Jason Xu
Climate Change, Heat, & Fires
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Energy-Efficient Buildings
TrueBlue's promises
Repeal costly municipal green building mandates, complex retrofits, and gas-stove bans that drive up housing and construction costs for local families.
Streamline the Vancouver Building By-law to allow builders and homeowners to choose the most cost-effective heating, cooling, and energy sources available without forced civic mandates.
Private Vehicles & Parking
TrueBlue's promises
Defend driver choice, end road-pricing proposals, and preserve accessible neighborhood parking for local shoppers and workers.
Oppose municipal mobility pricing/congestion taxes, eliminate paid parking expansion in residential neighborhoods, and ensure road designs do not deliberately create artificial traffic jams.
Protect road capacity and street parking. Oppose policies designed to deliberately make driving more difficult or expensive.
Urban Heat
TrueBlue's promises
Maintain community center cooling infrastructure and urban trees through practical municipal budgeting.
Keep civic pools, community centers, and ice rinks fully functional and accessible during summer heat waves without imposing heat-related regulations or taxes on private property owners.
Walking & Cycling
TrueBlue's promises
Audit existing bike lane infrastructure to restore traffic flow and protect parking for small businesses.
Ensure pedestrian sidewalks are safe and well-maintained while halting the removal of core vehicle lanes or parking spaces for underutilized cycling routes on major commercial strips.
Human Rights
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Physical Accessibility
TrueBlue's promise
Improve practical accessibility in sidewalks, public buildings, parks, transit connections, and other city services for people with disabilities.
Recent Immigrants
TrueBlue's promise
Prioritize existing residents for housing and public services. Push senior governments to reduce immigration when population growth exceeds housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and community capacity.
Trans Rights & Access to Public Services
TrueBlue's promise
Keep male and female sports separate. Protect sex based privacy in public washrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, shelters and other intimate spaces.
Local Government & Democracy
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Budgeting
TrueBlue's promise
Audit City spending, cut wasteful programs and bureaucracy, control taxes and focus taxpayer dollars on core municipal services.
Good Governance
TrueBlue's promise
Increase transparency, publish clear spending information and hold elected officials and City departments accountable for results.
Public Engagement
TrueBlue's promise
Give residents a stronger voice before major decisions on development, taxes, transportation and neighbourhood planning are made.
Youth Engagement
TrueBlue's promise
Create meaningful opportunities for young Vancouverites to speak directly to decision makers and participate in civic affairs.
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
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Mental Health Crisis Response
TrueBlue's promise
Expand crisis response and connect people in serious mental health crises with appropriate treatment, care and support instead of leaving them on the streets.
Mental Health in Schools
TrueBlue's promise
Focus school mental health resources on practical counselling and student wellbeing while keeping parents informed and involved.
Public Safety & Policing
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Police in Schools
TrueBlue's promise
Support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships and respond to violence, gangs, weapons and serious threats.
Upstream Causes of Crime
TrueBlue's promise
Address addiction, homelessness and youth crime through treatment, prevention and intervention while maintaining consequences for serious and repeat offenders.
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
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Indigenous Languages
TrueBlue's promise
Keep English as the standard language for official City services, signage, street names and place names.
Indigenous Schooling
TrueBlue's promise
Teach accurate Canadian and Indigenous history. End mandatory land acknowledgements and reject collective guilt.
Land Title & Governance
TrueBlue's promise
Protect private property and democratic local government. Oppose voluntary City transfers of land, assets or control based on ancestry or historical claims.
Place Names & Commemorations
TrueBlue's promise
Oppose ideological renaming of established streets and places. End mandatory land acknowledgements and maintain Vancouver's civic and Canadian symbols.
Residential Schools
TrueBlue's promise
Teach residential school history accurately. Require evidence for claims about proposed burial sites and distinguish suspected or radar identified sites from confirmed human remains.
Schools & Public Education
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Bullying & Bigotry
TrueBlue's promise
Enforce strong rules against bullying, threats and harassment. Apply the same standards fairly to every student.
Indigenous Schooling
TrueBlue's promise
Teach accurate Canadian and Indigenous history. End mandatory land acknowledgements and reject collective guilt.
Media Literacy & Critical Thinking
TrueBlue's promise
Teach students to question sources, examine evidence, recognize misinformation and debate different viewpoints respectfully.
Neurodivergent Students & Support
TrueBlue's promise
Provide practical classroom supports and learning accommodations based on each student's individual educational needs.
Police in Schools
TrueBlue's promise
Support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships and respond to violence, gangs, weapons and serious threats.
Student Involvement & Engagement
TrueBlue's promise
Give students meaningful opportunities to provide input on school issues while keeping elected trustees accountable to parents and voters.