Election Digest Vancouver 2026
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Naomi Chocyk

Candidate for School Board · TrueBlue Vancouver Not elected

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Candidate commitments & stances
No personal commitment or stance has been extracted for Naomi Chocyk yet. The party's shared record appears below.
Shared party record · 44

Positions published by TrueBlue Vancouver that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Naomi Chocyk's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.

Commitments · 39

Housing and land use 8

  • Protect single-family and low-density neighbourhoods by requiring binding local input on development proposals, ensuring infrastructure exists before adding density, and cutting municipal permit delays.↗
  • Reduce municipal fees, permitting delays, and unnecessary regulations that increase home-building costs, fast-track permits that meet existing rules, and encourage private-sector housing construction.↗
  • Enforce basic health, fire, and building-safety standards while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden on responsible property owners, with enforcement focused on genuinely unsafe buildings.↗
  • Streamline permits for accessibility upgrades, secondary suites, seniors' housing, and projects for residents with disabilities, reducing unnecessary approval delays.↗
  • Prioritize temporary and supportive housing for people in need while emphasizing treatment, employment, recovery, and pathways toward independent housing.↗
  • Make it faster and cheaper for private builders and property owners to create legal rental units, and encourage secondary suites and purpose-built rentals while protecting tenant and landlord rights.↗
  • Enforce total local sovereignty over zoning decisions, reject provincial blanket-densification mandates, give locals binding input on development proposals, ensure infrastructure exists before adding density, and cut municipal permit delays.↗
  • Prioritize existing residents for housing and public services, and advocate to senior governments to reduce immigration when population growth exceeds housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and community capacity.↗

Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 6

  • Focus school mental health resources on practical counselling and student wellbeing while keeping parents informed and involved.↗
  • Enforce strong, uniformly applied rules against bullying, threats, and harassment for all students.↗
  • Teach students to question sources, examine evidence, recognize misinformation, and debate viewpoints respectfully, with public progress reporting and adjustment when evidence shows the approach is not producing intended results.↗
  • Provide practical classroom supports and learning accommodations based on each student's individual educational needs, with public progress reporting and adjustment when evidence shows the approach is not producing intended results.↗
  • Support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships, and respond to violence, gangs, weapons, and serious threats, coordinating enforcement with appropriate community services.↗
  • Give students meaningful opportunities to provide input on school issues while keeping elected trustees accountable to parents and voters.↗

Transportation, streets, and public space 5

  • Improve practical accessibility in sidewalks, public buildings, parks, transit connections, and other city services for people with disabilities.↗
  • Oppose municipal mobility pricing and congestion taxes, eliminate expansion of paid parking in residential neighbourhoods, and ensure road designs do not deliberately create artificial traffic congestion.↗
  • Support transit improvements based on ridership, affordability, and measurable need, and require transparent cost disclosure before supporting major transit projects.↗
  • Eliminate paid parking expansion in residential neighbourhoods.↗
  • Audit existing bike lane infrastructure to restore traffic flow and protect parking for small businesses, halt removal of core vehicle lanes or parking spaces for underutilised cycling routes on major commercial strips, and maintain safe pedestrian sidewalks.↗↗

Governance, consultation, and accountability 4

  • Increase transparency, publish clear spending information, and hold elected officials and City departments accountable for results.↗↗
  • Keep English as the standard language for official City services, signage, street names, and place names.↗
  • End mandatory land acknowledgements in City contexts.↗
  • Oppose ideological renaming of established streets and places, end mandatory land acknowledgements, and maintain Vancouver's civic and Canadian symbols.↗

Climate, environment, and resilience 3

  • Repeal municipal green building mandates, complex retrofit requirements, and gas-stove bans.↗
  • Direct engineering resources and tax dollars to storm-sewer upgrades, drainage pathway clearance, dike maintenance, seawall repairs, and coastal-defence reinforcement instead of other environmental projects.↗
  • Maintain community centre cooling infrastructure and urban trees through municipal budgeting, keeping civic pools, community centres, and ice rinks fully functional and accessible during summer heat waves, without imposing heat-related regulations or taxes on private property owners.↗

Social policy, health, and community services 3

  • Keep sidewalks, parks, and public spaces usable for all residents by enforcing against permanent encampments, paired with shelter, treatment, recovery, and transitional-housing options.↗
  • Keep male and female sports separate and protect sex-based privacy in public washrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, shelters, and other intimate spaces.↗
  • Expand access to detox, treatment, and long-term recovery programs, prioritizing helping people become drug-free and rebuild independent lives.↗

Public safety and emergency services 3

  • Maintain strong police funding and ensure officers have the staffing, training, and resources needed.↗
  • Ensure credible allegations of serious police misconduct are independently investigated, while supporting officers who serve lawfully.↗
  • Support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships, and respond to violence, gangs, weapons, and serious threats.↗

Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 3

  • Maintain safe, clean, and affordable pools, rinks, fields, gyms, and community centres, prioritizing core recreation services and youth sports.↗
  • Clean up municipal parks and green spaces by enforcing public space bylaws, clearing dangerous encampments, maintaining tree canopies, and ensuring parks remain free of illegal open-air drug use or encampments.↗
  • Improve cleanliness and safety of public washrooms while maintaining sex-based male and female facilities.↗

City finances, taxation, and service delivery 2

  • Restrain property-tax increases, conduct a citywide spending review, and cut waste and bureaucracy.↗
  • Audit City spending, cut wasteful programs and bureaucracy, control taxes, and focus taxpayer dollars on core municipal services.↗↗

Indigenous relations and reconciliation 2

  • Oppose voluntary City transfers of land, assets, or control based on ancestry or historical claims, and protect private property and democratic local government.↗
  • Require evidence for claims about proposed residential-school burial sites and distinguish suspected or radar-identified sites from confirmed human remains.↗

Stances · 5

Coverage — registry: the City of Vancouver's official candidate list. Party policy: extracted and shown above. Candidate-level policy: shown above when extracted from candidate sources.