Ken Sim & ABC’s crusade to eliminate the Park Board is about putting Vancouver’s parks up for sale.
The Vancouver Liberals strongly support our elected Park Board, a democratic institution that protects our parks from being chopped up and sold off.
The Vancouver Liberals will keep the board in place and properly fund our parks to improve the quality of community centres, pools and other facilities people use.
Under Ken Sim and the ABC, property taxes have gone up by 26%. Meanwhile, library hours have been cut, the renters office has been closed and services overall have gotten worse.
We ban foreign travel for councillors and staff. No more trips to the Junos, or buying $13 million worth of World Cup tickets.
Under Ken Sim and ABC, festival organisers are having to pay increased policing fees, making the costs of hosting community events rise and adding to Vancouver’s ‘no fun city’ reputation.
With the unprecedented rise in the Vancouver Police budget, we will find a fair way to make policing affordable for all community events.
Vancouver is the only city in BC with it’s own building code – an extra step for people seeking to build more housing in our city.
The Vancouver Liberals will remove the Vancouver Building Code and align our city with the rest of the province, simplifying the process of housing construction.
We will also consolidate the twelve departments that currently approve new housing construction into just one, making applications and approvals a smoother process.
The Canadian dream for young people to build a career, put down roots, and start a family is dying as rising costs push them out.
Vancouver has one of the oldest populations of any city in Canada – and it’s only getting older as young people continue to leave.
As mayor, Kareem Allam’s top priority is to bring back young people by creating more good jobs and building more affordable housing in every part of the city.
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.
The Vancouver Liberals will hire 400 new frontline workers to help clean up our streets, make repairs, and do the important work that enables Vancouver to function.
Vancouver has too few good-paying jobs – and Ken Sim’s plan to eliminate the last bit of industrial land in the city will push businesses and well paying jobs out of Vancouver.
The Vancouver Liberals will establish an Industrial Land Reserve, keeping jobs in the city and surrounding it with affordable housing so that people can build their careers and keep their families in our city.
Vancouver has the highest concentration of artists and creatives in all of Canada, a rare competitive advantage that the city is failing to nurture and build. These artists struggle to build a vibrant creative economy here as the city prices them out of the scarce few creative spaces by hiking up their taxes.
Kareem has committed to establishing an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, which would have resources like studios as well as cutting property taxes in half for creatives working in these spaces.
Vancouver has a rat problem. We have the second-highest number of rats of any major city in Canada – and we’re about to pass Toronto to become the highest.
Rats spread disease – and are a public health risk to our city.
The Vancouver Liberals will put together a blue-ribbon panel of experts to help get control of Vancouver’s rat problem.
Vancouver is the only city in BC with it’s own building code – an extra step for people seeking to build more housing in our city.
The Vancouver Liberals will remove the Vancouver Building Code and align our city with the rest of the province, simplifying the process of housing construction.
We will also consolidate the twelve departments that currently approve new housing construction into just one, making applications and approvals a smoother process.
The illegal drug trade in this city is not happening hidden in shadowy alleys, it’s happening in million dollar penthouses in the heart of the city.
We will go after the drug kingpins using cryptocurrency to launder drug money, close down shady currency exchanges, and put a stop to Ken Sim’s Bitcoin fantasy that would only help flood more drugs into our neighbourhoods.
