Final responses in for GVAT Local Election Candidate Survey!
This is a really unusual election and more important than ever to get out and vote. For the first time, the Conservative Party of BC could become the government. There are far fewer incumbents running in the CRD than prior and one new electoral district partly within the CRD; thus more new information to digest to be an informed voter. Start here!
We sent out Greater Victoria Acting Together’s BC Election Candidate Survey to all the candidates (from parties that presently have elected MLAs) in all eight ridings in Greater Victoria. We received responses from all the BC New Democratic Party and Green Party candidates. None of the BC Conservative Party candidates responded.
Here are the survey responses grouped by riding.
Esquimalt-Colwood, Green, Camille Currie
Esquimalt-Colwood, NDP, Darlene Rotchford
Juan de Fuca-Malahat, Green, David Evans
Juan de Fuca-Malahat, NDP, Dana Lajeunesse
Langford-Highlands, Green, Erin Cassels
Langford-Highlands, NDP, Ravi Parmar
Oak Bay-Gordon Head, NDP, Diana Gibson
Oak Bay-Gordon Head, Green, Lisa Gunderson
Saanich North. & The Islands, Green, Rob Botterell
Saanich North & The Islands, NDP, Sarah Riddell
Saanich South, NDP, Lana Popham
Saanich South, Green, Ned Taylor
Victoria-Beacon Hill, Green, Sonia Furstenau
Victoria-Beacon Hill, NDP, Grace Lore
Victoria-Swan Lake, NDP, Nina Krieger
Victoria-Swan Lake, Green, Christina Winters
If you don’t know what riding you live in (some have changed since the last election) see https://elections.bc.ca/resources/maps/find-your-district/
Below is the comparison table for Saanich South, a riding from which we recently received responses from more than one candidate. We are using traffic light colors to show responses: Green for yes, yellow for in between and red for no. Check out more comparison tables here:
Our questions to candidates are:
1. Getting to Know You: Please tell us about your personal journey/motivating forces/passions that have led you to being a candidate in this
election.
2. Real Rent Control (Vacancy Control): Do you support real rent control on rental buildings with over 12 units?
3. Increased funding for non-profit housing: Do you support doubling the amount that BC currently invests in not-for-profit housing?
4. Free transit for youth up to age 18: Do you support extending the provincial Get on Board program to include free transit for all youth up to age 18
in every transit system in BC?
5. Wheelchairs & Mobility Scooters on Bike & Roll Routes: Do you support having the provincial government clarify, without delay, that people using
wheelchairs and mobility scooters have the right to use all ages and abilities bike and roll routes?
6. Reallocate Funding to Rapid Transit, Walking, Rolling & Cycling: Do you support reallocating funding from highway expansion projects to improving public transit, walking, rolling & cycling?
7. Climate Lens for Food and Agriculture: Are you in favor of provincial funding initiatives to provide affordable access for farmers to farmland?
8. Green New Deal for Forestry Communities: Are you in favor of direct provincial government support for workers and communities to transition from old
growth logging now?
9. End old growth logging now: Do you support ending old growth logging now?
Explanations of each of our questions is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LlxyBSC1YcEpIOnuRpwR2VCodfm50ZZi/view?usp=drive_link Please consider asking candidates about the issue or issues from the list that you care about the most when they knock at your door, when they are campaigning on the street, or at all candidates meetings and other events.
Voting Information
You can vote by mail or at a BC Elections office now. You can vote in Advance Polls Oct. 10-13 and Oct. 15-16. Find out more here: https://elections.bc.ca/news/writs-issued-for-british-columbias-43rd-provincial-general-election/
Voting locations here: https://wheretovote.elections.bc.ca/
Greater Victoria Acting Together thanks all candidates for keeping our democracy strong.
GVAT is a non-partisan organization. We do not endorse or promote any candidate or party. We do however take positions on issues.
Authorized by Greater Victoria Acting Together, registered sponsor under the Elections Act, admin@gvat.ca .
