Annette Reilly
Annette Reilly is an award-winning filmmaker, health advocate, and mother of two, living in East Vancouver. As a working mother and renter, Annette is keenly aware of the challenges of raising a family in an increasingly unaffordable city. She is motivated by her concerns about the environment and her desire to protect Vancouver’s people, culture, and natural beauty. With a background in film and extensive volunteer advocacy for young adults with cancer, Annette believes Vancouver deserves evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and integrity in local governance.
Annette’s platform focuses on three key pillars. First, she is dedicated to creating healthy communities by ensuring Vancouver’s neighbourhoods are vibrant, sustainable, and accessible. Every resident should have access to greenspace, active transportation, and essential services. Annette envisions a climate-healthy city where families can thrive in healthy, supportive environments.
Second, Annette is committed to transparency and accountability in local governance. She believes Vancouver’s residents deserve ethical leadership and that the ABC/Sim government must be held accountable. Decisions made at City Hall should prioritize integrity and responsible governance, benefiting the entire community, not just a select few.
Finally, Annette is a strong advocate for housing for everyone. She is fighting for stronger tenant protections, more affordable housing, and improved maintenance standards in Vancouver’s housing market. Annette is determined to address the housing crisis by ensuring all Vancouverites—regardless of income—have access to safe, secure, and affordable housing.
Annette Reilly’s dedication to her community, her values, and her commitment to building a more equitable and sustainable Vancouver make her a powerful advocate for change.
📢 The Problem
Ken Sim's "Project Barrage" pushed people out of the Downtown Eastside—but didn't solve anything. It just displaced people into local business districts without offering shelter or services.
Vancouver lacks safe daytime spaces for people to rest, recover, and survive extreme heat, cold, and smoke. The City can't solve this alone—but it must lead with urgency.
✅ Annette's Plan
🔹 Champion Daytime Shelters — Annette will advocate for the Province and health partners to fund and operate daytime spaces, and ensure the City clears barriers to make them happen.
🔹 Advocate for Integrated Services — Push for mental health, addiction, and housing support to be included in every provincial shelter and service hub.
🔹 Work With Communities, Not Against Them — Support commercial areas and neighborhoods by embedding outreach teams and partnerships around shelter sites.
📢 The Problem
ABC froze new supportive housing developments while the housing crisis deepens. Leaving people without homes isn't just wrong—it's dangerous.
The City doesn't fund supportive housing—but it can clear the path for it.
✅ Annette's Plan
🔹 Advocate to Lift the Freeze — Push for Council to resume approvals for supportive housing in all neighborhoods.
🔹 Unblock City Barriers — Streamline permitting, zoning, and staff support so projects can move faster.
🔹 Push for Partnerships — Work with the Province and nonprofits to get projects moving and ensure long-term support is in place.
📢 The Problem
Tree canopy is shrinking. Heatwaves are worsening. Some neighbourhoods have no access to parks.
The 3-30-300 rule is a proven standard for climate-safe, healthy cities:
- 🌳 3 trees visible from every home
- 🌲 30% tree canopy in every neighbourhood
- 🏞️ 300m to a green space for every resident
✅ Annette's Plan
🔹 Make 3-30-300 a City Policy Goal — Embed this standard into new developments and neighbourhood planning.
🔹 Expand and Protect Tree Canopy — Ramp up tree planting, and protect existing trees from overdevelopment.
🔹 Close the Park Gap — Target underserved areas for new parks, greenways, and public green space.
📢 The Problem
From deleted communications to secretive decision-making, Ken Sim's ABC majority has consistently evaded public accountability. Vancouver's democratic institutions—like the Integrity Commissioner, Auditor General, Park Board, and advisory committees—exist to uphold transparency and good governance. But under ABC, their role and independence are being sidelined.
City Hall has strong rules on the books—but they're meaningless if they aren't enforced. In-camera meetings are increasingly used to keep the public in the dark. Vancouverites deserve to know what's really going on.
✅ Annette's Plan
🔹 Expand and Empower Oversight Offices — Strengthen the mandates and independence of the Integrity Commissioner, Auditor General, and Elected Park Board so they can investigate and report without political interference.
🔹 Reinforce the Role of Advisory Committees — Ensure public advisory committees are respected, resourced, and that their recommendations are brought forward—not buried.
🔹 Shine a Light on Council Decision-Making — Limit the misuse of in-camera meetings and backroom negotiations that shut out the public.
🔹 Improve Public Reporting — Launch a Transparency Dashboard to track ethics complaints, contract decisions, and in-camera meetings in real time—while respecting privacy.
🔹 Enforce the Rules We Already Have — Strengthen the City's ability to enforce its own codes of conduct, conflict-of-interest policies, and lobbying rules.
Because democracy only works when the public can see what's going on.
📢 The Problem
One of Pete Fry's first motions as a city councillor established the Renter's Office—a vital support for tenants across Vancouver. Ken Sim and ABC shut it down. Meanwhile, unaffordability, evictions, and renovictions continue to rise.
Vancouver renters deserve strong, citywide protections that ensure stability and fairness—not just in the Broadway Plan area, but in every neighbourhood.
✅ Annette's Plan
🔹 Restore the Renter's Office — Annette will work to bring back this vital service with a sharper focus: protecting renters from illegal demovictions, monitoring compliance with city policy, and flagging bad actors by cross-referencing permits, rezonings, and tenant claims.
🔹 Establish a Citywide Tenant Protection Framework — Annette will champion a policy that guarantees clear protections for renters displaced by redevelopment, including:
- Right of first refusal at original rent
- Relocation assistance and fair compensation
- Stronger enforcement tied to permits and rezoning approvals
This framework will ensure consistent, enforceable protections across all neighbourhoods—not just in select plan areas.