Darleen Bernard on Facebook I was born in Vancouver for the first nine years of my life. After that my family moved to Burnaby where I grew up. At 22 years of age I met and married a military man.
Unfortunately the marriage broke down and I moved back to Maple Ridge thirteen years ago now.
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Darleen Bernard
Independent for Maple Ridge Mayor
Climate Change
Active Transportation
Yes
Electric Bikes & Scooters
Yes
Energy-Efficient Buildings & Retrofits
Yes.
Green Space
Yes.
And work to preserve remaining green spaces. Use some as community gardens to help provide food.
Housing & Homelessness
Affordability
A must.
Homelessness has been a long and very difficult topic for many years now. I believe it’s important to decipher homelessness from that of affordability to that of substance abuse.
I feel that treatment first and then a graduated approach to housing.
Building Maintenance & Occupant Health
Yes.
Co-Op Housing
Yes.
A must. As the last two years have been very difficult financially for a lot of people. A lot of people lost their source of income. And there should be housing in place to help those who are going through these hard economic events.
Housing Accessibility
Yes.
Indigenous-Led Housing
Yes.
Property Taxes
Yes.
Lower property taxes.
Public Housing
Yes.
Rent
Yes.
SROs
Yes.
Unhoused People
Yes.
Public Spaces & Services
Green Space
Yes.
And work to preserve remaining green spaces. Use some as community gardens to help provide food.
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
Indigenous-Led Housing
Yes.
Transit & Getting Around
Active Transportation
Yes
Electric Bikes & Scooters
Yes
Misc. topics
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Biography
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While being involved in the military we were posted to the East Coast, Winning, and Kentucky, USA.
I have a General BSc and a BScRN degree. I have a none practicing good standing RPN in Ontario LPN in British Columbia. I have not nursed in British Columbia. I have nursed in Ontario as a Community Nurse helping palliative clients. I have also nursed in Peru and in the Dominican Republic.
Having said that I have used a number of medical systems. Both as a parent and for myself. I find British Columbia’s health care system the most lacking.
Reason for running
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The reason I’m running is after reading the line up of candidates I felt that we as a community were being exposed to more of the same. Higher taxes and more unaffordable living in Maple Ridge. I wanted to offer voters an alternative choice.