Overview

• The sitting city councillor announced her run in front of supporters at Helena Gutteridge Plaza outside City Hall.
• Bligh framed her campaign around service, vision and trust, pledging faster affordable homebuilding, a fix to permitting, and stronger accountability.
• She remains on council after being ejected from ABC Vancouver earlier this year, which followed her refusal to back the party's supportive housing ban.
• The new party plans to recruit a full slate for council, school board and park board through a member- and volunteer-driven process.
• Bligh criticized Mayor Ken Sim's leadership, citing the Park Board dissolution push and integrity commissioner pause, and promised investments in parks, libraries, sidewalks and a plan for the Downtown Eastside.