Christine Boyle

OneCity new candidate for Vancouver city council


















1. Make clear public links between Vancouver's past/current climate emissions efforts, efforts from other cities, and the targets we are setting, to tell a compelling story about what is possible. 2. Work with community groups and staff to ensure that there is an intersectional/equity lens to our plan for meeting targets and timelines, incorporating job training for marginalized populations, affordable housing in complete communities, support for small businesses to reduce their emissions, and more. 3. Collaborate with ENGOs and social movement folks in the process of moving these formal requests forward, so that they contribute to climate engagement and organizing efforts, rather than just becoming a PR opportunity for the city.



I 1. OneCity is talking about the need for more housing options (coops, apartments, multiplexes, etc) in all neighbourhoods across the city. This is a key requirement in building complete and compact communities, addressing inequality and reducing commute times. 2. Vancouver can be doing even more to push building retrofits forward, so that existing building stock becomes significantly more energy efficient, with a priority that those retrofit jobs be unionized and train up workers from underrepresented groups. 3. Vancouver's building deconstruction program can and should be further strengthened, considering the amount of housing that will be built here in the coming decades, to reduce waste from demolition, and contribute to recycling and reuse of materials. 4. OneCity's proposed Land Value Capture tax would work with Translink to raise significant public funds for reinvestment in a more robust public transportation system across the city/region, alongside supporting further development of active transportation networks. 5. I am proposing that Vancouver take legal action against the top 5 fossil fuel companies, in line with West Coast Environmental Law's campaign (and along with cities around the world), to ensure that fossil fuel corporations pay their fair share for the impacts of climate change. I include this point because I think it matters that the city take a leadership role, not only in terms of infrastructure development, but also in holding these corporations accountable, and working to shift toward a clean energy economy globally.


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