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Economic Responsibility and Property Rights
 

Local entrepreneurs and homeowners are carrying a heavy financial burden. Small business owners face exhausting delays and bureaucratic red tape just to open their doors or expand, while homeowners confront rising cost-of-living pressures alongside complex, uncertain property rights challenges. City Hall must remember that it works for the taxpayer, not the other way around.

 

  • Eliminating Bureaucratic Red Tape: Overhaul the city’s permitting and licensing pipelines. While initiatives like MyPermit and MyBusiness are steps forward, City Hall must aggressively accelerate approval times, establish clear guidance, and eliminate costly administrative bottlenecks for local enterprises.
     

  • Defending Homeowners and Property Rights: Provide steady, clear communication and unwavering advocacy for Richmond residents navigating complex legal and land title uncertainties, ensuring local property rights are fiercely guarded.
     

  • Investing in Heritage and Economic Hubs: Maintain targeted municipal investments to preserve, clean, and support vital economic drivers like Steveston, ensuring local business districts remain pristine, accessible, and vibrant for residents and visitors alike.
     

  • Urgent Oversight on Healthcare Infrastructure: Apply continuous municipal pressure on senior levels of government to expedite the Richmond Hospital redevelopment. Richmond cannot afford bureaucratic delays on an upgraded emergency department and critical acute-care bed expansions.

Restoring Community Safety and Security

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A safe community is the foundation of a prosperous city, yet many residents and local business owners feel that public safety has been treated as an afterthought. Frontline policing resources are under pressure, open drug use and illicit drug networks are impacting public spaces, and neighbourhood property crime is rising. Richmond families deserve proactive, disciplined leadership that prioritizes prevention, enforcement, and accountability.

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  • Unwavering Support for Law Enforcement: Ensure local police and frontline workers are fully funded, properly equipped, and strategically deployed to handle the complex demands of a rapidly growing urban center.
     

  • Tackling the Drug Crisis Head-On: Strongly oppose the establishment of unsupervised drug consumption sites in residential and commercial hubs. Focus municipal policy on strict enforcement against illegal drug networks while advocating for robust, recovery-oriented support systems.
     

  • Modernizing Public Safety Infrastructure: Advocate for regulated, accelerated police access to public CCTV surveillance networks to speed up criminal investigations, improve emergency response times, and deter property crime.
     

  • Safe and Well-Managed Housing: Guarantee that all social housing projects are strictly managed, entirely drug-free, and transparently operated, ensuring vulnerable populations are supported without compromising the safety of surrounding neighborhoods.

Education, Transparency, and Parental Rights
 

A strong community looks after the generation that built it and properly prepares the generation that will inherit it. However, the Richmond School Board has faced criticism regarding transparency, while municipal planning must adapt quickly to an aging demographic. Decisions regarding education and public facilities must remain transparent, objective, and centred on core community needs.

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  • Prioritizing Core Academics: Ensure that public education focuses strictly on robust academic fundamentals, critical thinking, and practical skills, keeping political and ideological agendas out of the classroom.
     

  • Upholding Parental Rights and Transparency: Guarantee parents absolute, unobstructed access to information regarding curriculum content. Ensure that sex education remains age-appropriate and that major School Board decisions are never made behind closed doors.
     

  • Eradicating Bullying and Enhancing School Safety: Implement proactive, zero-tolerance policies against student bullying and intimidation, creating a secure learning environment where every child can thrive.
     

  • Forward-Thinking Planning for Seniors: With nearly 40% of Richmond’s population projected to be 55 or older by 2036, accelerate the expansion of accessible housing, specialized mobility infrastructure, and independent living supports to care for the generation that built our city properly.
     

  • Density Done Right: Ensure massive urban redevelopment projects such as the Lansdowne transformation are built as complete, walkable communities that balance housing with green spaces, retail, public transit access, and essential community services.

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