Candidate Profiles

Overall B− · mean 1.81 · scored on 24 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). altomayor.ca is the 2022 platform (not updated for 2026) + May 2026 launch priorities + 4 yrs council record

Web & socials. mariannealto.ca · X · FB · IG

Sources. altomayor.ca; launch May 20 2026 at COAST Innovation Hub, "Experience that delivers"; 2022 platform "A City for Everyone"; four years of council minutes and major-outlet reporting. The richest evidence base in the field. Social: City channels plus campaign accounts, not independently verified for this revision.

✅ Aligned (3). Regional policing consolidation, named as a new 2026 plank and absorbed as M29b. Provincial downloading, "a more serious discussion about the sources of income for local governments" (M70b). lək̓ʷəŋən place naming, longhouse funding and the language app, the strongest host-Nations record of any sitting member (M1). Plus M6b city land bank, 2022 platform.

🟢 Close (7). CSWB initiator — she authored the plan, which is a different instrument from M11's Housing-First-plus-STEP but does substantially the same work. Façade improvement grants against M43–46 heritage. The arts and innovation district, Cultural Spaces Road Map and Create Victoria Master Plan against M50. Health-professional incentives and permissive tax exemptions for not-for-profit clinics against M13b. Expanded public-realm cleaning, bylaw presence and ambassadors against M14. My Great Neighbourhood grants and the Neighbourhoods division against M80. Co-requesting provincial referendum authorization with Saanich against M81. The welcome-and-thank-you business programme against M71.

🟡 Partial (5). "Unlock more homes" with no composition target or quarterly reporting (M6). Rent banks and the 2026 rental-support motion, no STR tightening and no heat-bylaw position (M9). "Reimagine transportation" with no jurisdictional line, capital figure or sidewalk commitment (M20b, M23b). Climate Leadership Plan support with Climate Friendly Homes uptake unpublished (M58). Crystal Pool as a one-off referendum precedent, no general threshold (M77).

📋 Accountability — what the council did, on the record. Four consecutive years above inflation: 6.15%, 7.93%, 6.99%, and 7.28% aggregate in 2026, which is 9.34% residential and 4.78% business, about $323 more on a median $1,015,000 home. The 2026 budget opened at 13.3% in November and roughly $7M of the reduction came from one-time measures including a cancelled $2M debt-reduction payment and a $2.8M parking-reserve draw — an approach she described herself as not a long-term solution, which is the exact conduct M66c is written to prevent. Operating budget $300.0M adopted 2023 to $394.1M adopted 2026, roughly 31%. Zero modern efficiency tools in four years: no ZBB, no competitive benchmarking, no permit-processing benchmarks, no quarterly dashboard, no municipal AI standard. MNP governance report not implemented despite being on file. Climate Friendly Homes uptake not published. Missing Middle delivered 61 permits in 2024 against a 150 target. CSWB Phase 1 funded by drawing $2.5M from Centennial Square, $4M from the Financial Stability Reserve and $1.5M from Royal Athletic Park. Dowler Place: a confidential draft motion authored by her, to convert Dowler Place into a Pandora relocation site, was disclosed by CHEK via an FOI in which the documents were accidentally attached, June 2025, with consultation skipped because "we knew what the comments would be from the public." She issued a statement: "I recognize that there has been confusion and frustration… residents haven't had a full or accurate picture of the project… I apologize for that confusion." A related item belongs on the record and was missing from this page: firefighter Josh Montgomery was suspended one day for an open letter to Premier Eby opposing the hub; Alto declined to apologise to him and publicly told the Premier that local personnel matters were "not his bailiwick" (Times Colonist, 2024). She has stated no position against any of these measures. This is what a council did across four budgets, and it is the baseline any 2027 council starts from.

⚪ Still. Permits and AI pre-screening, managed competition, the performance dashboard, accessibility and washrooms, streetlighting, GIS and AI governance, the Integrity Commissioner, the regional bill, the Household Bill.

What would move it. A published position on any of the five method measures. Four years of a mayoralty produce Close marks; the method gap is a record, and only a stated commitment closes it. ---

Overall B− · mean 1.77 · scored on 11 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). No 2026 platform site located. Press release + outlet coverage + 4 yrs record

Web & socials. electjeremy.ca · IG

Sources. No dedicated 2026 campaign site located; announcing through press release and outlet coverage (Victoria News Dec 21 2025, Victoria Buzz Dec 19 2025). Council record, authored motions, LinkedIn. Topped the 2022 poll with 14,238 votes.

✅ Aligned (3). Co-author of the May 2026 cooling bylaw motion, 26°C, New Westminster precedent (M9/M64). Climate leadership (M58). Caledonia Place regional motion, "the city for too long has done it all" (M70b).

🟢 Close (3), two of them new July 30. Council adopted the city's first family housing policy and approved nearly 9,000 homes including non-market and rental — a family housing policy is a composition instrument and this page previously recorded him as having none (M6). He also drafted the Sept 2023 Missing Middle overhaul mechanics: dropped bonus-density costs, raised heights, livable basements plus three above-ground storeys. He advanced a new CRD transportation service as CRD vice-chair — an act, not the director's seat that banned inference 5 excludes (M70c, M23b).

🟡 Partial (5). Pro-transit and pro-bike with no adaptive-signal commitment (M19). Sponsored the VicPD 2026 ask cut, 4 to 2 patrol officers, "the ability of Victoria taxpayers to pay for police services is stretched to the absolute max" — fiscal restraint from the progressive side, not regional consolidation (M29). Voted YES on the 2026 budget (M65/M66). Crystal Pool YES, no general threshold (M77). "A miniature London or Paris rather than a miniature Vancouver or Manhattan" as an aesthetic frame (M43).

📋 Accountability. Voted for every budget in the term including the 7.28% aggregate. Called Coun. Hammond a "liar" over the pool and apologised. No permit benchmarks, no dashboard, no ZBB position in four years. His ❌ on managed competition was removed in v1.8 for having no source — he has never stated a position on competitive testing.

⚪ Still. Permits, managed competition, the dashboard, cleanliness standards, families and schools, accessibility, streetlighting, the Integrity Commissioner, the Household Bill, neighbourhoods and turnout. ---

Overall C+ · mean 1.73 · scored on 15 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). No 2026 platform site located. Outlet coverage + 4 yrs record

Web & socials. mattdell.ca · X · FB

Sources. No dedicated 2026 site located; Victoria News Dec 31 2025, Victoria Buzz Jan 5 2026, CHEK 2025. 15 years drafting policy for the BC government. 13,899 votes in 2022 in a 37-candidate field.

✅ Aligned (4). Cooling bylaw co-author (M9/M64, M58). AI public consultation imagery pioneer, the Beacon Hill All-Weather Field proposal, absorbed as M53b (M53). Hermann's Jazz Club preservation, absorbed as M46b, and the BreakOut West motion committing up to $25,000 of in-kind Conference Centre space — the strongest cultural-mechanism record in the field (M43, M50).

🟢 Close (4). OUR DWTN at $1M annual is a funded named programme, not a cleanliness aspiration (M14, M71). The YMCA replacement pool securing service continuity through Crystal Pool construction — new July 30, and it also sits in Where the Field Is Ahead as an idea ACTW lacks (M52). Annual line-by-line budget review posture against M65.

🟡 Partial (4). "7000+ units approved this term" as volume without composition discipline (M6). "The epitome of bad governance is the failure to make a decision" as process critique without a permit mechanism (M7). Province-blaming present in framing (M70b). Uses AI without governing its use — the distinction is the whole of M53d.

📋 Accountability. YES on every budget; "between 2023-2025 the City of Victoria had the lowest municipal tax increase of most surrounding major cities," a comparative frame rather than a restraint commitment. No permit benchmarks, no dashboard, no ZBB position. His ❌ on managed competition was removed in v1.8 for having no source.

Fact-check of his comparative-tax claim, completed July 31 2026 — largely TRUE, and the wording matters. Dell's statement was that Victoria had "the lowest municipal tax increase of most surrounding major cities" between 2023 and 2025. Checked against the neighbouring municipalities: Victoria ran 6.15% / 7.93% / 6.99%. Saanich ran 7.19% / 7.93% / 8.02%. Esquimalt ran 6.3% / 7.72% / 9.90%. Oak Bay ran roughly 11.6% draft / ~9.7% / 11.4%. Langford ran 12.41% / 15.6% / 9.77%. Colwood ran 6.43% / 4.9% / below 5%. Verdict: cumulatively Victoria was lower than Saanich, Esquimalt, Oak Bay and Langford, and higher than the smaller Colwood. "Lower than most" is defensible and sourced. "Lowest of all" would be false, and he did not say it. Oak Bay's 2023 and 2024 finals and Colwood's 2025 final carry minor source discrepancies and are flagged in the Open Questions block. This is recorded because the framework's own accountability rule cuts both ways: a claim that survives checking should be recorded as surviving. ---

Overall B− · mean 1.96 · scored on 13 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). No 2026 platform site located. Threads + outlet coverage + 4 yrs record

Web & socials. davethompsonvictoria.ca · IG · FB

Sources. No dedicated 2026 site located; Threads, council record, Victoria Buzz Jan 2026. Spouse Diana Gibson is NDP MLA for Oak Bay–Gordon Head.

✅ Aligned (4). Hoboken Vision Zero benchmark cited publicly — the same peer-city evidence the framework uses (M19). Cooling bylaw co-author (M9/M64, M58). Coordinated Access and Assessment downtown prioritization motion, June 2025, the intake-side complement to STEP (M11).

🟢 Close (1). Protected bike-and-roll peer-city benchmarking against Saanich, Esquimalt, Edmonton, Minneapolis, Chicago, Austin, Boston, Nashville and Ann Arbor — a named method matching the framework's own (M20b).

🟡 Partial (5). Eliminate parking minimums, a real instrument but not composition (M6). YES on the VicPD ask cut, "the police budget has gone up by almost 40% during council's term" (M29). YES on the 2026 budget (M65/M66). Crystal Pool YES (M77). "Great neighbourhoods" as a declared priority with no mechanism (M80).

📋 Accountability. YES on every budget. No permit benchmarks, no dashboard, no ZBB position. ❌ on managed competition removed in v1.8 for having no source.

Ideas the framework lacks. E-bike rebates for lower-income households and an EV-ready wiring mandate for new private parking. M57 covers public charging and neither of these. ---

Overall C+ · mean 1.54 · scored on 14 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). 2022 platform + 4 yrs record. Declaration status unconfirmed in profile notes

Web & socials. susankim.ca · X · IG · FB

Sources. Listed on Livable CRD's volunteer-maintained confirmed-candidate list, July 2026. No launch coverage in any major outlet located. Verify directly. Council record, 2022 platform. Director of Operations, Fernwood NRG. 14,005 votes in 2022.

✅ Aligned (4). Vacancy control between tenancies and AirBnB licensing tightening, 2022, absorbed as M9c and M9b. Public bathrooms as transportation infrastructure, her own 2022 plank absorbed as M24b — the clearest single case of the framework adopting a sitting progressive councillor's idea outright. Non-English grant applications, absorbed as M80b. Voted NO on the 2026 budget from the left, "the system itself is just flawed. We're being asked to tax in a way that just sucks" (M65/M66, M70b). Climate advocacy conceptually ahead of the 2026 cooling motion (M58).

🟢 Close (2). Non-market, public and co-op housing emphasis aligning on M6's 15% non-market line. Bike valet expansion, reduced parking minimums, car-share and e-bike incentives as named instruments (M20b).

🟡 Partial (3). Pro-supportive-housing (M11). "Being asked to tax in a way that just sucks" as a structural critique of the tax instrument with no mechanism (M66d). Crystal Pool YES (M77).

❌ Opposed (1). Lone NO on the July 2024 daytime sheltering ban, an 8-1 recorded vote (M33). This single vote is the entire reason her Safety grade is D. It should be read as one recorded position, not as a general verdict.

📋 Accountability. No permit benchmarks, no dashboard. ❌ on managed competition removed in v1.8 — her disclosed Labour Council commitment concerned P3s, a different instrument from competitive testing of an in-house service. Her posture is plausibly unfavourable and remains unstated.

📋 Contested item on the public record, added July 31 2026 because its absence from this page was a completeness failure. In November 2023 her name appeared on an archived open letter, first signed by former Ontario MPP Sarah Jama, which called for a Gaza ceasefire and cast doubt on sexual-violence accusations arising from the October 7 Hamas attack. Per CBC News, a petition "with over 8,500 signatures as of Monday evening" sought "her official censure… a ban on her wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf in council and her removal from all official board appointments." BC Opposition leader Kevin Falcon called for her resignation and Municipal Affairs Minister Anne Kang said she should apologise. Two qualifications belong with it: CBC reported it could not independently verify that she signed the letter, and Jama later stated she was not the author and asked to be removed. This is recorded as a contested item, not scored against any measure. It is not a municipal policy position and does not enter the four-value scale. It is here because a voter judging her is entitled to find it on the page that claims to be the complete record. ---

Overall C+ · mean 1.70 · scored on 10 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). 2022 platform + 4 yrs record. Declaration status unconfirmed in profile notes

Web & socials. IG · FB

Sources. Livable CRD list, July 2026, listed there as "Laughton," a confirmed error in that source. No major-outlet launch located. Victoria Buzz Jan 2026. Award-winning documentary filmmaker.

✅ Aligned (1). STEP (Supporting Tenants, Enabling Pathways) motion, Jan 2026 — she originated it and Measure 11 absorbs her work directly (M11).

🟢 Close (2). Coordinated Access and Assessment motion, a named coordination mechanism on the intake side of M26. Renters' Hub, which is M9's own named mechanism.

🟡 Partial (5). Pro-supply, though STEP is throughput rather than new construction (M6). CSWB support without an hours position (M27). YES on the 2026 budget "with a heavy heart," "the public must understand the staggering cost of our current direction" (M65/M66, M66d). Crystal Pool YES (M77). "A City of Communities," walkable neighbourhood villages, her 2022 organising idea (M80).

📋 Accountability. YES on every budget despite stated reservations. No permit benchmarks, no dashboard. ❌ on managed competition removed in v1.8 for having no source.

Idea the framework lacks. A dedicated Island Health outreach worker embedded with the City's relocation team — the operational mechanism that makes relocation work at the individual level. ---

Overall D · mean 0.83 · scored on 9 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). 4 yrs record. Undeclared (decision window passed) in profile notes

Web & socials. chriscoleman.ca (2022) · X · FB

Sources. No campaign site. His own stated decision window, an incumbent's "electoral runway" of about 90 days, "so, about mid-July," has closed with no announcement, and he is absent from confirmed lists as of July 29. First elected 1986; seventh term if he runs. Chairs Victoria's Citizens' Assembly Council Committee.

✅ Aligned (1). Chairs the Citizens' Assembly Council Committee, the existing body with custody of the amalgamation file, whose remaining work is the implementation follow-through M81 is scoped to (M81).

🟡 Partial (5). CSWB support with no unified-command position (M26, M27). NO on the VicPD ask cut as a full-police-ask supporter (M29). "I think the tax lift is too high personally" while voting YES on the 2026 budget (M65/M66, M66d). Crystal Pool YES and NO on Dowler Place zoning as a process critic (M77). "Council has been drifting away from the principles of good governance," downgraded from ✅ in v1.8 because a statement on governance integrity is not advocacy for an Integrity Commissioner (M79b).

❌ Opposed (1). NO on Missing Middle, Jan 2023 and the Sept 2023 overhaul, on process objections rather than principle (M6).

📋 Accountability. Voted YES on the 2026 budget he called too high. Forty years of intermittent service and no published position on permits, the dashboard, ZBB or managed competition.

Framing alignment worth naming. "Governance is more methodical and logical, while politics tends to be more emotional" is close to the framework's own "0% ideological, 100% pragmatic," and it is a frame, not a measure. ---

Overall C · mean 1.43 · scored on 15 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). votestephenhammond.ca located July 31 2026 (this page previously recorded none) + July 6 launch coverage + authored motions + 4 yrs record

Web & socials. votestephenhammond.ca · IG · FB

Sources. Campaign site votestephenhammond.ca located July 31 2026 — this page previously recorded no 2026 site, which was wrong and understated his evidence base. Launch coverage: Victoria News, July 6 2026. Council record, authored motions, CBC, Times Colonist. City biography: victoria.ca. BA (Manitoba), JD (Osgoode Hall), non-practising member of the Law Society of BC; professional speaker and author. Launch framing: "a safer downtown, safer parks and public spaces, more sensible spending, and housing decisions that are practical, not ideological," and a stated aim of bringing "practical judgement back to the council table." In Victoria since 2005. Boards: Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, Our Place Society, Gorge View Housing Society. Campaign manager Jack Boomer.

✅ Aligned (6) — three of them corrected onto this page July 30. M33: he authored the daytime sheltering ban, July 2024, passed 8-1. M28: his FOI work surfaced that roughly 24% of all 2022 police calls came from 19 identified addresses. M33b: he drafted the Sept 2023 illicit-drug-use 30m buffer-zone bylaw, shelved on the provincial pivot. These three were sourced in this document's own text and had no table to live in, so the scorecard was not counting them. That was the largest single unfairness on this page and it ran against him. Plus capacity-first sequencing (M11), NO on every annual tax increase (M65/M66), and the downloading frame, "people are expecting us to do things in which the province and the feds have the ability to spend and go into debt for" (M70b).

🟢 Close (2). FOI-driven publication of enforcement data as a real reporting mechanism, narrower than a quarterly dashboard (M67). The security-cost compensation motion, July 2023, defeated 6-2, proposing City help funding private security for businesses disproportionately exposed to crime spillover, absorbed as M28b (M71).

🟡 Partial (5). "Enforce existing bylaws consistently" is a direct match to M33 and not to M27's hours, which he has no position on. CSWB support without a unified-command structure (M26). NO on the VicPD ask cut (M29). General "reduce red tape" with no benchmark mechanism (M7). Voting NO on every increase on a household-burden argument, without a debt rule or utility-inclusive figure (M66d). Council-conduct accountability advocacy, downgraded from ✅ in v1.8 because no statement naming an Integrity Commissioner was located (M79b).

❌ Opposed (1). NO on Missing Middle, Jan 2023 and Sept 2023 (M6).

📋 Accountability. Opposed every budget, which is a consistent record rather than a gap. No permit benchmark mechanism in four years despite a red-tape posture. ❌ on managed competition removed in v1.8 for having no source.

Guiding philosophy. "The job of council is not to run the city, but to ensure the city is run well." ---

Overall C · mean 1.25 · scored on 14 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). marggardiner.ca + monthly fiscal newsletter + 4 yrs council record

Web & socials. marggardiner.ca · X

Sources. marggardiner.ca; her monthly fiscal newsletter, the closest existing practice in the field to a published performance report; council record; Victoria News, Capital Daily, Times Colonist. B.Sc. Chemistry, M.B.A. Public Management.

✅ Aligned (5). "The annual budget ritual that we follow is fundamentally flawed and no one seems to care. There is no serious thought given to introducing rigour into our budgeting process" — the single most framework-aligned line uttered by any sitting councillor (M65/M66). "The MNP recommendations should be addressed before further major decisions," the most explicit Integrity Commissioner advocacy on council (M79b). The monthly fiscal newsletter as the closest analogue to M67. Five Pillars — prevention, harm reduction, treatment, enforcement, housing (M11). Strongest critic of the City absorbing Island Health and BC Housing roles (M70b). NO on every annual tax increase.

🟢 Close (2). The Five Pillars framework as a published approach to vulnerable residents, distinct from a unified field-operations team (M26). The monthly fiscal newsletter as an existing recurring publication doing part of the Household Bill's job (M66d).

🟡 Partial (4). Pro-character and pro-heritage tone with no mechanism (M43). Cleanliness leading her 2022 framing, "Victoria would be so much cleaner and inviting, so much safer and prosperous," sourced on the area with no standard (M14). NO on the VicPD ask cut, "going down the path of defunding the police" (M29). General red-tape posture (M7). Crystal Pool YES and strongest Dowler Place process critic (M77). Bylaw hours and DPOT were both downgraded from ✅ in v1.8 — recorded pro-enforcement votes are not a position on hours, and Five Pillars is not a field-operations team.

❌ Opposed (1). NO on Missing Middle, demanding the MNP governance review first (M6).

📋 Accountability. Opposed every budget and every Missing Middle vote — a consistent record. No published position on managed competition despite the strongest method rhetoric on council, which is the clearest gap between her framing and a mechanism. ---

Overall D · mean 0.67 · scored on 6 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). melissacseszko.ca — positioning language; detailed platform not released

Web & socials. melissacseszko.ca

Sources. melissacseszko.ca — positioning language, and a detailed platform has not been released. Victoria News, May 12 2026, CHEK News. Owns a lingerie shop on the 600-block of Fort Street, five years, with repeated break-ins on record. Born and raised in Victoria. Pronounced "Chess-ko."

📋 Office ambiguity, resolved July 31 2026. Earlier CHEK reporting framed her as running for mayor, and Capital Daily described her as the sole declared challenger to Alto. Her own site and the Victoria News announcement of May 12 2026 both state city COUNCIL, and council is the office of record. Any residual mayoral framing carried anywhere in the framework's materials should be corrected to council. This matters beyond bookkeeping: it is why Alto is unopposed for mayor, which is the single most consequential fact about this field.

🟡 Partial (4). "Safety is not just about enforcement. It is about predictability, order, and trust," sourced on the area covered by M26, M27 and M33, with no mechanism, hours or funding source (M27). "Reviving Victoria does not mean becoming another Vancouver. It means protecting what makes the city unique: heritage, charm, historic buildings, and local businesses" — the clearest published heritage commitment of any candidate and still 🟡, because it names no design standard, incentive or preservation tool (M43). "When public money is spent, there should be oversight, transparency, and performance. If a program is not delivering results, push for it to be reviewed and adjusted" — a posture in M65's family, and a posture is not an instrument. It was over-promoted to 🟢 on July 30 and demoted the same day (M65, M67). "I want to bring the heart back into the city," sourced on M71 with no target or timeline. "I want to make the streets accessible again" (M19, M20b).

📋 Correction history, stated because it is the reason anything else here is credible. The v1.8 audit removed five of her six ✅ marks, on bylaw hours, the tax glide path and ZBB, the dashboard, the $25M referendum threshold, the Integrity Commissioner and heritage — five of them resting on frame language rather than a named mechanism. This was the correction most against this document's interest and it is why the rest of the audit stands. On July 30 the scorecard was found to be rendering her Arts grade as A above evidence reading 🟡 and ⚪; corrected to C.

⚪ Still. Housing volume and composition, permits, enforcement mechanisms, homelessness, managed competition, climate, the Household Bill, the regional bill, governance, and the Foundation measures.

What would move it, and it is a publication schedule not a policy gap. She is the most directly relevant candidate in the field on the downtown and small-business cluster and her detailed platform is not out. Her ⚪ marks mean "not yet published," which the Platform Status table sets out and which is a different thing from absence. Re-score on release. ---

Overall D · mean 0.67 · scored on 9 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). karenrothe.ca (full read July 30)

Web & socials. karenrothe.ca

Sources. karenrothe.ca, full homepage read July 30 2026; Victoria News May 27 2026. Vic West resident, career BC public servant. Led the provincial team for Metro Vancouver's regional growth strategy — the strongest regional-planning credential in the field, and background rather than a position. Part of teams on the 2017 Williams Lake wildfire evacuation and on securing sustained provincial funding for BC Search and Rescue, relevant to M63 and M64b where the entire field is silent, and she has published no position on either.

🟡 Partial (7). "Council has delegated its responsibilities to staff. This has created a lack of transparency, a lack of accountability, and an erosion of public trust," with "I commit to listening, communicating, and ensuring as much transparency as possible" (M67, M79, M79b). "It shouldn't have taken a public outcry to stop the redevelopment of Centennial Square; a Council that listens and is engaged would have quickly realized it wasn't the right plan nor the right time" — consultation before commitment, which is M78 step 1, and it was over-promoted to 🟢 on July 30 and demoted the same day because a commitment to listen is not a named process (M77, M45c). "The tendency is to kick the can down the road and leave the bill for others to pay later. I won't do that" — the intergenerational-deferral argument M66c is built on, in her own words (M65/M66, M66d). "Victoria is a city of neighbourhoods. Community associations have long been stewards of these neighbourhoods" (M80). "Public transportation systems that work for all" named among core local-government responsibilities (M20b). "Remove the barriers stopping people from coming downtown" (M19, M71).

📋 Correction history. An earlier version of this page recorded a divergence with M45c on Centennial Square. Read in full context her objection is to that plan and that timing, not to renewal as such, and M45c's own mechanism — consult, residents shortlist, referendum — is what she asks for. The divergence was overstated and has been withdrawn. A snippet is not a source, and it cuts both ways.

⚪ Still. Housing volume and composition, permits, enforcement, homelessness, managed competition, climate, heritage, the referendum threshold, downloading, and the Foundation measures. ---

Overall D · mean 0.56 · scored on 8 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). wendybowkett.ca + @wdbowkett

Web & socials. wendybowkett.ca

Sources. wendybowkett.ca; @wdbowkett on X; Victoria News May 15 2026. Business strategist, MBA. Former leader with the Victoria Downtown Residents Association. Board member, The Soup Kitchen.

🟡 Partial (6). Density without amenities, her most specific published claim: a roughly 2 km² downtown neighbourhood absorbing about 518 residential units a year for five years with roughly 5,500 more in the pipeline, against "zero investments in livability for highest density living" beyond two public toilets. Paired with "housing that fits into complete communities." The closest published analogue on the field to the framework's composition-and-amenity argument, and 🟡 because no unit or percentage target is named (M6). "Residents should see their input reflected, understand how public money is being used" (M67). "Strong public trust depends on clear process, meaningful engagement, and accountable leadership" (M77, M79b). "Safe streets, reliable services, well-maintained parks and roads" (M14, M25, M27). "Victoria is a city of neighbourhoods. Residents from each of our neighbourhoods deserve to feel heard" (M80).

📋 Correction. On July 30 the scorecard was found to be rendering her Housing grade as A above a matrix entry ending "no unit target or percentage composition named, so 🟡 not ✅." Corrected to C.

⚪ Still, including one that reads oddly and is the rule working. She is a business strategist with an MBA and grades ⚪ on the business and downtown cluster, because a credential is background and not a position under banned inference 5 — the same rule applied to Coun. Hammond's board service and Coun. Kim's Fernwood NRG role. Also ⚪ on the fiscal-method suite, managed competition, enforcement, permits, climate, homelessness, and the Foundation measures. Her Soup Kitchen board service is not scored as a homelessness position. ---

Overall B− · mean 1.81 · scored on 16 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). arthurmcinnis.ca — full read July 30 (materially changed profile)

Web & socials. arthurmcinnis.ca

Sources. arthurmcinnis.ca, read in full July 30 2026 — and that read is the reason this profile changed substantially; Victoria News June 25 2026. More than 30 years as a lawyer, educator and advisor on government, infrastructure and finance projects; has taught law at UVic and in Australia and Hong Kong. James Bay. Five published platform areas: open government and fiscal responsibility; neighbourhood planning and development accountability; housing affordability and tenant protection; transportation; public safety.

✅ Aligned (6), three of them found July 30. An independent integrity commissioner, named directly — the strongest single overlap between the framework and any newcomer's platform (M79b). A real-time taxpayer dashboard for major city projects — narrower in scope than M67 and more demanding in cadence (M67). "Audits of existing city programs and spending," which is M65 in substance (M65). NEW: "streamlining approvals for appropriate infill through tools such as pattern books and pre-approved designs" — M7b named almost verbatim. NEW: "Every emergency doesn't need a police car. Tiered dispatch, community paramedicine, and proper coordination with mental health and addictions services are practical tools that work, and I will push to maintain or implement them" — M28d named directly.

🟢 Close (4), three of them found July 30. Public consultation requirements for tax increases above inflation — structurally the same instrument as M66's supermajority-plus-published-explanation override, arrived at independently (M66). NEW: tiered dispatch plus mental-health coordination against M26b's civilian crisis team. NEW: "greater use of co-operative housing and city-owned land to create homes for working families, seniors, and young people" against M6b. NEW: "we need more Missing Middle housing: townhouses, multiplexes, courtyard housing" — the composition mix M6 targets, which this page previously recorded him as lacking.

🟡 Partial (4). Neighbourhood planning and development accountability as a platform pillar with no participation or survey mechanism (M80). "When they go downtown, they can't find parking, they can't get where they want to go quickly" — precisely what M19 and M24 target, no mechanism (M19, M20b). Downtown diagnosis without a vacancy or licensing mechanism (M71). Affordability as a pillar without a debt rule or utility-inclusive figure (M66d).

One genuine tension, unresolved and stated rather than smoothed. Infrastructure reviews tied to development approvals adds a condition to the approval path where M7 commits to compressing it. Both are accountability instruments; only one is a speed commitment. He has not published his reasoning and it should be asked rather than assumed. An earlier version of this page asserted a motive for it; that was inference and was removed.

📋 Correction history. Two claims about him on this page were this document's, not his: he is a former lawyer and educator, not a sitting UVic professor, and the reasoning attributed to him on infrastructure reviews is not on the record. On the tax number he was closer to the truth than the framework was — he said "10 per cent this year alone" and Victoria News corrected him to 9.34% residential, while the framework was leading with the 7.28% aggregate.

⚪ Still. Managed competition, streetlighting, climate, the regional bill, cleanliness, accessibility, families and schools, and the Foundation measures. ---

Overall B · mean 2.14 · scored on 25 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). jacksandor.ca + launch coverage

Web & socials. jacksandor.ca

Sources. jacksandor.ca; launch coverage. Age 27, grew up on Warren Gardens in Gonzales. Red Seal electrician who has built "deeply subsidized seniors housing, condos, townhomes, mansions, and even a hospital." Former Vice President of Homes for Living; board member of BetterTransitYYJ. Running jointly with Bella Lee.

🟡 Partial (2). The most supply-forward housing platform of any newcomer, framing scarcity as the root cause of Victoria's other problems — structurally the same diagnostic logic the framework's method step 1 requires, with no composition target or quarterly reporting (M6). "All we want is a fair shot like other previous generations had" as homeownership framing with no fiscal mechanism (M66d). A BetterTransitYYJ board seat, flagged as the weakest 🟡 in this document — a governance seat is a stronger signal than professional background and is still an organizational role rather than a published municipal position. Replace with a published statement or downgrade to ⚪ (M20b).

Conflict recorded as structural fact, not allegation. Homes for Living and BetterTransitYYJ are both Livable CRD coalition partners, and under that scorecard's published methodology each partner writes and grades the questions in its own area. Two of nine grading bodies have a direct organizational relationship with one candidate. He does not control how they grade.

⚪ Still. The entire fiscal-method suite, managed competition, the referendum threshold, enforcement, climate, and the Foundation measures. His trades background is directly relevant to permits (M7) and utility GIS coordination (M53) and he has published no position on either — background is not a position. ---

Overall C+ · mean 1.67 · scored on 21 of 55 topics. See every area grade and the evidence behind it →

Evidence vintage (summary). bellalee.ca located July 31 2026 + launch interviews. No detailed platform located

Web & socials. bellalee.ca

Sources. Campaign site bellalee.ca located July 31 2026 — this page previously recorded none. Launch coverage: Victoria Buzz, June 2026. A detailed platform is still not published. Age 27, lifelong Victoria resident and renter, Oak Bay Secondary class of 2016. Her site lists prior campaign work: pressing CRD partners "to take on their share of costs for the homelessness crisis," Access BC free contraception, and championing "the referendum for a new pool" — the CRD cost-sharing item is the closest thing to an M70b/M70c position anyone in the newcomer field has, and it is campaign-history framing rather than a published municipal commitment, so it stays ⚪. Senior advisor to the Minister of Children and Family Development. Running jointly with Jack Sandor.

🟡 Partial (2). Housing and affordability as her declared central issue, pro-supply, no composition targets (M6). "Life in our city is just becoming really unaffordable" with no municipal mechanism named (M66d).

⚪ Still, including two that are worth naming. She is the candidate in this field with the most direct working knowledge of the provincial-downloading question (M70b), the framework's most cross-bloc measure, and has published no position on it. Childcare and family policy is her professional domain and that is background under banned inference 5, with no published municipal position on M12, M13, M13c or M13d. Also ⚪ on the fiscal-method suite, managed competition, enforcement and the referendum threshold.

Watch item. Whether she seeks Victoria Labour Council endorsement — application deadline 9 a.m. August 11 2026 — which would signal a position on managed competition she has not stated. ---

Evidence vintage (summary). ⛔ No information located (re-searched July 31 2026)

Web & socials. (No campaign site located)

Status: UNKNOWN. Not silent.

Sources: none. Re-searched July 30 2026 across news outlets, campaign websites, social platforms and endorsement materials. No campaign site, no platform document, no policy statement, no coverage in any outlet, no confirmed declaration date for any of the four. The only trace is the Livable CRD volunteer-maintained list, which acknowledges "mistakes happen" and contains at least one confirmed error — Coun. Loughton is listed there as "Laughton."

How they are treated. ⚪ on every measure. This is not a judgement about them and it is not the same as the ⚪ carried by a candidate whose published platform does not cover a measure. These are candidates whose material could not be found. They represent roughly a quarter of the declared council field, and until they are researched directly this matrix is not a complete portrait of it.

What would resolve it. Elections BC candidate filings after September 11 will confirm names and financial agents, but that is too late for platform detail to inform anything. Direct outreach is the only path that resolves this before the campaign period. ---

Status. 35 years policing, 32.5 with VicPD and 9.5 as Chief. Retired August 2025. "After careful reflection and many thoughtful conversations… I have decided that I will not be running for mayor… I want to focus my energy on other opportunities where I feel I add value outside of politics" (X, April 15 2026). On record before withdrawing (Times Colonist, January 2026): "When you don't have endless money and citizens don't have the ability to continue to pay these tax amounts, then it's incumbent on local government to consider what they should cut back on." He also criticised the council's hanging-basket cut, $260K to $130K.

Why it matters. His withdrawal left the fiscally-restrained mayoral lane empty and it has stayed empty. Alto remains the only declared mayoral candidate, 78 days from the election, with nominations opening in 32 days and closing in 42. That is the single most consequential fact about this field.

Status. Former councillor 2020–2022 by-election. 2022 mayoral candidate, lost to Alto by roughly 5,200 votes. 2024 BC Conservative candidate for Oak Bay–Gordon Head, third place with 7,843 votes. No public 2026 municipal signal located as of July 31 2026 — not named in any reporter's roundup, no announcement, no site update. Re-checked in the July 31 verification pass.

2022 planks absorbed into the framework. Family-doctor incentives via low or no-rent clinic space plus property tax exemptions, and permissive tax exemptions for not-for-profit clinics — both into M13b.

Trigger to watch. If he declares, the fiscal-restraint lane is contested and the differentiation argument has to shift from values to method. ---