TrueBlue Vancouver
TrueBlue Vancouver vows to smash crushing property taxes, gut civic bloat, seize control of public safety, fiercely defend parental rights against institutional overreach, and enforce total local sovereignty for Vancouver. No compromises. Putting Vancouverites first.
Climate Change, Heat, & Fires
Energy-Efficient Buildings
Repeal costly municipal green building mandates, complex retrofits, and gas-stove bans that drive up housing and construction costs for local families.
Streamline the Vancouver Building By-law to allow builders and homeowners to choose the most cost-effective heating, cooling, and energy sources available without forced civic mandates.
Flooding
Focus tax dollars on essential drainage, dike maintenance, and seawall repairs rather than activist environmental projects.
Direct engineering resources to upgrade storm sewers, clear drainage pathways, and reinforce coastal defenses to protect private property, homes, and local businesses from storm surges and heavy rainfall.
Green Space
Clean up municipal parks and green spaces by enforcing public space bylaws and clearing dangerous encampments.
Maintain park tree canopies and green spaces for neighborhood recreation, family use, and local aesthetics while ensuring park spaces remain safe, clean, and free of illegal open-air drug use or encampments.
Private Vehicles & Parking
Defend driver choice, end road-pricing proposals, and preserve accessible neighborhood parking for local shoppers and workers.
Oppose municipal mobility pricing/congestion taxes, eliminate paid parking expansion in residential neighborhoods, and ensure road designs do not deliberately create artificial traffic jams.
Protect road capacity and street parking. Oppose policies designed to deliberately make driving more difficult or expensive.
Urban Heat
Maintain community center cooling infrastructure and urban trees through practical municipal budgeting.
Keep civic pools, community centers, and ice rinks fully functional and accessible during summer heat waves without imposing heat-related regulations or taxes on private property owners.
Walking & Cycling
Audit existing bike lane infrastructure to restore traffic flow and protect parking for small businesses.
Ensure pedestrian sidewalks are safe and well-maintained while halting the removal of core vehicle lanes or parking spaces for underutilized cycling routes on major commercial strips.
Zoning
Enforce total local sovereignty over zoning decisions and reject provincial blanket-densification mandates.
Protect single-family and low-density neighborhoods by giving locals binding input on development proposals, ensuring infrastructure exists before adding density, and cutting municipal permit delays.
Housing & Homelessness
Affordability
Reduce municipal fees, permitting delays, and unnecessary regulations that increase the cost of building homes. Fast-track permits that meet existing rules and encourage private-sector housing construction.
Building Maintenance & Occupant Health
Enforce basic health, fire, and building-safety standards while cutting unnecessary red tape for responsible property owners. Focus enforcement on genuinely unsafe buildings.
Homelessness
Keep sidewalks, parks, and public spaces usable for everyone. Pair firm enforcement against permanent encampments with shelter, treatment, recovery, and transitional-housing options.
Housing Accessibility
Streamline permits for accessibility upgrades, secondary suites, seniors' housing, and projects designed for residents with disabilities. Reduce unnecessary approval delays.
Indigenous-Led Housing
Apply the same transparent development and housing rules to projects regardless of race, ancestry or identity.
Property Taxes
Restrain property-tax increases, conduct a citywide spending review, cut waste and bureaucracy, and protect homeowners, renters, seniors, and small businesses from continually rising municipal costs.
Public & Assistive Housing
Prioritize temporary and supportive housing for people genuinely in need while emphasizing treatment, employment, recovery, and pathways toward independent housing wherever possible.
Rent & Rental Stock
Make it faster and cheaper for private builders and property owners to create legal rental units. Encourage secondary suites and purpose-built rentals while protecting the rights of both tenants and landlords.
The Villages Plan
Strongly oppose the Villages Plan and its sweeping density changes. Protect established neighbourhoods, parking, infrastructure, and local decision-making from top-down planning.
Zoning
Enforce total local sovereignty over zoning decisions and reject provincial blanket-densification mandates.
Protect single-family and low-density neighborhoods by giving locals binding input on development proposals, ensuring infrastructure exists before adding density, and cutting municipal permit delays.
Human Rights
Physical Accessibility
Improve practical accessibility in sidewalks, public buildings, parks, transit connections, and other city services for people with disabilities.
Recent Immigrants
Prioritize existing residents for housing and public services. Push senior governments to reduce immigration when population growth exceeds housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and community capacity.
Sex Work
Work with police and community organizations to combat trafficking, exploitation, coercion, and organized crime while connecting vulnerable people with support services.
Trans Rights & Access to Public Services
Keep male and female sports separate. Protect sex based privacy in public washrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, shelters and other intimate spaces.
Local Government & Democracy
Budgeting
Audit City spending, cut wasteful programs and bureaucracy, control taxes and focus taxpayer dollars on core municipal services.
Good Governance
Increase transparency, publish clear spending information and hold elected officials and City departments accountable for results.
Public Engagement
Give residents a stronger voice before major decisions on development, taxes, transportation and neighbourhood planning are made.
Youth Engagement
Create meaningful opportunities for young Vancouverites to speak directly to decision makers and participate in civic affairs.
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Mental Health Crisis Response
Expand crisis response and connect people in serious mental health crises with appropriate treatment, care and support instead of leaving them on the streets.
Mental Health in Schools
Focus school mental health resources on practical counselling and student wellbeing while keeping parents informed and involved.
Overdoses & the Contaminated Drug Supply
Oppose the normalization of hard drug use. Focus City resources on prevention, treatment, recovery and enforcement against traffickers and dealers.
Treatment for Addiction
Expand access to detox, treatment and long term recovery programs. Prioritize helping people become drug free and rebuild independent lives.
Public Safety & Policing
Non-Police-Based Public Safety
Use community services for appropriate non-criminal issues, but never replace police when public safety, violence, crime or serious disorder is involved.
Police Funding
Reject defund the police rhetoric. Maintain strong police funding and ensure officers have the staffing, training and resources needed to keep Vancouver safe.
Police Wrongdoing & Accountability
Support officers who serve lawfully and professionally while ensuring credible allegations of serious misconduct are independently investigated.
Police in Schools
Support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships and respond to violence, gangs, weapons and serious threats.
Upstream Causes of Crime
Address addiction, homelessness and youth crime through treatment, prevention and intervention while maintaining consequences for serious and repeat offenders.
Public Spaces & Services
Fitness & Sports Facilities
Maintain safe, clean and affordable pools, rinks, fields, gyms and community centres. Prioritize core recreation services and youth sports.
Green Space
Clean up municipal parks and green spaces by enforcing public space bylaws and clearing dangerous encampments.
Maintain park tree canopies and green spaces for neighborhood recreation, family use, and local aesthetics while ensuring park spaces remain safe, clean, and free of illegal open-air drug use or encampments.
Public Washrooms
Improve cleanliness and safety while also maintaining sex based male and female facilities.
Sidewalks & Bike Paths
Maintain safe sidewalks and audit existing bike lanes. Redesign or remove lanes that unnecessarily worsen traffic or eliminate needed parking.
Zoning
Enforce total local sovereignty over zoning decisions and reject provincial blanket-densification mandates.
Protect single-family and low-density neighborhoods by giving locals binding input on development proposals, ensuring infrastructure exists before adding density, and cutting municipal permit delays.
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
Indigenous Languages
Keep English as the standard language for official City services, signage, street names and place names.
Indigenous Schooling
Teach accurate Canadian and Indigenous history. End mandatory land acknowledgements and reject collective guilt.
Indigenous-Led Housing
Apply the same transparent development and housing rules to projects regardless of race, ancestry or identity.
Land Title & Governance
Protect private property and democratic local government. Oppose voluntary City transfers of land, assets or control based on ancestry or historical claims.
Place Names & Commemorations
Oppose ideological renaming of established streets and places. End mandatory land acknowledgements and maintain Vancouver's civic and Canadian symbols.
Residential Schools
Teach residential school history accurately. Require evidence for claims about proposed burial sites and distinguish suspected or radar identified sites from confirmed human remains.
Additional Policy
Reject race based governance and reconciliation policies that divide residents by ancestry. Defend equal citizenship, property rights and democratic government.
Schools & Public Education
Bullying & Bigotry
Enforce strong rules against bullying, threats and harassment. Apply the same standards fairly to every student.
Indigenous Schooling
Teach accurate Canadian and Indigenous history. End mandatory land acknowledgements and reject collective guilt.
Media Literacy & Critical Thinking
Teach students to question sources, examine evidence, recognize misinformation and debate different viewpoints respectfully.
Neurodivergent Students & Support
Provide practical classroom supports and learning accommodations based on each student's individual educational needs.
Police in Schools
Support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships and respond to violence, gangs, weapons and serious threats.
Student Involvement & Engagement
Give students meaningful opportunities to provide input on school issues while keeping elected trustees accountable to parents and voters.
Transit & Getting Around
Private Vehicles & Parking
Defend driver choice, end road-pricing proposals, and preserve accessible neighborhood parking for local shoppers and workers.
Oppose municipal mobility pricing/congestion taxes, eliminate paid parking expansion in residential neighborhoods, and ensure road designs do not deliberately create artificial traffic jams.
Protect road capacity and street parking. Oppose policies designed to deliberately make driving more difficult or expensive.
Sidewalks & Bike Paths
Maintain safe sidewalks and audit existing bike lanes. Redesign or remove lanes that unnecessarily worsen traffic or eliminate needed parking.
Transit Projects
Support transit improvements based on ridership, affordability and measurable need. Demand transparent costs before supporting major projects.
Walking & Cycling
Audit existing bike lane infrastructure to restore traffic flow and protect parking for small businesses.
Ensure pedestrian sidewalks are safe and well-maintained while halting the removal of core vehicle lanes or parking spaces for underutilized cycling routes on major commercial strips.
Additional Policy
Reject ideological transportation policies that deliberately restrict drivers. Balance cars, transit, cycling and walking based on practical needs.
Misc. topics
PROTECT FREE EXPRESSION
Defend lawful speech, peaceful protest and open debate in Vancouver's public and civic spaces.
CANADIANS AND VANCOUVERITES FIRST
Put the needs of existing residents first when making decisions about City spending, services and infrastructure.
SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES
Cut unnecessary red tape, protect commercial parking and make Vancouver easier and less expensive for local businesses.
END IDEOLOGICAL CITY POLITICS
Focus City Hall on core municipal services instead of political activism and ideological campaigns.
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