2026 Platform

Vancouver is a city that knows change. While our rapid development has led to new opportunities, it has also created challenges that Vancouverites feel in their lives every day.

Through all our challenges, it's the spirit of the people of this city that keeps us strong. It's time to have a city government that reflects the drive of our residents to build more vibrant, liveable communities. We can grow in a way that actually meets the needs of the people who live here, because if you live here you deserve to have a good life here.

We can't afford any more short-sighted, profit-motivated decisions. The Vancouver Greens have a plan for sustainable growth that will make our city more affordable, our communities safer, and our economy more resilient. We will do it by making government work for you, with transparent decision-making and accountability for results.

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Housing

Everyone in Vancouver deserves a safe, affordable place to call home. Public land, stronger renter protections, and faster, simpler building are how we'll get there.

Co-op, Non-Profit & Public Housing

Public Land for Public Good: City land for affordable housing, co-ops, and land trusts.
Best Long-Term Public Value: Plan city land for lasting benefit, not just top dollar.
Affordable Housing Tools: Partner on co-op, social, and supportive housing, with fast-tracked permits.
Co-op Housing: Expedite planning and lease renewals on city land.
Affordable Housing Czar: A dedicated role to deliver non-market and supportive housing.
Vancouver Public Housing Bonds: Finance city-owned affordable housing through public bonds.
Inclusionary Zoning: Require affordable homes on-site or in-lieu from large developments.
Advocate to Senior Governments: Reverse the supportive housing ban and push for federal and provincial funding.
Remove Barriers to Non-Profit Housing: A toolkit to fast-track affordable housing on non-market lands.

Affordability Targets

Vancouver Affordability Index: Track real household costs against local incomes to guide housing, transportation, taxation, and planning decisions.
Real Affordability Targets: Base targets on 30% of median household income, not market rents.
Right to Housing: Ground City policy in the right to safe, adequate, affordable homes

Protecting Renters

Moratorium on Micro-Units: Reverse the policy allowing units as small as 250 sq ft.
Expand Tenant Protections: Strengthen relocation policy citywide, with fair compensation and support.
Protect Affordable Rentals Before They're Lost: A rapid acquisition fund to preserve at-risk rental housing.
Restore the Renter's Office: Bring back a dedicated front door for tenant support, helping renters navigate City processes, tracking displacement and rental housing loss, and holding problem landlords accountable.
Healthy Homes Standards: Update maintenance by-law to require timely fixes for mold and air quality.

Building More Homes, Faster

Provincial Housing Targets: Align targets with reality and deliver promised schools.
Missing-Middle Housing: More housing types everywhere, with faster permitting.
Simple Homes, Pre-Approved: City-approved designs that move quickly through permitting.
Vancouver Building By-law: Reduce complexity and innovate, rather than eliminate it.
Streamlined Permit Approvals: Break down department silos for faster approvals.
Building Canada Strong: Buy-Canadian procurement and mass timber construction.
Leverage Fees and Permitting: Reduce fees and fast-track permits for truly affordable housing.

Speculation & Empty Homes

Tools to Manage Speculation: Protect tenants, prevent empty buildings, time-limit construction.
Tax-Sheltered Land Banks: Permits and public benefit standards for vacant land used as parks.
Close Empty Homes Tax Loopholes: Work with the province to close loopholes and audit compliance.

Homelessness & Supportive Housing

Meeting People Where They Are: Compassionate, evidence-based responses connecting people to shelter and services.
Daytime Shelters and Places to Be: Low-barrier daytime spaces for services and respite.
Secure Storage Solutions: Storage facilities so belongings are protected while people access services.
Reverse Ban on Supportive Housing: Reverse the supportive housing ban with occupancy requirements ensuring good conditions.
Rapid Shelter Villages: Small-scale villages with private cabins and supports as a bridge to permanent housing.

Transportation & Streets

Vancouver residents should not have to own a car to fully participate in city life. The Vancouver Greens will work to expand low-income transit fares and connectivity, improve walking and cycling infrastructure, public bike share, and support affordable alternatives to car ownership.

Walking & Rolling

Pedestrian First Priorities: Targets and funding for safer crossings.
Permanent Pedestrian Zone Infrastructure: Stable funding for bollards and placemaking.
Pedestrian and Active Transportation Infrastructure: Repair bike routes, enhance sidewalks, add bulges and curb cuts.
Curb Cuts and Audible Crossings: Expand barrier-free infrastructure citywide.
People First: Prioritize amenities like active transportation, benches, slow streets, and plazas.

Cycling

Complete Active Transportation Infrastructure: Connect bike routes, especially in South and East Vancouver.
Broadway Bikeway: Add active transportation lanes along Broadway.
Multi-Modal Share Parking and Docking: Expand bike share and shared mobility.

Transit

UBC Subway Expansion: Set a binding timeline for rapid transit to UBC.
Better Transit: Faster, more reliable buses, late service, and low-income concessions.
Affordable Transit: Work with TransLink and senior governments to expand low-income fare programs.

Safe Streets

Slower, Safer Streets: Expand 30 km/h streets, especially near parks and schools.
Safe Routes to Schools and School Streets: End school zone time limits and expand car-free School Streets.
Accessible Streets: Accessible sidewalks, crossings, and lighting for seniors, people with disabilities, and families.
People-First Streets: Vision Zero through accessible sidewalks, curb cuts, and slower streets.

Roads, Parking & Curbs

Open Streets: Ciclovía-style events on active transportation routes.
Car Light, Car Right: Right-size parking and convert some to plazas and green space.
Commercial Curb Access Program: Curbside and demand management (see Economic Development).
Smarter Intersection Management: Protected left turns, queue-jump lanes, adaptive signals.
Better Roads, Safer Streets: Fix potholes and markings, with accessibility built in.
11% Road Reclamation: Convert at least 11% of streets to community use.

Climate, Environment & Nature

A livable Vancouver is a green Vancouver. Growing the urban forest, protecting wild spaces, and cleaning up how we build and power the city will prepare us for heat, flooding, and rising seas.

Trees & Green Space

Green Roofs: Mandate green roofs on larger buildings.
Trees for a Healthier City: Grow the canopy and strengthen tree protection bylaws.
- Tree Retention Incentives: Reward developments that protect significant trees.
- Climate-Resilient Tree Planting: Dedicated funding for climate-suited species.
- Tree Removal Reform: Tighten construction-logistics removals, with clear pathways for real needs.
- Replace More Than We Remove: Stronger replacement and canopy restoration.
- Long-Term Tree Protection: Tie occupancy permits to post-construction tree health reviews.
- Municipal Arborist Office: In-house arborists to independently review tree assessments.
- Bird Friendly City: Maintain and strengthen certification.
- Youth Climate Corps for Urban Forestry: Living-wage youth jobs planting trees.
Rezonings Must Increase Canopy and Green Space: Require native, climate-resilient greenery.
Add New Green Spaces: Buy land in dense areas through a park acquisition levy.
3-30-300 Access to Greenspace: 3 trees in view, 30% canopy, 300 m to green space.

Nature & Biodiversity

Rewilding: Native plants and micro-forests for biodiversity.
Move to Remove Invasive Species: Ban invasive plant sales and help gardeners remove them.
Community Environmental Stewardship: Small grants for eco corridor and greenspace care.
Value Nature as Infrastructure: Natural Asset Accounting in City budgets.
Restore Wetlands and Uncover Buried Creeks: Improve flood protection and biodiversity.

Clean Energy & Green Buildings

Building for a Changing Climate: Restore sustainability work for cleaner, greener buildings.
Green Retrofits: Partner on retrofit programs and reduce extraneous upgrade triggers.
Solar Ready, Plug-In Solar Ready: Streamline permitting for rooftop and plug-in solar.
EV Charging Modernized Curbside Infrastructure: Lamppost and utility-pole charging across the city.
Decarbonizing New Builds: Limit fossil gas in new construction and restore emissions reporting.
Sustainability and Climate Office: Return a standalone climate office to City Hall.
Lifecycle Emissions Reporting: Include embodied and lifecycle emissions.

Climate Resilience

Green Infrastructure: Tree canopy, rain gardens, and cooling for climate resilience.
Right to Cool and Clean Air: Protect tenants from extreme heat and wildfire smoke.
Climate Resilient Infrastructure: Cooling, storm surge, sewer separation, and no raw sewage outflows
Capital Planning for Climate Change: Build for future heat, flooding, drought, and sea-level rise.
Seismic Safety and Resilience: Upgrade to modern seismic standards.
Sea Level Rise and Flood Protection: Accelerate seawalls, drainage, and shoreline restoration.
Electrical Grid Resiliency: Work with BC Hydro on storage, solar, and electrification demand.
District Energy: Continue investing in shared heating and cooling systems.

Zero Waste

Improve Access to Recycling and Public Facilities: More public recycling and satellite drop-off centres.
Kent Avenue Circular Economy Hub: Modernize the Kent Avenue Transfer Station.
Improved and Expanded Organics Processing: Strengthen local composting and recovery.
Divert Pet Waste: Dedicated collection and recovery systems.
Reuse Before Waste: Reusable foodware and provincial deposit-and-refund expansion.
Waste Less, Build More: A circular economy that reuses and remanufactures materials.

Infrastructure & City Planning

Good planning is the backbone of a good city. Complete communities, renewed infrastructure, and a real say for residents mean growth that works for every neighbourhood.

Infrastructure & City Planning

Complete Communities: Amenities within a short walk, bike, or transit trip.
Dynamic Zoning and Community Context: Predictable growth with neighbourhood-specific design.
Community Benefit Agreements: Local jobs and buy-Canadian procurement in major developments.
Public Access on Rezonings: Allow speakers on extraordinary rezonings, within provincial law.
Strong Communities Action Plan:
- Office of Strong Communities: A neighbourhood engagement hub for local priorities.
- Neighbourhood-Led Priorities: Community solutions for service gaps, small businesses, and public spaces.
Infrastructure Maintenance: Fund renewal schedules to make up for decades of neglect.
Smart Infrastructure: Low-cost smart tech and less disruptive repairs.

Community Safety & Public Space

Safe communities are built on care, not just enforcement. Trained outreach workers, accountable policing, and clean, welcoming public spaces make a city where everyone can feel and be safe.

Community Safety Approach

CROW (Community Response Outreach Workers) Team: A 24/7 non-police, non-medical mobile response team for non-emergency calls.
Office of Community Safety: Break down silos by integrating fire, police, licensing, and planning into a proactive, centralized approach.
Safer Communities Through De-escalation: Invest in crisis intervention and de-escalation training.
Restorative Vancouver: Fund restorative justice programs embedded in schools and community life.

Street Disorder & Public Space

Street Disorder and Places to Go: Provide safe, dignified places for unhoused and marginalized people to gather, rest, and access support.
Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction: Workable licensing and zoning conditions for health and shelter facilities that reduce overdose risk and public substance use.
Compassionate Public Space Management: Prioritize diversion, outreach, and services before enforcement.

Policing & Accountability

Public Safety Accountability: Independent performance reviews of police spending and outcomes.
Transparent Police Governance: Stronger public reporting from the Vancouver Police Board with civilian oversight.
Police Board Accountability: Restore confidence in transparent, independent board operations.

Protecting Vulnerable Residents

MMIWG2S+ and Sex Worker Safety: Restore Sex Worker Safety Coordinator funding and support MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice.
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: A municipal strategy and task force coordinating services and prevention education.

Clean Streets & Public Space

Shared Public Realm: Address litter and minor maintenance early for cleaner, safer streets.
Clean Streets: Faster response to dumping and graffiti, more receptacles, enhanced cleaning near transit and schools.
Holding Polluters Accountable: Stronger enforcement against illegal dumping and chronic offenders.
Green Neighbourhoods: Expand tree planting, community gardens, and local stewardship.
Public Washrooms: A citywide strategy for clean, accessible washrooms in parks and public spaces.
Public Spaces: Invest in libraries, community centres, and other third spaces as essential civic infrastructure.

Health & Wellbeing

Our health depends on connection, care, and a city designed around people. Putting wellbeing at the centre of every City Hall decision is how we get there.

Health & Wellbeing

Wellbeing Index: Measure quality of life through housing, health, safety, and social connection, not just GDP.
Social Isolation: Fund gathering spaces and programs that build connection.
Mental Health: Expand mental health services and complete means prevention infrastructure on the Granville Bridge.
Climate Justice and Equity: Ensure climate-safe spaces for all during extreme heat, smoke, and flooding.
Healthy City, Healthy Communities: Align with UN Sustainable Development Goals to improve wellbeing and resilience.
Fitness for Life: Fund affordable recreation and active transportation for healthy living.

Families, Seniors & Accessibility

From the first day of childcare to the later years of life, Vancouverites need a city that works for them. We'll expand childcare, support seniors, and make public spaces accessible to all.

Childcare

Childcare Everywhere: Streamline approvals to create childcare spaces in every community.
Reduce Childcare Costs: Cut permit fees and red tape for licensed providers.
Childcare in City-Owned Facilities: Below-market leases for childcare in city spaces and community centres.
Childcare Where People Work: New conditions for childcare in atypical locations and hours.

Kids & Families

Recreation Everyone Can Afford: Expand fee assistance and low-cost programs at community centres.
Community Equipment Libraries: Affordable lending libraries for tools, gear, and equipment.
Sustainable School Food Funding: Advocate for a universal school food program.
A City That Works for Kids: Safe routes to school, playgrounds, and family-friendly spaces.

Seniors

Age-Friendly City: Universal design and healthy aging built into City planning.
Older Persons Planner: Reinstate the role championing seniors' needs.

Accessible City

Accessible Infrastructure: Accessible sidewalks, crosswalks, shelters, and lighting for everyone.

Food

Good food brings neighbours together. From community gardens and permanent farmers markets to shared commercial kitchens and neighbourhood food hubs, Vancouver can grow a food economy that is local, sustainable, and open to all.

Food Security

Local Food Security: Expand community gardens, urban agriculture, and farmers markets.
Neighbourhood Food Hubs: Combine food distribution, meal programs, and education under one roof in food desert areas.
Food Recovery: Redirect surplus food from businesses and events to people who need it.
Food System Resilience: Support local production, distribution, and emergency food networks.
Community Food Gardens: Create food-growing spaces in every neighbourhood.
Support and Grow Food Recovery Network: Expand rescue of surplus food for people in need.

Food Economy

Food/Farmers Market Strategy: Reinstate food policy planning and a citywide market strategy.
Permanent, Regularized Farmers Markets: A streamlined framework for recurring markets.
Urban Food Production: Vertical gardens, rooftop farms, and hydroponics in developments.
Food Innovation and Commissary Kitchens: Shared commercial kitchen space for food entrepreneurs.
Plant-Based Food Economy: Support leadership in plant-based foods and green jobs.
Healthy Food, Healthy Planet: Climate-friendly food systems and access to nutritious food.
Future Food Hub: Modernize regional food distribution infrastructure at a co-located hub.

Local Economy & Jobs

A strong local economy creates opportunity for everyone. By backing small business, supporting arts and culture, and protecting the land that industry depends on, Vancouver can grow resilient, well-paying jobs close to home.

Small Business

Strengthen the Business and Economy Office: A user-friendly digital business portal and stronger support for entrepreneurs.
Compete for Investment: Faster approvals and modern regulations to attract job-creating investment.
Benchmark Vancouver: Compare permitting timelines and fees against leading North American cities.
Make It Easier for Small Business: Cut red tape and create a single point of contact at City Hall.
Business Navigator Service: A dedicated contact to guide small businesses through permitting.
Change-of-Use Permits: Fast-track converting vacant storefronts into active businesses and spaces.
Progressive Property Tax Relief: Work with the Province to protect small businesses from disproportionate tax increases.
Empowered Business Improvement Areas: Greater flexibility and support for BIA-led, place-based solutions.
Commercial Rent Protection Advocacy: Push the province for tenant protections and use incentives to preserve affordable commercial space.

Main Streets & Downtown

Protect Local Businesses from Displacement: A "no net loss" policy replacing affordable commercial space lost to redevelopment.
Human-Scale Mixed Use: Modern zoning for narrow storefronts and flexible mixed-use buildings.
Downtown Reinvention: Office-to-housing conversions and a more diverse, mixed-use downtown.
Fair Curbside Contributions: Fair contributions from high-volume e-commerce delivery to fund public infrastructure.

Arts & Culture

Eastside Arts District: Preserve affordable creative space and support artists through zoning.
Support Arts, Culture, and Creative Economies: Investment in artists, organizations, and creative businesses.
Restore City Arts Funding: Restore staffing and grants cut by ABC, with a new citywide strategy.
Making Space for Arts: Protect and create affordable studios and cultural venues through adaptive reuse.
Easier Operations for Creative Venues: Reduce red tape on event licensing while maintaining safety standards.
Cultural Land Trusts: Non-profit trusts to acquire and preserve creative spaces.
Stable Funding for Festivals: A dedicated Festival Fund for reliable event support.

Industry & New Economies

Protect Employment Lands: Shield job-creating land from speculative conversion.
Protect Industrial Jobs and Production: Preserve land for manufacturing, logistics, and marine industries.
Canada's Gateway to the Pacific: Leverage Vancouver's port location to grow trade and manufacturing jobs.
Grow the Climate Resilience Economy: Jobs through retrofits, clean tech, and climate adaptation.
Clean Technology Leadership: Support local companies in green buildings and clean transportation.
Responsible AI and Hyperscale Data Facilities: Higher standards and community benefit requirements for large-scale data centres.
Digital and Creative Economy: Grow film, gaming, VFX, and XR sectors through affordable workspaces.
24-Hour Economy: A night-time strategy for transit, live music venues, and extended permits.
Health and Longevity Economy: Leadership in healthy aging, health tech, and accessibility innovation.

Community Wealth

Elbows Up: Buy Vancouver, Build Canada: Use City purchasing power to support local business and restore community benefit agreements.
Grow Local Wealth: Affordable space and mentorship for micro-entrepreneurs and co-ops.
Home-Based Businesses: Reasonable rules and affordable permits for home-based entrepreneurs.
Neighbourhood Enterprise Hubs: Low-cost shared spaces for start-ups and makers.
Buy Local, Build Local: Prioritize local businesses in City procurement.

Equity, Inclusion & Reconciliation

Reconciliation and equity are ongoing commitments, not one-time gestures. Rebuilding the Equity Office, supporting anti-racism and cultural redress, and working alongside the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations will shape a more just Vancouver.

Equity, Inclusion & Reconciliation

A City of Equity: Ensure marginalized and underrepresented communities have real access to opportunity and decision-making.
Celebrate Cultural Communities: Support festivals, gathering spaces, and cultural development.
Equity Office: Re-establish the standalone office coordinating equity and reconciliation work.
Inclusive Communities: Support anti-racism, cultural redress, and reconciliation work.
Reconciliation in Action: Continue to build ongoing working relationships with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and advance UNDRIP and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations. Improve outcomes for urban Indigenous people while respecting the rights, priorities, and leadership of the local First Nations.

Good Government

When people can see how decisions are made, they can trust the results. Open meetings, a lobbyist registry, and ethics oversight will make City Hall more transparent, while fair pay for city workers and strong partnerships with other governments help deliver for Vancouver.

Transparency & Integrity

Integrity and Transparency: Defend the independence of the Integrity Commissioner and ethics oversight at City Hall.
Lobbyist Registry: A voluntary registry so residents know who's influencing decisions.
Open Government by Default: Make closed meetings the exception and strengthen public reporting.
Restore Access at City Hall: Reverse limits on public engagement and follow-up questions.

Democracy

Ranked Ballots for Mayoral Elections: Let voters rank their choices to end vote-splitting, so results reflect what voters actually want.
Participatory Budgeting: Give residents a direct role in funding neighbourhood projects.

Budget & Finances

Transparent and Accountable Budgets: Clear, accessible line-item budgets so residents can see how funds are spent.
Prudent Stewardship of the Public Purse: Fiscal responsibility with transparent, evidence-based spending.
Asset Management Framework: Evidence-based planning to reduce deferred maintenance and protect infrastructure.
FIFA Cost Accountability: Push to reveal the full costs and revenues of hosting FIFA.

City Hall Service

A City that Works For You: A City Hall that's transparent, accountable, and works for the people it serves, not political interests, so every dollar and every decision earns the public's trust.
City Services as Customer Service: Make City Hall transparent, responsive, and user-friendly.
A Living Wage for Every City Worker: Require the City and major contractors to pay a living wage.
Vancouver's Reputation as a Top Employer: Build on Top Employer status through stable leadership and workplace respect.
Evidence-Based Decision Making: Base policy on data and research, not political ideology.
Independent Civil Service: Merit-based public administration, separate from political direction.
Public Performance Dashboards: Track major initiatives and service standards publicly.

Working with Other Governments

Protect Park Board Autonomy: Maintain an independent, elected Park Board with clear authority.
Work with Vancouver School Board: Align land use decisions with school needs and projections.
Respectful Relations with Senior Government: Work collaboratively and in good faith with provincial and federal partners.

Park Board

Vancouver's parks, beaches, and community centres are where neighbourhoods come together. Our Commissioners will invest in greener public spaces, make recreation more affordable, and give every generation a place to play, gather, and belong.

Enhance Urban Ecosystems

Grow the Canopy: Work toward 30% citywide by replacing 5,000 existing stumps with new trees.
Trees Where They're Needed Most: Prioritize underserved neighbourhoods, starting with Strathcona (9% canopy as of 2022).
Gardens and Pollinators: Protect community gardens and pollinator corridors.
Greener Sports Fields: Support artificial turf only when paired with rainwater retention and biodiversity measures.
Natural Shorelines: Native shoreline improvements and accessible waterfront recreation, like Tatlow Park.
Parks for Community Food: Open park land and facilities to community food systems.
Naturalized Fountains: Convert historic fountains to circulating or low-volume water features.
Miyawaki Forests: Pilot three micro-forests.
3-30-300 for Every Home: Work with Council so every home has 3 trees in view, 30% canopy, and green space within 300 m.

No One Priced Out of Public Facilities

Affordable Core Activities: Subsidize swimming lessons, field permits, and ice rentals.
Leisure Access Program: Expand and promote subsidized recreation for seniors and low-income families.

Programming for All Generations and Abilities

Priority for Youth and Equity-Seeking Groups: Reflect this in sports field booking.
SafeSport Standards: Safe, respectful environments to train and compete.
Childcare in Community Centres: Support childcare at centres and connected schools.
Pop-Up Events and Services: Support them at parks and beaches where consistent with neighbourhood values.
Inclusive Design: Meet standards for all abilities, neurodiversity, and seniors.
Parks Free of Encampments: Invest in community safety and peer stewardship programs for people with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, mental health conditions, and substance use disorders.
More Dog Parks: Especially in Mount Pleasant, Grandview, and Kitsilano.
Safe Cycling and Greenways: Expand and connect networks linking schools, community centres, parks, transit, and employment areas, in partnership with Council and the School Board.

Advance Meaningful Reconciliation

Co-Management of Parklands: Prioritize collaboration with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Traditional Knowledge Keepers: Seek guidance and amplify their voices on ecosystem stewardship.
Urban Indigenous Partnership: Include urban Indigenous organizations and community members in Park Board planning.
Indigenous Naming, Art, and Healing Gardens: Centre cultural recognition in facility and outdoor space design.

Facilities for the Future

Community Centre Renewal: Prioritize Hastings, Kensington, and Renfrew (per the 2022 Community Centre Strategy) and keep Britannia on track.
Swimming Pool Renewal: Renew Vancouver Aquatic Centre, Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, and Britannia pools, plus a new 50 m pool at Hastings or Kensington.
Climate-Resilient Buildings: Build to gold standards and minimize carbon emissions.
Safe, Gender-Neutral Washrooms: Keep investing in parks and public spaces.
Plant-Based Food Mandate: Apply to all park restaurants and concessions.

Park Board Independence and Budget

Honour the Elected Park Board: Celebrate its 136-year role in local democracy.
Less Reliance on User Fees: Reduce dependence on fee revenue (currently 56% under ABC).
Restore City Funding: Return the city-funded share to the historical 50%, putting $6M back in the budget.
Park Microactivations: Let small businesses offer valuable in-park services.

School Board

Vancouver's schools can't keep doing more with less. Our Trustees will push for stable provincial funding so students have the teachers, supports, and healthy schools they need, and spend every dollar with care.

Fully Funded Public Education

Stable Provincial Funding: Advocate for multi-year funding that reflects inflation and the real cost of public education.
Show the Shortfall: Publish clear estimates of the gap between provincial funding and the cost of existing services.
Predictable Capital Funding: Push for long-term funding for school upgrades and renewals.
Living Wage Funding: Seek provincial commitment to fund living wages for all school district employees and contracts.

Responsible Stewardship and School Budgets

Classrooms First: Put student learning and frontline supports at the centre of budget decisions.
Plain-Language Budgets: Publish budgets and audited financials families can understand.
Management Salary Review: Review middle and upper management salaries.
Track Results: Measure whether major spending delivers the outcomes promised.

The People Who Make Schools Work

Student-Facing Staff Priority: Protect teachers, educational assistants, counsellors, and support workers in budget decisions.
Multi-Year Staffing Plans: Plan ahead for enrolment changes, retirements, and hard-to-fill positions.
Recruitment and Retention: Partner with post-secondary institutions, expand mentorship and career pathways, and strengthen the on-call list.

Remove Financial Barriers to Learning

Review School Fees: Identify costs that keep students from fully participating.
Equipment Lending: Explore expanded lending programs for activity gear.
Bursaries and Hardship Support: Raise awareness of financial-hardship policies and support student assistance.
Equal Access to Enrichment: Make arts, trades, and enrichment opportunities available regardless of income.

Inclusive Learning for Every Student

Support for Diverse Learning Needs: Prioritize supports and revisit cuts to VPs, music teachers, and librarians.
Literacy and Numeracy: Address the five-year decline, particularly in Grade 10.
Accessible Schools: Improve facilities, programs, and materials, and consider accessibility earlier in decisions.
Pause AI Chatbots in Schools: Pause their use while a review is undertaken.

Food Security and Healthy Students

School Food Programs: Expand access to nutritious meals and advocate for stable provincial and federal funding.
Local and Fresh: Prioritize locally produced food where practical, and reduce waste through food recovery and composting.
School Gardens: Support hands-on food literacy.

Mental and Physical Health, Wellbeing and Belonging

More Mental Health Support: Advocate for counsellors and school-based resources, with a focus on prevention and early intervention.
SOGI 123: Continue support so all students feel safe and welcome.
Newcomer Support: Back English language learners, Multicultural Liaisons, and Settlement Workers in Schools.
Accessibility Act: Continue implementing the Accessibility Plan.

Safe, Healthy and Climate-Resilient Schools

Seismic Safety First: Keep seismic upgrades at the top of capital priorities.
Healthier Buildings: Improve air quality and indoor comfort.
Climate-Ready Schools: Prepare every school for extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and other climate impacts.
Provincial Capital Funding: Keep pursuing the funding needed to make it happen.

Schools as Community Resilience Hubs

Childcare and After-School Care: Expand spaces in and around schools.
Shared Community Use: Open school spaces for community use.
Safe Routes to School: Improve walking and cycling connections.
Stronger Partnerships: Work with the City, Park Board, and local organizations.

Future-Ready Learning

Climate and Sustainability Learning: Expand opportunities and hands-on environmental projects.
Trades and Clean Energy Pathways: Build apprenticeship links and career pathways in key sectors.
Lifelong Learning: Support Strong Start, Ready Set Learn, Welcome to Kindergarten, and adult education.

Student Voice and Opportunity

Student Input on Major Decisions: Especially from underrepresented communities.
Speak to the Board: Expand opportunities for students to address trustees directly.
Equitable Access to Extracurriculars: Expand leadership, arts, athletics, and enrichment.

Transparent Governance and Reconciliation

Easier-to-Follow Decisions: Make Board decisions and reporting simple for the public to understand.
Stronger Consultation: Engage students, parents, and staff earlier and more meaningfully.
Reconciliation in Action: Embed commitments, including relationships with the Nations, into measurable, publicly reported action.