","The platform commits to prioritising investments in roads and sidewalk repairs and renewal.",[2211],{"title":2299,"detail":2300,"cites":2301},"A city-wide universal parking app","ABC would mandate a single city-wide parking app alongside removing pay parking at beaches and community centres.",[2211],[],[2215],[153,154],"Parking fees removed, roads and sidewalks repaired","ABC’s transport commitments are about parking and road repair. It publishes no transit, cycling or road safety commitment.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":2308,"proposals":2312,"questions":2336,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2346,"gaps":2348,"headline":2349,"summary":2350},[2309,2310,2311],"ABC’s parks and recreation commitments sit under two platform headings, \"Jobs & Economy\" and \"Restoring Vancouver\", rather than under a parks heading.","This is the largest dollar figure any party has attached to a single commitment on this ballot. The platform does not say which five community centres, or over how many years the $400 million would be spent.","ABC also asked the province to abolish the elected Park Board during the last term. The mayor has since said he will not try to eliminate the board if re-elected. Seven Park Board seats are being filled on October 17 and ABC is running seven candidates for them.",[2313,2319,2324,2328,2332],{"title":2314,"detail":2315,"cites":2316,"cost":2317,"authority":2318},"Rebuild or revamp 5 community centres","The platform commits to rebuilding or revamping five community centres for $400 million, and to starting a second phase of another five in the next capital plan.",[2211],"$400 million","Capital spending is approved by Council through the capital plan.",{"title":2320,"detail":2321,"cites":2322,"cost":2323},"Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50 metre pool","The commitment is worded \"Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50M pool, at cost\".",[2211],"Stated as \"at cost\"",{"title":2325,"detail":2326,"cites":2327},"Deliver the River District Community Centre","The platform commits to delivering the River District Community Centre.",[2211],{"title":2329,"detail":2330,"cites":2331,"cost":135},"Create a playground improvement fund","ABC would create a fund for playground improvements. No amount is published.",[2211],{"title":2333,"detail":2334,"cites":2335},"More pools, rinks and ice time","The platform commits to revamping and investing in recreational facilities, naming more pools, rinks and ice time.",[2211],[2337,2341],{"question":2338,"answer":2339,"cites":2340},"Which five community centres would be rebuilt?","The platform does not name them. It commits $400 million to five, and a second group of five in the next capital plan. We checked the platform page on September 22, 2026 and no list was published.",[2211],{"question":2342,"answer":2343,"cites":2344},"Does ABC still want to abolish the Park Board?","ABC-led council asked the province to change the Vancouver Charter to remove the elected Park Board during the last term. Mayor Ken Sim has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected. The board still exists and seven commissioners are being elected on October 17.",[2345],"cbc-parkboard",[2215,2347],"News coverage of the Park Board governance question",[],"$400 million to rebuild five community centres","ABC commits $400 million to rebuild or revamp five community centres, with another five in the next capital plan, plus a rebuilt Aquatic Centre with a 50 metre pool.",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":2352,"proposals":2355,"questions":2369,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2370,"gaps":2371,"headline":2357,"summary":2372},[2353,2354],"ABC is running seven School Board candidates. Its school commitments appear under the \"Restoring Vancouver\" and \"Raising Vancouver\" headings of its platform rather than a schools heading.","The school tax commitment is a request to the province. School tax is collected on Vancouver properties and goes into provincial general revenue. A school board can ask for that to change; it cannot change it.",[2356,2361,2365],{"title":2357,"detail":2358,"cites":2359,"authority":2360},"Keep Vancouver school tax in Vancouver","The platform commits to \"fight to ensure provincial school tax collected in Vancouver goes to Vancouver schools\".",[2211],"School tax and the funding formula are set by the province.",{"title":2362,"detail":2363,"cites":2364,"cost":135},"Increase teaching assistance in classrooms","ABC commits to \"increase teaching assistance by investing in our classrooms\".",[2211],{"title":2366,"detail":2367,"cites":2368},"A performance based action committee for families","The platform commits to creating \"a strict performance based action committee to set better metrics for families\".",[2211],[],[2215],[],"ABC would fight to keep provincial school tax collected in Vancouver in Vancouver schools, increase classroom teaching assistance, and bring swimming lessons into the school day.",{"issue":217,"paragraphs":2374,"proposals":2378,"questions":2401,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2410,"gaps":2411,"headline":2412,"summary":2413},[2375,2376,2377],"ABC has published a number here rather than a direction, which makes it one of the few commitments on this ballot that can be checked against a council vote later.","The two pages do not agree on the year. The platform page says \"0% property tax increase in 2027 for buyers & renters\". The party home page describes the same commitment as applying to 2026. We have recorded the platform page wording, checked on September 22, 2026.","A property tax freeze holds the rate, not the bill. A household’s bill can still move if the assessed value of its property changes relative to other properties in the city.",[2379,2385,2389,2393,2397],{"title":2380,"detail":2381,"cites":2382,"cost":135,"authority":2383,"deadline":2384},"0% property tax increase in 2027","The platform commits to a zero percent property tax increase in 2027 for buyers and renters.",[2211],"Council sets the property tax rate each year.","2027 budget",{"title":2386,"detail":2387,"cites":2388},"Remove pay parking at beaches and community centres","ABC would end pay parking at beaches and community centres and require a single city-wide parking app.",[2211],{"title":2390,"detail":2391,"cites":2392},"End residential parking permit fees","The platform commits to ending the fee for a residential parking permit.",[2211],{"title":2394,"detail":2395,"cites":2396},"Expand VANSTAT to weekly check-ins","ABC would expand its department head meetings, which it calls VANSTAT, to a weekly check-in.",[2211],{"title":2398,"detail":2399,"cites":2400},"Spend only on municipal responsibilities","The platform commits to ensuring \"taxpayer dollars only go to municipal responsibilities\".",[2211],[2402,2406],{"question":2403,"answer":2404,"cites":2405},"Does a tax freeze mean my bill will not go up?","No. A freeze holds the overall rate the city collects. Your own bill depends on how your property is assessed compared with everyone else’s. If your assessment rises faster than the city average, your bill can rise in a year when the rate is frozen.",[2211],{"question":2407,"answer":2408,"cites":2409},"Which year does the freeze apply to?","ABC’s platform page says 2027. Its home page describes the same commitment as 2026. Both were checked on September 22, 2026. We have not asked the party which is correct.",[2211,2173],[2215,2216],[],"A zero percent property tax increase, and parking fees removed","ABC’s published platform commits to a 0% property tax increase in 2027, removing pay parking at beaches and community centres, and ending residential parking permit fees.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":2415,"proposals":2416,"questions":2417,"state":276,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2418,"gaps":2420},[],[],[],[2215,2216,2419],"A web search for ABC Vancouver climate policy, September 2026",[2421],"No climate or building emissions commitment appears in the published platform.",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":2423,"proposals":2425,"questions":2434,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2435,"gaps":2436,"headline":2439,"summary":2440},[2424],"ABC’s culture commitments sit under its \"Jobs & Economy\" heading and are framed around the street and the events calendar rather than around artists or venues.",[2426,2430],{"title":2427,"detail":2428,"cites":2429},"Revitalise Granville Street and its pedestrian zone","The platform commits to revitalising Granville Street and its pedestrian zone.",[2211],{"title":2431,"detail":2432,"cites":2433,"cost":135},"A new funding model for major events","ABC commits to \"a new era of cooperation between the City & major events, along with a new funding model\".",[2211],[],[2215],[2437,2438],"No commitment on affordable artist or rehearsal space is published.","No arts grant commitment is published.","Revitalise Granville Street and back major events","ABC commits to revitalising Granville Street and its pedestrian zone, and to a new funding model for major events.",{"issue":272,"paragraphs":2442,"proposals":2446,"questions":2461,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2462,"gaps":2463,"headline":2448,"summary":2464},[2443,2444,2445],"The platform wording is \"Doubling down on childcare (double our 2000 new spaces)\". Read plainly that is a commitment to a further 2,000 spaces.","The claim that 2,000 spaces were created in the last term is ABC’s own account of its record. We have not checked it against city records.","A city creates child care spaces through zoning, city-owned buildings and money collected from developers. Licensing, subsidies and operating funding come from the province, so a city can build a room but cannot on its own decide what a parent pays.",[2447,2452,2456],{"title":2448,"detail":2449,"cites":2450,"cost":135,"authority":2451},"Double the 2,000 new child care spaces","The platform commits to doubling what it describes as 2,000 new spaces created in the last term.",[2211],"The city creates spaces. The province licenses them and sets funding.",{"title":2453,"detail":2454,"cites":2455},"Expand after-school programming","ABC commits to expanding after-school programming and keeping extracurricular activities in Vancouver.",[2211],{"title":2457,"detail":2458,"cites":2459,"authority":2460},"Bring swimming lessons into the school day","The platform commits to bringing swimming lessons into the school day.",[2211],"Delivered with the Board of Education and the Park Board.",[],[2215],[],"ABC commits to \"doubling down on childcare\", which its platform defines as doubling the 2,000 new spaces it says it created.",[2466,2470,2474,2478,2482,2486,2490,2494,2498],{"question":2467,"answer":2468,"cites":2469},"Who leads ABC Vancouver?","Ken Sim is the mayor of Vancouver and ABC’s mayoral candidate. He appears at ballot number 54. Whether he is also the registered leader of the elector organisation is a separate question we have not checked.",[2173,33],{"question":2471,"answer":2472,"cites":2473},"How many candidates is ABC running?","24, the largest slate on the ballot: the mayor, 9 for City Council, 7 for Park Board and 7 for School Board.",[33],{"question":2475,"answer":2476,"cites":2477},"What is ABC’s biggest single spending commitment?","$400 million to rebuild or revamp five community centres, with a second group of five in the next capital plan. The platform does not name the five centres or give a timeline.",[2211],{"question":2479,"answer":2480,"cites":2481},"Does ABC promise to freeze property taxes?","Its platform page commits to a 0% property tax increase in 2027. Its home page describes the same commitment as applying to 2026. We recorded the platform page wording on September 22, 2026.",[2211,2173],{"question":2483,"answer":2484,"cites":2485},"What does ABC say about drugs in public?","It would ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces, give police a tool to seize hard drugs, and move provincial drug consumption sites away from schools and parks. A plebiscite question on the same subject is on the October 17 ballot.",[2211,2255],{"question":2487,"answer":2488,"cites":2489},"Does ABC have a published housing plan?","Not as a section of its platform. The one published commitment that bears on housing is to make permitting faster and easier. We found no supply target, affordability target or rental policy on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[2211],{"question":2491,"answer":2492,"cites":2493},"Does ABC have a published climate policy?","We found none on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[2173,2211],{"question":2495,"answer":2496,"cites":2497},"Is ABC still trying to abolish the Park Board?","ABC-led council asked the province to remove the elected Park Board during the last term. Mayor Ken Sim has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected. Seven commissioners are being elected on October 17 and ABC is running seven candidates.",[2345],{"question":2499,"answer":2500,"cites":2501},"Where can I see ABC’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is not due until about mid-January 2027, so what is on the record now is the yearly reports and the 2022 election filings.",[317,318],{"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":2503,"searched":2504,"gaps":2508,"entries":2511},"2026-09-23",[2505,2506,2507],"The party website and platform pages","City of Vancouver council decision and budget-approval records","Independent news coverage of council votes (CBC, Daily Hive)",[2509,2510],"Police-hiring and mental-health-worker hiring figures were checked against multiple sources that disagreed on the exact current count; they are not included here until a single primary source (VPD Board or Vancouver Coastal Health reporting) can be confirmed directly.","Co-op housing and childcare-space completion figures from third-party coverage were not independently confirmed against a City or BC Housing primary source and are not included here.",[2512,2518,2524,2530,2536,2543],{"date":2513,"title":2514,"body":2515,"cites":2516},"2023-03-01","2023 property tax increase: 10.7%, the largest in over a decade","ABC Vancouver's council majority approved a 10.7% property tax increase for 2023, up from the 9.7% in the original draft budget after an amendment moved by Mayor Ken Sim. It was the largest single-year increase in more than ten years, following a mayoral campaign that had not proposed a tax increase of this size.",[2517],"cov-2023-budget",{"date":2519,"title":2520,"body":2521,"cites":2522},"2023-12-14","2024 property tax increase: 7.5%, passed 8 to 3","Council approved a 7.5% property tax increase for the 2024 operating budget, made up of 1% for infrastructure renewal, 3% for Vancouver Police Department funding and 3.5% for general City services. The budget motion passed 8 to 3, with Mayor Ken Sim and the ABC Vancouver council majority voting in favour.",[2523],"cov-2024-budget",{"date":2525,"title":2526,"body":2527,"cites":2528},"2024-12-10","2025 property tax increase: 3.9%","Council approved a 3.9% property tax increase for the 2025 budget, a smaller increase than either of the two prior years, made up of 2.9% for City services and 1% for infrastructure renewal.",[2529],"cov-2025-budget",{"date":2531,"title":2532,"body":2533,"cites":2534},"2025-11-25","2026 property tax increase: 0%, after three straight increases","Council approved a 0% property tax increase for 2026, following Mayor Ken Sim's 'zero means zero' motion passed in October 2025. The vote on the final budget was 7 to 4, with councillors Rebecca Bligh, Pete Fry, Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney voting against. Over the full term, the combined increase across 2023 through 2025 was 10.7%, 7.5% and 3.9%, before the 2026 freeze.",[2535],"cov-2026-budget",{"date":2537,"title":2538,"body":2539,"cites":2540},"2025-02-10","Permit processing times improved but most targets remain unmet","The council-adopted 3-3-3-1 permitting targets set goals of 3 days for simple renovation permits, 3 weeks for single-family and townhouse permits, 3 months for mid-rise buildings on land already zoned, and 1 year for high-rises. By 2025, the City reported 92% of simple renovation permits issued within 3 days, meeting that target. Single-family home permits improved from 250 days in 2022 to 160 days in 2025, a 36% reduction, but remained well above the 21-day (3-week) target.",[2541,2542],"cov-permit-update","dh-93-promises",{"date":2544,"title":2545,"body":2546,"cites":2547},"2026-06-01","Multiplex permit approvals reported 50% faster","The City reported that multiplex permit approval times had improved by 50% as of June 2026, part of the same permitting-speed push behind the 3-3-3-1 targets adopted under the ABC-majority council.",[2548],"cov-multiplex-permits","abc-vancouver",[2551,2553,2556,2559,2563,2564,2565,2566,2567,2570,2573,2576,2579,2582,2585],{"id":2173,"label":2552,"url":1400,"publisher":1399,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"ABC Vancouver home page",{"id":2211,"label":2554,"url":2555,"publisher":1399,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"ABC Vancouver platform","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002Fplatform",{"id":2255,"label":2557,"url":2558,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"Council adds plebiscite question to Vancouver election ballot","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-adds-plebiscite-question-to-vancouver-election-ballot-august-2026.aspx",{"id":2345,"label":2560,"url":2561,"publisher":2562,"kind":336,"checkedAt":21},"Vancouver mayor says he will not try to eliminate the park board if re-elected","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fken-sim-park-board-stays-9.7268871","CBC News",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":2517,"label":2568,"url":2569,"publisher":2562,"kind":336,"publishedAt":2513,"checkedAt":2503},"Vancouver passes new budget with 10.7% property tax increase","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fvancouver-budget-property-tax-increase-1.6763926",{"id":2523,"label":2571,"url":2572,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"publishedAt":2519,"checkedAt":2503},"Vancouver City Council approves 2024 Operating Budget","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-approves-2024-operating-budget-dec-2023.aspx",{"id":2529,"label":2574,"url":2575,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"publishedAt":2525,"checkedAt":2503},"Vancouver City Council approves 2025 operating and capital budget with 3.9% property tax increase","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-approves-2025-operating-and-capital-budget-dec-2024.aspx",{"id":2535,"label":2577,"url":2578,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"publishedAt":2531,"checkedAt":2503},"Vancouver City Council approves 2026 Budget with 0% property tax increase","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-approves-0-property-tax-nov-2025.aspx",{"id":2541,"label":2580,"url":2581,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"publishedAt":2537,"checkedAt":2503},"3-3-3-1 permitting program update, council memo","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Ffiles\u002Fcov\u002F2025-02-10-council-memo-3-3-3-1-permitting-program-update.pdf",{"id":2542,"label":2583,"url":2584,"publisher":335,"kind":336,"checkedAt":2503},"Ken Sim made 93 campaign promises in 2022. How did he do?","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Fken-sim-2022-campaign-promises",{"id":2548,"label":2586,"url":2587,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"publishedAt":2544,"checkedAt":2503},"Permitting is getting easier in Vancouver with multiplex approvals now 50% faster","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fpermitting-easier-multiplex-approvals-faster-june-2026.aspx","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fabc-vancouver","ABC Vancouver holds the mayor’s chair and is running 24 candidates in 2026, the largest slate on the ballot. Its published platform leads with a property tax freeze, a ban on open-air hard drug use, and $400 million for community centres.","e2_gb8RavKbZYTZ7c-cYUTGATk2dB7AENvR_ZN4syGc",{"id":2592,"aliases":2593,"checkedAt":21,"declaredColour":2594,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":2598,"history":2599,"leadership":2603,"logo":34,"meta":2604,"money":2605,"name":1625,"news":2610,"overview":2614,"palette":2618,"platform":2622,"questions":2689,"record":2721,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":1625,"slug":2725,"sources":2726,"stem":2733,"summary":2734,"website":1626,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":2735},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Faffordable-housing.json",[],{"hex":2595,"note":9,"cites":2596},"#3361a1",[2597],"ah-home","One candidate, for City Council",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2600,"gaps":2601,"entries":2602},[23,24],[26],[],[],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2606,"gaps":2607,"searchUrl":43,"filings":2608,"notes":2609},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2611,"gaps":2612,"entries":2613},[54],[56],[],[2615,2616,2617],"The Affordable Housing party is running one candidate, for City Council. It is the smallest party on this ballot.","We checked the party website on September 22, 2026. The page held a heading and no policy content. The name of the party is the clearest statement of its subject.","Every issue page for this party records what we searched and when. None of them asserts a position, because none has been published.",{"accent":2619,"onAccent":65,"tint":2620,"ink":2621},"#3361A1","#E4ECF6","#254674",[2623,2632,2641,2647,2653,2659,2665,2671,2677,2683],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":2624,"proposals":2625,"questions":2626,"state":276,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2627,"gaps":2630},[],[],[],[2628,2629],"The party website at affordablehousingvancouver.ca","A web search for the party name with Vancouver housing policy, September 2026",[2631],"No housing policy is published on the party website, which is the subject the party is named after.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":2633,"proposals":2634,"questions":2635,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2636,"gaps":2639},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.affordablehousingvancouver.ca\u002F","A web search for the party name with the issue name, September 2026",[2640],"This issue has not yet been researched for this party.",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":2642,"proposals":2643,"questions":2644,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2645,"gaps":2646},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":142,"paragraphs":2648,"proposals":2649,"questions":2650,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2651,"gaps":2652},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":157,"paragraphs":2654,"proposals":2655,"questions":2656,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2657,"gaps":2658},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":201,"paragraphs":2660,"proposals":2661,"questions":2662,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2663,"gaps":2664},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":217,"paragraphs":2666,"proposals":2667,"questions":2668,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2669,"gaps":2670},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":239,"paragraphs":2672,"proposals":2673,"questions":2674,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2675,"gaps":2676},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":252,"paragraphs":2678,"proposals":2679,"questions":2680,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2681,"gaps":2682},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":272,"paragraphs":2684,"proposals":2685,"questions":2686,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2687,"gaps":2688},[],[],[],[2637,116,2638],[2640],[2690,2694,2698,2702,2706,2710,2714,2717],{"question":2691,"answer":2692,"cites":2693},"How many candidates does this party have?","One, for City Council. It is the smallest party on the 2026 Vancouver ballot.",[33],{"question":2695,"answer":2696,"cites":2697},"What is its platform?","We found none published. We checked the party website on September 22, 2026 and the page held a heading with no policy content.",[2597],{"question":2699,"answer":2700,"cites":2701},"Does the party name tell me its position?","It tells you the subject, not the policy. A party named Affordable Housing has said what it cares about. What it would actually do about it has not been published.",[2597],{"question":2703,"answer":2704,"cites":2705},"Who leads the party?","No leader is named on the website, checked September 22, 2026.",[2597],{"question":2707,"answer":2708,"cites":2709},"Can one councillor change anything?","Council has ten councillors and a mayor, and decisions need six votes. One councillor can put motions forward, speak in debates and vote, but cannot pass anything alone.",[33],{"question":2711,"answer":2712,"cites":2713},"Why does this party have the same pages as ABC?","Every party on this site gets the same page structure, so the shape of a page never suggests that one party matters more. What differs is how much each party has published. Pages with nothing sourced on them are kept out of search results.",[2597],{"question":2715,"answer":315,"cites":2716},"Where can I see its campaign finances?",[317,318],{"question":2718,"answer":2719,"cites":2720},"How do I find out more before voting?","Read the candidate profile linked from this page, and check the party website for a platform closer to October 17. Advance voting runs October 3, 7, 10 and 13.",[2597,33],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2722,"gaps":2723,"entries":2724},[23,321],[323],[],"affordable-housing",[2727,2729,2730,2731,2732],{"id":2597,"label":2728,"url":1626,"publisher":1625,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Affordable Housing party website",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Faffordable-housing","The Affordable Housing party is running one candidate for City Council. It is the smallest party on the 2026 ballot. We found no published platform on its website.","BsoEy_-nId6kt0MWiTUydQQHTtBi7RuMgf1CqC8VSBc",{"id":2737,"aliases":2738,"checkedAt":21,"declaredColour":2739,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":2743,"history":2744,"leadership":2748,"logo":34,"meta":2751,"money":2752,"name":1454,"news":2757,"overview":2761,"palette":2766,"platform":2770,"questions":2906,"record":2941,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":1454,"slug":2945,"sources":2946,"stem":2957,"summary":2958,"website":1455,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":2959},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fbright-future-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":2740,"note":9,"cites":2741},"#12a5db",[2742],"bf-home","Free transit, 24 hour child care and a 21 day permit rule",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2745,"gaps":2746,"entries":2747},[23,24],[26],[],[2749],{"role":30,"name":1920,"cites":2750},[2742,33],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2753,"gaps":2754,"searchUrl":43,"filings":2755,"notes":2756},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2758,"gaps":2759,"entries":2760},[54],[56],[],[2762,2763,2764,2765],"Bright Future Vancouver is running 7 candidates: Muhammad Ahmad for mayor at ballot number 53, and 6 for City Council. It is not contesting Park Board or School Board.","It is one of only two parties on this ballot running for mayor and council but neither of the two boards.","Its published commitments are unusually specific for a smaller party. Several carry a number: 20% rent-to-own equity, 100% free resident transit, a 24 hour child care vision, a 21 day permit rule and a 2% fair share surcharge.","The party calls its platform the Blueprint.",{"accent":2767,"onAccent":65,"tint":2768,"ink":2769},"#0E7EA7","#E3F2F7","#1F627A",[2771,2790,2804,2811,2835,2841,2847,2871,2884,2890],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":2772,"proposals":2775,"questions":2784,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2785,"gaps":2787,"headline":2777,"summary":2789},[2773,2774],"Rent-to-own means part of what a tenant pays in rent builds up as a stake in the home, so that renting moves someone toward owning rather than only covering a landlord’s costs.","The party publishes the figure 20% but has not published how the scheme would be funded, who would run it or which homes it would apply to.",[2776,2780],{"title":2777,"detail":2778,"cites":2779,"cost":135},"20% rent-to-own equity","The party commits to rent-to-own equity of 20%.",[2742],{"title":2781,"detail":2782,"cites":2783},"Secure affordable rentals and local-first housing protections","The party commits to secured affordable rentals and local-first housing protections.",[2742],[],[2786],"The Bright Future Vancouver home page",[2788],"No detail is published on how rent-to-own would be funded or administered.","Bright Future commits to rent-to-own equity of 20%, secured affordable rentals and local-first housing protections.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":2791,"proposals":2793,"questions":2799,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2800,"gaps":2801,"headline":2795,"summary":2803},[2792],"The party publishes the phrase \"treatment-first crisis response\" without further detail. Treatment services are provincial, so a city would be pressing the province rather than delivering this itself.",[2794],{"title":2795,"detail":2796,"cites":2797,"authority":2798},"Treatment-first crisis response","The party commits to a treatment-first crisis response.",[2742],"Treatment services are provincial.",[],[2786],[2802],"No detail is published on what a treatment-first response would involve.","Bright Future commits to a treatment-first crisis response.",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":2805,"proposals":2806,"questions":2807,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2808,"gaps":2810},[],[],[],[2809,116,2638],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brightfuturevancouver.ca\u002F",[2640],{"issue":142,"paragraphs":2812,"proposals":2816,"questions":2827,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2832,"gaps":2833,"headline":2818,"summary":2834},[2813,2814,2815],"Free transit for every resident is the largest transport commitment published by any party in this election. COPE goes as far as free transit for under-18s; Bright Future publishes 100%.","Fares are set by TransLink, a regional body that Vancouver does not control. A city can contribute money toward a fare programme and can advocate through the Mayors’ Council, but it cannot make transit free by a council vote.","The party has not published what free transit would cost or who would pay for it.",[2817,2822],{"title":2818,"detail":2819,"cites":2820,"cost":135,"authority":2821},"100% free transit for residents","The party commits to free transit for Vancouver residents, alongside fare relief, safer stations and faster buses.",[2742],"TransLink sets fares. The city can contribute funding and advocate through the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":2823,"detail":2824,"cites":2825,"authority":2826},"A ready path for SkyTrain to UBC","The party commits to a ready path for the SkyTrain extension to UBC.",[2742],"TransLink and the province decide on rapid transit expansion.",[2828],{"question":2829,"answer":2830,"cites":2831},"Can a city make transit free?","Not on its own. TransLink sets fares across the region and Vancouver is one voice on its Mayors’ Council. A city can put its own money toward covering fares, which is how free-transit programmes usually work. Bright Future has not published a cost or a funding source.",[2742],[2786],[],"Bright Future commits to free transit for residents, safer stations, faster buses and a path for SkyTrain to UBC.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":2836,"proposals":2837,"questions":2838,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2839,"gaps":2840},[],[],[],[2809,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":201,"paragraphs":2842,"proposals":2843,"questions":2844,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2845,"gaps":2846},[],[],[],[2809,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":217,"paragraphs":2848,"proposals":2851,"questions":2866,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2867,"gaps":2868,"headline":2869,"summary":2870},[2849,2850],"Bright Future is one of the few parties that names both a spending programme and a tax to pay for it. The surcharge is published as 2%, though the party has not published what it applies to.","The 21 day permit rule is a deadline commitment: a decision within 21 days. It is the only published permit deadline on this ballot. Other parties commit to faster permitting without saying how fast.",[2852,2857,2862],{"title":2853,"detail":2854,"cites":2855,"cost":2856},"A 2% fair share surcharge","The party commits to a \"fair share tax to fund the future\", published as a 2% fair share surcharge. What it applies to is not published.",[2742],"2%",{"title":2858,"detail":2859,"cites":2860,"authority":2212,"deadline":2861},"A 21 day permit rule","The party commits to a 21 day permit rule.",[2742],"21 days",{"title":2863,"detail":2864,"cites":2865},"Faster permits and lower building costs","Alongside the 21 day rule the party commits to affordable food access and modern worker training.",[2742],[],[2786],[],"A 2% fair share surcharge and a 21 day permit rule","Bright Future commits to a 2% fair share surcharge to fund its programme, and a 21 day deadline for permits.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":2872,"proposals":2874,"questions":2879,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2880,"gaps":2881,"headline":2876,"summary":2883},[2873],"The party’s published environment commitment is clean water and lead-free schools. It is not contesting the School Board race.",[2875],{"title":2876,"detail":2877,"cites":2878,"cost":135},"Clean water and lead-free schools","The party commits to clean water and lead free schools.",[2742],[],[2786],[2882],"No emissions or building energy commitment is published.","Bright Future commits to clean water and lead-free schools under its environment heading.",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":2885,"proposals":2886,"questions":2887,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2888,"gaps":2889},[],[],[],[2809,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":272,"paragraphs":2891,"proposals":2895,"questions":2901,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2902,"gaps":2903,"headline":2904,"summary":2905},[2892,2893,2894],"No other party on this ballot has published a commitment on child care outside standard daytime hours.","It matters for shift workers: nurses, transit operators, hospitality and warehouse staff, who cannot use care that closes at six.","Licensing and operating funding for child care are provincial. A city can create the space and press for the licence.",[2896],{"title":2897,"detail":2898,"cites":2899,"cost":135,"authority":2900},"24 hour child care including night shifts","The party commits to night-shift child care and accessible care services, described as a 24 hour child care vision.",[2742],"The city creates spaces. Licensing and funding are provincial.",[],[2786],[],"A 24 hour child care vision, including night shifts","Bright Future commits to night-shift child care and a 24 hour child care vision.",[2907,2911,2915,2919,2923,2927,2931,2935,2939],{"question":2908,"answer":2909,"cites":2910},"Who leads Bright Future Vancouver?","Muhammad Ahmad is the mayoral candidate, at ballot number 53.",[2742,33],{"question":2912,"answer":2913,"cites":2914},"How many candidates is it running?","7: Muhammad Ahmad for mayor and 6 for City Council. It is not contesting Park Board or School Board.",[33],{"question":2916,"answer":2917,"cites":2918},"What is the 21 day permit rule?","A commitment that a permit decision comes within 21 days. It is the only published permit deadline on this ballot. Other parties promise faster permitting without saying how fast.",[2742],{"question":2920,"answer":2921,"cites":2922},"Would transit really be free?","The party commits to 100% free resident transit. Fares are set by TransLink, not the city, so a council would have to fund it and negotiate rather than vote it in. No cost or funding source is published.",[2742],{"question":2924,"answer":2925,"cites":2926},"What is 20% rent-to-own equity?","Part of what a tenant pays in rent builds up as a stake in the home. The party publishes the figure 20% but not how the scheme would be funded or who would run it.",[2742],{"question":2928,"answer":2929,"cites":2930},"What is the 2% fair share surcharge?","A tax the party describes as a \"fair share tax to fund the future\", published as 2%. What it applies to is not published.",[2742],{"question":2932,"answer":2933,"cites":2934},"What is the 24 hour child care vision?","Child care available outside standard daytime hours, including night shifts. No other party on this ballot has published a commitment on care outside daytime hours.",[2742],{"question":2936,"answer":2937,"cites":2938},"Why does it publish nothing on parks or schools?","It is not running candidates for Park Board or School Board. Its slate covers mayor and council only.",[33],{"question":2715,"answer":315,"cites":2940},[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2942,"gaps":2943,"entries":2944},[23,321],[323],[],"bright-future-vancouver",[2947,2949,2953,2954,2955,2956],{"id":2742,"label":2948,"url":1455,"publisher":1454,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Bright Future Vancouver home page",{"id":2950,"label":2951,"url":2952,"publisher":1454,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"bf-blueprint","Bright Future Vancouver Blueprint","https:\u002F\u002Fbrightfuturevancouver.ca\u002Fblueprint",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fbright-future-vancouver","Bright Future Vancouver is running 7 candidates behind mayoral candidate Muhammad Ahmad, all for mayor and council. Its published commitments include free transit for residents, 24 hour child care and a 21 day permit deadline.","Gs_MTO5N4kOCAnoVj44tof6Gd4ircGm7TpZLQzG9o6I",{"id":2961,"aliases":2962,"checkedAt":21,"declaredColour":2963,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":2968,"history":2969,"leadership":2973,"logo":34,"meta":2974,"money":2975,"name":1552,"news":2980,"overview":2984,"palette":2989,"platform":2993,"questions":3242,"record":3278,"registeredName":3282,"rosterLabel":1552,"slug":3283,"sources":3284,"stem":3299,"summary":3300,"website":1553,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":3301},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcope.json",[],{"hex":2964,"note":2965,"cites":2966},"#f23d3d","Read from the party stylesheet on September 22, 2026.",[2967],"cope-home","The left slate, running no mayoral candidate",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2970,"gaps":2971,"entries":2972},[23,24],[26],[],[],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2976,"gaps":2977,"searchUrl":43,"filings":2978,"notes":2979},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":2981,"gaps":2982,"entries":2983},[54],[56],[],[2985,2986,2987,2988],"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":2990,"onAccent":65,"tint":2991,"ink":2992},"#E71010","#F7E3E3","#7A1F1F",[2994,3049,3072,3095,3119,3140,3158,3184,3220,3227],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":2995,"proposals":3000,"questions":3034,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3043,"gaps":3046,"headline":3047,"summary":3048},[2996,2997,2998,2999],"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.",[3001,3008,3012,3017,3021,3026,3030],{"title":3002,"detail":3003,"cites":3004,"cost":3006,"authority":3007},"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.",[3005],"cope-platform","1% above $5 million","Council sets property tax. A new tax class may need provincial approval.",{"title":3009,"detail":3010,"cites":3011},"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.",[3005],{"title":3013,"detail":3014,"cites":3015,"authority":3016},"Close the vacancy loophole","COPE would close the loophole that lets landlords raise rents without limit between tenants.",[3005],"Rent control between tenancies is set by provincial tenancy law.",{"title":3018,"detail":3019,"cites":3020},"Stop demovictions","COPE would stop demovictions and address city-owned vacant land and what it calls exclusionary mansion districts.",[3005],{"title":3022,"detail":3023,"cites":3024,"authority":3025},"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.",[3005],"The Empty Homes Tax is a City of Vancouver tax.",{"title":3027,"detail":3028,"cites":3029},"Create a landlord registry","A registry would track rents and allow enforcement against landlords with patterns of violations.",[3005],{"title":3031,"detail":3032,"cites":3033},"Bring back the renters office with enforcement powers","COPE would restore the renters office and give it new enforcement powers.",[3005],[3035,3039],{"question":3036,"answer":3037,"cites":3038},"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.",[3005],{"question":3040,"answer":3041,"cites":3042},"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.",[3005],[3044,3045],"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":96,"paragraphs":3050,"proposals":3053,"questions":3067,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3068,"gaps":3069,"headline":3070,"summary":3071},[3051,3052],"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.",[3054,3058,3063],{"title":3055,"detail":3056,"cites":3057,"cost":3006},"End homelessness, paid for by a mansion tax","A 1% property tax on values above $5 million would fund ending homelessness.",[3005],{"title":3059,"detail":3060,"cites":3061,"authority":3062},"Maintain safe supply and harm reduction","COPE commits to maintaining support for safe supply and harm reduction programs.",[3005],"These are provincial and federal health programmes.",{"title":3064,"detail":3065,"cites":3066},"Buy apartments as permanent public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops.",[3005],[],[3044],[],"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":121,"paragraphs":3073,"proposals":3077,"questions":3090,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3091,"gaps":3092,"headline":3093,"summary":3094},[3074,3075,3076],"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.",[3078,3083,3087],{"title":3079,"detail":3080,"cites":3081,"authority":3082},"Fund public services rather than policing","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation facilities and social infrastructure over policing.",[3005],"Council approves the police budget but the Police Board directs the department.",{"title":3084,"detail":3085,"cites":3086},"Support peer-assisted care teams","COPE would support peer-assisted care teams to respond to mental health crises without involving police.",[3005],{"title":3059,"detail":3060,"cites":3088,"authority":3089},[3005],"Safe supply is a provincial and federal health programme.",[],[3044],[],"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":142,"paragraphs":3096,"proposals":3098,"questions":3114,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3115,"gaps":3116,"headline":3117,"summary":3118},[3097],"COPE publishes its transport commitments inside its climate section rather than separately.",[3099,3104,3109],{"title":3100,"detail":3101,"cites":3102,"authority":3103},"Work toward free public transit","COPE would expand free transit to under-18s and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system.",[3005],"TransLink sets fares.",{"title":3105,"detail":3106,"cites":3107,"authority":3108},"Restore bus routes 17 and 25","COPE would restore both routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[3005],"TransLink runs bus routes.",{"title":3110,"detail":3111,"cites":3112,"authority":3113},"Support protected bike lanes","COPE would support protected bike lanes and cycling safety initiatives.",[3005],"The city designs its own streets.",[],[3044],[],"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":157,"paragraphs":3120,"proposals":3122,"questions":3135,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3136,"gaps":3137,"headline":3138,"summary":3139},[3121],"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.",[3123,3127,3131],{"title":3124,"detail":3125,"cites":3126},"Strengthen the elected Park Board","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected park board.",[3005],{"title":3128,"detail":3129,"cites":3130},"Make 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[3005],{"title":3132,"detail":3133,"cites":3134},"Expand community gardens and food growing","COPE would expand community gardens, seed sharing and community kitchens and establish food sovereignty networks.",[3005],[],[3044],[],"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":201,"paragraphs":3141,"proposals":3143,"questions":3152,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3153,"gaps":3154,"headline":3156,"summary":3157},[3142],"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.",[3144,3148],{"title":3145,"detail":3146,"cites":3147},"Increase library funding, hours and wages","COPE would increase funding, hours and wages and add worker representation to the Vancouver Public Library board.",[3005],{"title":3149,"detail":3150,"cites":3151},"Defend public education","COPE campaigns on fighting for public education.",[2967],[],[3044,3045],[3155],"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":217,"paragraphs":3159,"proposals":3162,"questions":3179,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3180,"gaps":3181,"headline":3182,"summary":3183},[3160,3161],"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.",[3163,3167,3171,3175],{"title":3164,"detail":3165,"cites":3166},"Establish a lobbyist registry","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry and push fossil fuel and big business lobbyists out.",[3005],{"title":3168,"detail":3169,"cites":3170},"Defend the Integrity Commissioner","COPE would defend and restore the independence and authority of the Integrity Commissioner.",[3005],{"title":3172,"detail":3173,"cites":3174},"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.",[3005],{"title":3176,"detail":3177,"cites":3178},"Expand public participation at council","COPE would increase council comment time and follow-up questions and hold town halls throughout the city.",[3005],[],[3044],[],"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":239,"paragraphs":3185,"proposals":3189,"questions":3215,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3216,"gaps":3217,"headline":3218,"summary":3219},[3186,3187,3188],"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.",[3190,3195,3199,3202,3207,3211],{"title":3191,"detail":3192,"cites":3193,"authority":3194},"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.",[3005],"TransLink sets fares. A city can advocate and can contribute funding.",{"title":3196,"detail":3197,"cites":3198},"Rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","The city would rejoin the lawsuit requiring polluters to fund climate crisis remediation.",[3005],{"title":3105,"detail":3200,"cites":3201,"authority":3108},"COPE would restore the two routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[3005],{"title":3203,"detail":3204,"cites":3205,"authority":3206},"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.",[3005],"Vancouver sets its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":3208,"detail":3209,"cites":3210},"Exceed IPCC emissions targets","COPE commits to exceeding IPCC greenhouse gas reduction targets and timelines.",[3005],{"title":3212,"detail":3213,"cites":3214},"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.",[3005],[],[3044],[],"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":252,"paragraphs":3221,"proposals":3222,"questions":3223,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3224,"gaps":3226},[],[],[],[3225,116,2638],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F",[2640],{"issue":272,"paragraphs":3228,"proposals":3230,"questions":3237,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3238,"gaps":3239,"headline":3240,"summary":3241},[3229],"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.",[3231],{"title":3232,"detail":3233,"cites":3234,"cost":3235,"authority":3236},"Expand $10 a day child care spaces in Vancouver","COPE would expand affordable child care, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[3005],"$10 per day per space","The $10 a day programme is funded and set by the province.",[],[3044],[],"Expand $10-a-day child care spaces","COPE would expand affordable child care in Vancouver, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[3243,3247,3251,3255,3259,3263,3267,3271,3275],{"question":3244,"answer":3245,"cites":3246},"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.",[33],{"question":3248,"answer":3249,"cites":3250},"What does COPE stand for?","The Coalition of Progressive Electors.",[2967],{"question":3252,"answer":3253,"cites":3254},"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.",[3005],{"question":3256,"answer":3257,"cites":3258},"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.",[3005],{"question":3260,"answer":3261,"cites":3262},"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.",[3005],{"question":3264,"answer":3265,"cites":3266},"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.",[3005,317],{"question":3268,"answer":3269,"cites":3270},"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.",[3005],{"question":3272,"answer":3273,"cites":3274},"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.",[3005],{"question":3276,"answer":315,"cites":3277},"Where can I see COPE’s campaign finances?",[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3279,"gaps":3280,"entries":3281},[23,321],[323],[],"The Coalition of Progressive Electors","cope",[3285,3287,3291,3292,3293,3294,3295],{"id":2967,"label":3286,"url":1553,"publisher":1552,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"COPE home page",{"id":3005,"label":3288,"url":3289,"publisher":1552,"kind":331,"publishedAt":3290,"checkedAt":21},"COPE platform (April 2025 by-election platform, still published September 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002Fplatform","2025-04-05",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":3296,"label":3297,"url":3298,"publisher":1552,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"cope-platform-2026","Fight for Vancouver: COPE 2026 Platform (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002Fs\u002FFight-For-Vancouver-COPE-2026-Platform-t7yf.pdf","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":3303,"aliases":3304,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":3305,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":3309,"history":3310,"leadership":3314,"logo":34,"meta":3317,"money":3318,"name":1407,"news":3323,"overview":3327,"palette":3332,"platform":3336,"questions":3570,"record":3602,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":3606,"slug":3607,"sources":3608,"stem":3634,"summary":3635,"website":1408,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":3636},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":3306,"note":9,"cites":3307},"#a9c94f",[3308],"green-home","Pete Fry for mayor, with a housing plan built on faster approvals",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3311,"gaps":3312,"entries":3313},[23,24],[26],[],[3315],{"role":30,"name":1961,"cites":3316},[3308,33],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3319,"gaps":3320,"searchUrl":43,"filings":3321,"notes":3322},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3324,"gaps":3325,"entries":3326},[54],[56],[],[3328,3329,3330,3331],"The Green Party of Vancouver is running 10 candidates: Pete Fry for mayor at ballot number 51, 4 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 2 for School Board.","Pete Fry is a two-term sitting Vancouver city councillor.","The party released a housing plan on September 16, 2026. It had not published a full platform document on its website when we checked on September 22, 2026.","Its housing position is notably close to parties on the other side of this ballot on approvals and prefabrication, and splits from them on keeping Vancouver’s own building bylaw.",{"accent":3333,"onAccent":65,"tint":3334,"ink":3335},"#667D26","#F2F7E4","#607524",[3337,3391,3406,3428,3447,3476,3505,3517,3543,3555],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":3338,"proposals":3343,"questions":3376,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3385,"gaps":3388,"headline":3389,"summary":3390},[3339,3340,3341,3342],"Pete Fry released this plan on September 16, 2026. Its shape is faster approvals and cheaper construction methods rather than a supply target or a spending number.","Pre-approved designs mean the city approves a set of building plans in advance, so a builder using one skips much of the permit process.","The clearest difference from other parties is on the Vancouver Building By-law. Vancouver is the only city in British Columbia with its own building bylaw, under the Vancouver Charter. The Greens would keep it, arguing it allows climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber. The Vancouver Liberals would abolish it and adopt the provincial code instead.","No dollar figures, numerical targets or deadlines were stated in the plan as reported.",[3344,3350,3355,3359,3364,3368,3372],{"title":3345,"detail":3346,"cites":3347,"authority":3349},"Launch pre-approved housing designs","The party would launch pre-approved housing designs including prefabricated options, so qualifying projects skip much of the permit process.",[3348],"green-housing","The city controls its own permit process.",{"title":3351,"detail":3352,"cites":3353,"authority":3354},"Partner with Build Canada Homes","The Greens would partner with Build Canada Homes to attract investment and fast-track qualifying projects.",[3348],"Build Canada Homes is a federal programme.",{"title":3356,"detail":3357,"cites":3358},"Streamline permitting for low-rise construction","Permitting would be streamlined for low-rise apartments, row homes, townhomes, infill and wood-frame construction.",[3348],{"title":3360,"detail":3361,"cites":3362,"authority":3363},"Keep the Vancouver Building By-law","The Greens would support Vancouver’s own building bylaw and allow innovative climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber and decarbonisation.",[3348],"Vancouver holds this power under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":3365,"detail":3366,"cites":3367},"Champion Canadian procurement on major developments","The party would champion Canadian procurement and employment requirements for major developments.",[3348],{"title":3369,"detail":3370,"cites":3371},"Secure rental and non-market homes from new value","The Greens commit to ensuring some of the value created by new development comes back as secured rental and non-market homes.",[3348],{"title":3373,"detail":3374,"cites":3375},"Fund retrofits through federal and provincial accelerators","The party would partner with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator to fund climate-smart retrofits.",[3348],[3377,3381],{"question":3378,"answer":3379,"cites":3380},"What is the Vancouver Building By-law, and why does it matter?","Vancouver is the only city in British Columbia allowed to write its own building rules, under the Vancouver Charter. Every other city follows the provincial code. The Greens would keep this power. The Vancouver Liberals would give it up and adopt the provincial code instead. It is one of the sharpest splits on this ballot.",[3348,11],{"question":3382,"answer":3383,"cites":3384},"What are pre-approved housing designs?","The city approves a set of building plans in advance. A builder who uses one of those plans skips most of the design review, which makes the project faster and cheaper. It works best for repeatable buildings such as townhomes and small apartment blocks.",[3348],[3386,3387],"The Green Party of Vancouver home page","News coverage of the September 16, 2026 housing plan release",[],"Pre-approved designs, mass timber and Build Canada Homes","The Green housing plan would launch pre-approved and prefabricated housing designs, partner with Build Canada Homes, streamline permitting for low-rise construction, and keep the Vancouver Building By-law.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":3392,"proposals":3394,"questions":3400,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3401,"gaps":3403,"headline":3396,"summary":3405},[3393],"The party published a call for rapid shelters on its own website. We have recorded the call itself; the detail of how many shelters, where and at what cost has not been transcribed onto this page.",[3395],{"title":3396,"detail":3397,"cites":3398,"cost":135},"Rapid shelters ahead of the World Cup","Pete Fry called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.",[3399],"green-shelters",[],[3402],"The Green Party of Vancouver news page",[3404],"The number, locations and cost of the proposed shelters have not been transcribed onto this page.","Pete Fry has called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":3407,"proposals":3410,"questions":3421,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3422,"gaps":3425,"headline":3427},[3408,3409],"The party's clearest public-safety position is at the School Board: it opposed reinstating police liaison officers in Vancouver schools and calls for civilian oversight, training and clear rules for the program the Board did approve.","Its City Council priorities describe safety in terms of harm reduction for addiction and mental health, without naming a police budget position or a specific bylaw.",[3411,3416],{"title":3412,"detail":3413,"cites":3414},"Civilian oversight of the School Liaison Officer program","The party says it voted against reinstating School Liaison Officers, which the ABC-led Board approved, and calls for comprehensive SLO training and clear, enforced rules for the program, with civilian oversight as recommended by a provincial all-party police reform report.",[3415],"green-school-board",{"title":3417,"detail":3418,"cites":3419},"Harm reduction for addiction and mental health","The party commits to harm reduction strategies for addiction and mental health so community members feel safe and supported.",[3420],"green-city-council",[],[3423,3424,116],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F","The party's Priorities page and its three linked sub-pages: city_council_priorities, park_board_priorities, school_board_priorities",[3426],"The priorities page states party positions with no candidate named as their author, and no dollar figure or date for any of them.","Civilian oversight of school liaison officers, and safe, supported neighbourhoods",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":3429,"proposals":3432,"questions":3443,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3444,"gaps":3445,"headline":3446},[3430,3431],"The party's clearest transport commitment is restoring the protected bike lane on Stanley Park Drive, a road the Park Board controls.","For the city at large, it backs a mix of slower streets, more bike lanes, dedicated transit lanes and pedestrian infrastructure, without a route, a budget or a completion date.",[3433,3439],{"title":3434,"detail":3435,"cites":3436,"authority":3438},"Bring back the Stanley Park bike lane","The party would restore a protected active transportation lane on Stanley Park Drive and across the city's parks.",[3437],"green-park-board","The Park Board decides the roads and paths inside its own parks, including Stanley Park Drive.",{"title":3440,"detail":3441,"cites":3442},"A multimodal city transportation approach","The party backs slower, safer streets, more bike lanes, dedicated transit lanes and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure across the city.",[3420],[],[3423,3424,116],[3426],"A rebuilt Stanley Park bike lane, and a multimodal city",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":3448,"proposals":3451,"questions":3472,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3473,"gaps":3474,"headline":3475},[3449,3450],"The party's Park Board priorities cover coastal flooding, pollinator habitat, and keeping parks and community centres affordable and useful for children, families and seniors.","None of the six priorities on this page states a dollar figure or a date.",[3452,3456,3460,3464,3468],{"title":3453,"detail":3454,"cites":3455},"A 100-year plan for Vancouver's coastal parks","The party would develop a 100-year plan for the city's 28 kilometres of coastal parks to address sea-level rise and biodiversity loss, rather than repeatedly rebuilding the seawall after storms.",[3437],{"title":3457,"detail":3458,"cites":3459},"Protect pollinator corridors and bird migration pathways","The party would strengthen the urban tree canopy, community gardens and rainwater capture zones to protect pollinator corridors and migratory bird pathways.",[3437],{"title":3461,"detail":3462,"cites":3463},"Disclose the carbon cost of Park Board budgets","The party would require every Park Board operating and capital budget to disclose the carbon dioxide cost of city operations and construction, with new staff tools to make the analysis and reporting simpler.",[3437],{"title":3465,"detail":3466,"cites":3467},"Expand community food gardens and Indigenous healing gardens","The party would expand community food gardens and forests and Indigenous healing gardens on Park Board land.",[3437],{"title":3469,"detail":3470,"cites":3471},"Keep parks and community centres affordable and accessible","Parks, facilities and services would stay available, accessible, affordable and welcoming, with programs prioritized for children, families and seniors.",[3437],[],[3423,3424,116],[3426],"A 100-year coastal plan, pollinator corridors, and parks that meet daily needs",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":3477,"proposals":3480,"questions":3501,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3502,"gaps":3503,"headline":3504},[3478,3479],"The party's School Board priorities track the Board's own Education Plan, push to expand child care on school property, and look for funding the province has not provided.","It repeats its opposition to reinstating police liaison officers here as a School Board matter, in addition to the public-safety area above.",[3481,3485,3489,3493,3497],{"title":3482,"detail":3483,"cites":3484},"Monitor the Education Plan and student achievement gaps","Green trustees would track the Education Plan using both system data and qualitative feedback, to assess student success and identify and close achievement gaps.",[3415],{"title":3486,"detail":3487,"cites":3488},"Expand child care on school sites","The party would explore expanding child care spaces on school sites, including before and after school and ages 0 to 5, and monitor the district's Seamless Day child care pilot.",[3415],{"title":3490,"detail":3491,"cites":3492},"Find alternative funding for capital projects and operations","Facing what it calls inadequate provincial funding, the party would look for other ways to fund capital projects and school operations.",[3415],{"title":3494,"detail":3495,"cites":3496},"Expand Universal Design for Learning","The party would further develop Universal Design for Learning practices in every school and press the province for more support and funding for students with diverse learning needs.",[3415],{"title":3498,"detail":3499,"cites":3500},"Build a universal school food program","Green trustees would build on the district's Food Framework Vision and look for ways to bring food systems, and food and nutrition education, into every Vancouver school.",[3415],[],[3423,3424,116],[3426],"Monitor the Education Plan, expand child care on school sites, and creative capital funding",{"issue":217,"paragraphs":3506,"proposals":3508,"questions":3513,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3514,"gaps":3515,"headline":3516},[3507],"The party's one specific city-wide budget position is a disclosure rule, not a tax or spending figure.",[3509],{"title":3510,"detail":3511,"cites":3512},"Disclose the carbon cost of every city budget","The party would require every city operating and capital budget to disclose the carbon dioxide cost of city operations and construction projects, with new staff tools to make the reporting simpler.",[3420],[],[3423,3424,116],[3426],"Disclose the carbon cost of city budgets",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":3518,"proposals":3522,"questions":3535,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3536,"gaps":3538,"headline":3541,"summary":3542},[3519,3520,3521],"The Green climate position published so far runs through buildings rather than through a separate climate plan.","Keeping the Vancouver Building By-law is the mechanism: it is what lets the city set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings, which no other BC city can do.","The party had not published a full climate platform when we checked on September 22, 2026.",[3523,3527,3531],{"title":3524,"detail":3525,"cites":3526,"authority":3363},"Keep Vancouver’s own building bylaw for climate rules","The Greens would support the Vancouver Building By-law and allow innovative climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber and decarbonisation.",[3348],{"title":3528,"detail":3529,"cites":3530},"Fund retrofits through the federal and provincial accelerators","The party would partner with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator.",[3348],{"title":3532,"detail":3533,"cites":3534},"Use mass timber and wood-frame construction","The party describes mass timber and wood-frame construction as faster and more cost-effective, and would use them.",[3348],[],[3386,3537],"News coverage of the September 16, 2026 housing plan",[3539,3540],"No emissions target is published.","No transport emissions commitment is published.","Keep the building bylaw, and fund retrofits","The Greens would keep Vancouver’s own building bylaw to allow decarbonisation measures, and partner with federal and provincial programmes to fund building retrofits.",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":3544,"proposals":3546,"questions":3551,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3552,"gaps":3553,"headline":3554},[3545],"The party's culture-adjacent position sits inside a broader \"complete communities\" priority about urban design, rather than a dedicated arts or nightlife policy.",[3547],{"title":3548,"detail":3549,"cites":3550},"Public amenities in every neighbourhood","The party backs urban design that includes green space and community-oriented streets, and wants public amenities such as parklets, plazas and libraries accessible in every neighbourhood, alongside active transportation infrastructure.",[3420],[],[3423,3424,116],[3426],"Public amenities as part of complete, livable communities",{"issue":272,"paragraphs":3556,"proposals":3558,"questions":3566,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3567,"gaps":3568,"headline":3569},[3557],"The party's child care position for the city appears inside its \"complete communities\" priority. Its clearer, more specific commitment is at the School Board, on child care sited at schools.",[3559,3563],{"title":3560,"detail":3561,"cites":3562},"Child care as a public amenity in every neighbourhood","The party lists childcare facilities among the public amenities it wants accessible in every neighbourhood.",[3420],{"title":3486,"detail":3564,"cites":3565},"The party would explore expanding child care spaces on school sites, including before and after school and ages 0 to 5.",[3415],[],[3423,3424,116],[3426],"Child care as part of complete communities, and on school sites",[3571,3575,3579,3583,3587,3591,3595,3599],{"question":3572,"answer":3573,"cites":3574},"Who is the Green Party of Vancouver’s mayoral candidate?","Pete Fry, a two-term sitting Vancouver city councillor, at ballot number 51.",[3308,33],{"question":3576,"answer":3577,"cites":3578},"How many candidates are the Greens running?","10: Pete Fry for mayor, 4 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 2 for School Board.",[33],{"question":3580,"answer":3581,"cites":3582},"What is in the Green housing plan?","Pre-approved and prefabricated designs, a partnership with the federal Build Canada Homes programme, streamlined permitting for low-rise buildings, mass timber construction, and keeping Vancouver’s own building bylaw. It was released on September 16, 2026.",[3348],{"question":3584,"answer":3585,"cites":3586},"Do the Greens publish a housing target?","No. The plan is about how homes get approved and built rather than how many. No dollar figures, targets or deadlines were stated.",[3348],{"question":3588,"answer":3589,"cites":3590},"What is the split over the Vancouver Building By-law?","Vancouver is the only BC city that writes its own building rules. The Greens would keep that power, arguing it allows mass timber and decarbonisation. The Vancouver Liberals would give it up and adopt the provincial code.",[3348,11],{"question":3592,"answer":3593,"cites":3594},"Have the Greens published a full platform?","Not when we checked on September 22, 2026. A housing plan had been released on September 16 and a call for rapid shelters was published on the party site.",[3308],{"question":3596,"answer":3597,"cites":3598},"What have the Greens said about homelessness?","Pete Fry called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness ahead of the World Cup. The number, locations and cost were not published.",[3399],{"question":3600,"answer":315,"cites":3601},"Where can I see the Green Party’s campaign finances?",[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3603,"gaps":3604,"entries":3605},[23,321],[323],[],"Green","green-party-of-vancouver",[3609,3611,3614,3615,3616,3617,3618,3619,3620,3623,3626,3629],{"id":3308,"label":3610,"url":1408,"publisher":1407,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Green Party of Vancouver home page",{"id":3399,"label":3612,"url":3613,"publisher":1407,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Pete Fry calls for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness ahead of World Cup","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fpete_fry_calls_for_rapid_shelters_to_address_rising_homelessness_in_vancouver_ahead_of_world_cup",{"id":3348,"label":333,"url":334,"publisher":335,"kind":336,"publishedAt":337,"checkedAt":21},{"id":11,"label":329,"url":330,"publisher":51,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":3420,"label":3621,"url":3622,"publisher":1407,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver: City Council Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fcity_council_priorities",{"id":3437,"label":3624,"url":3625,"publisher":1407,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver: Park Board Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fpark_board_priorities",{"id":3415,"label":3627,"url":3628,"publisher":1407,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver: School Board Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fschool_board_priorities",{"id":3630,"label":3631,"url":3632,"publisher":1407,"kind":331,"publishedAt":3633,"checkedAt":363},"green-platform-2026","Platform 2026, Green Party of Vancouver (72-page PDF, last updated September 29, 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fassets.nationbuilder.com\u002Fvangreens\u002Fpages\u002F6122\u002Fattachments\u002Foriginal\u002F1790718545\u002FPlatform_2026_-_Green_Party_of_Vancouver_%281%29.pdf?1790718545","2026-09-29","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver","The Green Party of Vancouver is running 10 candidates behind mayoral candidate Pete Fry, a sitting city councillor. Its published housing plan centres on faster approvals, prefabricated designs and Canadian-built construction.","23mzjAQTDXDak-5_dBNbVtM5j5UO08kexqHfz6FLHhw",{"id":3638,"aliases":3639,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":3640,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":3644,"history":3645,"leadership":3649,"logo":34,"meta":3650,"money":3651,"name":1512,"news":3656,"overview":3660,"palette":3665,"platform":3669,"questions":3842,"record":3871,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":1512,"slug":3875,"sources":3876,"stem":3886,"summary":3887,"website":1513,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":3888},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Findependent-parks-party.json",[],{"hex":3641,"note":9,"cites":3642},"#0b6a0b",[3643],"ipp-home","Five candidates, all for Park Board, running on one 33-point platform",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3646,"gaps":3647,"entries":3648},[23,24],[26],[],[],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3652,"gaps":3653,"searchUrl":43,"filings":3654,"notes":3655},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3657,"gaps":3658,"entries":3659},[54],[56],[],[3661,3662,3663,3664],"The Independent Parks Party is running 5 candidates, all for the Board of Parks and Recreation. It is not contesting mayor, council or school board.","It is the only party on this ballot focused on one race. Seven Park Board seats are being filled on October 17, so a full slate of five means the party could take a majority of the board if all five won.","Its website identifies a parent organisation, the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, described as a British Columbia non-profit.","The party's home page carries no policy content, only navigation and a login prompt. A platform page at a direct address, not linked from the home page, lists 33 numbered positions. voche.me found this page on September 26, 2026 and reads it below.",{"accent":3666,"onAccent":65,"tint":3667,"ink":3668},"#0B6A0B","#E3F7E3","#1F7A1F",[3670,3677,3683,3699,3715,3761,3767,3793,3830,3836],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":3671,"proposals":3672,"questions":3673,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3674,"gaps":3676},[],[],[],[3675,116,2638],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002F",[2640],{"issue":96,"paragraphs":3678,"proposals":3679,"questions":3680,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3681,"gaps":3682},[],[],[],[3675,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":121,"paragraphs":3684,"proposals":3686,"questions":3693,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3694,"gaps":3696,"headline":3698},[3685],"The platform's one position that fits this office's public-safety power, rather than its parks power more broadly, is a noise bylaw.",[3687],{"title":3688,"detail":3689,"cites":3690,"authority":3692},"Restrict late-night noise near Jericho Beach and other parks","The party would move to prohibit excessive late-night noise that it says affects residents near Jericho Beach and other parks.",[3691],"ipp-platform","The Park Board makes bylaws for parks and beaches.",[],[3675,3695,116],"The party's platform page at https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002FPlatform, not linked from the home page but reachable directly",[3697],"The platform names no individual candidate as its author, so no page below credits one of the five personally.","One bylaw position, on late-night noise near parks",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":3700,"proposals":3702,"questions":3711,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3712,"gaps":3713,"headline":3714},[3701],"The platform's transport positions are both about Stanley Park Drive, a road the Park Board controls.",[3703,3707],{"title":3704,"detail":3705,"cites":3706,"authority":3438},"Reinstate a protected lane on Stanley Park Drive","The party would reinstate a protected lane for active transportation and recreation along Stanley Park Drive, and carry out a transportation safety review of other parks.",[3691],{"title":3708,"detail":3709,"cites":3710},"Commit to car-free days in Stanley Park","The party commits to holding car-free days in Stanley Park.",[3691],[],[3675,3695,116],[3697],"A protected lane on Stanley Park Drive and car-free days",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":3716,"proposals":3720,"questions":3757,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3758,"gaps":3759,"headline":3760},[3717,3718,3719],"The platform's largest group of positions concerns who runs parks and how. It opposes selling park names or transferring parks to the private sector, and it would reverse the outsourcing of park maintenance.","Several positions ask for a pause: on the Vancouver Aquatic Centre renovation, on Britannia Pool renovations, and on new commercial development inside parks, each until a review is done.","The platform names no cost or completion date for any of these.",[3721,3725,3729,3733,3737,3741,3745,3749,3753],{"title":3722,"detail":3723,"cites":3724},"Keep parks in public ownership","Parks would remain fully in the public domain, not transferred in whole or part to the private sector, and their names would not be sold to private corporations.",[3691],{"title":3726,"detail":3727,"cites":3728},"Reverse outsourcing of park maintenance","Park maintenance now outsourced to private companies would be brought back in-house.",[3691],{"title":3730,"detail":3731,"cites":3732},"Make temporary parks permanent","Every park now classified as temporary would be reclassified as permanent.",[3691],{"title":3734,"detail":3735,"cites":3736},"Freeze the Vancouver Aquatic Centre renovation pending a 50-metre pool review","Work on the Aquatic Centre renovation would stop until a full analysis of ways to keep the 50-metre pool is done.",[3691],{"title":3738,"detail":3739,"cites":3740},"Hold Britannia Pool renovations while the Aquatic Centre is out of service","Britannia Pool renovations would be paused while the Vancouver Aquatic Centre is unavailable, so the city keeps a working pool.",[3691],{"title":3742,"detail":3743,"cites":3744},"Decline new commercial development inside parks","The party would not approve new commercial developments in Stanley Park or other parks that reduce green space, encroach on forest, or degrade the visitor experience.",[3691],{"title":3746,"detail":3747,"cites":3748},"Overhaul Kitsilano Pool's booking system and hold a town hall on its future","Booking restrictions at Kitsilano Pool would be removed so the pool can be used at its historical capacity, with a town hall before any renovation or replacement.",[3691],{"title":3750,"detail":3751,"cites":3752},"Repair the David Lam Park playground and fix its reseeding downtime","The party would address underfunding at the David Lam Park playground and convene an expert panel on its long seasonal closures for grass reseeding.",[3691],{"title":3754,"detail":3755,"cites":3756},"Assess restoring the Stanley Park miniature train","An expert panel would advise on recovering from logging damage near the Stanley Park train, aiming to restore it.",[3691],[],[3675,3695,116],[3697],"Keep parks public, reverse outsourcing, and hold off major projects pending review",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":3762,"proposals":3763,"questions":3764,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3765,"gaps":3766},[],[],[],[3675,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":217,"paragraphs":3768,"proposals":3771,"questions":3789,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3790,"gaps":3791,"headline":3792},[3769,3770],"Two positions are about money the Park Board itself controls: a parking fee increase it would reverse, and a delegated authority to approve outsourcing contracts, which the platform says rose from $750,000 to $2 million and should be repealed.","A third position names a strategy, the \"Think Big Revenue Strategy\", that it says has led to inappropriate commercialization, and would rescind it.",[3772,3776,3781,3785],{"title":3773,"detail":3774,"cites":3775},"Reverse the parking fee increases at Spanish Banks and Hillcrest Community Centre","The party would rescind what it calls exponential parking fee hikes on Park Board land, naming Spanish Banks and Hillcrest Community Centre.",[3691],{"title":3777,"detail":3778,"cites":3779,"authority":3780},"Repeal the increase in delegated outsourcing authority","The party would repeal a Park Board Procurement Policy amendment that it says raised the threshold for staff to approve outsourcing contracts without a Board vote from $750,000 to $2 million.",[3691],"This is the Board's own procurement policy, which the Board can amend by its own vote.",{"title":3782,"detail":3783,"cites":3784},"Rescind the \"Think Big Revenue Strategy\"","The party would rescind a named revenue strategy that it says has resulted in inappropriate commercialization of parks.",[3691],{"title":3786,"detail":3787,"cites":3788},"Reduce fees for farmers markets on Park Board land","Fees on farmers and shoppers who park at farmers markets on Park Board land, including Riley Park, would be reduced or removed.",[3691],[],[3675,3695,116],[3697],"Roll back a fee increase and a delegated spending authority, and drop a revenue-first approach",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":3794,"proposals":3797,"questions":3826,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3827,"gaps":3828,"headline":3829},[3795,3796,3719],"Most of the platform's environmental positions concern trees on Park Board land: a moratorium on removals except imminently hazardous trees, a ban on glyphosate and similar herbicides, and a review of artificial turf fields.","Several positions are specific to Stanley Park's forest, including a dispute over how the Board is replanting it after storm damage and logging, and a demand to follow the terms of the federal lease and a historic-site designation that the platform says require keeping the native forest.",[3798,3802,3806,3810,3814,3818,3822],{"title":3799,"detail":3800,"cites":3801},"A moratorium on tree removals except imminently hazardous trees","The party would halt further tree removals on Park Board land, apart from trees judged imminently hazardous, until a full review of the reasons for removals is done.",[3691],{"title":3803,"detail":3804,"cites":3805},"Ban glyphosate and similar herbicides and pesticides","Glyphosate and other herbicides and pesticides judged environmentally hazardous would be banned on Park Board land, alongside a scientific inquiry into other ways to manage invasive species.",[3691],{"title":3807,"detail":3808,"cites":3809},"Halt replanting in Stanley Park pending a scientific inquiry","The party would stop replanting farmed, selectively bred trees in Stanley Park until an inquiry assesses the consequences.",[3691],{"title":3811,"detail":3812,"cites":3813},"Follow the Stanley Park federal lease and historic-site terms on the native forest","The party says the Stanley Park lease with the federal government, and the park's Commemorative Integrity Statement as a National Historic Site, both require preserving the native coastal western hemlock forest rather than replanting it as a different mix of trees.",[3691],{"title":3815,"detail":3816,"cites":3817},"Rescind the current tree inspection policy","The party would rescind and replace a recently passed tree inspection policy that it says does not require inspections by provincially certified arborists, which it says conflicts with provincial standards.",[3691],{"title":3819,"detail":3820,"cites":3821},"Review artificial turf sports fields for environmental harm","The party would commission a scientific and environmental review of every artificial turf sports field on Park Board land.",[3691],{"title":3823,"detail":3824,"cites":3825},"Stop Charleson Park and Memorial South Park ponds from drying up","The party would stop allowing these two ponds to dry out, which it says kills the animals that depend on them.",[3691],[],[3675,3695,116],[3697],"A moratorium on tree removals, a pesticide ban, and disputes over Stanley Park's forest",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":3831,"proposals":3832,"questions":3833,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3834,"gaps":3835},[],[],[],[3675,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":272,"paragraphs":3837,"proposals":3838,"questions":3839,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3840,"gaps":3841},[],[],[],[3675,116,2638],[2640],[3843,3847,3851,3854,3858,3862,3866,3868],{"question":3844,"answer":3845,"cites":3846},"What office is the Independent Parks Party contesting?","Park Board only. It is running 5 candidates for the Board of Parks and Recreation and none for mayor, council or school board.",[33],{"question":3848,"answer":3849,"cites":3850},"Could it win control of the Park Board?","Seven commissioners are elected on October 17. The party is running five candidates, so if all five won it would hold a majority of the board.",[33],{"question":2695,"answer":3852,"cites":3853},"We found none published. We checked the party website on September 22, 2026 and the page held navigation and a login prompt with no policy positions.",[3643],{"question":3855,"answer":3856,"cites":3857},"Who runs the party?","No leader is named on the website. The site identifies a parent organisation, the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, described as a British Columbia non-profit. We have not checked that organisation’s registration.",[3643],{"question":3859,"answer":3860,"cites":3861},"Why does this page have so little on it?","Because the party has published little. We record what we searched and when, rather than filling the space. If the party publishes a platform we will add it with its date.",[3643],{"question":3863,"answer":3864,"cites":3865},"What does the Park Board actually control?","Parks, community centres, pools, rinks and beaches. Vancouver is the only major city in Canada with a separately elected park board, and it has seven commissioners.",[33],{"question":2715,"answer":315,"cites":3867},[317,318],{"question":2718,"answer":3869,"cites":3870},"Read the five candidate profiles linked from this page, and check the party website for a platform closer to October 17. Advance voting runs October 3, 7, 10 and 13.",[3643,33],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3872,"gaps":3873,"entries":3874},[23,321],[323],[],"independent-parks-party",[3877,3879,3880,3881,3882,3883],{"id":3643,"label":3878,"url":1513,"publisher":1512,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Independent Parks Party website",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":3691,"label":3884,"url":3885,"publisher":1512,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"Independent Parks Party platform, 33 numbered positions","https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002FPlatform","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Findependent-parks-party","The Independent Parks Party is running 5 candidates, all for Park Board. It is the only party on this ballot contesting a single race. Its home page shows no policy content, but a platform page reachable at a direct address, not linked from the home page, lists 33 numbered positions, all about parks.","xjDKcn2RXTa9jFOnwx-wi-mEN-23tpyXhgMwc7o4TeU",{"id":3890,"aliases":3891,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":3892,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":3896,"history":3897,"leadership":3901,"logo":34,"meta":3902,"money":3903,"name":1520,"news":3908,"overview":3912,"palette":3916,"platform":3920,"questions":4116,"record":4148,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":1520,"slug":4152,"sources":4153,"stem":4198,"summary":4199,"website":1521,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":4200},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fonecity.json",[],{"hex":3893,"note":9,"cites":3894},"#e24853",[3895],"onecity-home","4,000 homes on city land, and no mayoral candidate",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3898,"gaps":3899,"entries":3900},[23,24],[26],[],[],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3904,"gaps":3905,"searchUrl":43,"filings":3906,"notes":3907},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3909,"gaps":3910,"entries":3911},[54],[56],[],[3913,3914,3915],"OneCity is running 13 candidates: 5 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. Like COPE, it is not running a mayoral candidate.","Its website said \"Full Platform coming soon\" when we checked on September 22, 2026, so what is recorded here comes from the commitments published on its home page.","The party publishes two figures about its own funding that are unusual to disclose: 7,534 donors at an average gift of $46.31, and more than 4,800 members. These are the party’s own figures.",{"accent":3917,"onAccent":65,"tint":3918,"ink":3919},"#DE2E3A","#F7E3E5","#7A1F25",[3921,3950,3978,4026,4045,4057,4064,4091,4097,4103],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":3922,"proposals":3926,"questions":3936,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":3941,"gaps":3944,"headline":3948,"summary":3949},[3923,3924,3925],"This is the largest published housing number on the 2026 ballot. OneCity commits to 4,000 affordable homes built on land the city already owns.","Building on city land is the lever a council actually controls directly, because the city does not have to buy the land first.","OneCity’s site said a full platform was coming when we checked on September 22, 2026, so no timeline, cost or site list has been published alongside the 4,000 figure.",[3927,3932],{"title":3928,"detail":3929,"cites":3930,"cost":135,"authority":3931},"Build 4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land","OneCity commits to building 4,000 affordable homes on land the city already owns.",[3895],"The city owns the land and can direct its use.",{"title":3933,"detail":3934,"cites":3935},"Strengthen protections for low-income seniors and renters","OneCity commits to strengthening protections for low-income seniors and renters.",[3895],[3937],{"question":3938,"answer":3939,"cites":3940},"Is 4,000 homes a lot?","It is the largest housing number published by any party in this election. OneCity has not published a timeline, a cost or a list of sites alongside it, so there is no way yet to check whether it is achievable in one four-year term.",[3895],[3942,3943],"The OneCity home page","A web search for the OneCity 2026 platform, September 2026",[3945,3946,3947],"No timeline is published for the 4,000 homes.","No cost is published.","No list of city-owned sites is published.","4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land","OneCity commits to building 4,000 affordable homes on land the city already owns, and to strengthening protections for low-income seniors and renters.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":3951,"proposals":3954,"questions":3972,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3973,"gaps":3975,"headline":3977},[3952,3953],"The party's housing release, The Way Home & Housing for All, includes a section on homelessness and supportive housing alongside its wider housing plan.","It pairs ending a City ban on new supportive housing with a new public engagement process and a standard for city-funded shelters.",[3955,3960,3964,3968],{"title":3956,"detail":3957,"cites":3958,"authority":106},"End the ban on new supportive housing","The party would end what it calls ABC's ban on net-new supportive housing.",[3959],"onecity-housingforall",{"title":3961,"detail":3962,"cites":3963},"A new public engagement process for supportive housing projects","A new Office of Community Engagement would run public engagement on supportive housing proposals, aimed at helping more of them succeed.",[3959],{"title":3965,"detail":3966,"cites":3967},"A Vancouver Shelter Standard","The party would create a standard for every city-funded shelter, so they are safe and welcoming.",[3959],{"title":3969,"detail":3970,"cites":3971},"A Community Land Trust Support Strategy","Non-profits would get the first right to buy affordable buildings and land when they come up for sale.",[3959],[],[3974,115,116],"The party's News page at https:\u002F\u002Fonecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews",[3976],"No cost or date is published for the shelter standard or the community land trust strategy.","End the ban on new supportive housing, and add a shelter standard",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":3979,"proposals":3982,"questions":4021,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":4022,"gaps":4023,"headline":4025},[3980,3981],"OneCity published a 10-point plan on September 25, 2026, grouped under three headings: a coordinated crisis response that does not always involve police, safer physical spaces, and public accountability for the Vancouver Police Department.","The plan quotes Councillor Lucy Maloney and Council candidates Caitlin Stockwell and Iona Bonamis, each also quoted on their own candidate records where they restate these points in their own words.",[3983,3988,3992,3996,4000,4004,4008,4012,4016],{"title":3984,"detail":3985,"cites":3986},"A coordinated crisis response, so police are not the only response","Trained mental health professionals and peer responders would take calls that do not need police, freeing police for organized and major crime and first responders for fire and medical emergencies.",[3987],"onecity-safety",{"title":3989,"detail":3990,"cites":3991},"Community violence intervention","Trusted community messengers, similar to Community Response and Crisis teams, would step in before conflict escalates.",[3987],{"title":3993,"detail":3994,"cites":3995},"Expand restorative justice","The party would build on the Downtown Community Court and Indigenous-led community safety models to reduce repeat offending.",[3987],{"title":3997,"detail":3998,"cites":3999},"A Survivor Safety Fund and a Community Safety Table","Fast, low-barrier emergency money for survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence, delivered by frontline organizations, alongside a table to coordinate neighbourhood response.",[3987],{"title":4001,"detail":4002,"cites":4003},"ReLight Vancouver","Better-lit streets, parks, pathways and bus stops in every neighbourhood, and a ban on hostile architecture (design meant to stop people using it, such as spiked benches) on city-owned benches and shelters.",[3987],{"title":4005,"detail":4006,"cites":4007},"Restore public garbage bins and expand recycling","The party would restore reliable public garbage bins, expand recycling beyond downtown, and publish a public map of bin locations.",[3987],{"title":4009,"detail":4010,"cites":4011},"Ban wearable recording devices in city facilities","Devices such as smart glasses that can record video would be banned in city-run change rooms, washrooms and other municipal spaces.",[3987],{"title":4013,"detail":4014,"cites":4015},"Regulate e-bike and e-scooter batteries","The city would regulate businesses selling unsafe e-bikes and batteries, work with the province on a battery trade-in program, and set safe operating standards for e-bikes and e-scooters.",[3987],{"title":4017,"detail":4018,"cites":4019,"authority":4020},"An independent, published review of the Vancouver Police Department","A public organizational review of the VPD, on the same standard as other public services, to find where to invest, find efficiencies, and identify calls other responders could handle.",[3987],"Council approves the police budget and can direct such a review.",[],[3974,115,116],[4024],"Most items name no dollar figure or completion date. The plan does not say how many crisis-response workers would be hired or what the review would cost.","A 10-point plan built around non-police crisis response and public accountability for the VPD",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":4027,"proposals":4030,"questions":4040,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4041,"gaps":4042,"headline":4043,"summary":4044},[4028,4029],"Transit signal priority means traffic lights hold green or turn green early for an approaching bus. The city owns and controls its traffic signals, so this is squarely within council’s power even though TransLink runs the buses.","OneCity publishes a target of about a 20% reduction in travel times. It is one of the few measurable transport targets on this ballot.",[4031,4036],{"title":4032,"detail":4033,"cites":4034,"cost":135,"authority":4035},"City-wide transit signal priority","OneCity would adopt city-wide transit signal priority and modernise traffic signals, targeting around a 20% reduction in travel times.",[3895],"The city owns and controls its traffic signals.",{"title":4037,"detail":4038,"cites":4039},"Reduce pedestrian and vehicle conflicts at crossings","OneCity commits to reducing pedestrian-vehicle conflicts at crossings.",[3895],[],[3942],[],"City-wide transit signal priority, targeting 20% faster trips","OneCity would adopt city-wide transit signal priority and modernise traffic signals, publishing a target of roughly 20% shorter travel times.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":4046,"proposals":4048,"questions":4053,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4054,"gaps":4055,"headline":4050,"summary":4051},[4047],"OneCity is running three Park Board candidates. Its published parks commitment is to renew community centres, pools and ice rinks. No cost or list of facilities is published.",[4049],{"title":4050,"detail":4051,"cites":4052,"cost":135},"Renew community centres, pools and ice rinks","OneCity commits to renewing community centres, pools and ice rinks.",[3895],[],[3942],[4056,3946],"No list of facilities is published.",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":4058,"proposals":4059,"questions":4060,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4061,"gaps":4063},[],[],[],[4062,116,2638],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002F",[2640],{"issue":217,"paragraphs":4065,"proposals":4067,"questions":4085,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4086,"gaps":4087,"headline":4089,"summary":4090},[4066],"OneCity’s published economic commitments centre on small business and on what the city requires of the people it pays.",[4068,4073,4077,4081],{"title":4069,"detail":4070,"cites":4071,"authority":4072},"Ensure public dollars fund fair wages","OneCity commits to ensuring public dollars fund fair wages.",[3895],"Council sets its own procurement rules.",{"title":4074,"detail":4075,"cites":4076,"cost":135},"Launch an Entrepreneur Liaison Office","OneCity would launch an office to help entrepreneurs deal with the city.",[3895],{"title":4078,"detail":4079,"cites":4080,"cost":135},"Small-business micro-grants","OneCity commits to providing small-business micro-grants.",[3895],{"title":4082,"detail":4083,"cites":4084},"Modernise home-based business rules","OneCity would modernise the rules for running a business from home.",[3895],[],[3942],[4088],"No property tax commitment is published.","Fair wages on public contracts, and small business support","OneCity would ensure public dollars fund fair wages, modernise home-based business rules, launch an Entrepreneur Liaison Office and provide small-business micro-grants.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":4092,"proposals":4093,"questions":4094,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4095,"gaps":4096},[],[],[],[4062,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":252,"paragraphs":4098,"proposals":4099,"questions":4100,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4101,"gaps":4102},[],[],[],[4062,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":272,"paragraphs":4104,"proposals":4106,"questions":4111,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4112,"gaps":4113,"headline":4108,"summary":4115},[4105],"OneCity names child care among its published commitments but has not published a number of spaces, a cost or a timeline.",[4107],{"title":4108,"detail":4109,"cites":4110,"cost":135},"Create child care spaces across the city","OneCity commits to creating child care spaces across the city.",[3895],[],[3942],[4114],"No number of spaces is published.","OneCity commits to creating child care spaces across the city. No number is published.",[4117,4121,4125,4129,4133,4137,4141,4145],{"question":4118,"answer":4119,"cites":4120},"Is OneCity running a candidate for mayor?","No. It is running 13 candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor.",[33],{"question":4122,"answer":4123,"cites":4124},"What is OneCity’s main commitment?","4,000 affordable homes built on land the city already owns. It is the largest housing number published by any party in this election.",[3895],{"question":4126,"answer":4127,"cites":4128},"Has OneCity published a full platform?","Not when we checked on September 22, 2026. Its website said \"Full Platform coming soon\". Everything recorded here comes from commitments on its home page.",[3895],{"question":4130,"answer":4131,"cites":4132},"What is transit signal priority?","Traffic lights hold green, or turn green early, when a bus is coming. The city owns its traffic signals, so it can do this without TransLink. OneCity publishes a target of about 20% shorter travel times.",[3895],{"question":4134,"answer":4135,"cites":4136},"How is OneCity funded?","The party publishes its own figures: 7,534 donors at an average gift of $46.31, and more than 4,800 members. Those are the party’s own numbers. Elections BC filings are where to check them.",[3895,317],{"question":4138,"answer":4139,"cites":4140},"How many School Board candidates is OneCity running?","Five, tied with ABC for the largest school slate on this ballot.",[33],{"question":4142,"answer":4143,"cites":4144},"Does OneCity have a published climate policy?","We found none on its website on September 22, 2026. Its full platform had not been published.",[3895],{"question":4146,"answer":315,"cites":4147},"Where can I see OneCity’s campaign finances?",[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4149,"gaps":4150,"entries":4151},[23,321],[323],[],"onecity",[4154,4156,4157,4158,4159,4160,4164,4168,4172,4177,4182,4186,4190,4194],{"id":3895,"label":4155,"url":1521,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"OneCity home page",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":3987,"label":4161,"url":4162,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":4163,"checkedAt":6},"OneCity's Progressive Public Safety Plan: Safe Streets & Public Spaces for All","https:\u002F\u002Fonecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fprogressivepublicsafety","2026-09-25",{"id":3959,"label":4165,"url":4166,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":4167,"checkedAt":6},"OneCity Announces their Plans to show Vancouverites the Way Home with Housing for All","https:\u002F\u002Fonecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fhousingforall","2026-09-24",{"id":4169,"label":4170,"url":4171,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-our-plans","Our Plans","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Four-plans",{"id":4173,"label":4174,"url":4175,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":4176,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-leap","OneCity Announces the second part of our Local Economic Action Plan","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fleap","2026-08-17",{"id":4178,"label":4179,"url":4180,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":4181,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-builttolast","OneCity Vancouver Announces Built to Last, a Climate Crisis Building, Adaptation, and Retrofit Plan","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fbuilttolast","2026-08-07",{"id":4183,"label":4184,"url":4185,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":3633,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-hot-fun-cool","OneCity Announces its Plan for a Vibrant City That's Hot, Fun, & Cool","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fvibrant-city",{"id":4187,"label":4188,"url":4189,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":3633,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-parks-pipes-pools","OneCity's Park Board Team Announces Parks, Pipes, & Pools: Three New Community Centres, More Lifeguards, and a Plan to Fund the Park Board","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fparks-pipes-pools",{"id":4191,"label":4192,"url":4193,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":3633,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-better-schools","OneCity's School Board Team Announces Better Schools: A Plan to Harness the Power of the VSB to Build More Childcare, Community Centres, and Homes","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fbetter-schools",{"id":4195,"label":4196,"url":4197,"publisher":1520,"kind":331,"publishedAt":3633,"checkedAt":363},"onecity-budget-and-ballot","OneCity Announces its Plan to Fix the Budget & Make Your Vote Matter","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fbudget-and-ballot","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fonecity","OneCity is running 13 candidates for Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor. Its headline commitment is 4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land.","fzkgCdmMl1ao0FNnqVlBAKob25ZtjqytsGzF8xYxnnQ",{"id":4202,"aliases":4203,"checkedAt":21,"declaredColour":4204,"extension":12,"founded":34,"headline":4208,"history":4209,"leadership":4213,"logo":34,"meta":4221,"money":4222,"name":1389,"news":4227,"overview":4231,"palette":4236,"platform":4240,"questions":4629,"record":4667,"registeredName":34,"rosterLabel":4671,"slug":4672,"sources":4673,"stem":4756,"summary":4757,"website":1390,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":4758},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fteam-for-a-livable-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":4205,"note":9,"cites":4206},"#162b6f",[4207],"team-home","The most detailed published platform on the 2026 ballot",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4210,"gaps":4211,"entries":4212},[23,24],[26],[],[4214,4216],{"role":30,"name":1578,"cites":4215},[4207,33],{"role":4217,"name":4218,"cites":4219},"Financial agent","Douglas Johnstone",[4220],"team-safety",{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4223,"gaps":4224,"searchUrl":43,"filings":4225,"notes":4226},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4228,"gaps":4229,"entries":4230},[54],[56],[],[4232,4233,4234,4235],"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver is running 14 candidates: Colleen Hardwick for mayor at ballot number 50, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.","TEAM publishes more policy detail than any other party on this ballot. Its positions site is organised into ten areas, most with a separate long \"learn more\" page listing dozens of numbered action items.","The platform is built around a single argument: that the city has approved growth faster than the infrastructure and consultation processes can carry, and that recent provincial housing legislation has taken planning decisions away from neighbourhoods. Most of its commitments follow from that.","Its financial agent is listed as Douglas Johnstone, and its mailing address is published on the site.",{"accent":4237,"onAccent":65,"tint":4238,"ink":4239},"#162B6F","#E3E8F7","#1F347A",[4241,4303,4328,4355,4388,4446,4498,4530,4574,4610],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":4242,"proposals":4247,"questions":4288,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4297,"gaps":4300,"headline":4301,"summary":4302},[4243,4244,4245,4246],"This is the longest single policy document any party has published in this election, and housing is where most of it sits.","TEAM’s starting argument is that supply alone has not produced affordability. Its page states that since the 1970s the city has tripled its number of housing units, more than any other centre city in North America, and still has the most expensive housing. We have not checked that claim against census data; it is the party’s own reading.","The most consequential commitment is repealing the Official Development Plan. TEAM notes that eliminating public hearings for rezonings consistent with an Official Development Plan removes a step where the public can speak, and that repealing it is what would stop the Villages plan coming back after the election.","TEAM also commits to reconsidering the city’s support for the UBC SkyTrain extension and the related development planning around it.",[4248,4254,4258,4263,4267,4271,4275,4279,4283],{"title":4249,"detail":4250,"cites":4251,"authority":4253},"Repeal the Official Development Plan","TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan, including the related plans for Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages, so that neighbourhood-based participatory planning can replace it.",[4252],"team-planning","Council adopts and can repeal an Official Development Plan.",{"title":4255,"detail":4256,"cites":4257},"Restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning","New development would be planned with local residents and businesses, within the scale and context of each neighbourhood, alongside the infrastructure and amenities needed to support it.",[4252],{"title":4259,"detail":4260,"cites":4261,"authority":4262},"Challenge provincial housing legislation","TEAM would work with other municipalities to change what it calls provincial overreach into municipal planning, naming BC zoning Bills 44, 46 and 47 of 2023, Bill 18 of 2024 and M216 of 2025.",[4252],"These are provincial statutes. A city can lobby but cannot repeal them.",{"title":4264,"detail":4265,"cites":4266},"Stop demovictions and protect older rental buildings","TEAM would protect older rental buildings from demolition, improve renter supports and protections, and retain and increase co-op housing.",[4252],{"title":4268,"detail":4269,"cites":4270},"Withdraw rental programs that do not create real affordability","TEAM would withdraw the Moderate Income Rental Pilot Program and the Secured Rental Policy, arguing they do not create meaningful affordability and inflate surrounding land values.",[4252],{"title":4272,"detail":4273,"cites":4274},"Reinstate third-party appeals to the Board of Variance","TEAM would restore third-party appeals it says were in place for 50 years, as a check on the discretionary powers of the Director of Planning.",[4252],{"title":4276,"detail":4277,"cites":4278},"Re-establish the One Stop Renovation Centre","TEAM would restore a single service for approving small construction projects, to make laneway housing, secondary suites, duplexes and small infill easier to build.",[4252],{"title":4280,"detail":4281,"cites":4282},"Protect and reinstate public view cones","TEAM would protect all public view cone corridors and reinstate the view cones amended or eliminated over the last term.",[4252],{"title":4284,"detail":4285,"cites":4286},"Retain on-site parking minimums","TEAM would keep minimum on-site parking requirements in the Parking Bylaw for new construction, arguing this is needed for future electric vehicle charging.",[4252,4287],"team-environment",[4289,4293],{"question":4290,"answer":4291,"cites":4292},"What is an Official Development Plan, and why does repealing it matter?","It is a city-wide plan that sets in advance what can be built where. Once it is adopted, a rezoning that matches it can be approved without a public hearing. TEAM would repeal it, which would bring back the hearing step and, TEAM says, stop the Villages plan returning after the election.",[4252],{"question":4294,"answer":4295,"cites":4296},"Can a city undo the provincial housing bills?","No. Bills 44, 46, 47, 18 and M216 are provincial law and only the province can change them. TEAM commits to working with other municipalities to push for changes, which is lobbying rather than a power the city holds.",[4252],[4298,4299],"The TEAM positions site","The TEAM planning learn-more page",[],"Repeal the Official Development Plan and restore neighbourhood planning","TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew and Villages plans, restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning, and challenge provincial housing legislation.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":4304,"proposals":4307,"questions":4321,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4322,"gaps":4324,"headline":4326,"summary":4327},[4305,4306],"TEAM does not publish a standalone homelessness plan. Its argument connects homelessness to demolition of older affordable rental buildings, which its planning page says displaces residents and forces some into homelessness.","On the street-level response, its safety page commits to working with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds and transition services.",[4308,4312,4317],{"title":4309,"detail":4310,"cites":4311},"Stop demolition of older affordable rental buildings","TEAM argues demolition of cheaper older stock displaces residents into homelessness, and would reverse policies that target those buildings for redevelopment.",[4252],{"title":4313,"detail":4314,"cites":4315,"authority":4316},"Work with senior governments on non-market and supportive housing","TEAM would work with provincial and federal housing agencies so they provide the non-market, supportive and social housing and services the city needs.",[4252],"Supportive housing is funded provincially and federally.",{"title":4318,"detail":4319,"cites":4320},"A Downtown Eastside audit","The same audit commitment that appears under public safety.",[4220],[],[4299,4323],"The TEAM safety for all page",[4325,2242],"No shelter space target is published.","Handled through planning and safety, not a separate plan","TEAM addresses homelessness inside its planning and safety pages: protecting older rental stock from demolition, and working with the province on care beds and complex needs.",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":4329,"proposals":4333,"questions":4350,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4351,"gaps":4352,"headline":4353,"summary":4354},[4330,4331,4332],"TEAM’s safety page is shorter than its planning and parks pages and does not carry a separate long \"learn more\" version.","The Downtown Eastside audit is its most specific commitment: a review to check that resources reach the people who need them.","Like ABC, TEAM commits to working with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds. That is a request to another level of government rather than something a council decides.",[4334,4337,4341,4345],{"title":4318,"detail":4335,"cites":4336},"TEAM would establish an audit to ensure the social issues affecting the community are addressed and resources reach those who need them.",[4220],{"title":4338,"detail":4339,"cites":4340},"Enforce bylaws against public disorder","TEAM would enforce bylaws to crack down on public disorder and keep parks accessible and family-friendly.",[4220],{"title":4342,"detail":4343,"cites":4344,"cost":135},"Support community policing such as Block Watch","TEAM would increase support for community policing initiatives, naming Block Watch.",[4220],{"title":4346,"detail":4347,"cites":4348,"authority":4349},"Work with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds","TEAM would work with the province so people with complex needs get care, including voluntary and involuntary beds, transition services and long-term support.",[4220],"Health care is provincial.",[],[4323],[],"Restoring Order to Our City, with a Downtown Eastside audit","TEAM’s public safety plan is called Restoring Order to Our City. It would enforce bylaws against public disorder, establish a Downtown Eastside audit, and back a recovery-oriented approach to addiction.",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":4356,"proposals":4359,"questions":4382,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4383,"gaps":4385,"headline":4386,"summary":4387},[4357,4358],"TEAM argues that Vancouver’s transport infrastructure has not kept pace with population growth and that successive councils have treated personal vehicles as a problem while much of the city is hard to reach by transit.","It is one of the few parties publishing a clear position against road pricing and city-wide parking permits.",[4360,4365,4370,4374,4378],{"title":4361,"detail":4362,"cites":4363},"An all-of-the-above transportation strategy","TEAM would invest in road network improvement and maintenance so people can get around by car, transit, bicycle or on foot.",[4364],"team-transport",{"title":4366,"detail":4367,"cites":4368,"authority":4369},"Expand bus service and add stops in under-served neighbourhoods","TEAM would expand the bus service and add new stops to build a citywide network, and stop the elimination of bus stops.",[4364],"TransLink runs bus service. The city can advocate through the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":4371,"detail":4372,"cites":4373},"Restore off-street parking minimums","TEAM would reverse council’s decision and restore off-street parking minimums for all new construction.",[4364],{"title":4375,"detail":4376,"cites":4377},"Oppose road pricing","TEAM states it will not adopt punitive city-wide parking permits as previously proposed by council.",[4364],{"title":4379,"detail":4380,"cites":4381},"Repair sidewalks and improve pedestrian lighting","TEAM would repair broken or lifted sidewalk sections, add sidewalks in underserved areas, and upgrade street and pedestrian lighting.",[4364],[],[4384],"The TEAM transportation page",[],"An all-of-the-above strategy, with parking minimums restored","TEAM would invest in road maintenance, expand bus service and stops, restore off-street parking minimums for new construction, and oppose road pricing.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":4389,"proposals":4393,"questions":4431,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4441,"gaps":4443,"headline":4444,"summary":4445},[4390,4391,4392],"TEAM publishes more on parks than any other party, and it is the clearest dividing line between TEAM and the governing party.","The current council asked the province to amend the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board. TEAM commits to withdrawing that request and to transferring finance, operations and facilities back under Park Board control from the city’s planning, real estate and facilities departments.","TEAM publishes a measurable target, which is rare: a ratio of 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people, which it describes as consistent with previous City and Park Board policy.",[4394,4400,4404,4408,4412,4415,4419,4423,4427],{"title":4395,"detail":4396,"cites":4397,"authority":4399},"Withdraw the request to abolish the elected Park Board","TEAM would withdraw the city’s request to the province to change the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board.",[4398],"team-parks","Only the province can amend the Vancouver Charter. The city can withdraw its request.",{"title":4401,"detail":4402,"cites":4403},"Restore Park Board control of its own budget and operations","Finance, operations and facilities would move back under Park Board jurisdiction from the city’s planning, real estate and facilities departments, with line-by-line budget oversight.",[4398],{"title":4405,"detail":4406,"cites":4407,"cost":135},"Target 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people","TEAM would advocate and plan for new parks and recreation facilities as population grows, striving for a ratio of 1.1 hectares per 1,000 people.",[4398],{"title":4409,"detail":4410,"cites":4411},"Halt Stanley Park logging pending independent review","TEAM would halt current logging operations until a full scientific review and independent risk assessments are done, with only trees judged imminently dangerous by a certified assessor felled.",[4398],{"title":3730,"detail":4413,"cites":4414},"Existing temporary and de-facto parks would be designated as permanent parks.",[4398],{"title":4416,"detail":4417,"cites":4418},"Secure ongoing Park Board funding from the tax base","TEAM would advocate for ongoing funding for the Park Board as a specified portion of the City of Vancouver tax base.",[4398],{"title":4420,"detail":4421,"cites":4422},"Restore pre-COVID access to Stanley Park and Beach Avenue","Access would be restored while providing new separate infrastructure for cycling and walking.",[4398],{"title":4424,"detail":4425,"cites":4426},"No selling of park naming rights","TEAM states that public park land should not be used as a revenue stream such as selling naming rights.",[4398],{"title":4428,"detail":4429,"cites":4430,"cost":135},"More park rangers and lifeguards","TEAM would expand maintenance and garbage pickup, actively enforce bylaws, and increase the number of park rangers and lifeguards.",[4398],[4432,4437],{"question":4433,"answer":4434,"cites":4435},"Is the Park Board being abolished?","No. Seven commissioners are being elected on October 17, 2026. The current council asked the province to amend the Vancouver Charter to remove the board. TEAM would withdraw that request, and the mayor has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected.",[4398,4436],"cbc-parkboard-team",{"question":4438,"answer":4439,"cites":4440},"What does 1.1 hectares per 1,000 people mean?","It is a target for how much park land the city should have compared with how many people live here. One hectare is about the size of a rugby pitch and a half. TEAM says the figure matches earlier City and Park Board policy.",[4398],[4442],"The TEAM parks and recreation learn-more page",[],"Keep the elected Park Board and halt Stanley Park logging","TEAM would withdraw the request to abolish the elected Park Board, restore its control over its own budget and operations, halt current Stanley Park logging pending independent review, and target 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people.",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":4447,"proposals":4452,"questions":4492,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4493,"gaps":4495,"headline":4496,"summary":4497},[4448,4449,4450,4451],"TEAM is running one School Board candidate, the smallest school slate of the parties contesting that race, but it publishes a detailed schools platform.","Its argument is that schools are not being planned where students actually live, and that the board should stop selling land it will need when those neighbourhoods fill up.","TEAM publishes a specific and checkable claim about swimming: that 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim, and that it would provide training so all of them can. We have not checked that figure.","It also names buildings: reversing the proposed sale of the Queen Elizabeth Annex, the leasing of Fleming’s field, and the closure of Carleton.",[4453,4458,4462,4466,4470,4474,4478,4483,4488],{"title":4454,"detail":4455,"cites":4456},"End school enrolment lotteries","Long-range planning with the city would put schools where students need them, when they need them.",[4457],"team-schools",{"title":4459,"detail":4460,"cites":4461},"Stop disposing of school land","TEAM commits to retaining ownership of school buildings and property, and using space in underused buildings for child care, seniors care or community programs.",[4457],{"title":4463,"detail":4464,"cites":4465},"Reverse the Queen Elizabeth Annex sale, Fleming’s field lease and Carleton closure","TEAM would take action by any means possible to reverse all three.",[4457],{"title":4467,"detail":4468,"cites":4469},"Pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools","The rollout of Microsoft Copilot 13+ would pause until research shows the benefits outweigh the risks and students, families and educators have been consulted.",[4457],{"title":4471,"detail":4472,"cites":4473,"cost":135},"Bring back elementary band and strings","Music programming would be included at every elementary school, restoring the Elementary Band and Strings programs.",[4457],{"title":4475,"detail":4476,"cites":4477},"Swimming training so every child can swim","TEAM states 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim and commits to an integrated swimming and lifeguard training program so 100% can.",[4457],{"title":4479,"detail":4480,"cites":4481,"authority":4482},"Keep more Vancouver school tax in Vancouver","TEAM would negotiate with the province to keep more of the school tax collected in Vancouver for local schools.",[4457],"The school tax formula is provincial.",{"title":4484,"detail":4485,"cites":4486,"authority":4487},"Protect schools at seismic risk","TEAM would demand the province protect the four annexes, twenty-eight elementary schools and eleven secondary schools it says remain at high risk in an earthquake.",[4457],"Seismic upgrade funding is provincial.",{"title":4489,"detail":4490,"cites":4491},"Child care on school sites","Child care would be built into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds.",[4457],[],[4494],"The TEAM schools learn-more page",[],"End enrolment lotteries and stop selling school land","TEAM would end school enrolment lotteries through long-range planning with the city, stop disposing of school land, pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools, and bring back elementary band and strings.",{"issue":217,"paragraphs":4499,"proposals":4503,"questions":4524,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4525,"gaps":4527,"headline":4528,"summary":4529},[4500,4501,4502],"TEAM’s finance argument is that the city has taken on work outside its core mandate and funded it through property tax and fee increases.","Its page states that over the last decade the city has almost doubled its operating budget, with new spending funded through property tax increases beyond promised inflationary levels. This is TEAM’s own reading of the budget and we have not checked it against city financial statements.","The proposed budget review would sort services into essential and supplementary, develop benchmarks for each, and give council and the public the ability to review and approve departmental budgets and service plans.",[4504,4509,4513,4516,4520],{"title":4505,"detail":4506,"cites":4507},"Limit tax increases to what core services need","TEAM would limit tax increases to what is necessary to maintain municipal services at levels agreed with the community.",[4508],"team-finance",{"title":4510,"detail":4511,"cites":4512},"Review the operating and capital budgets service by service","The review would document where costs rose over the last decade and why, sort services into essential and supplementary, and build benchmarks to measure cost and value.",[4508],{"title":3164,"detail":4514,"cites":4515},"A registry consistent with federal and provincial ones would let residents see who is trying to influence city decisions.",[4508],{"title":4517,"detail":4518,"cites":4519},"Stop spending city money on provincial and federal responsibilities","TEAM would stop spending city funds on what it considers clearly provincial or federal responsibilities while holding senior governments to account for funding them.",[4508],{"title":4521,"detail":4522,"cites":4523},"Departmental service plans with performance benchmarks","Departments would develop annual service plans with benchmarks, and management would be held accountable for meeting them.",[4508],[],[4526],"The TEAM finance and administration learn-more page",[],"Limit tax rises to core services and establish a lobbyist registry","TEAM would limit tax increases to what is needed for municipal services, review the operating and capital budgets service by service, and set up a lobbyist registry.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":4531,"proposals":4536,"questions":4568,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4569,"gaps":4571,"headline":4572,"summary":4573},[4532,4533,4534,4535],"TEAM frames climate policy around what it calls practical, measurable local outcomes, and says it will avoid what it calls green-washing.","The clearest split with other parties is on how building emissions rules should work. TEAM would incentivise voluntary upgrades to existing buildings rather than requiring them, arguing mandatory rules may be beyond people’s means.","TEAM is the only party we found publishing a position on AI data centres: a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting them until local rules exist to handle their water and power use.","It also argues the greenest building is the one that already exists, and would prioritise reusing and renovating buildings over demolition.",[4537,4542,4546,4550,4554,4558,4563],{"title":4538,"detail":4539,"cites":4540,"authority":4541},"Moratorium on AI data centre approvals","TEAM would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres while local planning and regulatory frameworks are developed.",[4287],"The city controls permitting and land use.",{"title":4543,"detail":4544,"cites":4545},"Incentives rather than mandates for building retrofits","TEAM would incentivise voluntary upgrades of existing buildings to improve energy efficiency and move to zero emissions, rather than the mandatory regulation it says is currently proposed.",[4287],{"title":4547,"detail":4548,"cites":4549},"No road pricing and no city-wide parking permits","TEAM states it will not implement road pricing, which it says unfairly affects affordability and tracks people’s movements, and will not adopt city-wide parking permits.",[4287,4364],{"title":4551,"detail":4552,"cites":4553},"Prioritise adaptive reuse over demolition","TEAM would prioritise retaining and renovating existing buildings rather than what it calls a wasteful bias toward demolition and new construction.",[4287],{"title":4555,"detail":4556,"cites":4557},"Expand tree planting and protect mature trees","TEAM would expand tree planting, protect mature trees, retain and enhance green space, and consider heat island effects when planning growth.",[4287],{"title":4559,"detail":4560,"cites":4561,"authority":4562},"Electrify the bus fleet with TransLink","TEAM would work with TransLink to convert the existing bus system to an electric fleet and expand frequent service on all arterials.",[4287],"TransLink runs the buses. The city sits on the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":4564,"detail":4565,"cites":4566,"authority":4567},"Work with BC Hydro on step energy rates","TEAM would work with BC Hydro to adjust step energy charges so electricity use is encouraged rather than penalised, noting rates increase by 50% from Step 1 to Step 2.",[4287],"BC Hydro rates are provincially regulated.",[],[4570],"The TEAM environment learn-more page",[],"Incentives instead of mandates, and a moratorium on AI data centres","TEAM would use incentives rather than mandatory rules for building retrofits, enact a moratorium on AI data centre approvals, and rejects road pricing and city-wide parking permits.",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":4575,"proposals":4578,"questions":4604,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4605,"gaps":4607,"headline":4608,"summary":4609},[4576,4577],"TEAM’s argument is that artists have left the city because affordable studio space and public venues, mostly in older buildings, have been lost.","Two of its commitments are unusually concrete for an arts platform: a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for city-owned creative space, and publishing an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca.",[4579,4584,4588,4592,4596,4600],{"title":4580,"detail":4581,"cites":4582},"One-for-one replacement of city-owned creative space","TEAM would pursue a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for city-owned creative space, and repurpose unused or underused properties including Park Board and School Board facilities.",[4583],"team-arts",{"title":4585,"detail":4586,"cites":4587},"Publish an inventory of arts spaces","TEAM would create and publish an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca, and build an arts and culture page there listing all events.",[4583],{"title":4589,"detail":4590,"cites":4591},"Incentives to retain creative space","TEAM would provide incentives for retaining and upgrading creative spaces and disincentives for demolishing them.",[4583],{"title":4593,"detail":4594,"cites":4595},"Support street festivals","TEAM would encourage and facilitate street festivals, naming Greek Day, Powell Street, Italian Day and Khatsalano.",[4583],{"title":4597,"detail":4598,"cites":4599},"Keep community centres affordable for the arts community","Community centres and other Park Board facilities would be kept affordable for arts use.",[4583],{"title":4601,"detail":4602,"cites":4603},"Review the civic theatres","TEAM would examine how Vancouver’s civic theatres could be made more suitable and affordable for the local arts community.",[4583],[],[4606],"The TEAM arts and culture learn-more page",[],"Protect affordable artist space and publish an inventory of it","TEAM would protect and expand affordable rehearsal and performance space, require one-for-one replacement of city-owned creative space, and publish an inventory of arts spaces on the city website.",{"issue":272,"paragraphs":4611,"proposals":4613,"questions":4622,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4623,"gaps":4624,"headline":4627,"summary":4628},[4612],"TEAM does not publish a separate child care section. Its commitments appear inside the schools and planning pages.",[4614,4618],{"title":4489,"detail":4615,"cites":4616,"authority":4617},"TEAM would incorporate child care into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds, in keeping with Ministry of Education plans.",[4457],"Licensing and operating funding are provincial.",{"title":4619,"detail":4620,"cites":4621},"Use underused school buildings for child care","Space in underused school buildings would be used for child care, seniors care or community programs.",[4457],[],[4494,4299],[4625,4626],"No number of new child care spaces is published.","No position on child care fees is published.","Child care built into school sites and new housing","TEAM would incorporate child care into school sites, aiming toward preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds, and include child care in new housing developments.",[4630,4634,4638,4642,4646,4650,4654,4658,4663],{"question":4631,"answer":4632,"cites":4633},"Who leads TEAM for a Livable Vancouver?","Colleen Hardwick is its mayoral candidate, at ballot number 50. She is a former Vancouver city councillor. Whether she is also the registered leader of the elector organisation is a separate question we have not checked.",[4207,33],{"question":4635,"answer":4636,"cites":4637},"How many candidates is TEAM running?","14: Colleen Hardwick for mayor, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.",[33],{"question":4639,"answer":4640,"cites":4641},"What is the single biggest thing TEAM would change?","Repeal the Official Development Plan, including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages plans. That would bring back public hearings for rezonings those plans currently allow without one.",[4252],{"question":4643,"answer":4644,"cites":4645},"Where does TEAM stand on the Park Board?","It would withdraw the city’s request to the province to abolish the elected board, and move finance, operations and facilities back under Park Board control from city departments.",[4398],{"question":4647,"answer":4648,"cites":4649},"Does TEAM support the UBC SkyTrain extension?","Its planning page commits to reconsidering the city’s support for it, and to ensuring the business case for its viability and for alternatives includes all the facts.",[4252],{"question":4651,"answer":4652,"cites":4653},"What does TEAM say about climate rules for buildings?","It would use incentives for voluntary upgrades rather than mandatory rules, arguing mandatory retrofits may be beyond people’s resources. It also argues the greenest building is the one that already exists.",[4287],{"question":4655,"answer":4656,"cites":4657},"Does TEAM have a position on AI data centres?","Yes. It is the only party we found with one. TEAM would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres until local rules exist to handle their water and power use.",[4287],{"question":4659,"answer":4660,"cites":4661},"How much detail does TEAM publish compared with other parties?","More than any other party on this ballot. Its positions site has ten areas, and most carry a separate long page of numbered action items. We counted 13,801 words across the eight pages we archived on September 22, 2026.",[4662],"team-positions",{"question":4664,"answer":4665,"cites":4666},"Where can I see TEAM’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027, so what is on the record now is the yearly reports and the 2022 election filings.",[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4668,"gaps":4669,"entries":4670},[23,321],[323],[],"TEAM","team-for-a-livable-vancouver",[4674,4676,4679,4682,4685,4688,4691,4694,4697,4700,4703,4704,4705,4706,4707,4708,4712,4716,4720,4724,4728,4732,4736,4740,4744,4748,4752],{"id":4207,"label":4675,"url":1390,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver home page",{"id":4662,"label":4677,"url":4678,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM our positions","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026",{"id":4252,"label":4680,"url":4681,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM planning for livability and affordability, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fplanning-for-livability-and-affordability\u002Fplanning-learn-more",{"id":4398,"label":4683,"url":4684,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM parks and recreation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fparks-and-recreation-2026\u002Fparks-learn-more",{"id":4457,"label":4686,"url":4687,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM schools, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fschools-2026\u002Fschools-learn-more",{"id":4508,"label":4689,"url":4690,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM finance and administration, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ffinance-and-administration-2026\u002Ffinance-learn-more",{"id":4287,"label":4692,"url":4693,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM our environment, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Four-environment-2026\u002Fenvironment-learn-more",{"id":4583,"label":4695,"url":4696,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM arts and culture, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Farts-and-culture-2026\u002Farts-learn-more",{"id":4220,"label":4698,"url":4699,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM safety for all","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fsafety-for-all-2026",{"id":4364,"label":4701,"url":4702,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TEAM transportation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ftransportation-2026",{"id":4436,"label":2560,"url":2561,"publisher":2562,"kind":336,"checkedAt":21},{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":4709,"label":4710,"url":4711,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-community-page","TEAM community representation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fcommunity-representation-2026",{"id":4713,"label":4714,"url":4715,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-community","TEAM community representation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fcommunity-representation-2026\u002Fcommunity-learn-more",{"id":4717,"label":4718,"url":4719,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-planning-page","TEAM planning for livability and affordability","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fplanning-for-livability-and-affordability",{"id":4721,"label":4722,"url":4723,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-environment-page","TEAM our environment","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Four-environment-2026",{"id":4725,"label":4726,"url":4727,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-finance-page","TEAM finance and administration","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ffinance-and-administration-2026",{"id":4729,"label":4730,"url":4731,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-safety-more","TEAM safety for all, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fsafety-for-all-2026\u002Fsafety-learn-more",{"id":4733,"label":4734,"url":4735,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-transport-more","TEAM transportation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ftransportation-2026\u002Ftransportation-learn-more",{"id":4737,"label":4738,"url":4739,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-economy-page","TEAM economic development","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Feconomic-development-2026",{"id":4741,"label":4742,"url":4743,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-economy","TEAM economic development, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Feconomic-development-2026\u002Flearn-more",{"id":4745,"label":4746,"url":4747,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-arts-page","TEAM arts and culture","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Farts-and-culture-2026",{"id":4749,"label":4750,"url":4751,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-parks-page","TEAM parks and recreation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fparks-and-recreation-2026",{"id":4753,"label":4754,"url":4755,"publisher":1389,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"team-schools-page","TEAM schools","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fschools-2026","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fteam-for-a-livable-vancouver","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver is running 14 candidates behind mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick. It publishes the longest and most detailed platform of any party in this election, organised into ten policy areas.","dHhspTfFv81Tmq5jCqhTBoIdnIynv8L-WkTnXKXRFYM",{"id":4760,"aliases":4761,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":4762,"extension":12,"founded":4766,"headline":4769,"history":4770,"leadership":4774,"logo":34,"meta":4775,"money":4776,"name":1492,"news":4781,"overview":4785,"palette":4790,"platform":4793,"questions":4959,"record":4990,"registeredName":4994,"rosterLabel":1492,"slug":4995,"sources":4996,"stem":5010,"summary":5011,"website":1493,"wordmark":34,"__hash__":5012},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":4763,"note":9,"cites":4764},"#1d4ed8",[4765],"tb-home",{"year":4767,"note":15,"cites":4768},2023,[4765],"A small conservative slate, mostly contesting the School Board",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4771,"gaps":4772,"entries":4773},[23,24],[26],[],[],{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4777,"gaps":4778,"searchUrl":43,"filings":4779,"notes":4780},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4782,"gaps":4783,"entries":4784},[54],[56],[],[4786,4787,4788,4789],"TrueBlue Vancouver is running 3 people across 4 ballot entries: 1 for City Council and 3 for School Board. Naomi Chocyk appears on the ballot twice, for City Council at number 154 and for School Board at number 318.","It is the only party on this ballot with a candidate standing for two different offices.","The party site gives its founding year as 2023 and describes it as contesting mayor, council and school board. The official candidate list shows no TrueBlue mayoral candidate, so we have recorded the official list.","Its published platform is broad and mostly without numbers. It sets a direction on ten subjects rather than making costed commitments.",{"accent":4791,"onAccent":65,"tint":4238,"ink":4792},"#1D4ED8","#1F377A",[4794,4809,4827,4841,4867,4880,4896,4914,4947,4953],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":4795,"proposals":4797,"questions":4802,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4803,"gaps":4805,"headline":4807,"summary":4808},[4796],"The party publishes a direction with no supply target, cost or timeline attached.",[4798],{"title":4799,"detail":4800,"cites":4801,"cost":135},"Make housing easier and less expensive to build","The party would reduce fees, red tape and permit delays while protecting neighbourhood character.",[4765],[],[4804],"The TrueBlue Vancouver home page and platform page",[91,4806],"No affordability commitment is published.","Cheaper to build, with neighbourhood character protected","TrueBlue would make housing easier and less expensive to build by reducing fees, red tape and permit delays, while protecting neighbourhood character.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":4810,"proposals":4813,"questions":4823,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4824,"gaps":4825,"headline":4815,"summary":4826},[4811,4812],"This is the recovery-first end of the ballot. TrueBlue’s framing is the opposite of COPE’s safe supply and harm reduction position.","Detox and treatment services are provincial, so a city taking this direction would be pressing the province rather than delivering it.",[4814,4819],{"title":4815,"detail":4816,"cites":4817,"authority":4818},"Prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery","The party would focus on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use.",[4765],"Detox and treatment services are provincial.",{"title":4820,"detail":4821,"cites":4822},"Address encampments","The party would address encampments and maintain parks and sidewalks.",[4765],[],[4804],[],"TrueBlue focuses on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use.",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":4828,"proposals":4830,"questions":4836,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4837,"gaps":4838,"headline":4839,"summary":4840},[4829],"TrueBlue’s safety position sits with ABC and against COPE on the ballot’s clearest divide: whether to fund policing more or to fund other services instead. No budget figure is published.",[4831],{"title":4832,"detail":4833,"cites":4834,"cost":135,"authority":4835},"Properly funded police","The party supports properly funded police and addressing repeat crime and public disorder. No budget figure is published.",[4765],"Council approves the police budget. The Police Board directs the department.",[],[4804],[],"Properly funded police and action on repeat crime","TrueBlue supports properly funded police and would address repeat crime and public disorder.",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":4842,"proposals":4844,"questions":4862,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4863,"gaps":4864,"headline":4865,"summary":4866},[4843],"TrueBlue and TEAM are the two parties publishing a position against road pricing. TrueBlue adds a bike lane audit, which no other party publishes.",[4845,4849,4853,4858],{"title":4846,"detail":4847,"cites":4848},"Oppose congestion pricing","The party opposes congestion pricing.",[4765],{"title":4850,"detail":4851,"cites":4852},"Audit bike lanes","The party would audit bike lanes.",[4765],{"title":4854,"detail":4855,"cites":4856,"authority":4857},"Support transit based on ridership and need","The party would support transit based on ridership and need.",[4765],"TransLink runs transit service.",{"title":4859,"detail":4860,"cites":4861},"Protect commercial parking access","The party would cut red tape and protect commercial parking access.",[4765],[],[4804],[],"Oppose congestion pricing and audit bike lanes","TrueBlue opposes congestion pricing, would audit bike lanes, and would support transit based on ridership and need.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":4868,"proposals":4870,"questions":4874,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4875,"gaps":4876,"headline":4878,"summary":4879},[4869],"The party is not contesting the Park Board race. Its published commitment touching parks is about maintenance and encampments and would be carried out through council.",[4871],{"title":4872,"detail":4821,"cites":4873},"Maintain parks and sidewalks",[4765],[],[4804],[4877],"No position on the future of the elected Park Board is published.","Maintain parks and sidewalks, address encampments","TrueBlue would address encampments and maintain parks and sidewalks. It is not running Park Board candidates.",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":4881,"proposals":4884,"questions":4889,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4890,"gaps":4891,"headline":4894,"summary":4895},[4882,4883],"The School Board is where TrueBlue is concentrating. Three of its four ballot entries are school trustee candidacies, which is the largest share of any party’s slate going to one race.","Its published school position is a direction rather than a set of commitments: safe schools, parental involvement and critical thinking. No measurable outcome is published.",[4885],{"title":4886,"detail":4887,"cites":4888},"Safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking","The party commits to promoting safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking. No measurable outcome is published.",[4765],[],[4804],[4892,4893],"No measurable school outcome is published.","No position on school capacity, catchments or the budget is published.","Safe schools, parental involvement and critical thinking","TrueBlue promotes safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking. Three of its four ballot entries are for School Board.",{"issue":217,"paragraphs":4897,"proposals":4899,"questions":4908,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4909,"gaps":4910,"headline":4912,"summary":4913},[4898],"The party publishes a direction rather than a number. It would control property tax increases and audit spending, but no percentage target or timeline is published.",[4900,4904],{"title":4901,"detail":4902,"cites":4903,"cost":135},"Control property tax increases","The party commits to controlling property tax increases and auditing spending to focus on essential services. No percentage target is published.",[4765],{"title":4905,"detail":4906,"cites":4907},"Publish spending information","The party commits to publishing spending information and holding officials accountable.",[4765],[],[4804],[4911],"No property tax percentage target is published.","Control property tax increases and audit spending","TrueBlue would control property tax increases, audit spending to focus on essential services, and publish spending information.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":4915,"proposals":4918,"questions":4940,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":4941,"gaps":4944,"headline":4946},[4916,4917],"The party's climate chapter opposes existing City climate rules on buildings, and reframes flooding and heat as maintenance and infrastructure issues rather than emissions issues.","It also ties park cleanliness and encampment removal to its \"Green Space\" policy, and opposes road-pricing and paid-parking expansion under \"Private Vehicles and Parking.\"",[4919,4924,4928,4932,4936],{"title":4920,"detail":4921,"cites":4922},"Repeal green building mandates and retrofit rules","The party would repeal what it calls costly municipal green building mandates, complex retrofits and gas-stove bans, and streamline the Vancouver Building By-law so builders and homeowners can choose their own heating, cooling and energy sources.",[4923],"tb-platform-pdf",{"title":4925,"detail":4926,"cites":4927},"Direct spending to drainage, dikes and seawalls","The party would focus tax dollars on drainage, dike maintenance and seawall repairs, upgrading storm sewers and coastal defences, rather than what it calls activist environmental projects.",[4923],{"title":4929,"detail":4930,"cites":4931},"Maintain tree canopy and green space, tied to park cleanliness","The party would maintain park tree canopies and green spaces for recreation, while enforcing public space bylaws and clearing encampments it says make parks unsafe.",[4923],{"title":4933,"detail":4934,"cites":4935},"Maintain cooling infrastructure without new heat regulations","The party would keep community centre cooling, pools and ice rinks running through summer heat waves, without new heat-related regulations or taxes on private property owners.",[4923],{"title":4937,"detail":4938,"cites":4939},"Oppose road pricing and paid-parking expansion","The party would oppose mobility pricing and congestion taxes, and end paid parking expansion in residential neighbourhoods.",[4923],[],[4942,4943,116],"The party's 2026 Full Election Platform (PDF)","The party website at https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002F",[4945],"The platform states no dollar figure or date for any of these commitments.","Repeal green building rules, and focus climate spending on drainage and cooling infrastructure",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":4948,"proposals":4949,"questions":4950,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4951,"gaps":4952},[],[],[],[4943,116,2638],[2640],{"issue":272,"paragraphs":4954,"proposals":4955,"questions":4956,"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4957,"gaps":4958},[],[],[],[4943,116,2638],[2640],[4960,4964,4968,4972,4976,4980,4984,4988],{"question":4961,"answer":4962,"cites":4963},"How many candidates is TrueBlue running?","Three people across four ballot entries: 1 for City Council and 3 for School Board. Naomi Chocyk appears twice, for City Council at number 154 and School Board at number 318.",[33],{"question":4965,"answer":4966,"cites":4967},"Can a candidate run for two offices at once?","Naomi Chocyk is on the 2026 Vancouver ballot for both City Council and School Board. That is what the official candidate list shows, and she is the only person on this ballot in that position.",[33],{"question":4969,"answer":4970,"cites":4971},"Is TrueBlue running a mayoral candidate?","No. Its own site describes it as contesting mayor, council and school board, but the official candidate list shows no TrueBlue mayoral candidate. We have recorded the official list.",[33,4765],{"question":4973,"answer":4974,"cites":4975},"When was TrueBlue founded?","Its website states 2023. We have not checked that against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[4765],{"question":4977,"answer":4978,"cites":4979},"Where does TrueBlue stand on drugs?","It focuses on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use. That is the opposite framing to COPE’s safe supply and harm reduction position.",[4765],{"question":4981,"answer":4982,"cites":4983},"Does TrueBlue publish any numbers?","No. Its platform sets a direction on about ten subjects without dollar figures, percentage targets or deadlines attached, checked September 22, 2026.",[4765],{"question":4985,"answer":4986,"cites":4987},"What does TrueBlue say about bike lanes?","It would audit them. It is the only party on this ballot publishing that commitment. It also opposes congestion pricing, which TEAM does too.",[4765],{"question":2715,"answer":315,"cites":4989},[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":4991,"gaps":4992,"entries":4993},[23,321],[323],[],"True Blue Vancouver","trueblue-vancouver",[4997,4999,5000,5001,5002,5003,5006],{"id":4765,"label":4998,"url":1493,"publisher":1492,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"TrueBlue Vancouver home page and platform",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":4923,"label":5004,"url":5005,"publisher":1492,"kind":331,"checkedAt":6},"TrueBlue Vancouver 2026 Full Election Platform (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002Fplatform",{"id":5007,"label":5008,"url":5009,"publisher":1492,"kind":331,"checkedAt":363},"tb-platform-2026","TrueBlue Vancouver 2026 Full Election Platform, 49-page PDF","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002Fdownloads\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver-2026-full-platform.pdf","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver","TrueBlue Vancouver is running 3 candidates: one for City Council and three for School Board, with one person on the ballot twice. 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centrist party built around Rebecca Bligh, with a 40-page policy document",{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5181,"gaps":5182,"entries":5183},[23,24],[26],[],[5185],{"role":5186,"name":1983,"cites":5187},"Mayoral candidate and founder",[5188,33],"vv-policy",{},{"state":37,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5191,"gaps":5192,"searchUrl":43,"filings":5193,"notes":5194},[39,40],[42],[],[46,47,48,49,50],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5196,"gaps":5197,"entries":5198},[54],[56],[],[5200,5201,5202,5203],"Vote Vancouver is running 12 candidates: Rebecca Bligh for mayor at ballot number 52, 6 for City Council, 2 for Park Board and 3 for School Board.","Rebecca Bligh is a sitting Vancouver city councillor and a former president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The party site describes her as having created Vote Vancouver.","The party describes itself as \"proudly centrist and pragmatic\" and says it does not believe City Hall should be driven by left or right ideology.","Its published Policy Priorities document runs to roughly 6,400 words and is organised into four sections: Housing and Belonging, Transportation Choice, Public Services and Economic Drivers.",{"accent":5176,"onAccent":65,"tint":5205,"ink":5206},"#EFE5F5","#552B6E",[5208,5265,5292,5317,5334,5348,5377,5393,5411,5432],{"issue":70,"paragraphs":5209,"proposals":5214,"questions":5252,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5261,"gaps":5263,"headline":5216,"summary":5264},[5210,5211,5212,5213],"This is the most time-bound commitment any party has published in this election. Five parcels of public land would be chosen, named and announced with a timeline within one month of entering City Hall.","The party also publishes an affordability definition rather than leaving the word undefined: new public housing would target no more than 30% of household income.","Its faith-based land policy is unusual. Vote Vancouver would introduce a right-of-first-refusal bylaw giving the city first opportunity to buy qualifying faith-based properties when they come to market, and would help faith organisations that want to redevelop rather than sell.","The party would also reverse what it describes as a ban on new supportive housing, arguing it blocks replacing single room occupancy hotels with better options.",[5215,5220,5224,5227,5232,5236,5240,5244,5248],{"title":5216,"detail":5217,"cites":5218,"authority":3931,"deadline":5219},"Name five parcels of public land within one month","Five parcels of city-owned land will be chosen, named and announced with an associated timeline within one month of entering City Hall.",[5188],"One month after taking office",{"title":5221,"detail":5222,"cites":5223},"Target rents at no more than 30% of household income","New public housing will target no more than 30% of household income.",[5188],{"title":102,"detail":5225,"cites":5226},"Vote Vancouver would reverse the ban so single room occupancy hotels can be replaced with safe, dignified, affordable options.",[5188],{"title":5228,"detail":5229,"cites":5230,"authority":5231},"A right-of-first-refusal bylaw for faith-based land","The city would get the first opportunity to buy qualifying faith-based properties when they come to market, for housing, child care and community services.",[5188],"Council can pass such a bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":5233,"detail":5234,"cites":5235},"Use DASH to build faster","The city would use Digitally Accelerated Standardized Housing, pre-approved models and sustainable materials, especially for modular housing.",[5188],{"title":5237,"detail":5238,"cites":5239},"Non-profits run the developments","Non-profit or community organisations would run the new developments, to reduce strain on City Hall and keep them connected to their communities.",[5188],{"title":5241,"detail":5242,"cites":5243},"Replace SROs with self-contained housing","Existing single room occupancy hotels would be replaced with dignified, self-contained, purpose-built housing, while existing facilities keep operating until alternatives are available.",[5188],{"title":5245,"detail":5246,"cites":5247},"Hold landlords to maintenance standards","The city would enforce its maintenance standards and act where buildings fall into serious disrepair that threatens residents’ ability to stay housed.",[5188],{"title":5249,"detail":5250,"cites":5251},"Work with community land trusts","Vote Vancouver would work with community land trusts and community groups to keep public land in community ownership and build co-operative housing, naming the Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust, the SRO Collaborative, the False Creek South Community Housing Trust and Hogan’s Alley.",[5188],[5253,5257],{"question":5254,"answer":5255,"cites":5256},"What does \"30% of household income\" mean?","It is a definition of affordable. A household earning $60,000 a year would pay no more than $18,000 a year, or $1,500 a month, for a home built under this policy. Most parties use the word affordable without saying what it means; Vote Vancouver puts a number on it.",[5188],{"question":5258,"answer":5259,"cites":5260},"What is a right-of-first-refusal bylaw?","It means that when a church, temple or other faith organisation decides to sell its land, the city gets the first chance to buy it before private buyers. The organisation still chooses to sell; the city just gets first offer.",[5188],[5262],"The Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities document, dated in its filename September 15, 2026",[],"Vote Vancouver would name five parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing within one month of taking office, target rents at no more than 30% of household income, and reverse the ban on new supportive housing.",{"issue":96,"paragraphs":5266,"proposals":5269,"questions":5285,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5286,"gaps":5289,"headline":5291},[5267,5268],"The document's clearest homelessness position is reversing the City's ban on new supportive housing, which it credits to a motion by Rebecca Bligh.","Its addiction and mental health proposals include continuing to fund a specific existing program, St. Paul's Road to Recovery, and building new Recovery Community Centres.",[5270,5273,5277,5281],{"title":102,"detail":5271,"cites":5272,"authority":106},"The party would reverse a City ban on building new supportive housing, to allow replacing single-room-occupancy hotels with self-contained supportive homes connected to mental health, addiction, social work and job supports.",[5188],{"title":5274,"detail":5275,"cites":5276},"Support St. Paul's Road to Recovery program","The party would keep supporting the Road to Recovery program by building more supportive housing for people exiting it, and continuing to fund Vancouver Coastal Health.",[5188],{"title":5278,"detail":5279,"cites":5280},"Build more Recovery Community Centres","The party would build more Recovery Community Centres to connect people with peer support and wellness activities, bridging the gap to detox and treatment.",[5188],{"title":5282,"detail":5283,"cites":5284},"Better coordinate police, health and housing responses","The party would improve coordination between police, healthcare providers, housing providers and community organizations so police are not the only response to mental health and addiction crises.",[5188],[],[5287,5288,116],"The party's Policy Priorities PDF, already archived in research\u002Fvancouver-2026-09-22\u002Fparty-sources\u002F","The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votevancouver.ca\u002F",[5290],"Most items name no cost and no date. The document credits several of these to Rebecca Bligh personally, and those are also recorded on her own candidate record.","Reverse the supportive housing ban, and expand recovery programs",{"issue":121,"paragraphs":5293,"proposals":5296,"questions":5313,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5314,"gaps":5315,"headline":5316},[5294,5295],"The document sets out a multi-part public safety plan built around prevention and coordination rather than a police budget figure.","It also states a School Board position on School Liaison Officers, kept out of uniform and rebranded away from policing, which sits on the schools area of this page instead.",[5297,5301,5305,5309],{"title":5298,"detail":5299,"cites":5300},"A Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy","The party would develop this strategy with police, healthcare providers, non-profits, Indigenous organizations, businesses and community groups.",[5188],{"title":5302,"detail":5303,"cites":5304},"Rework Community Policing Centres into neighbourhood hubs","Community Policing Centres would become hubs for crime prevention, community referrals, youth mentorship and connecting residents to services, prioritizing prevention over criminalization.",[5188],{"title":5306,"detail":5307,"cites":5308},"Expand gender-based violence prevention work","The party would expand policies and working groups on gender-based violence, crediting a motion by Rebecca Bligh.",[5188],{"title":5310,"detail":5311,"cites":5312},"Become Canada's first Restorative City","The party would build a restorative justice system, training city staff with Peace of the Circle and applying what it calls the Vancouver Test to future policy decisions.",[5188],[],[5287,5288,116],[5290],"A Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, reworked policing centres, and a restorative justice system",{"issue":142,"paragraphs":5318,"proposals":5322,"questions":5327,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5328,"gaps":5330,"headline":5332,"summary":5333},[5319,5320,5321],"Transportation Choice is the second of four sections in the party’s Policy Priorities document, covering pages 13 to 19.","The section opens by describing Vancouver as a large city with a variety of transport options including walking and biking, framed around more choices and fewer barriers.","We archived the full document on September 22, 2026. The detailed commitments inside this section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.",[5323],{"title":5324,"detail":5325,"cites":5326},"Transportation Choice section of the Policy Priorities document","The party publishes a dedicated transport section under the heading \"More choices. Fewer barriers.\" The individual commitments in it are recorded in our archived copy and have not yet been transcribed here.",[5188],[],[5329],"The Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities document",[5331],"The individual commitments in the Transportation Choice section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.","Transportation Choice: one of four sections of the policy document","Vote Vancouver publishes a Transportation Choice section running from page 13 to page 19 of its Policy Priorities document.",{"issue":157,"paragraphs":5335,"proposals":5337,"questions":5342,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5343,"gaps":5344,"headline":5346,"summary":5347},[5336],"Parks and recreation appear in the party’s stated focus and in the Public Services section of its Policy Priorities document, which runs from page 20 to page 32. The individual commitments in that section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.",[5338],{"title":5339,"detail":5340,"cites":5341},"Improve access to parks, pools and recreation","The party names improving access to parks, pools and recreation among the issues it is focused on.",[5188],[],[5329],[5345],"The individual commitments in the Public Services section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.","Improving access to parks, pools and recreation","Vote Vancouver lists improving access to parks, pools and recreation among the issues it is focused on. Detailed commitments sit in the Public Services section of its policy document.",{"issue":201,"paragraphs":5349,"proposals":5352,"questions":5373,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5374,"gaps":5375,"headline":5376},[5350,5351],"The party's education proposals include a School Board position on School Liaison Officers distinct from its policing proposal: SLOs would stay but out of uniform, rebranded away from police, focused on early intervention.","It also lists school nutrition funding, technology and AI rules for classrooms, and a facilities-condition audit.",[5353,5357,5361,5365,5369],{"title":5354,"detail":5355,"cites":5356},"Establish School Liaison Officers as regular, rebranded support","SLOs would focus on early intervention and youth protection, work out of uniform and rebranded away from policing, and be paired with counsellors, youth workers and restorative justice programs, with regular independent equity-centred reviews.",[5188],{"title":5358,"detail":5359,"cites":5360},"Support student mental health and neurodivergence","The party would push for more school counsellors, faster neurodivergence assessments, and closing the gap between individual education plans and real classroom support.",[5188],{"title":5362,"detail":5363,"cites":5364},"Fund and expand school nutrition programs","Council would work with the school district to expand nutrition programs and reduce funding gaps between schools, developing a cost-sharing plan rather than relying on individual school budgets.",[5188],{"title":5366,"detail":5367,"cites":5368},"Set rules for AI tools and cellphones in classrooms","The party would require consultation with students, parents, teachers and staff before new AI tools, give teachers clear rules on acceptable AI use, and restrict cellphones in younger grades.",[5188],{"title":5370,"detail":5371,"cites":5372},"Audit and upgrade school facilities","The party would audit elementary school grounds, keep seismic renewal on pace for the district's high seismic risk, and evaluate the Olympic Village School's development and 3 versus 4 storey options.",[5188],[],[5287,5288,116],[5290],"Neurodivergence supports, a rebranded School Liaison Officer role, and facility upgrades",{"issue":217,"paragraphs":5378,"proposals":5382,"questions":5387,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5388,"gaps":5389,"headline":5391,"summary":5392},[5379,5380,5381],"Rather than publishing a tax number, Vote Vancouver publishes a test. It says that a policy that does not meet all four questions will not be prioritised.","The fourth question, whether residents can measure if it worked, is the one that matters most for holding a council to account, because it commits the party to publishing something measurable.","The party describes its approach as fiscally responsible while expanding public services. It does not publish a property tax rate commitment.",[5383],{"title":5384,"detail":5385,"cites":5386},"Apply the Vancouver Test to every policy","Four questions: does it improve service or meet an urgent need, does it strengthen Vancouver’s long-term future, does it build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked. A policy that fails the test will not be prioritised.",[5188],[],[5329],[5390],"No property tax rate commitment is published.","The Vancouver Test: four questions applied to every policy","Vote Vancouver publishes a decision test it says it applies to every policy: does it improve service, strengthen the long-term future, build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked.",{"issue":239,"paragraphs":5394,"proposals":5396,"questions":5407,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5408,"gaps":5409,"headline":5410},[5395],"The document's clearest climate positions are both about buildings: restarting a paused emissions-reporting program, and keeping an existing heating rule rather than loosening it.",[5397,5402],{"title":5398,"detail":5399,"cites":5400,"authority":5401},"Restart the Energize Vancouver emissions-reporting program","The party would unpause this City program so it can measure where building emissions come from and track progress.",[5188],"The City's own reporting program.",{"title":5403,"detail":5404,"cites":5405,"authority":5406},"Keep the electric heating requirement for new buildings","The party would maintain the existing requirement for electric space and hot water heating in new buildings, rather than allowing gas.",[5188],"Vancouver's own building bylaw.",[],[5287,5288,116],[5290],"Restart emissions reporting, and keep electric heating rules for new buildings",{"issue":252,"paragraphs":5412,"proposals":5414,"questions":5428,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5429,"gaps":5430,"headline":5431},[5413],"The document gives arts and culture its most detailed proposal of any issue on this page: a two-step plan to move City arts funding to an independent council.",[5415,5419,5424],{"title":5416,"detail":5417,"cites":5418,"cost":135},"Create an Arts, Culture and Creative City Navigator within six months","This service would help artists and cultural non-profits navigate permitting, liquor licensing and special-event approvals, and coordinate marketing for Vancouver's arts and culture.",[5188],{"title":5420,"detail":5421,"cites":5422,"cost":5423},"Establish an Independent Arts Council to administer City arts grants","The Council would take over grant decisions from Council votes, administer a dedicated annual City allocation with at least 90 percent going directly to the arts and creative sector, and advocate for the sector.",[5188],"A dedicated annual allocation from the City; no figure published",{"title":5425,"detail":5426,"cites":5427},"Work toward a Vancouver Arts Foundation for private funding","The party would work with business, philanthropic and creative communities to create a permanent vehicle for private donations and sponsorships in the arts.",[5188],[],[5287,5288,116],[5290],"An Independent Arts Council and a City Navigator for permits",{"issue":272,"paragraphs":5433,"proposals":5435,"questions":5440,"state":37,"indexable":87,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5441,"gaps":5442,"headline":5443,"summary":5444},[5434],"Child care appears inside the housing section of the policy document rather than on its own. The commitment is that new public housing developments include access to child care, schools and public spaces.",[5436],{"title":5437,"detail":5438,"cites":5439},"Child care in every new public housing development","New public housing developments will include access to child care, schools and public spaces. The party calls this building complete communities, not just buildings.",[5188],[],[5329],[4625,4626],"Child care built into every new public housing development","Vote Vancouver would include child care, schools and public spaces in new public housing developments, describing this as building complete communities rather than buildings.",[5446,5450,5454,5458,5462,5466,5470,5474,5478],{"question":5447,"answer":5448,"cites":5449},"Who leads Vote Vancouver?","Rebecca Bligh, a sitting Vancouver city councillor, is its mayoral candidate at ballot number 52. The party’s own document says she created Vote Vancouver.",[5188,33],{"question":5451,"answer":5452,"cites":5453},"How many candidates is Vote Vancouver running?","12: Rebecca Bligh for mayor, 6 for City Council, 2 for Park Board and 3 for School Board.",[33],{"question":5455,"answer":5456,"cites":5457},"What is the Vancouver Test?","Four questions the party says it applies to every policy: does it improve service or meet an urgent need, does it strengthen the long-term future, does it build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked. A policy that fails is not prioritised.",[5188],{"question":5459,"answer":5460,"cites":5461},"What is Vote Vancouver’s fastest housing commitment?","Naming five parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing, with a timeline, within one month of taking office. That is the tightest deadline any party has published in this election.",[5188],{"question":5463,"answer":5464,"cites":5465},"What does the party mean by affordable?","No more than 30% of household income for new public housing built under its policy. Most parties do not put a number on the word.",[5188],{"question":5467,"answer":5468,"cites":5469},"Where does Vote Vancouver sit politically?","It describes itself as \"proudly centrist and pragmatic\" and says it does not believe City Hall should be driven by left or right ideology or by political polarization.",[5188],{"question":5471,"answer":5472,"cites":5473},"Does the party have a position on supportive housing?","Yes. It would reverse what it describes as a ban on building new supportive housing, arguing the ban stops single room occupancy hotels being replaced with better options.",[5188],{"question":5475,"answer":5476,"cites":5477},"Does it publish a property tax commitment?","No. It publishes the Vancouver Test and describes itself as fiscally responsible, but we found no property tax rate commitment in the document, checked September 22, 2026.",[5188],{"question":5479,"answer":315,"cites":5480},"Where can I see Vote Vancouver’s campaign finances?",[317,318],{"state":19,"indexable":20,"checkedAt":21,"searched":5482,"gaps":5483,"entries":5484},[23,321],[323],[],"vote-vancouver",[5487,5489,5492,5493,5494,5495],{"id":5178,"label":5488,"url":1434,"publisher":1433,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Vote Vancouver home page",{"id":5188,"label":5490,"url":5491,"publisher":1433,"kind":331,"checkedAt":21},"Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fvotevancouver.ca\u002Fs\u002FVV-PolicyPriorities_260915.pdf",{"id":33,"label":339,"url":340,"publisher":341,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":317,"label":344,"url":43,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":318,"label":347,"url":348,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},{"id":350,"label":351,"url":352,"publisher":345,"kind":342,"checkedAt":21},"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvote-vancouver","Vote Vancouver is running 12 candidates behind mayoral candidate Rebecca Bligh, a sitting city councillor. 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