OneCity Vancouver

I'll have to tell this whole story one day and like review all the notes of like the inter-party dynamics that led to eventually like a successful limiting agreement and stuff.

But so we were in negotiations for multiple years with OneCity and Greens.

They were both more successful than Cope in 2022.

And...

If you're really

interested, there's a very simple way to find out what is going to happen, which is there's three documents.

There's a Cope platform, a Green platform, and a OneCity platform.

And they all have many ideas in different directions.

The, the person who was leading COPE, Stephanie Allen, who's, um, a wonderful activist, she stepped down, uh, when, uh, she saw the numbers and encouraged people to, to, to support, um, a, a, a candidate that could win.

And then it took a little bit longer from the OneCity candidate, William Azaroff, to step down.

Uh, so anyway, like, that, I, I find that, uh, really interesting, and it's just one of those things that to- continues to make really clear why a first-past-the-post system doesn't work, uh, in a system where you do have multiple people, um, and multiple, um, uh, political, um, tendencies running in, in a race that could, that would, you know, rather have a left or a center-left, um, um, uh, ultimate win, but could split the vote and allow someone like Ken Sim to continue to ruin, [laughs] to ruin, um, a, a city like Vancouver.

Yeah, and, you know, I think that, that, that kind of negotiation, um, it is a little bit rare.

Seven of them are new to council and Fry admits there will be a learning curve.

Back in April, the Greens, Cope and OneCity agreed to run no more than five council candidates each and to get behind a single mayoral candidate.

The Greens won five seats, Cope four and OneCity one.

Mike Klassen is the only member of Sims ABC Vancouver returning to council and ABC was shut out of both the park board and the school board.

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I think the big loser, I mean, obviously Ken Sim and his crew.

But I think the other surprise was OneCity.

Like Pete clearly got there on the steam of Cope and OneCity.

but one city uh didn't get anything reciprocal from cope and green so that's kind of interesting for the um for the next four years and what that's going to look like they didn't do too bad on school board uh one city but uh otherwise it was very much a tight cope green block biggest surprise of the night though none of that doug mccallum i mean oh my god oh my

15% of voters showed up to vote.

And I said, sir, did you say Doug McCallum? And he, that's what we saw on election night.

That was fascinating.

Before we go on to like the rest of the region, Andrea, maybe can you just give us some insight as somebody who sat at the council table, um, and is more connected with these parties, COPE, the Greens, and what's the other one? OneCity.

Pete Fry doesn't quite have the votes to do anything with his Greens, right? There's five of them.

So he'll need to either convince a OneCity, Mike Klassen, or some of the Cope to go along with him.

I suspect the Greens will probably even break a lot.

on individual votes, but because that's just the nature of that party.

So really the biggest rebuke that the voters of 2026 were sending was to the voters of 2022, who apparently got it

all wrong.

I wanted to come back to OneCity to just bring us full circle.

You argued OneCity had a terrible night, but in some ways it was their best night by electing three candidates to school board and one to council.

Well, I'm gonna stay on a municipal tone 'cause it's kind of interesting and it has some names that you'll remember.

How politics turns out, Amanda Burrows was defeated in the nomination, uh, for the OneCity mayoral campaign, uh, which was in the spring.

OneCity bravely set out to nominate a mayor and run and contest that job.

William Azaeff ran in a hard... won in a hard-fought contest.

Amanda Burrows was defeated, not, uh, you know, overwhelmingly, but defeated.

So, um, she was very principled about it.

Then, uh, as these things do turn, OneCity decided not to run a mayoral candidate after all.

Azaroff pulled out in favor of Pete Fry.