Promise Tracker: Democratic Reform
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✔️ Require all elected officials to subject to existing provincial regulations governing campaign finance between elections
In January of 2021, Mayor Kennedy Stewart updated our Code of Conduct to strengthen rules for Council members and bring them in line with provincial financial disclosure and conflict of interest guidelines. Our new Integrity Commissioner is due to report back on this soon. Kennedy Stewart continue to work to bring in rules around conflict of interest for senior staff.
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⚙️ Require all lobbyists to declare details of their activities in an online registry, and make this information available for the public to view free of charge and levy fines for non-compliance.
While Council passed a motion to move ahead with a Lobbyist Registry in December of 2018, Mayor Kennedy Stewart needs the Province of BC to help implement it. Kennedy Stewart continues to work with his partners in the Government of BC to make our new registry a reality.
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⚙️ Prohibit elected officials and key staff members from accepting government contracts or lobbying for 12 months after leaving their positions.
In January of 2021, Mayor Kennedy Stewart updated the city's Code of Conduct to strengthen rules for Council members and bring them in line with provincial financial disclosure and conflict of interest guidelines. The new Integrity Commissioner is due to report back on this soon. Mayor Kennedy Stewart continues to work to bring in rules around conflict of interest for senior staff.
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🎯 To introduce new rules requiring elected officials to proactively disclose assets and prohibit them from working outside City Hall, if these activities conflict with their public duties.
In January of 2021, Mayor Kennedy Stewart updated the Council Code of Conduct to strengthen rules for Council members and bring them in line with provincial financial disclosure and conflict of interest guidelines. The new Integrity Commissioner is due to report back on this soon. Mayor Kennedy Stewart continues to work to bring in rules around conflict of interest for senior staff.
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⏸️ Bring in a resident petition, similar to the online petition system founded in the Parliament of Canada, to give Vancouver residents more ways to help shape the future of Vancouver between elections.
Mayor Kennedy Stewart advanced this work in December of 2018, and received a staff report outlining options in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to resourcing pressures brought on by the pandemic, this work is currently on pause.
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🗳️ Change to a proportional representation system for local elections or enact a ward system
This election will be the last Vancouver civic election where we elect our local representatives using the out-dated at-large voting system. If city residents vote in the November provincial referendum to change to a proportional representation system, then future local elections will be conducted using this system.
If proportional representation is rejected in the fall referendum, then future local elections will be conducted using neighbourhood constituencies, similar to those used at the federal and provincial level.
Since the Provincial referendum did not lead to proportional representation, Mayor Kennedy Stewart has turned his attention to neighbourhood constituencies. However, Council didn't support this idea and instead chose to begin consultation on a local form of proportional representation. Kennedy Stewart will continue to work to bring wards to Vancouver.