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Incumbent mayor since Nov 2022; insurance/financial-services business owner and former Kelowna Chamber of Commerce president; chairs the Mayor's Task Forces on Crime Reduction and Performing Arts.

22 of 24 positions on record · 11 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans agree
  Voting record“Wilkinson St. apartment approved 8-1; Dyas FOR. Also FOR heritage-area densification and publicly defended the provincial density mandate (2024-03-11); lone FOR the Simpson Ave rental project (2026-03-31)” · Castanet, 2023-06-20 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“VOTE + stated: Dyas personally MOVED the 25% Development Cost Charge cut for two years, larger than staff's 20%/one-year option, to make housing "pencil out" (passed 5-2, 2026-04-20); platform touts "accelerated approvals and fast-track programs for infill housing." Actively cuts development red tape/cost to get homes built (incl. ground-oriented infill; voted FOR townhouse projects Wilkinson 20” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-04-21 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted FOR advancing the ~1,600-ha North Glenmore growth-boundary expansion outside the Permanent Growth Boundary (passed 6-2, Jun 22 2026).” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2026-06-22 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Leans agree
  Voting record“Sweeping STR restrictions passed 4-3; Dyas voted FOR (stricter STR limits)” · Castanet, 2024-01-15 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR budgets funding 16 added RCMP officers (2024 & 2026 budgets, 8-1)” · Castanet, 2023-12-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for four consecutive above-CPI tax increases (2023-2025 budgets), branding them 'one of the lowest in B.C.'” · Key-votes ledger (4 budget votes), 2025-12-04 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Dyas MOVED the 25% DCC cut for two years, larger than staff's 20%/one-year option; passed 5-2” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-04-21 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Voted FOR the unanimous PAC endorsement (2025-12-01) and was one of only 2 to vote AGAINST reopening the site search (7-2), defending PAC momentum” · Castanet, 2026-02-10 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Voting record“Council declared a climate crisis 8-1 on 2023-10-16 (Cannan the lone dissent); Dyas among the 8 FOR” · Kelowna Climate Coalition, 2026 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for the Kelowna Springs industrial rezoning at both third reading (2026-03-16) and adoption (2026-06-15).” · Vernon Matters / Castanet (Kelowna Springs votes), 2026-06-15 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Leans agree
  Voting record“350 Doyle Ave 25-storey tower denied 7-2 on 2025-05-13; Dyas voted AGAINST the over-height tower. (+1 not +2, Dyas's overall record is strongly pro-density/growth, and he was on the 2022 council that first approved it)” · KelownaNow, 2025-05-14 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Tom helped bring the tiny-home model to Kelowna... 180 transitional tiny homes... will continue pushing for more treatment, recovery, complex-care and supportive-housing options.” · Tom Dyas campaign platform, 2026 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Led restriction/wind-down of the Rail Trail sheltering site (24/7 security, 60 sites, 9am pack-up): 'the status quo is not working.'” · KelownaNow, 2025-03-28 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Wrote the federal health minister asking that renewal of the downtown supervised consumption site be DENIED.” · CBC (against harm-reduction site), 2026-09-02 ↗; “We need a treatment-first approach... intervention may be necessary - proposes Okanagan Correctional Centre for secure care.” · Mandatory Compassionate Care petition (for complex care), 2026 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Added 17 bylaw officers, expanded targeted patrols; chairs the Mayor's Task Force on Crime Reduction; city closed the alley beside the downtown consumption site.” · Tom Dyas campaign platform, 2026 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans disagree
  Stated“Fiscal responsibility is not simply saying no - explicitly rejects the cut-first framing; service-based budgeting instead.” · Tom Dyas campaign platform, 2026 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Leans agree
  Stated“Kelowna residents receive less than half the per-person transit investment compared to Metro Vancouver and that gap needs to close.” · Castanet op-ed (Dyas), 2026-03-02 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Flagship road-capacity builds (Clement Crosstown +25% midtown capacity) but 'a transportation system is about more than roads.'” · Castanet op-eds (Dyas), 2025-02-03 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans disagree
  Stated“Defends the growth-vs-infrastructure record: graded his own council's four-year term an "A," touts "accelerated approvals and fast-track programs for infill housing," and personally moved a 25% cut to Development Cost Charges (infrastructure collections) to build faster, the opposite of the "we over-approved / infrastructure first" critique (which is precisely Cannan's attack line on him).” · Castanet, Aug 2026 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Established the Mayor's Task Force on Crime Reduction (2023) and travelled to Ottawa to lobby MPs for bail/sentencing reform, citing an offender with 223 police files and one with 400+ files/67 convictions granted bail: "bail reform must prioritize public safety and hold chronic offenders accountable"; also says "Kelowna needs more Crown prosecutors." Direct, sustained champion of a harder line on” · Vernon Matters, Apr 7 2026 ↗
• The city should keep expanding its financial support and programs for the local Indigenous community, even when that adds to city spending.Leans disagree
  Stated“Under Dyas the City declined to join the syilx-led Collaborative Leadership Table and was absent from reconciliation forums; leans against expanding city reconciliation partnership.” · Mission City Record, 2026-06-10 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“RECORD/ACTION: as mayor wrote the federal health minister to DENY renewal of the downtown supervised consumption site (citing 3,400+ RCMP calls), asked the province to exempt parks from decriminalization, established the Mayor's Task Force on Crime Reduction and lobbied Ottawa for bail/sentencing reform + "more Crown prosecutors." Supports "treatment-first" but via coercive/involuntary secure care” · mayor.md / CBC, 2026 ↗

Sitting Kelowna councillor (2022-present, topped 2022 polls); former Conservative MP for Kelowna-Lake Country (2006-2015); 13 total years on council; business owner.

20 of 24 positions on record · 12 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Strongly disagrees
  Voting record“Lone vote against the Wilkinson St apartment; fought heritage-area densification ('a hill to die on', 2024-03-11); 'has continually voted against housing developments' (Castanet 2025-12-06).” · Castanet (council votes), 2023-06-20 ↗; “I support responsible growth, more ground-oriented, single family, duplex townhomes... People want some grass and a door to come out to the ground level.” · Castanet (campaign), 2026-09-05 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Voting record“VOTE + stated: "has continually voted against housing developments, saying the city lacks the infrastructure to support those projects", lone AGAINST the Wilkinson apartment (2023-06-19), moved to DEFER the density bylaws for more consultation (2024-03-11), AGAINST the SW Mission 28-unit townhouse (2024-02-12) and the Simpson Ave rental townhouse (2026-03-31). Rhetorically favours "ground-oriente” · Castanet, 2025-12-06 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Mixed / neutral
  Voting record“MIXED record: voted to REJECT the beyond-boundary McKinley Beach expansion study (2024) but FOR the North Glenmore expansion (2026, 6-2).” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2024-07-09 ↗; “FOR North Glenmore expansion, 6-2.” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2026-06-22 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Strongly disagrees
  Voting record“Voted against the STR crackdown (2024-01-15) and for the relaxation (2025-03-03).” · Castanet + KelownaNow (council votes), 2024-01-15 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Called city homeless-initiative spending wasteful / 'not working' and opposed the new social-services department staffing (2023-12-07, 2025-12-04).” · Castanet (budget-vote remarks), 2025-12-06 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Voting record“Praised and supported the 16-RCMP-officer hire + downtown/Rutland foot patrols even while voting against the overall budget” · Castanet, 2023-12-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Voted AGAINST four consecutive budgets, explicitly demanding increases at/below CPI (lone dissent each time)” · Castanet, 2025-12-06 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Voting record“Cut-'wasteful'-spending-first framing across budget votes; +1 not +2 because colleagues noted he named no specific cuts” · Castanet, 2025-12-06 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the unanimous PAC in-principle endorsement; voted to reopen the site search (2026-02-09, 7-2). Weak, probed the site commitment” · KelownaNow, 2025-12-01 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Strongly disagrees
  Voting record“Sole dissenting vote (8-1) against declaring a climate emergency: 'While humans influencing climate is real, climate emergency is not.'” · KelownaNow (climate emergency vote), 2023-10-17 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted AGAINST the Kelowna Springs industrial rezoning at both third reading (5-3) and adoption (5-3); campaigns on it” · Vernon Matters, 2026-03-16 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“350 Doyle Ave 25-storey tower denied 7-2 on 2025-05-13; Cannan voted AGAINST the over-height tower, consistent with his sustained anti-over-development record” · KelownaNow, 2025-05-14 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Strongly agrees
  Stated“As your mayor, we will clean up Kelowna one block at a time and take Kelowna back... safer streets... cleaner public spaces, stronger support for law enforcement.” · Castanet (campaign launch), 2026-06-18 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Supports treatment expansion ('campus of care'; 'I lost a brother five years ago to a fentanyl overdose') while attacking current spending: 'enough Band-Aid solutions.'” · Castanet, 2026-09-05 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Platform pillar 'Safe Streets & Communities - Stronger enforcement'; unveiled the B.A.T.M.A.N. community safety platform.” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-06-18 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Platform includes 'a review of development cost charges' but argues for fuller developer cost recovery (~$600M infrastructure deficit), not fee relief.” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-06-18 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"I'm running for Mayor to tackle the real challenges Kelowna faces: growth outpacing infrastructure, rising taxes, public safety concerns, and housing affordability"; runs on "Infrastructure first." Castanet: he "has continually voted against housing developments, saying the city lacks the infrastructure to support those projects."” · roncannan.ca (homepage + Pillar 01 "Responsible Growth – Infrastructure first"), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“Campaign centrepiece: "clean up Kelowna one block at a time... safer streets... stronger support for law enforcement... no longer accepting decline as normal," plus a "campus of care model, compassion with accountability." Clearly enforcement-forward, but no explicit bail/prosecution-reform lobbying of the province/courts (unlike Dyas), hence +1.” · roncannan.ca (Pillar 02 "Safe Streets & Communities – Stronger enforcement"), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should keep expanding its financial support and programs for the local Indigenous community, even when that adds to city spending.Leans agree
  Stated“Proposes a formal Okanagan-wide joint-council approach with West Kelowna, Lake Country, Westbank First Nation and Okanagan Indian Band, a co-governance/partnership signal.” · Castanet, 2026-06-18 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“RECORD/VOTES: opposed the new social-services department staffing and called city homeless-initiative spending "not working" / "millions and millions on Band-Aid solutions," while supporting the 16-RCMP-officer hire and campaigning on "stronger support for law enforcement." His "campus of care, compassion with accountability" nods to treatment, but his budget votes/rhetoric treat root-cause socia” · key-votes-ledger.md (2023-12-07, 2023-12-07 ↗

Self-employed inventor and digital creator ('Andy'/'AMU'); perennial Kelowna candidate (mayor 2005 and 2014, council 2009 and 2011).

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Kelowna councillor since 2011; hotelier (Director of Sales, Ramada) and weekly newspaper columnist; founder of the United Way Drive-Thru Breakfast.

16 of 24 positions on record · 10 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the Wilkinson St. apartment (8-1) and FOR the 28-unit SW-Mission hillside townhouse project (one of 3 FOR, defeated on a 3-3 tie)” · Castanet, 2023-06-20 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Voting record“**VOTE.** FOR the 28-unit SW Mission (949 Hewetson Ct) townhouse rezoning, ground-oriented family housing, one of 3 FOR when it failed on a 3-3 tie (2024-02-12); and FOR advancing the ~1,600 ha North Glenmore expansion whose plan is ~13,000 homes / ≈75% ground-oriented, quoted "We're going to have to make some bold moves" (6-2, 2026-06-22). Consistent pro-growth / pro-ground-oriented-housing reco” · Key-votes ledger + growth-boundary-resolution.md (Kelowna Daily Courier, 2024-02-13
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the North Glenmore growth-boundary expansion (6-2), arguing it enables continued population growth.” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2026-06-22 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR budgets funding 16 added RCMP officers (2024 & 2026, 8-1)” · Castanet, 2023-12-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for all four above-CPI budgets (2023-2025); echoed Webber's 'easy yes' on the 10-year Capital Plan's 10% spending increase.” · Key-votes ledger (4 budget votes), 2025-12-04 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the $12.1M pedestrian overpass despite the cost jump from $5.5M - no spending-cut-first record found.” · Castanet (overpass vote), 2023-08-28 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the unanimous PAC endorsement, quoted supportive of exploring city-owned sites; voted to reopen the site search (7-2)” · KelownaNow, 2025-12-01 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Voting record“Council declared a climate crisis 8-1 on 2023-10-16 (Cannan the only dissent); DeHart among the 8 FOR” · Kelowna Climate Coalition, 2026 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans disagree
  Voting record“"further development of our vibrant downtown and other town centers will certainly reduce traffic as we live, work, and play close to home", argues development *reduces* traffic and voted FOR the 2026 permanent-growth-boundary expansion ("allows continued population growth"); does not make the over-approval critique.” · Castanet, 2022-09-22 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Leans agree
  Voting record“350 Doyle Ave 25-storey tower denied 7-2 on 2025-05-13; DeHart voted AGAINST the over-height tower. (+1 not +2, she leans pro-growth overall, e.g. FOR the boundary expansion)” · KelownaNow, 2025-05-14 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Support the Tiny Homes initiative, which combines safe housing with support to help people move toward permanent housing.” · Campaign site, 2026 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Press senior levels of government for... mandatory care facilities... Support mental health professionals responding to people in crisis.” · Campaign site, 2026 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Work with the RCMP and Bylaw Services to address theft, business break-ins and property crime - safety for businesses is her #1 plank.” · Campaign site, 2026 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated[2022] “I believe in connectivity and that will enhance our road networks, transit, walking and cycling paths. I would, however, like to see the north-end connector completed.” · Castanet 2022 Q&A, 2022-09-22 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"Press senior levels of government for stronger action on chronic offenders, more prosecutorial resources and mandatory care facilities"; platform #1 plank: "Work with the RCMP and Bylaw Services to address theft, business break-ins and property crime", directly champions lobbying senior government for tougher action on chronic offenders + prosecutorial capacity.” · Campaign site, accessed 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“RECORD/VOTES: platform "Press senior levels of government for stronger action on chronic offenders, more prosecutorial resources and mandatory care facilities" + "Work with the RCMP and Bylaw Services to address theft, break-ins and property crime"; voted for budgets funding 16 added RCMP officers. Her "mandatory care" and "mental health professionals in crisis response" are care nods, but the pla” · council-incumbents.md + key-votes-ledger.md (2023-12-07 / 2025-12-04 budgets) / campaign site, 2023-12-07 ↗

Notes: Holds a valid short-term rental operating licence and recused herself from short-term rental council votes as a conflict of interest.

First-term councillor (2022); UBCO engineering professor (retiring 2026); transportation engineer and UN SDG advocate.

19 of 24 positions on record · 15 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans agree
  Voting record“Wilkinson St. apartment infill; passed 8-1 (only Cannan against); Lovegrove voted FOR" (mild countersignal: AGAINST the SW Mission hillside townhouse 2024-02-12 on neighbourhood-impact grounds, not scored down)” · Castanet, 2023-06-20 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Voting record“VOTE: net infrastructure-first/more-process. FOR the near-consensus DCC cut + Wilkinson infill, but every divided vote where he broke from consensus was process/infrastructure-first (AGAINST North Glenmore citing ~$800M cost; moved extra hearings/deferrals; AGAINST SW Mission townhouse).” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-06-24 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted AGAINST the North Glenmore expansion (6-2), citing the ~$800M infrastructure cost and non-compliance with the Permanent Growth Boundary / OCP 2040.” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2026-06-24 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Strongly disagrees
  Voting record“Voted against the STR crackdown (2024-01-15) and for the relaxation (2025-03-03).” · Castanet + KelownaNow (STR votes), 2024-01-15 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the 2024 budget (passed 8-1) that funded 16 additional RCMP officers; repeated across subsequent budgets (2025-12-04)” · Castanet, 2023-12-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for all four above-CPI budgets; his capital-plan dissent was that transit spending was too LOW.” · Key-votes ledger (4 budget votes), 2025-12-04 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Mixed / neutral
  Voting record“Opposed the $12.1M overpass as unaffordable ('want-to-have') but voted against the 10-year Capital Plan because it didn't spend MORE on transit.” · Castanet + Kelowna Capital News (votes), 2023-08-28 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Voted against the Capital Plan because $696M for roads vs a $1M cut to transit 'feels out of balance'; long-standing light-rail/tram-train advocate.” · Kelowna Capital News (Capital Plan dissent), 2025-10-27 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Strongly disagrees
  Voting record“Actively opposed the roads-heavy capital plan; 2022: 'tram-trains rather than more roads, in a cheaper, safer, greener way.'” · Kelowna Capital News (Capital Plan dissent), 2025-10-27 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Voting record“DCC 25% two-year reduction adopted 7-1 (only Stack against, Wooldridge absent); Lovegrove voted FOR adoption” · Castanet, 2026-06-30 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the unanimous PAC in-principle endorsement; drove the 7-2 site reconsideration while on record 'we need one', pro-PAC, contesting only the site” · KelownaNow, 2025-12-01 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Co-sponsored/MOVED the Climate Crisis declaration ('climate change is fact deeply rooted in science'); passed 8-1 (Cannan sole dissent); Lovegrove voted FOR” · Castanet, 2023-10-16 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted AGAINST rezoning the Kelowna Springs green space to industrial at both third reading (5-3) and adoption (5-3); moved deferral” · Castanet, 2026-06-15 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted AGAINST the North Glenmore expansion (6-2), explicitly citing the ~$800M infrastructure cost and urging council to 'tap the brakes', infrastructure-first position” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-06-24 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“25-storey / 259-suite tower at 350 Doyle Ave denied 7-2; Lovegrove voted AGAINST (with majority), held the line on height for the location” · KelownaNow, 2025-05-13 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Campaign-endorsed as 'staunch advocate for youth recovery and care programs'; platform priority 'Housing & Homelessness.'” · Campaign site, 2026 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Homelessness and criminality are not the same issue,' yet wants street disorder significantly reduced - via campus-of-care rather than enforcement-first clearing.” · KelownaNow, 2026-01-25 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Actively champions integrated campus-of-care models (Japan/Netherlands): 'we've spent too much time meeting and not enough time doing.'” · KelownaNow, 2026-01-25 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Care-based, not enforcement-based, response to homelessness: actively champions integrated "campus-of-care" models (citing Japan/Netherlands) "to support vulnerable populations," is on record that "homelessness and criminality are not the same issue," and policing is not a personal platform theme (his budget-vote support for added RCMP is the omnibus budget, not a personal priority). Clear priorit” · STATED (no clean vote isolates the trade-off). KelownaNow, 2026-01-25 ↗

Kelowna councillor since 2011 (4 terms); former CHBC/CBC journalist (22 years); Order of B.C. (2008); founder, East Meets West Children's Foundation.

14 of 24 positions on record · 12 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans agree
  Voting record“Wilkinson St. apartment infill passed 8-1 (only Cannan against); Singh voted FOR” · Castanet, 2023-06-20 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Voting record“VOTE. Voted FOR adopting the 25% two-year Development Cost Charge reduction (7-1, only Stack against), a direct cut to development cost/red tape to "spur development", and FOR advancing the ~1,600 ha North Glenmore permanent-growth-boundary expansion (6-2), whose plan is ~13,000 homes / ≈75% ground-oriented, on record: "Not all young families want to live in townhouses or condos." Consistent pro” · Castanet, 2026-06-30 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the North Glenmore expansion (6-2); on record: "Not all young families want to live in townhouses or condos."” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2026-06-22 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Mixed / neutral
  Voting record“Genuinely mixed: voted FOR the strict STR bylaw (2024-01-15, 4-3) AND FOR relaxing it (2025-03-03, 5-1)” · Castanet, 2024-01-15 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the 2024 budget (8-1) funding 16 additional RCMP officers; repeated in later budgets” · Castanet, 2023-12-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for all four above-CPI budgets (counter-signals: voted no on the 35% pay raise; led the econ-dev-commission withdrawal).” · Key-votes ledger (4 budget votes), 2025-12-04 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Mixed / neutral
  Voting record“Cut a non-core membership (econ dev commission, 5-4) citing tax-dollar care, but voted FOR the $12.1M overpass and praised the Capital Plan's 10% increase.” · Key-votes ledger + campaign-cited votes, 2023-08-28 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Voting record“DCC 25% two-year reduction adopted 7-1 (only Stack against); Singh voted FOR adoption” · Castanet, 2026-06-30 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the unanimous PAC in-principle endorsement; voted FOR reopening the site search (7-2)” · KelownaNow, 2025-12-01 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Co-sponsored the Climate Crisis declaration with Lovegrove; passed 8-1 (Cannan sole dissent); Singh voted FOR” · Castanet, 2023-10-16 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the Kelowna Springs industrial rezoning at both stages (2026-03-16, 2026-06-15).” · Key-votes ledger (Kelowna Springs votes), 2026-03-16 ↗; “Platform plank: 'Protect Okanagan Lake, the Agricultural Land Reserve and our natural spaces'; championed on-farm worker housing.” · Campaign site (CONFLICTING platform, logged), 2026 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“25-storey / 259-suite 350 Doyle tower denied 7-2; Singh voted AGAINST (with majority), held the line on height” · KelownaNow, 2025-05-13 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Beat cops 'walking the streets. So, not only is there safety but a sense of safety for people who are out on the streets.'” · Castanet forum report, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“No divided vote isolates the trade-off (she voted FOR the omnibus budgets that funded both 11 added RCMP officers/8 firefighters AND social-development lines). Her sole stated safety position is police-presence: "I want to see more cops on the road – like the old fashioned beat cops, walking the streets... not only is there safety but a sense of safety." No root-cause-spending statement (s5/s6/s7 ” · STATED, 2026-09-17 ↗

First-term councillor (2022, 3rd-most votes); retired CHBC/Global Okanagan TV news anchor with 43 years in broadcasting; runs self-funded, no donations or endorsements.

16 of 24 positions on record · 11 from recorded votes

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans agree
  Voting record“Wilkinson St. apartment infill passed 8-1 (only Cannan against); Webber voted FOR" (mild countersignal: AGAINST the SW Mission hillside townhouse 2024-02-12 on neighbourhood-impact grounds, not scored down)” · Castanet, 2023-06-20 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Mixed / neutral
  Voting record“VOTE, genuinely mixed. On the flagship red-tape/cost-cut file he was one of only two votes AGAINST the April 20 2026 DCC-cut DIRECTION (5-2, with Stack, citing infrastructure funding, the infrastructure-first pole), then voted FOR the final ADOPTION (7-1, 2026-06-29). His ground-oriented record is likewise split: FOR the Wilkinson St. apartment infill (8-1) but AGAINST the SW Mission hillside tow” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-04-21 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the North Glenmore growth-boundary expansion (6-2).” · City of Kelowna council vote (reported), 2026-06-22 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Strongly agrees
  Voting record“Most consistent STR hard-liner: voted FOR the strict 2024 bylaw AND was the LONE vote AGAINST relaxing it (5-1, 2025-03-03)” · KelownaNow, 2025-03-04 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the 2024 budget (8-1) funding 16 additional RCMP officers; repeated in later budgets” · Castanet, 2023-12-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for all four above-CPI budgets and called the 10-year Capital Plan (10% spending increase) an 'easy yes.'” · Key-votes ledger (4 budget votes + Capital Plan), 2025-12-04 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted to defer then oppose the $12.1M overpass as a 'want-to-have,' not a 'need-to-have': 'With the (new) cost, I can't vote for it.'” · Castanet (overpass vote), 2023-08-28 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Mixed / neutral
  Voting record“Genuinely mixed: one of only two votes AGAINST the April 20 2026 DCC-cut direction (5-2, with Stack, citing infrastructure funding), then FOR the final adoption (7-1, 2026-06-29)” · Kelowna Capital News, 2026-04-21 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the unanimous PAC in-principle endorsement; voted FOR reopening the site search (7-2)” · KelownaNow, 2025-12-01 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Voting record“Voted FOR the Climate Crisis declaration (passed 8-1, Cannan sole dissent), but on record calling it 'a public relations exercise… I don't see the point of it,' so scored +1 on the vote, not +2” · Castanet, 2023-10-16 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans disagree
  Voting record“Voted for the Kelowna Springs industrial rezoning at both stages (2026-03-16, 2026-06-15).” · Key-votes ledger (Kelowna Springs votes), 2026-03-16 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Kelowna must continue to invest in public safety but also programs that support vulnerable people; advanced supports for tenants displaced by redevelopment.” · Castanet (re-election announcement), 2026-06-16 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Address social disorder that makes the broader community feel unsafe' - order framing explicitly paired with support programs rather than clearing.” · Castanet announcement + Vernon Matters, 2026-06-16 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “Webber advocates for traffic congestion measures, such as overpasses to eliminate traffic lights.” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide (from his Castanet questionnaire), 2022-10 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"the city must continue to work with senior governments to increase sentences for repeat offenders"; Phoenix guide (his questionnaire): "Call on the federal government to amend criminal code bail requirements for prolific offenders for accountability"; Castanet: "Repeat offenders need stiffer punishments and we have to create a culture of deterrence." (Defining tough-on-crime brand, actively lobb” · Kelowna Capital News, Votes 2022 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“On the city-level trade-off his own words are balanced: "Kelowna must continue to invest in public safety but also programs that support vulnerable people," and disorder response is "explicitly paired with support programs rather than clearing." His signature tough-on-crime brand (repeat-offender/bail/sentencing advocacy, newq-batch4 s21=+2) targets the senior-government justice system, not city r” · STATED (no clean vote isolates the trade-off). Castanet, 2026-06-16 ↗

Notes: No campaign website or published campaign email; reachable via his Facebook page or the city council office.

Retired environmental consultant (PhD Resource Management); president, Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area Society; frequent letter-writer; 2022 council candidate.

15 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“Now developers can build apartment buildings on single family lots... 'Once up-zoning occurs, the genie is out of the bottle.'” · Castanet letter: ALR not to blame for cost, 2024-08-28 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“Stated: Opposes staff-delegated/fast approvals ("We, the community were so pleased that you had agreed to take back decision making"), demands council/public decision-making on applications, attacks a mid-summer public hearing ("Does the city really want public input?"), and campaigns to "slow down our growth"; also opposes apartment upzoning of single-family lots. Defends approval rigor + more co” · Susan Ames campaign site / reprinted letters, 2026-03-07 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans agree
  Stated“Defends the Permanent Growth Boundary: 'Prevent Sprawl: it directs growth to established urban areas... reduces car dependency.'” · KelownaNow letter (reprinted susanames.ca/media), 2026-07-14 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Dedicated police foot patrols in commercial areas will deter crime... proactive bylaw enforcement throughout Kelowna.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Strongly agrees
  Stated“If we keep property-tax increases at a reasonable level, such as tied to inflation, this will increase affordability.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“The city had a net annual surplus of $229 million. These surpluses could stay in the hands of the citizens.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Opposed the $667M roads borrowing plan that cut transit/active transportation; platform reallocates 2 of 6 Harvey Ave lanes to public transportation.” · Castanet letter: Opposes city's road plan, 2024-09-09 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“Reduce congestion and the 'need' for excessive road building (Burtch, Hollywood, Clement extensions) and road widening (Harvey to 8 lanes).” · Castanet letter: Opposes city's road plan, 2024-09-09 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Wants DCCs restructured to square-footage basis for affordability, but attacks a project's 25% DCC reduction as a developer subsidy - restructure yes, lowering no.” · Platform + Castanet letter: Why allow more rentals?, 2026-07-31 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans disagree
  Stated“Led the ballot effort against the $241M Parkinson Recreation Centre borrowing ('this expensive and impractical proposal').” · Castanet contribution (Story 440675), 2023-08-08 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Stated“We have climate change to worry about and this is going in the opposite direction. Get more buses on the road.” · Castanet letter: Opposes city's road plan, 2024-09-09 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Our farmland must be protected for our present and future food security, not for housing... The ALR needs to be retained. Co-founded an ALR Protection Committee.” · Castanet letter: Stop industrial expansion (Story 627616), 2026-08-11 ↗
• Big city spending projects should go to a public referendum before they're approved.Strongly agrees
  Stated“We deserve a referendum for this much money... taxpayers have a right to decide - then spearheaded the AAP signature campaign against the PRC borrowing.” · Castanet open letter: Referendum not AAP (Story 432680), 2023-06-19 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"Our city is facing so many challenges that are being glossed over in the current growth/development frenzy... We need to slow down our growth"; "Growth should be managed to ensure the livability of Kelowna and consider the impacts on water resources, on sewage and water management and the corresponding infrastructure." Strong slow-growth / infrastructure-first critique. (Caveat: she opposes road-” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Leans agree
  Stated“"New construction should fit into the neighbourhoods with considerations of height, density, surface coverage... Higher buildings should be constructed as needed and be located farther back from the lake"; her bio lists opposing the "UBCO Tower." Height-restraint lean; not an explicit "no variances beyond zoning" pledge and she allows taller buildings "as needed", hence +1.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: She is the author of one letter used as a source for another candidate's growth-boundary position (noted for transparency).

30+ year business/project leader ('$100M+ projects managed'); first-time candidate; slogan 'Less Politics. Real Solutions.'

12 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans agree
  Stated“I support well-planned density and a diverse housing mix, but we shouldn't simply add more people to an area and figure out the infrastructure later.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“Stated: "Land, labour, materials and financing are a big part of the cost, but so are development charges, building requirements and approval timelines… it [Council] can take a hard look at the ones it does [control]"; site: "Every unnecessary regulation, delay, or planning decision adds cost to a home… Reduce unnecessary delays and red tape." Cuts red tape (+); supports a "diverse housing mix" bu” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Scrutinizes the tiny-home program's cost per transition ('Is that good value? Maybe it is. But I honestly don't know') - demands measurable targets, neither for nor against expansion.” · Campaign blog: $146,000 Per Successful Transition, 2026-09-04 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Compassion cannot mean accepting open drug use or persistent public disorder that prevents residents from safely using our community.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“I support stronger enforcement where necessary, better coordination with support services and more assertive advocacy to the Province.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Before raising taxes, City Hall should first demonstrate it is making the best use of the resources it already has.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“I support an independent operational review to identify inefficiencies, eliminate duplication, modernize processes.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Growth should contribute to the infrastructure it requires, but I'd like to explore whether all of those costs need to be collected upfront.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Stated“Petitioning the City to protect parkland while still advocating for a new Performing Arts Centre.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"I support well-planned density and a diverse housing mix, but we shouldn't simply add more people to an area and figure out the infrastructure later." Infrastructure-first lean; pro-density so not +2.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“"I support stronger enforcement where necessary, better coordination with support services and more assertive advocacy to the Province for change"; "compassion cannot mean accepting open drug use or persistent public disorder." Enforcement-forward, but no specific bail/repeat-offender-crackdown lobbying, hence +1.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "We should offer support, but compassion cannot mean accepting open drug use or persistent public disorder" + "I support stronger enforcement where necessary, better coordination with support services and more assertive advocacy to the Province for change." Support + enforcement + provincial advocacy, genuinely balanced (mild order lean, not enough to move off 0).” · forchange-gapfill.md / ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

25-year professional painter and 40+ year Rutland resident/community advocate; open about past lived experience of addiction and homelessness; files as Christopher L Bocskei.

13 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Pro multi-family supply ('diverse mix of affordable rental units, townhomes') but anti-variance: 'stop granting excessive zoning variances that choke our local roads.'” · Campaign site: My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Stated, genuinely mixed: pro family-sized/ground-oriented supply ("a diverse mix of affordable rental units, townhomes, and multi-family options… not just high-rise buildings") BUT strongly defends process/approval rigor ("The OCP… is not a document to be bypassed casually. I will advocate for thorough community debate and deeper discussions before the city abandons the OCP") and opposes cutting c” · Campaign site "My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Expanding supportive housing for families so no child grows up in housing insecurity - via aggressively tapping federal housing funds.” · Campaign site: My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Realism & Hard Decisions: Make tough, necessary choices to protect public safety regarding individuals who consistently refuse assistance.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Address the environmental impact of unauthorized encampments along our rail trails... we must make the hard decisions necessary to protect public safety.” · Campaign site: My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Compassionate Complex Care: Push for intensive, specialized medical and psychiatric support in dedicated facilities.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“Increased RCMP Visibility: Advocate for more foot and mobile patrols... Council sets the municipal police budget, determines RCMP staffing.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Expanded Bylaw: Equip local bylaw officers with increased authority, training, and specialized duties... Bolstered Auxiliary Police.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Balanced Transit Investment: Support traffic-flow fixes with robust public transit funding - transit as complement to car-capacity fixes; road-space trade-off unaddressed.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Severe gridlock along main arteries... Dynamic Lane Management: feasibility-test an alternating counter-flow middle lane on Highway 97.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"development cannot outpace the foundational systems that keep our city running... we need infrastructure that meets the demands of a growing community before approving massive new projects. Gridlock hurts our economy... We need to stop granting excessive zoning variances that choke our local roads, overload our schools, and strain utilities."” · Campaign site "My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Leans agree
  Stated“"We need to stop granting excessive zoning variances that choke our local roads..."; "practical solutions, not just high-rise buildings." Against excessive variances, but his framing is variances/infrastructure generally rather than tower storey-counts specifically, hence +1.” · Campaign site "My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“"I will push for more patrols and increased RCMP boots on the ground to deter crime... a strong advocate for bolstering our auxiliary police program"; "for the segment of the population that consistently refuses help... we must make the hard decisions." Tougher police presence, but pairs it with mental-health/social-work teams and offers no bail/court-reform lobbying, hence +1.” · Campaign site "My Vision, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED: leads with policing, "more patrols and increased RCMP boots on the ground," "Expand the auxiliary police program," "Equip local bylaw officers with increased authority," and "Led a high-profile, successful grassroots campaign against a wet house facility near local schools." Pairs it with "Compassionate Complex Care," but the emphasis and the anti-supportive-housing campaign tilt enforcem” · newq-batch1.md + forchange-gapfill.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

REALTOR with Macdonald Realty and retired broadcast journalist (17 years anchor/reporter at Global Okanagan/CHBC); 34-year Kelowna resident.

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans disagree
  Stated“I propose to firmly challenge further rental housing in Kelowna to keep the vacancy rate low and balanced.” · Campaign site: Where Doris Stands, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Supports the Okanagan Correction Centre treatment initiative, but the surrounding plank is enforcement-first ('lobby for consequences for crime').” · Campaign site: Where Doris Stands, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“We need to better protect our community by increasing law enforcement for a time.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “While Kelowna has invested in more police presence over the last 5 years, it doesn't appear to be sufficient. We need more police officers.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Kelowna is spending like there is no tomorrow. We need to learn to say no for a while.” · Campaign site (Fiscal Responsibility), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Strongly agrees
  Stated“No to signs like the KELOWNA letters at Stuart Park. No to further park expansion projects. No to bike lane expansion. No to waterfront property acquisition.” · Campaign site (Fiscal Responsibility), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“Roadside bike path expansion must be curtailed until proper safety studies are complete... money spent on so-called green initiatives is having a negative effect.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “The expansion of bike lanes on local roads needs to be curtailed until road safety is further studied.” · Campaign site (Community Safety Expansion), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans disagree
  Stated“Say-no list targets amenity/civic-beautification spending; PAC itself not named - lean disagree on major amenity spending at taxpayer cost.” · Campaign site (Fiscal Responsibility), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans disagree
  Stated“The money spent on so-called green initiatives is having a negative effect.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"lobby for consequences for crime and investigate the under-use of our jails, which are only at 15–20% capacity"; ForChange: "We need to better protect our community by increasing law enforcement for a time." Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers board member. Explicitly champions tougher enforcement/prosecution.” · Campaign site "Where Doris Stands, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“STATED: "lobby for consequences for crime and investigate the under-use of our jails, which are only at 15–20% capacity"; "We need to better protect our community by increasing law enforcement for a time." Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers board member. Explicitly prioritizes enforcement/consequences/incarceration with no root-cause counterweight → strong disagree.” · newq-batch1.md + forchange-gapfill.md / campaign "Where Doris Stands, 2026-09-21 ↗

Founder/CEO of Csek Creative and NowMedia Group (parent of KelownaNow); past president of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce.

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“Stated: "review development cost charges, permit fees, and approval delays that increase housing costs"; platform: "Reduce cost and delay in housing approvals." Cuts red tape (+); frames the goal as "attainable homes," not specifically family-sized/ground-oriented, hence +1 not +2.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“I would strengthen bylaws and public space rules so officers have clear, enforceable tools... and respond firmly to repeat criminal behaviour.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“I would support a visible presence where it is needed... Council controls bylaws, budgets, public spaces, and the direction given to enforcement services.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Households cannot keep giving more. What City Hall spends eventually appears in property taxes, fees, rents, and housing costs.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“I would cut waste and distractions, focus the budget on residents' priorities.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Growth should pay its fair share, but every charge must be necessary, transparent, and justified.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Review DCCs to support attainable homes and fair growth.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Talking about climate is not a plan. Prevention is.' - dismisses climate framing while making wildfire-prevention spending a core priority; mixed on record.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"City Hall must plan and deliver water, sewer, roads, bridges... Plan infrastructure before growth outpaces it." Infrastructure-first principle; not a claim the city already over-approved, hence +1.” · Campaign platform (Priority 05 "Homes & Infrastructure"), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“"People who repeatedly harm others must face consequences"; ForChange: "respond firmly to repeat criminal behaviour" and "strengthen bylaws and public space rules." Tough on repeat behaviour, but the "consequences" stay municipal, no explicit province/courts bail lobbying, hence +1.” · Campaign platform (Priority 02 "Safe Streets"), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED: "People who repeatedly harm others must face consequences"; "strengthen bylaws and public space rules so officers have clear, enforceable tools ... and respond firmly to repeat criminal behaviour"; also "Talking about climate is not a plan. Prevention is." Safety framed through enforcement/bylaws/consequences with no root-cause (housing/addiction/treatment) prescription → lean disagree.” · newq-batch1.md + forchange-gapfill.md / campaign platform (Priority 02 "Safe Streets"), 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: Nikki Csek co-owns KelownaNow, one of our source outlets. Her positions here are drawn from her own campaign site and questionnaire answers, not from KelownaNow coverage.

Real estate professional and former local business owner (ex-Kelowna SPCA Thrift Store); third run at Kelowna council (2018, 2022, 2026).

7 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“Stated: "determining whether there are opportunities to reduce unnecessary costs, streamline approvals and make the development process more efficient"; economy plank: "streamline approval processes" (hedged "This isn't about lowering standards"). Cuts red tape (+); frames housing as "the right kind of housing," not specifically family-sized, hence +1 not +2.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Residents and local businesses have a legitimate right to safe, clean and orderly public spaces ('I too was impacted... break-ins, fires, and camping in front of our doors').” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Before increasing taxes or taking on additional long-term debt, Council should look for opportunities to reduce unnecessary administrative and operating costs.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Efficiency-before-tax-increase list (eliminate duplication, review contracts); softened: 'Responsible spending doesn't mean simply cutting budgets.'” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Wants reducible municipal fees identified BUT 'Growth should pay its fair share... We need to know what it will cost taxpayers long after the developer has gone home' - mixed.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"Kelowna has experienced significant growth... placing increasing pressure on the infrastructure we already rely on... traffic congestion, roads, water, sewer... We need to grow sustainably and at a pace that is affordable, responsible... Growth should pay its fair share." Ties growth to congestion/infrastructure strain; framed as pacing/fiscal transparency rather than "we over-approved", hence +” · Campaign platform (§02 "Infrastructure Growth and Transportation"), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "People experiencing homelessness need housing and support, while residents and local businesses have a legitimate right to safe, clean and orderly public spaces." Explicitly balances housing/support with order/enforcement; safety plank is general ("effective enforcement," neighbourhood watch), genuinely mixed.” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch1.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Owner of Gallery Streetwear on Bernard Ave; former pro snowboarder and 13-year fire-lookout observer; became a downtown public-safety advocate after a Jan 2026 break-in at his shop.

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“People who need help should get meaningful help. People who repeatedly victimize others need consequences.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Safety Zone standards flag overnight sheltering in vestibules as a harm; 'Support follows removal from public space.'” · Downtown Kelowna 24/7 Safety & Recovery Plan, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“We need to intervene earlier. Waiting until addiction, mental illness, homelessness or repeat offending reaches crisis is less humane and far more expensive.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“Council can properly resource policing, bylaw and community safety, use data to put resources where and when they are actually needed.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“As a downtown business owner, I see the effects of crime... I was pushing publicly for action before I ever decided to run.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Authored a 10-point plan led by 'Dedicated 24/7 Downtown Foot Patrols' and 'Licensed Overnight Night Patrols (9:00 PM-6:00 AM).'” · Downtown 24/7 Safety & Recovery Plan + Castanet, 2026-09-13 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“I would start with core responsibilities such as public safety, essential services and infrastructure... Council must also be willing to say no.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Get people where they need to go without turning it into a culture war... People drive, bike, walk and use transit - refuses to pick a mode side.” · Campaign site (Transportation + Access), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“All-modes framing; 'measure whether trips become safer and more reliable instead of counting infrastructure for its own sake.'” · Campaign site (Transportation + Access), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Major investments still need a clear need, a full cost and an operating plan... What does funding it postpone somewhere else? - conditional stance.” · Campaign site (Parks + Culture), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“"People who need help should get meaningful help. People who repeatedly victimize others need consequences"; "Waiting until addiction, mental illness, homelessness or repeat offending reaches crisis is less humane and far more expensive." Downtown business owner who "rose to prominence after his store was among others targeted by repeat offenders." Tough on repeat offenders, paired with early inte” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "People who need help should get meaningful help. People who repeatedly victimize others need consequences" + "we need to intervene earlier. Waiting until addiction, mental illness, homelessness or repeat offending reaches crisis is less humane and far more expensive." Strong early-intervention/prevention argument, but explicitly paired with consequences and "properly resource policing, by” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch1.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Owner of TGP Kids Early Learning Centres; president of OKGN Apna Sports and Cultural Society; Rutland resident; second council run (also 2022).

8 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“**STATED, mixed on record.** Pro-efficiency: "improving the efficiency of planning and development processes," and would "review Development Cost Charges where they unnecessarily increase the cost of affordable housing." BUT infrastructure-first: "Reports of power constraints, project delays and low water levels show why capacity must be considered before approvals, not afterward." No family-sized-” · Campaign site platform (indydhial4kelowna.com/platform) + ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans agree
  Stated“Council must guide density toward transportation corridors, protect setbacks for future road widening and ensure infrastructure can support new development.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Sheltering near schools, parks, transit stops and businesses must be addressed, while supportive-housing locations must consider local communities.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“I will advocate for a simplified intake system connecting people to resources... identify a location and advocate for provincial support.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Bylaw staffing has grown from 17 officers in 2017 to 42 - yet many residents still do not feel safer. We must review policies so Bylaw, URBA and Downtown On-Call can better support police.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Suggested downtown/Rutland on-call patrols 'could be expanded to other parts of the city.'” · Castanet debate coverage, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“We should also review Development Cost Charges where they unnecessarily increase the cost of affordable housing.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"Reports of power constraints, project delays and low water levels show why capacity must be considered before approvals, not afterward"; also "protect setbacks for future road widening and ensure infrastructure can support new development", infrastructure-before-approvals stance, citing current capacity shortfalls.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "I will advocate for a simplified intake system connecting people to resources... The City can bring key partners together, identify a location and advocate for provincial support" and, on policing, "Since 2023, Kelowna has added 33 RCMP members... yet many residents still do not feel safer. We must review policies... better support police" (coordination over more presence). Balances a res” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch2.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Owner of Little Hobo Soup & Sandwich Shop downtown (15 years); former social worker with Arc Programs; Downtown Kelowna Association executive board.

7 of 24 positions on record

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“**STATED, mixed.** "work toward timely and predictable City approvals without compromising proper review, and listen to residents about how growth affects their neighborhoods", wants faster approvals but explicitly refuses to trade away review/consultation; no family-sized-home emphasis. Neutral on record.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“I would advocate to the province for treatment centers, mental health services, supportive housing and wrap around services.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Support more attainable housing, through public, private and non profit partnerships.” · VoteMate candidate profile, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Address the underlying needs of struggling individuals while holding people accountable for disorderly behavior - explicitly balanced.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Advocate to the province for treatment centers, mental health services, supportive housing and wrap around services (career social worker; her #1 issue).” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Review the city budget carefully, seek efficiencies and ensure taxpayers receive value for money - neutral on record.” · VoteMate candidate profile (Property Taxes), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“"We must address the underlying needs of struggling individuals while holding people accountable for disorderly behavior, while maintaining safe, welcoming public spaces", career social worker; explicit accountability-with-treatment balance (VoteMate: "We can care about people in crisis and still expect accountability"); no bail/prosecution/repeat-offender push. Genuinely mixed.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans agree
  Stated“STATED: career social worker whose #1 issue is homelessness/mental-health, "I would advocate to the province for treatment centers, mental health services, supportive housing and wrap around services"; balances with "We can care about people in crisis and still expect accountability." Leads with root-cause services as her primary frame (accountability secondary) → lean agree.” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch2.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: No campaign website; sourced from her business site, VoteMate profile, and questionnaire answers.

Commercial real estate broker and property-tax advisor (~4 decades in valuation/assessment); former Terrace city councillor (late 1990s).

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“The goal should be the right homes, in the right form and location... Towers may suit some urban centres, while townhomes, low- and mid-rise apartments... may better fit other areas.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“**STATED.** Explicitly names family-sized ground-oriented housing: "townhomes, low- and mid-rise apartments, family-sized units and infill may better fit other areas," and on red tape "[Council] can reduce delays, set clear rules" / platform "Improve the speed and predictability of City decisions." Supports cutting delays AND family-sized units → +1 (not +2: balanced by "not density for its own sa” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Kelowna needs clear standards for public spaces and the right response for each situation. I would support lawful, consistent enforcement.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“I would also press senior governments for the treatment, complex-care, supportive-housing and justice capacity Kelowna needs.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“I am not running on the premise that every large budget is wasteful, every tax increase is unjustified... Those are slogans, not decision standards.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Pull back on 'gold-plated' projects: 'at times we can get ahead of ourselves thinking we're still living in times where we can spend without real care.'” · Castanet debate coverage, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans disagree
  Stated“Advocated pulling back on 'gold-plated' projects - leans against major discretionary amenity spending (PAC not named).” · Castanet debate coverage, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"the goal should be the right homes... supported by infrastructure, not density for its own sake"; "[Council] can reduce delays, set clear rules and require growth to be serviced responsibly" (site: "the homes Kelowna needs in locations where infrastructure can accommodate growth"). Caveat: explicitly rejects blanket anti-development ("not every development is beneficial... those are slogans, not ” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“"I would support lawful, consistent enforcement" + "I would also press senior governments for the treatment, complex-care, supportive-housing and justice capacity Kelowna needs", enforcement + lobbying for justice capacity, but care-balanced (treatment/complex-care/housing weighted alongside), hence +1 not +2.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "I would support lawful, consistent enforcement" + "I would also press senior governments for the treatment, complex-care, supportive-housing and justice capacity Kelowna needs." Enforcement and treatment/complex-care/supportive-housing weighted alongside each other → genuinely balanced.” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch2.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

15-year Central Okanagan Public Schools trustee (4 terms; past Board Chair); 30-year B2B sales career; UBC economics grad.

6 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“We need both compassion for people in crisis and accountability for behaviour that harms others.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“I would support appropriate resources for police, fire, bylaw and community safety while advocating for coordinated action with senior governments.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Balanced transportation solutions that improve traffic flow while expanding transit, walking, and cycling options - does not accept the reduce-road-space trade-off.” · Campaign platform (Transportation & Traffic), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Traffic flow valued but not stated as the top priority - balanced framing.” · Campaign platform (Transportation & Traffic), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“"We need both compassion for people in crisis and accountability for behaviour that harms others", explicitly balanced (s8: "appropriate resources for police, fire, bylaw... while advocating for coordinated action with senior governments on housing, mental health, addictions"); no bail/prosecution stance. Genuinely mixed.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "We need both compassion for people in crisis and accountability for behaviour that harms others" + "I would support appropriate resources for police, fire, bylaw and community safety while advocating for coordinated action with senior governments on housing, mental health, addictions and homelessness." Textbook both-matter → balanced 0.” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch2.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: Her long elected record is on the school board, which doesn't set city policy, so few positions carry over to these questions.

Publisher/editor of Calibre Magazine (Canadian firearms publication); in Kelowna since ~2016; running primarily on public safety.

8 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Leans agree
  Stated“Indexing short-term rental license fees to long-term rental vacancy rates - a tightening mechanism when vacancy is low.” · Campaign site (Affordability & Jobs), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Strongly agrees
  Stated“I would move that the city significantly increase the number of projects undertaken with BC Housing for supportive and low-income housing... Kamloops has six underway, delivering 607 units.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Curtail the vagrancy and open drug use... weapons found in sweeps of the numerous encampments; 'the status quo is simply unacceptable.'” · Campaign site (Safety & Social Issues + About), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans disagree
  Stated“With a crime rate 24% higher than the provincial average... but the largest RCMP detachment in Canada, it's time to begin transitioning to a municipal police force.” · Campaign site (Safety & Social Issues), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Leans agree
  Stated“Partnership with the province to add a sixth lane to the Bennett Bridge for an at-grade commuter rail line... past UBCO, and finally to the airport.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Leadership position on micromobility, prioritizing investments on both roadway maintenance and multi-use pathways.” · Campaign site (Traffic & Transit), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Revise the Transportation Master Plan to prioritize... optimizing travel times. Then we can begin things like removing some lights from Hwy 97, the Clement extension, etc.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“"it's time for Kelowna to begin the process of transitioning to a municipal police force to increase accountability, reduce crime and curtail the vagrancy and open drug use"; About page cites encampment weapons and "the status quo is simply unacceptable", enforcement-forward safety platform, but the lever is a municipal police force (local control), with no province/courts bail-lobbying, hence +1” · Campaign site (Safety & Social Issues policy), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: strongest supportive-housing plank in the field, "significantly increase the number of projects undertaken with BC Housing for supportive and low-income housing... Kamloops... has six underway, delivering 607 units" (root-cause investment), yet also enforcement-forward: "transitioning to a municipal police force to... curtail the vagrancy and open drug use." Big on both levers → genuinel” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch2.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: His signature proposal is replacing the RCMP with a municipal police force; his position on 'more RCMP officers' reflects that specific question, not policing spending generally.

Lawyer (founder/managing partner, BSG Law Corp) and business owner; 2022 council candidate (14th); legal name Balraj Singh Grewal.

19 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans disagree
  Stated“Preserving Single-Family Cores - Direct major high-rise density growth strictly along designated primary commercial transit corridors to protect established residential neighborhoods.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“**STATED.** Maps well to the redefined s2: actively wants to cut cost/red tape for ground-oriented family housing, "waive development cost charges (DCCs) for local builders constructing duplexes, secondary suites, or carriage homes" + "Streamline municipal permit backlogs" / "priority processing lanes," and supports gentle infill (duplexes/suites/carriage homes) in established areas. His "Infrast” · Campaign sites, 2026-09-21 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans agree
  Stated“Direct major high-rise density growth strictly along designated primary commercial transit corridors.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Public safety and street order are non-negotiable; 'Reduce Street Homelessness' pillar; compassionate yet firm intervention for street-level crisis.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Champions compulsory/involuntary care expansion but pairs it with 'zero tolerance for open drug proliferation'; no position on harm reduction.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“Expanded Foot & Cycle Patrols - Increase street-level RCMP auxiliary patrols, park rangers, and integrated security teams.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Integrated security teams across Downtown Kelowna, Rutland town center, and municipal parks + small-business matching grants for security cameras.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Inflation-Capped Property Taxes - Ensure future property tax rates are capped tightly to core municipal inflation indexes, prioritizing essential... services over vanity projects.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Independent Service Audits - immediate, top-to-bottom performance review of all city departments to eliminate redundant middle-management.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Supports transit shuttles and active-transport bridges, but headline transportation priority is easing car congestion; road-space trade-off unaddressed.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Platform pillar 'Reduce Traffic Congestion'; Lakeshore Bottleneck Mitigation - fast-track intersection upgrades, left-turn lane expansions, smart roundabouts.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Waive development cost charges (DCCs) for local builders constructing duplexes, secondary suites, or carriage homes - targeted relief.” · Campaign site (balgrewal.ca), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“2026 platform prioritizes essentials 'over vanity projects' while 2022: 'a lively arts and culture scene is important... an opportunity to grow an industry' - mixed.” · Campaign site + Phoenix News 2022 guide, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Stated“Platform section 'LET'S ACT ON: Smoke, Wildfires & Climate Resilience'; cites a council that 'prioritizes affordable housing, reliable public transit, and climate safety.'” · Campaign sites, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Platform bullet 'Protection of Agricultural Lands (ALR).'” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗; [2022] “Grewal supports local agriculture, and subscribes to the '100-mile club' theory.” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide, 2022-10 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“Platform pillar "Reduce Traffic Congestion"; "Infrastructure-First Mandate, Freeze major new high-density approvals in under-serviced zones", endorses that growth should not outrun infrastructure (forward-looking freeze rather than an explicit "we already over-approved" statement, hence +1).” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Council should stop approving towers far taller than the zoning allows, like signing off on an extra 10 or 20 storeys.Leans agree
  Stated“"Reduce Uncontrolled Skyscrapers"; "Direct major high-rise density growth strictly along designated primary commercial transit corridors to protect established residential neighborhoods", opposes over-scale/uncontrolled tower height (targets high-rises broadly rather than the spot-variance mechanism specifically, hence +1).” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"Bal stands for zero tolerance on repeat crime, increased law enforcement presence, and compassionate yet firm intervention for street-level crisis", actively champions a tough-on-repeat-offenders enforcement posture.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED: "Public safety and street order are non-negotiable"; "zero tolerance on repeat crime, increased law enforcement presence, and compassionate yet firm intervention for street-level crisis"; most detailed planks are policing (foot/cycle patrols, integrated security teams). Champions compulsory/involuntary care too, but leads with enforcement/zero-tolerance/street-order → lean disagree (involu” · challengers-3.md + newq-batch2.md / campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗

Registered on the ballot under the legal name 'King James' (styled King James III); LinkedIn self-describes as 'Sovereign of BC.'

0 of 24 positions on record

No sourced public positions yet. This candidate has been invited to complete our questionnaire.

Notes: No campaign website or platform found; identity confirmed against the official 2026 nomination filing.

Kelowna-born realtor, home builder and small-scale developer, 40; UBCO business degree; past BC Conservative regional organizer (pre-2013, noted only).

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“**STATED.** Realtor/home-builder who wants to cut red tape for housing: "reduce bureaucracy, manage taxpayer dollars responsibly" and "Support development where it makes sense... keeping development fees reasonable." Leans agree on the red-tape/cost half; +1 (weak, no explicit family-sized-home priority, and hedged with "respecting neighbourhood character").” · Castanet announcement, 2026-08-28 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans disagree
  Stated“Advocating for fewer wet-housing sites in residential neighborhoods.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans disagree
  Stated“Rerouting resources that currently provide comforts to some transients toward increased security & cleaning contractors.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“These resources could perhaps also assist in increasing the RCMP presence in neighbourhoods needing it (via reallocation, not new taxes).” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Rerouting resources... toward increased security & cleaning contractors.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“A specific action I would take is a conservative approach to expenditures to keep property taxes as low as possible.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Council needs to keep taxes low while making sure residents see value.” · Castanet announcement, 2026-08-28 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Resources that might be lost or wasted in certain areas can be reallocated towards local events, maintenance or community building.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Pursue a second bridge crossing, and advocate for practical Highway 97 improvements like overpasses and exit lanes.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Support development where it makes sense while respecting neighbourhood character and keeping development fees reasonable.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“STATED: "rerouting resources that currently provide comforts to some transients toward increased security & cleaning contractors" + "advocating for fewer wet-housing sites in residential neighborhoods" + "increasing the RCMP presence in neighbourhoods." Explicitly moves money AWAY from supports TO security/enforcement → strong disagree.” · forchange-gapfill.md + newq-batch2.md / ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Sitting RDCO East Electoral Area director (past board vice-chair); farmer, teacher, former firefighter; 2024 provincial independent candidate.

10 of 24 positions on record · 1 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Leans disagree
  Voting record“As RDCO director for the affected Electoral Area East, his board approved bylaws PERMITTING short-term rentals in residential zones (enabling STRs, not restricting them). Note: whole-board decision; individual votes not recorded.” · RDCO board decision (rdco.com), 2026-05-14 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“**STATED, mixed.** Champions the family-housing TYPE, "thoughtfully designed smaller single-family homes, townhomes, and family-oriented neighbourhoods", but is infrastructure-first / growth-skeptic on pace and red tape: "Growth should never outpace the infrastructure that supports it" and "growth should strengthen Kelowna's character, not simply increase its population." No red-tape-cutting or” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Continued advocacy to ensure the provincial and federal governments fulfill their responsibilities for justice, mental health, and addiction services.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“Policing, fire, and EMS have long been outpaced by growth... we need to shift and plan for permanent officers.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“City Hall should focus on reliable core services, support local businesses, protect agriculture, and make transparent, accountable decisions.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“There are things we can do to improve highway flow... eliminating much of the commercial parking lot access directly to the highway, more sensor-triggered left-turn lanes.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Growth should never outpace the infrastructure that supports it. Roads, water, utilities... require strategic investment.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Strongly agrees
  Stated“I want to see our farmers have the opportunity to produce, prepare, and succeed while protecting the agricultural land that will matter to future generations.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Farmland protection is a repeated core plank by a working farmer: 'A resilient community protects and invests in... our farmland.'” · Campaign site + Castanet announcement, 2026-08-26 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"Growth should never outpace the infrastructure that supports it. Roads, water, utilities, and essential services all require thoughtful long-term planning... Kevin experiences the daily frustration of traffic congestion and infrastructure bottlenecks"; ForChange: "policing, fire, and EMS have long been outpaced by growth", directly agrees growth has outrun infrastructure and cites congestion.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“"continued advocacy to ensure the provincial and federal governments fulfill their responsibilities for justice, mental health, and addiction services" + "advocating for the resources and accountability needed to build safer neighbourhoods", bundles justice/accountability with mental-health and addiction services; mild enforcement lean but genuinely mixed, no explicit bail/prosecution or repeat-o” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“STATED: "continued advocacy to ensure the provincial and federal governments fulfill their responsibilities for justice, mental health, and addiction services" + "advocating for the resources and accountability needed to build safer neighbourhoods"; also wants "permanent officers, improved fire apparatus, and more EMS." Bundles justice/accountability with mental-health/addiction services, mild en” · challengers-3.md + newq-batch2.md + forchange-gapfill.md / campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗

Procurement and contract specialist (BC Public Service), 29; 2022 council candidate (9th, 1,096 votes short); co-founder of Strong Towns Kelowna, past president Kelowna Cycling Coalition.

19 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Fight to lower the cost of new housing... through zoning reforms; opportunity for new homes across the housing spectrum... Prioritizing family-oriented homes for midrise redevelopment.” · Campaign site (Housing & Planning), 2026-09-21 ↗; [2022] “End Exclusionary Zoning: Legalize missing-middle multifamily housing.” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide, 2022-10 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Strongly agrees
  Stated“**STATED.** Hits both halves of the redefined s2. Cut red tape: "efficient permitting" and "Permit modernization through time-based goals for common permits that are benchmarked against peer municipalities in BC," plus a "DCC reduction plan through bonded infrastructure financing." Prioritize family-sized/ground-oriented: "Prioritizing family-oriented homes for midrise redevelopment through zoning” · campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans agree
  Stated“Platform repeatedly builds around the permanent growth boundary and walkable urban 'high street' clusters.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗; [2022] “Transit-Oriented Development: Legalize mid-rises around frequent transit corridors.” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide, 2022-10 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “Toxic Demand: Tighten and enforce short-term rental restrictions... while lobbying for increased powers to deal with empty homes.” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide, 2022-10 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Support non-market housing through land-trust partnerships for secured affordable co-op housing; advocacy for treatment facilities and recovery housing.” · Campaign site (Housing & Planning), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“I will work with a council majority to curtail the continued dispersal of overnight sheltering outside of the legal designated location.” · Campaign site (Public Safety), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Advocacy for treatment facilities and recovery housing, along with compassionate mandatory care in appropriate circumstances... fully funded mental health services.” · Campaign site (Public Safety), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “I support both hiring RCMP officers and PACT Teams... while advocating for hiring additional officers. (2026 patrol plank deliberately funded without property taxes.)” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide, 2022-10 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Budget allocation for dedicated 24/7 foot patrols downtown, in Rutland and the Capri areas, via a combination of Bylaw and Business Association teams. Signature plank.” · Campaign site (Public Safety), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Establishing inflation-adjusted P1, P2, P3 budgeting... hold current service levels at P1, and require justifications for increased spending.” · Campaign site (Financial Responsibility), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Fund basics first and refocus Council's top priorities... If city spending and taxation isn't carefully managed... debt-servicing costs will spiral.” · Campaign site (Financial Responsibility), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Fill in the gaps in our sidewalk and bike networks; Rapid Transit corridor planning; transit signal priority on all frequent routes; car-lite design standards for Bernard. Past president, Kelowna Cycling Coalition.” · Campaign site (Transportation), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans disagree
  Stated“Refocus capital investment into complete streets and efficient intersections... Roundabouts, sidewalks and street trees should be priorities (backs provincial Hwy 97 fixes).” · Campaign site (Transportation), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Fight to lower the cost of new housing... through zoning reforms, efficient permitting, and DCC adjustments; committing to a DCC reduction plan through bonded infrastructure financing.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Leans agree
  Stated“Investment into hockey rinks, sports fields, public washrooms, bus benches and shelters, and the performing arts.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Stated“Mitigating the disastrous effects of forest fires, floods, and heat domes is a critical part of the city's public safety mandate; 30% urban tree canopy by 2035.” · Campaign site (Environment & Urban Forest), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Land use that protects the ALR while putting downward pressure on our property taxes.” · Campaign site (Housing & Planning), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"Advocacy for bail and sentencing reform for repeat violent offenders and property crime" + "Call for the increased hiring of crown prosecutors to reduce wait times in our judicial system."” · kyleforkelowna.ca/public-safety.html, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Genuinely does both. Root-causes: "advocacy for treatment facilities and recovery housing... Public advocacy and pressure for inpatient drug treatment, fully funded mental health services," plus non-market/land-trust housing and a "housing first model." Policing (equal weight): "24/7 foot patrols downtown, in Rutland and the Capri areas," "curtail the continued dispersal of overnight sheltering," ” · STATED. kyleforkelowna.ca/public-safety.html + /housing-and-planning.html + homepage, 2026-09-21

Kelowna businesswoman (serial owner: custom home building, talent agency, dental practice, specialty meat shop), author, former teacher; legal name Teresa Teschner. NOT the former UK PM.

7 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“I support expanding housing options in appropriate locations while respecting established neighbourhoods - mixed on record.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“**STATED.** "streamlining development approvals without compromising good planning" = leans cut-red-tape (+). No family-sized/ground-oriented emphasis, and her s1 answer hedges ("expanding housing options in appropriate locations while respecting established neighbourhoods"), so +1 not +2. The "without compromising good planning" qualifier keeps it a soft agree.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Safe Streets' includes 'Cleaner parks / Safer neighbourhoods / More accountability' but 'people keep naming mental health services as the root of it. They aren't asking for enforcement alone.'” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“I would continue investing in proven community safety initiatives, advocate for more recovery-focused treatment and mental health services.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Residents consistently tell me they are worried about rising taxes... I would review carefully major capital projects and operating budgets.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“Adopts the growth-outran-infrastructure concern in her own reflection: "people told me the roads haven't kept up with the growth… Growth planning and emergency planning are the same conversation, and I'm not sure we've been treating them that way"; housing priority lists "Responsible growth." (foregrounded via her listening tour but stated as her own take → leans agree, +1 not +2.)” · teresamay.ca, 2026-09-21
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans agree
  Stated“Frames safe streets around services over enforcement: "people keep naming mental health services as the root of it. They aren't asking for enforcement alone"; platform bullet "Recovery-focused solutions"; announcement priorities "practical solutions to homelessness, addiction and mental health." Distinctive tilt toward treatment/root-causes; she does not reject enforcement outright, so +1 not +2.” · STATED. teresamay.ca, 2026-09-21

Independent video game developer (Drixxel Soft), ex-BC Ministry of Finance; 2025 federal NDP candidate for Kelowna; lifelong Okanagan resident.

12 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Stated“**STATED.** Campaigns for MORE consultation, against fast-tracked/"rubber stamp" approvals: "The city has a duty to get buy-in from the people or face backlash when controversial proposals forge ahead... we need better communication, transparency & accountability." Defends approval process/consultation = -1. (He offers "accelerated approvals" only as a narrow incentive for affordable/inclusionary ” · Campaign site homepage, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Key priority literally titled 'SHORT-TERM RENTAL BAN': Close applications for investor-owned STRs when average rents rise. Prioritize long-term rental affordability.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Fund supervised daytime-use indoor spaces open 7 days a week; assist individuals with coordinating detox, treatment, housing programs.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans disagree
  Stated“Daily displacement of unhoused individuals from one block to another is not a long-term solution. Immediate all-hours alternatives to the street are needed.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Further resource the Crisis Response Community Led (CRCL) team to increase staffing and service hours, divert calls away from RCMP; coordinate detox, treatment, housing.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Divert calls AWAY from RCMP via CRCL, yet 'prioritize resourcing of the RCMP's Kelowna Gang Enforcement Team' - mixed on record.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Signature plank 'OVERNIGHT ON-CALL REDSHIRTS': Dedicate resources to DKA & URBA On-Call to reach capacity for quick overnight response (9pm-7am) in downtown and Rutland.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Untether Kelowna Regional Transit's future operations plans from past year's budget to allow sufficient service expansion... reduce car dependency. Okanagan Transit Alliance member.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans disagree
  Stated“Congestion answer is signal coordination ('Coordinated Corridor System') plus reducing car dependency via transit - not road capacity expansion.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Leans agree
  Stated“Dedicated 'Climate & Emergency Preparedness' plank: FireSmart rebates, air purifier cost-offsets, tree-canopy expansion, city-wide tree protection bylaw.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Big city spending projects should go to a public referendum before they're approved.Leans agree
  Stated“End usage, or greatly strengthen the community engagement requirements, of the Alternate Approval Process (AAP) for city borrowing decisions.” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans agree
  Stated“Health-led diversion for the social-disorder population: "Further resource the Crisis Response Community Led (CRCL) team... divert a greater share of mental health and substance use calls away from RCMP"; fund "supervised daytime-use indoor spaces," "coordinating detox, treatment, housing programs"; opposes displacement-first ("Daily displacement... is not a long-term solution"). His enforcement a” · STATED. trevorforkelowna.ca/platform, 2026-09-21

Multimedia journalist and advocate; background in radio, IT, community/shelter support work; lived experience of disability and housing instability.

4 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“I would support preserving and expanding rental housing, using City land strategically, and strengthening partnerships that help prevent people from losing housing.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Leans agree
  Stated“Reviewing transit routes, scheduling, stops and connections... Better transportation can also reduce car dependence and support environmental goals.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Climate resilience and the environment are increasingly important... climate-conscious land-use and transportation planning, urban tree canopy, measures that reduce energy use and emissions. One of his three platform issues.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans agree
  Stated“Homelessness answer is prevention/housing-first: "Prevent homelessness: Focus on prevention, housing stability and partnerships for better access to support so homelessness is rarer, shorter and less likely to happen again." Entire platform (prevention, housing stability, community resilience; his own lived experience of housing instability) contains no enforcement/policing plank → prevention-firs” · STATED (thin but one-directional). randymillis.ca/about, 2026-09-21

25-year Kelowna resident; entrepreneur/business developer, financial advisor with World Financial Group; BRACE for Change founding candidate. Official ballot name 'H. Morales.'

11 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Stated“Infrastructure-first: "the logical first step was to strengthen and develop public infrastructure before opening the flood gates of condos... now we face the repercussions."” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“While one group can benefit from Low-cost modular housing, below market rental areas, etc.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Crime, repeat offending, disorder, and unsafe public spaces are affecting residents... We will advocate for enforcement... protect public spaces from unmanaged disorder.” · BRACE for Change slate platform (personally endorsed), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Other can benefit from assessment-treatment-recovery programs... I suggest implementing PILOT programs.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Enforcement, stronger coordination with police and community partners, and neighbourhood safety measures people can actually see and feel.” · BRACE for Change slate platform (personally endorsed), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Every tax dollar should be treated with respect. We will ask tougher questions about major spending, prioritize core municipal services.” · BRACE for Change slate platform (personally endorsed), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Backs transit investment ('reliable routes, sensible connections') but pillar 6 centres driver congestion relief; road-space trade-off unaddressed.” · BRACE for Change slate platform (personally endorsed), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Practical congestion relief, safer roads and intersections' alongside transit support - roads emphasized but not declared top priority.” · BRACE for Change slate platform (personally endorsed), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"the logical first step was to strengthen and develop public infrastructure before opening the flood gates of condos and residential areas, I am not sure that was a consideration acted upon and now we face the repercussions of those decisions." (own words; corroborated by his site's "growth without infraestructure gave the city new challenges" and BRACE pillar 6.)” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“Pillar 1: "Crime, repeat offending, disorder, and unsafe public spaces are affecting residents… We will advocate for enforcement, stronger coordination with police and community partners, and neighbourhood safety measures people can actually see and feel." Names repeat offending + commits to enforcement, but platform-level with no personal bail/court-lobbying amplification → +1 not +2.” · BRACE for Change platform (personally endorsed founding candidate), 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Root-causes side (his own ForChange answers): "assessment-treatment-recovery progra[ms]... I suggest implementing PILOT programs" and "Low-cost modular housing, below market rental areas." Enforcement side (BRACE pillar 1 he endorses): "We will advocate for enforcement... neighbourhood safety measures people can actually see and feel." Genuinely mixed.” · STATED, 2026-09-21 ↗

Kelowna small-business owner (bakery-goods distribution since 2013), former independent mortgage broker and RCMP Auxiliary volunteer; in Kelowna since 2007.

12 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• Kelowna should allow 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings in more single-family neighbourhoods.Leans disagree
  Stated“Direct higher density housing inward through thoughtful planning that preserves the fabric and livability of existing neighborhoods rather than imposing one-size-fits-all solutions.” · Campaign site: Responsible Growth post, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“**STATED, genuinely mixed.** Agree half: "By controlling Development Cost Charges (DCCs), tax incentives, zoning bylaws and reducing red tape we can provide a wider range of housing options, especially for first time buyers and seniors" (cut red tape + family/first-buyer-oriented). Disagree half: would "condition development approvals on adequate infrastructure" and "keep infrastructure ahead of t” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Protect our natural ecosystems by strictly reining in sprawling development that encroaches on vital wildlife corridors... Direct higher density housing inward.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Cites 'streets that often look more like campgrounds' as a core problem, paired with a 'Safer Streets' plank (fixes are upstream: judicial reform, involuntary care).” · Campaign site launch post, 2026-09-08 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Would 'actively lobby for... a practical framework for involuntary care' while holding 'throwing more money at systemic challenges simply is not working.'” · Campaign site: Safer Streets post, 2026-09-14 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Fiscal Responsibility: Resources are finite... Leaving more money in the pockets of taxpayers goes a long way in addressing the affordability issue.” · Campaign site platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Government must focus relentlessly on the core services that make our city one of the most desirable places to live.” · Campaign site platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Crippling street congestion... Prioritize capital spending so that roads, utilities, and public amenities are built out before new developments open their doors.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-17 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“By controlling Development Cost Charges (DCCs), tax incentives, zoning bylaws and reducing red tape we can provide a wider range of housing options.” · Campaign site platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"We are constantly playing catch-up instead of keeping infrastructure ahead of development; this has led to crippling street congestion that is an inconvenience to residents and has negative impacts on local businesses… Prioritize capital spending so that roads, utilities, and public amenities are built out before new developments open their doors."” · pinterforprogress.com, 2026-09-17
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“"A broken system continues to cycle repeat offenders back onto our streets… Press upstream levels of government relentlessly for meaningful judicial reform to end the revolving-door justice system." (Actively champions lobbying senior governments to toughen the justice/bail system for repeat offenders.)” · pinterforprogress.com, 2026-09-14
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“Skeptical of root-cause spending and consequences-first: "Throwing more money at street-level disorder simply isn't working" / "throwing more money at systemic challenges simply is not working," and his prescribed fixes are upstream enforcement, "Press upstream levels of government relentlessly for meaningful judicial reform to end the revolving-door justice system" plus "a practical framework fo” · STATED. pinterforprogress.com "Safer Streets" post 2026-09-14 + platform, 2026-09-14

Serial entrepreneur (hospitality/real estate/tourism, 20+ yrs); ran for Kelowna council in 2005; BRACE for Change founding candidate; legal name Jay C Rathwell.

12 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“Plank 5: "Sky-high Development Cost Charges are making it too expensive to build... Cut the fees. Lower DCC charges so builders can build." (+1: no family-sized emphasis, frame is all-housing.)” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should put tighter limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb to free up homes for long-term renters.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“Overly restrictive Airbnb rules and excessive red tape are killing legal income streams... Loosen the rules and cut the nonsense... Treat Airbnb like a legitimate business.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans disagree
  Stated“We don't have a Homeless problem, we have a Drug and soft on crime problem... mandatory treatment or jail. No more tolerance, no more excuses.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Enforce the law, period. Shut down open drug use, crack down on repeat offenders... restore order and take back the streets.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans disagree
  Stated“Zero-tolerance stance ('mandatory treatment or jail') runs against harm-reduction expansion; backs coerced treatment.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“Put the top repeat offenders under constant surveillance, enforce zero tolerance, and hit them with charges the second they step out of line.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Downtown is 'a revolving door of theft, drugs, and disorder'... 'Track them and shut it down' - downtown enforcement is the campaign centrepiece.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“Ask tougher questions about major spending, prioritize core municipal services.” · BRACE platform (personally endorsed; site paid for by the BRACE coalition), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Congestion 'backing traffic up across Highway 97 and over the bridge... Implement AI-driven traffic lights and real-time adaptive signals.'” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Sky-high Development Cost Charges are making it too expensive to build... Cut the fees. Lower DCC charges so builders can build.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Plank 6: "Put the top repeat offenders under constant surveillance, enforce zero tolerance, and hit them with charges the second they step out of line"; plank 1: "mandatory treatment or jail. No more tolerance"; "crack down on repeat offenders… restore order and take back the streets." Signature theme, actively championed.” · voteformeordont.com, 2026-09-21
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Strongly disagrees
  Stated“Explicitly dismisses the root-causes framing: Plank 1 "We don't have a Homeless problem, we have a Drug and soft on crime problem... mandatory treatment or jail. No more tolerance, no more excuses"; "Enforce the law, period. Shut down open drug use, crack down on repeat offenders... restore order and take back the streets." Reframes housing/addiction/MH as an enforcement problem and prioritizes co” · STATED (BRACE, own words). voteformeordont.com, 2026-09-21

Co-founder of The Rogerie (downtown shop turning recovered plastic waste into products); UBCO grad, former robotic-automation engineer; legal name Brayden John David Rogers.

1 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans disagree
  Stated“Are those benefiting the most from rising land value and taller buildings contributing their fair share to infrastructure? - leans toward extracting more, not less, from developers.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; “Campaigning on 'whether development is paying an appropriate share of the infrastructure it requires.'” · Castanet interview, 2026-09-17 ↗

Notes: Not to be confused with fellow candidate Brian Rogers.

Electrician; Kelowna resident 50+ years; former People's Party of Canada federal candidate (2021); ran for council 2022. ForChange lists him as 'Brian Robert Rogers.'

2 of 24 positions on record

• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“Changes are needed in Kelowna. Too Much: 1)Crime 2)Homelessness 3)Taxes.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Climate action should be one of the city's top budget priorities.Strongly disagrees
  Stated[2022] “He 'reject[s] the climate alarmists' views on the subject' - rejects the premise of climate action as a priority.” · The Phoenix News 2022 voter guide (citing his 2021 Capital News interview), 2022-10 ↗

Notes: Not to be confused with fellow candidate Brady Rogers. Thinnest public record in the field; no campaign website.

Landscape gardener (~20 years) and musician in multiple Okanagan bands; ~22 years in Kelowna; first-time candidate.

9 of 24 positions on record

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED. Infrastructure-first: "Our city is growing faster than our infrastructure. Over the past few years there has been explosive growth in our city due to provincial mandates... these targets don't come with funding for the increased demand on local infrastructure so we are starting to fall behind" (also "If we have to choose between building yet another park or upgrading our infrastructure, I'” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“We can look at bylaws addressing where and what non-profits can operate in the city and increasing bylaw and RCMP presence. We are currently a destination for addiction tourism.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans disagree
  Stated“You cannot treat addiction by enabling an addict... we will need involuntary care - rejects the harm-reduction approach in favour of involuntary care.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“...and increasing bylaw and RCMP presence.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Increasing bylaw and RCMP presence as a municipal-level action on addiction/crime.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“If we have to choose between building yet another park or upgrading our infrastructure, I'll choose infrastructure every time. Cites Bertram overpass, dog park overrun, 350 Doyle sale as waste.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“We don't need to suffer with tight parking stalls, lack of sidewalks and traffic congestion, when we can build them right the first time.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"Our city is growing faster than our infrastructure. Over the past few years there has been explosive growth in our city due to provincial mandates requiring we meet certain housing targets. Unfortunately these targets don't come with funding for the increased demand on local infrastructure so we are starting to fall behind." (Agrees growth outran infrastructure, but attributes it to provincial m” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“Enforcement + coercive care, rejects the harm-reduction/root-cause "enabling" model: "increasing bylaw and RCMP presence. We are currently a destination for addiction tourism"; "You cannot treat addiction by enabling an addict... we will need involuntary care." Favours treatment only via involuntary care and more RCMP/bylaw presence over social-support spending → lean disagree (-1 not -2: he does ” · STATED. ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: Does not use election signs and has pledged to serve as a full-time councillor.

CPA, CA, CEPA (35+ years; former partner at Grant Thornton and BDO); past president of Kelowna Chamber, Downtown Kelowna Association and URBA; 2009 byelection runner-up.

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“STATED. Champions "faster, more predictable approvals for compliant projects" and a "Housing Fast Track" for affordable/rental/missing-middle housing, and would support "a review of municipal delays, processes and fees that add unnecessary costs." Cuts red tape + targets missing-middle/ground-oriented supply = lean agree. +1 not +2: he pairs it with an infrastructure-keep-pace condition ("in areas” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Would support 'measurable investments in treatment, recovery and supportive housing.'” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Stronger enforcement against violence, property crime and threatening behaviour' always paired: 'We must combine compassion with accountability and public safety.'” · Campaign site + ForChange questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Coordinated action among the City, RCMP, bylaw services, health agencies and housing providers; stronger enforcement (past DKA president).” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Strongly agrees
  Stated“I will advocate that municipal property-tax increases not exceed inflation unless exceptional circumstances are clearly demonstrated and Council publicly explains the measurable value.” · Campaign site, 2026-09 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“The answer cannot simply be to increase taxes... thorough review of City programs and expenditures; distinguish needs from wants.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Achievable measures to reduce congestion, improve transit and make responsible long-term infrastructure investments - roads and transit named together, neither ranked top.” · Campaign site, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Would support 'a review of municipal delays, processes and fees that add unnecessary costs' to housing.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“Priority 2: "ensuring infrastructure and public services keep pace with development"; Housing Fast Track only "in areas where existing infrastructure and services can responsibly support growth"; Priority 3: "achievable measures to reduce congestion." (Infrastructure-keep-pace / reduce-congestion stance = mild agree; he simultaneously champions a "Housing Fast Track," so not a strong over-approval” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Explicitly pairs both: supports "measurable investments in treatment, recovery and supportive housing" AND "stronger enforcement against violence, property crime and threatening behaviour," with the recurring formula "We must combine compassion with accountability and public safety." Genuine both-matter.” · STATED, 2026-09-21

Kelowna small-business owner (Kelowna Sea-Doo Rentals); background in environmental protection and large-scale construction/energy project supervision; BRACE founding candidate.

6 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Personally: 'finding more effective ways to help people experiencing homelessness'; co-signed platform protects public spaces from 'unmanaged disorder' - mixed.” · Personal site + BRACE pillar 8, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Personal priority: 'taking meaningful action to reduce crime'; co-signed: 'enforcement, stronger coordination with police... safety measures people can actually see and feel.'” · Personal site + BRACE pillar 1, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“'Greater accountability for how taxpayers' money is spent... spend responsibly'; 'prioritize core municipal services, measure results.'” · Personal site + BRACE pillar 9, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Priorities include both 'improving traffic management' AND 'improving practical transit options' - neither ranked top.” · Personal site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“Priorities: "improving traffic management and ensuring new developments properly account for traffic flow and infrastructure"; platform pillar 03 "Infrastructure Synchronicity" + pillar 04 "Smarter Traffic Management." (His own words; implies current developments don't sync with infrastructure = mild agree.)” · Personal site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Root-causes side (personal + endorsed platform): "finding more effective ways to help people experiencing homelessness" / connect people to "shelter, treatment, mental-health supports... recovery options." Enforcement side: personal priority "taking meaningful action to reduce crime" + endorsed "We will advocate for enforcement... neighbourhood safety measures people can actually see and feel." Mi” · STATED, 2026-09-21

Notes: His tone is notably milder than his BRACE running mate JC Rathwell; positions are drawn from his own statements, not attributed from others.

Red Seal journeyman carpenter and mechanical engineering technologist; homeless-outreach volunteer; perennial candidate (mayor 2014 and 2022 - 0.82% in 2022).

7 of 24 positions on record

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED. "Make sure infrastructure keeps up with Development not let Development move faster than infrastructure", an explicit infrastructure-first stance that leans against accelerating/deregulating development, with no red-tape-cutting or family-sized-home position. -1.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Create more Group homes for homeless and intervene with counseling and occupational Health and wellness.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“Intervene with counseling and occupational Health and wellness.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗; [2022] “Q: Should all neighborhoods have small complex care housing? A: 'Yes.'” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Strongly agrees
  Stated“Traffic Circles build more. Advocate for 3 lanes coming into Kelowna and a cantalivered sidewalk on side of bridge - his entire transportation plank is road capacity, no transit counterweight.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Strongly disagrees
  Stated[2022] “Q: Do you support replacing the current Kelowna Theatre...? A: 'No, low priority, only maintenance upkeep.'” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“"Make sure infrastructure keeps up with Development not let Development move faster than infrastructure." (Explicit infrastructure-first stance = agree direction; prescriptive rather than a full over-approval critique, so +1.)” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans agree
  Stated“Social/root-cause response to homelessness: "Create more Group homes for homeless and intervene with counseling and occupational Health and wellness"; 2022 RRA: "Yes" to small complex-care housing in all neighbourhoods. His stated "#1 Public Safety" plank is environmental design (Rail Trail lighting), not enforcement/policing presence → leans root-causes.” · STATED. ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Horse trainer / outdoor-recreation operator and former champion cross-country runner (Central Okanagan Sports Hall of Fame, 2026); lived experience of homelessness; perennial candidate (mayor 2012 as Silverado Shackleton, mayor 2022). Official list: Silverado Brooks Socrates.

6 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• New growth should go downtown and into town centres instead of spreading onto the hillsides and suburbs.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “I am of the idea of building higher more than sprawl.” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “We should want to be looking after the less fortunate - proposes army-style dry housing set ups that give people food and shelter.” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “On Hollywood Rd N expansion: 'we could be entertaining a different system with the costs allocated to this idea. An above ground system that is more modern in design.'” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans disagree
  Stated[2022] “Would redirect road-expansion funding to a transit alternative.” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• The city should fund big downtown projects like the proposed Performing Arts Centre.Mixed / neutral
  Stated[2022] “On replacing the theatre: fundraisers 'variously matched with city / business / individual coffers' - supports the project, prefers only partial city funding.” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Stated[2022] “Value of the ALR land and the incredible history of our farming community... It is very sad to see the small farm going the way of the dodo bird.” · Rutland Residents Association questionnaire, 2022 ↗

Notes: Nearly all positions date to her 2022 campaign; her 2026 campaign website was unreachable during research.

Lifelong Kelowna resident; GM of the BC Wine Authority; former Okanagan College associate dean (18 yrs); past Kelowna Chamber president, current BC Chamber chair; member of the Mayor's Task Force on Crime and Safety; ran for council 2014.

10 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED. On growth: "Nor do I believe growth should happen without sufficient planning. I would look at existing long-term plans, consult with citizens and take input from the staff"; platform pillar "Collaborative Leadership: Encourage transparent decision-making, community consultation." Champions more planning/consultation; leans against trading process for approval speed. No red-tape-cut or fam” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on housing and shelters for homeless people, including on-site support workers.Leans agree
  Stated“Her safety approach 'calls for... compassionate support for people experiencing homelessness'; 'Prevent homelessness' is one of her five priorities.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Complex social issues that cannot be addressed through enforcement alone... expanded support for police, fire, and bylaw services... and compassionate support - balanced.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Leans agree
  Stated“'I want compassionate care for our homeless and our addicted, but I do want to focus on our citizens.'” · ForChange questionnaire + Castanet forum, 2026-09-17 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Leans agree
  Stated“It calls for expanded support for police, fire, and bylaw services (sat on the Mayor's Task Force on Crime and Safety).” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Residents should feel safe in their homes, neighbourhoods, businesses, public spaces, and downtown... expanded support for police, fire, and bylaw services.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Fiscal responsibility does not mean simply spending less... Sometimes, it means making an investment now because delaying it will cost more later.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Champions cost management AND 'expanding revenues beyond taxes'; explicitly rejects cut-first framing.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“Pillar "Growth with Purpose: Support housing, transportation, and infrastructure investments that keep pace with growth while protecting our quality of life." (Infrastructure-keep-pace-with-growth marker = mild agree.)” · Campaign platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“some of the challenges associated with homelessness, mental health, addiction, and vulnerability are complex social issues that cannot be addressed through enforcement alone... [approach] calls for expanded support for police, fire, and bylaw services... and compassionate support for people experiencing homelessness"; at the forum: "I want compassionate care for our homeless and our addicted, but ” · STATED, 2026-09-17 ↗

Notes: Runs a deliberately balanced platform with few hard commitments, so several questions could not be scored.

Three-term Central Okanagan (SD23) school trustee incl. two years as board chair; three-term Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District trustee; 30 yrs corporate ops/admin; official list 'Lee-Ann R Tiede.'

8 of 24 positions on record · 1 from recorded votes · campaign site

• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Voting record“As SD23 trustee, cast the lone vote against a 2.1% trustee stipend increase during a $4.2M deficit (spending restraint). Note: a school-board fiscal vote, mapped directionally.” · SD23 school board vote (West K News), 2026-04-18 ↗
• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans disagree
  Stated“STATED. Q2: "I would support development that is matched with the infrastructure needed to serve it... and considers the impact on existing neighbourhoods. I would also insist residents have a meaningful opportunity to be heard on significant and historical site changes." Infrastructure-matched + more-consultation = leans against cutting red tape; no family-sized-home priority. -1.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Supports 'effective policing and bylaw enforcement' and names policing an essential service, but 'Tax increases should never be the first option' - trade-off cuts both ways.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“Council can help by supporting effective policing and bylaw enforcement, improving lighting and public spaces.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“I would look for savings before asking taxpayers for more money... Tax increases should never be the first option.” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Supporting local businesses and agriculture... protecting our natural spaces; site: protect 'corduroy orchards, parks, waterways.'” · ForChange questionnaire + campaign site, 2026-09 ↗
• The city has approved too much new development without the roads and infrastructure to handle the traffic it creates.Leans agree
  Stated“Q2: "I would support development that is matched with the infrastructure needed to serve it ... and considers the impact on existing neighbourhoods." (Infrastructure-match stance = mild agree; forward-looking, not a past-record critique, so +1.)” · ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Leans disagree
  Stated“Names policing an essential service to protect and backs "effective policing and bylaw enforcement, improving lighting and public spaces," while framing help for the vulnerable as downstream of the economy and fiscal restraint: compassion for "those facing homelessness or addiction" but "A strong economy gives us the means to help those who need it most" and "Tax increases should never be the firs” · STATED. ForChange Kelowna questionnaire, 2026-09-21 ↗

Notes: Her prior elected record is on the school board, which doesn't set city policy, so few positions carry over to these questions.

Independent contractor/interior-remodel specialist, frontline health-care worker (geriatrics), sculptor of the Kelowna 100-Year Centennial Collage in City Hall; 39 years in Kelowna; slogan 'Uncompromised.'

13 of 24 positions on record · campaign site

• The city should cut red tape to get more family-sized homes built, like townhouses and three-bedroom-plus units, not just small condos.Leans agree
  Stated“STATED. Housing & Construction pillar: "Rob will cut through red tape"; Accountability Dashboard: "Red Tape on Legal Suites, Streamline permits for safe secondary suites, FOR"; endorsed commitment #5: "Lower Barriers to Development: Reduce unnecessary costs and barriers." Actively wants to cut permitting red tape/cost for ground-oriented gentle-density housing (secondary suites, vacant-lot infil” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should clear tents and encampments out of parks and public spaces more aggressively.Leans agree
  Stated“Endorsed commitment #1: 'Safer Streets: Real enforcement, repeat-offender accountability'; 'protecting public spaces... from unmanaged disorder.'” · Campaign site + endorsed BRACE platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should expand services like complex care and harm reduction.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Endorsed platform supports 'shelter, treatment, mental-health supports, recovery options'; his commitment #9 frames it against 'the same failed approach' - mixed; harm reduction never mentioned.” · Campaign site + endorsed BRACE platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should pay for more RCMP officers.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“'Safer Streets: Real enforcement' alongside 'Every tax dollar should be treated with respect' and dashboard 'Status-Quo Spending - AGAINST' - pro-enforcement, no tax-funded-increase support.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Downtown needs a lot more bylaw officers and security on the street.Leans agree
  Stated“'Real enforcement, repeat-offender accountability, and neighbourhood safety people can feel'; safer streets is the first item of his campaign description.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Keeping property taxes low should be a bigger priority than adding new city services.Leans agree
  Stated“'Ask tougher questions about major spending, prioritize core municipal services'; dashboard votes AGAINST status-quo spending.” · Campaign site + endorsed BRACE platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Before raising taxes, the city should cut spending on services that aren't essential.Leans agree
  Stated“'Prioritize core municipal services' + 'Audit programs by measurable results, not intent.'” · Campaign site + endorsed BRACE platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should spend more on transit and protected bike lanes, even if that takes away road space or parking.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Endorses 'Practical Transit Options: Reliable transit that works' BUT leads with 'Smarter Traffic & Infrastructure: Better traffic flow'; bike lanes never addressed.” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Widening and adding roads for drivers should be Kelowna's number-one transportation priority.Leans agree
  Stated“Endorsed commitment #6: 'Smarter Traffic & Infrastructure: Better traffic flow and technology-driven solutions'; driver congestion relief is the lead transportation plank.” · Campaign site + endorsed BRACE platform, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should lower the fees it charges builders to encourage more housing.Leans agree
  Stated“Endorsed commitment #5: 'Lower Barriers to Development: Reduce unnecessary costs and barriers' + Housing pillar 'cut through red tape.'” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• Farmland on the edge of Kelowna should stay protected from development, even if that means less room for new housing.Leans agree
  Stated“'No Farmers. No Food.... Rob will fiercely protect small-scale family farms, defend our local food security' (trade-off untested against his pro-expansion commitment).” · Campaign site (Pillar #1, Agriculture), 2026-09-21 ↗
• Kelowna should take a harder line on repeat offenders, including pushing the province and the courts for stricter bail and prosecution to protect residents.Leans agree
  Stated“Commitment #1 "Safer Streets: Real enforcement, repeat-offender accountability, and neighbourhood safety people can feel." (Champions repeat-offender accountability/enforcement = agree; no explicit push-the-province/courts-on-bail language, so +1 not +2. Note: did not submit the ForChange questionnaire.)” · Campaign site, 2026-09-21 ↗
• The city should focus more on the root causes of crime, like housing, addiction, and mental health, more than on policing and enforcement.Mixed / neutral
  Stated“Enforcement-leading identity ("Safer Streets: Real enforcement, repeat-offender accountability, and neighbourhood safety people can feel" is the first item of his campaign) BUT genuinely endorses the treatment/care side: republishes the platform supporting "coordinated approaches that connect people with shelter, treatment, mental-health supports, recovery options," and his own commitment #9 is "R” · STATED, 2026-09-21

Notes: Nearly all of his positions come from his own campaign material rather than independent interviews or coverage.