As a Vancouverite, I doubt anyone really cares. These are councillors who routinely vote to protect their own rich person communities from densification / affordable housing projects, to the detriment of Vancouver as a whole, yet they still get re-elected time and again. They’re likely all corrupt, using their power for personal gain, but voters are too apathetic to kick their career-politician “my daddy was also a councillor, its a family nobility thing! We’re the ruling class!” asses out.
Like most of these people listed are on the absurd Metro Vancouver board, where they get massive top ups to their regular salaries, to under perform and fail to deliver projects like the waste treatment facility – no one’s holding them accountable for their massive fuckups on that front, so the belief that the board is accountable is trash. That whole board is just a bunch of city councillor types from around the lower mainland who were like “Hey, we can take more money!”. In normal business, if you gotta attend industry meetings or contribute to trade association initiatives, you don’t tell your boss you need a second salary – but these fuckers did, because they basically just voted to give themselves a bunch more money, and they weren’t stopped.
And no one seems to care.
So why would we care about them doing other corrupt stuff.
I think the by election turnout and results sent a pretty clear message that we expect better.



