Thank you Vancouver!

It is a huge honour and a huge responsibility to have been re-elected to a second term on City Council.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered, donated or spoke up to help OneCity Vancouver spread our message of economic, social & climate justice this election. I am incredibly proud of the strong campaign that OneCity Vancouver ran.

Our candidates, staff & volunteers worked incredibly hard, consulting experts, crafting thoughtful & transformative policy, and tirelessly hitting the doors to talk to voters about a city where we ALL belong.

We didn’t have the big money of the Mayoralty campaigns, but what we lacked in advertising dollars, we made up for with the largest volunteer crew of any party. And an impressive ground game that reached residents across Vancouver.

An especially big thank you to the amazing OneCity candidates. Matthew Norris, Ian Cromwell, Iona Bonamis, Krista Sigurdson, Kyla Epstein, Rory Brown, Gavin Somers, Serena Jackson, Caitlin Stockwell and Kristen Rivers. You brought such important voices and insights to the election. And you were incredible to work alongside.

And my whole heart to Jennifer Reddy for School Board Trustee, my ongoing collaborator and dear friend.👏🏾❤️

OneCity ran an ambitious campaign, and put forward transformative ideas. Rental & non-market housing everywhere, banning natural gas, mental health crisis response, implementing UNDRIP & more.

Vancouverites want leadership and OneCity will continue to provide it.

I’m proud of the fact that we presented to Vancouverites the most detailed and comprehensive policy platform this city has seen. We are facing urgent crises that need more than vague commitments. They need clear and tangible action.

Congratulations to the new and returning Councillors: Adriane Carr, Pete Fry, Rebecca Bligh, Lisa Dominato, Sarah Kirby-Yung, Mike Klassen, Peter Meiszner, Lenny Zhou and Brian Montague.

We have big and important work ahead.

And congratulations to Ken Sim on his win last night. He’s Vancouver’s first Chinese-Canadian Mayor. This is an achievement a hundred years in the making.

Ken Sim and ABC ran a strong campaign. Now it’s time to govern.

Where we share priorities, I look forward to working together to get real things accomplished. I remain deeply committed to action on housing, climate justice, the drug poisoning crisis & more.

But if ABC makes cuts to important services, cuts that will make life even harder for families, seniors, people with disabilities, young people and workers already struggling to get by in this city, I will fight back. So will thousands of others.

Here’s the good news. That’s what OneCity Vancouver is built for. We fight for progressive change on every front.

We join unions on picket lines. We join climate activists on marches. And every day we organize, organize, organize to lift up people who society holds down.

We’ll be there to defend & expand affordable & coop housing. Defend people who need help, not handcuffs. Protect the climate plan, tenant protections & school board land.

If ABC wants to work with us on these priorities – we’re ready to work alongside them and the Vancouver Greens.

In this election, progressive parties ran too many candidates. Progressive voters were faced with too many good choices. We split the vote. And now we see the result: the first right-of-centre government Vancouver has seen in over a decade.

We can’t let this happen again. We need to come together. We need to coordinate – at City Hall, in the streets, and at the ballot box in 2026.

We are going to need solidarity. But if we can do it – if we can stand together – so much is possible.

Thank you, everyone. It has been the honour of a lifetime to be your City Councillor, and I am incredibly honoured to have been re-elected.

No matter what happens, no matter who you are, the whole OneCity Vancouver team will continue to work for a Vancouver where you belong.

Here are some highlights from OneCity’s 2022 campaign!

And the biggest highlight of all was talking to tens of thousands of Vancouverites alongside this amazing team of candidates and volunteers.