Election Digest Vancouver 2026
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Devyani Singh

Candidate for City Council · COPE

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Candidate commitments & stances
No commitment or stance published by Devyani Singh personally was found in the sources reviewed. Most candidates campaign on their party's shared platform, which appears below as the party record.
Shared party record · 78

Positions published by COPE that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Devyani Singh's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.

Commitments · 60

Governance, consultation, and accountability 16

  • Urge all progressive parties to agree to support a ranked ballot in future elections as part of a unity agreement.↗
  • If elected, reverse policies and decisions made by the ABC-majority council.↗
  • Look into possible amendments to the ODP regarding how public comments are handled and how changes in use for social housing projects are processed.↗
  • Sue the mayor over statements made about the councillor.↗
  • Bring forward a motion for Vancouver to join the Elect Respect campaign.↗
  • Limit nominated candidates to up to five for City Council, up to four for School Board, and up to four for Park Board, for a total of up to 13 non-mayor candidates.↗
  • Conduct a 360-degree review of city operations, engaging the public and city staff, to identify inefficiencies, cut waste, and improve service delivery — referred to as the People's Audit.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to increase democratic participation, including a 'Vote Bus' polling station, fare-free public transit on voting days, and moving to a ranked ballot for mayor for the 2030 elections, with a goal of reaching at least 60 per cent municipal voter turnout.↗↗
  • Continue keeping constituents informed about City Hall proceedings and how to get involved.↗
  • Establish a lobbyist registry and reduce fossil fuel and big business lobbying influence at City Hall.↗
  • Increase time for public comment at council, allow follow-up questions, hold Town Hall meetings throughout the city, and make City Hall more open to the public.↗
  • Protect and defend the Integrity Commissioner's role and authority at City Hall.↗↗
  • Restore door-to-door voter enumeration in Vancouver to maintain an up-to-date voters' list and create union jobs.↗
  • Eliminate extra municipal voting rights for non-resident property owners in Vancouver.↗
  • Advocate to the province to extend municipal voting rights to Permanent Residents.↗
  • Expand and democratize advisory committees, improve public access to City Council chambers, improve livestreaming of meetings, and increase transparency of governance.↗

Housing and land use 12

  • Fix the loophole in the Broadway Plan that denies right-to-return protections to renters displaced by hotel projects.↗
  • Bring a motion asking staff to identify city-owned land within 5 km of hospitals and to partner with senior levels of government to build affordable workforce housing for healthcare workers.↗
  • Negotiate, secure, and build 20,000 or more units of truly affordable homes in Vancouver, as a stated mayoral policy priority of COPE's candidate.↗
  • Bring a motion to reconcile the Community Housing Fund pause with active housing targets, and seek to add it as an urgent motion at LMLGA.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to repeal the pause on supportive housing.↗
  • Close the vacancy loophole that allows landlords to raise rent without limit between tenants.↗
  • Stop demovictions of affordable dense housing.↗
  • Purchase apartments and convert them into permanently affordable public housing and co-operatives.↗
  • Apply a progressive 1% property tax on property values over $5 million to fund ending homelessness.↗
  • Continue increasing the Empty Home Tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to exempt new builds, increase enforcement, and close loopholes.↗
  • Create a landlord registry to track rents and enforce compliance with rental laws.↗
  • Restore a renters office with new enforcement powers, using the councillor's own office as a substitute if blocked.↗

Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 7

  • Bring forward a motion to stop the elimination of the district-wide librarian mentor teaching position (1.0 FTE District Teacher Librarian) for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to increase additional hours for supervision aides for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to reinstate 3.0 FTE SSB staffing for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
  • Bring forward a motion requiring Teachers Teaching on Call to cover resource teacher absences from day one rather than day two.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to reinstate 1.0 FTE Teacher of the Visually Impaired and 1.0 FTE Hospital Homebound Teacher for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to fully designate the City of Vancouver food grant for school meals for the 2026–2027 school year, restoring over $160,000 that has not yet been confirmed in the Financial Plan.↗
  • Bring forward a motion calling for consideration of reallocating administrative office budgets to support resource teachers and inclusive education.↗

Transportation, streets, and public space 6

  • Present a motion on excessive vehicle headlight glare to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Edmonton in June 2026.↗↗
  • Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee to recommit to a Central Waterfront Precinct vision prioritising world-class pedestrian connections and active transit hubs.↗
  • Bring forward a motion at Council addressing excessive headlight glare as a pedestrian and road safety measure.↗
  • Improve transit accessibility and reliability by adding routes, lowering fares, adding dedicated bus lanes, increasing service levels, reducing bus bunching and overcrowding, and restoring cut routes including routes 17 and 25.↗
  • Support active transportation and cycling infrastructure including protected bike lanes and flexible reflective bollards, and amplify advocacy by groups such as Vision Zero and HUB Cycling.↗
  • Expand free public transit to youth under 18 as a step toward fully funded, fare-free transit for all.↗

Climate, environment, and resilience 5

  • Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee to break the jurisdictional gridlock in False Creek to enable environmentally and socially responsible management of the urban inlet.↗
  • Bring forward a food recovery motion co-submitted with Councillor Pete Fry, focused on committing to climate targets.↗
  • Block any future council attempt to permit burning methane gas in new builds and support retrofitting existing buildings with electric heat pumps.↗
  • Expand 'libraries of things' and circular economy initiatives including repair and recirculation services such as FreeGeek, Vancouver Tool Library, and Our Community Bikes.↗
  • Rejoin Vancouver's lawsuit against major oil companies.↗

Social policy, health, and community services 5

  • Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee asking Vancouver Coastal Health and the City to prioritise a local PrEP clinic in the new Qmunity building in collaboration with HiM.↗
  • Bring a motion to pause bylaw enforcement against people sheltering in RVs during the FIFA tournament.↗
  • Bring forward a motion on supporting and improving food recovery in the city.↗
  • Expand affordable childcare spaces, particularly $10/day spaces, in Vancouver.↗
  • Apply a disability justice lens to city policies, systems, services, funding, and structures.↗

City finances, taxation, and service delivery 3

  • Develop a motion using MEVA (Municipal Energy Value Assessment or similar instrument) to tax higher-wealth property owners.↗
  • Support the motion to restore the City's Living Wage policy.↗
  • Work to stop or slow budget cuts resulting from the current council's budget decisions.↗

Arts, culture, libraries, and civic life 2

  • Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee to establish a Cultural Land Trust to increase long-term security of tenure for cultural and arts spaces in BC through ownership and stewardship of land and buildings.↗
  • Increase funding, hours, and wages at Vancouver Public Library, support library workers, and push for library worker representation on the VPL board.↗

Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 2

  • Strengthen the elected Park Board, increase its collaboration with City Council, and make more of Vancouver's temporary parks permanent.↗
  • Increase funding for pools, recreation facilities, and public services.↗

Indigenous relations and reconciliation 1

  • Address anti-Indigenous racism in institutions, support development of Indigenous land trusts, and ensure Indigenous voices are reflected at City Hall in line with UNDRIP.↗

Public safety and emergency services 1

  • Support peer-assisted care teams (PACTs) as non-police first responders to mental health crises.↗

Stances · 18

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