Jeremy Caradonna

Evidence vintage (summary). Re-verified 2 Sep 2026. The full 2026 platform is now readable and was scored: see the filled 12-topic card at Candidate map › Alignment compute › Jeremy Caradonna · Council · inc (30 of 55 measures scored, 5 Record lines, 20 dashes; internal proposal C). Sources: the campaign site including its JavaScript-injected accordions, City and CRD biographies, City elections and bylaw pages, one City motion PDF, and outlet coverage 2023–2026. The prior statement that no 2026 site was located is obsolete, and so is the statement that the platform text could not be read.

Web, campaign & socials (checked 1 Sep 2026). Campaign site · Platform · Facebook · Instagram · X · City biography

Profile. Jeremy Caradonna is a first-term Victoria councillor and CRD director with a PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University. Before elected office, he worked as a tenured professor in history and environmental studies, a provincial policymaker in climate action and jobs, and the owner of a Rock Bay organic-food delivery business. He has lived in Fernwood since 2012, first as a renter and later as a homeowner, and lives there with his spouse and two teenage children. His current regional work includes the Victoria Regional Transit Commission and the Capital Region Housing Corporation, where he serves as vice-chair. For voters, his record combines housing-supply, climate, transit, arts and social-policy advocacy; because he topped the 2022 council poll with 14,238 votes and has held both City and CRD roles, his 2026 promises should be assessed against concrete first-term outcomes as well as stated intentions.

2026 campaign and social verification. electjeremy.ca is now a current, authorized re-election site with a biography, platform, achievements, endorsements, videos, donations and campaign sign-up. It reports more than 9,000 homes approved during the term, including more than 2,000 non-market homes and 4,000 purpose-built rentals, and foregrounds housing, community safety and wellbeing, climate, transportation, arts and recreation. These are campaign claims and approvals, not occupancy counts. Resolved 2 Sep 2026. The expandable sections are Elfsight FAQ widgets injected by JavaScript — the text is absent from the WordPress HTML, which is why earlier passes could not read it. It was retrieved from the widget payload and independently re-verified against the widget's own data endpoint. The platform runs to ten sections and roughly seventy written commitments (Housing, Transportation, Community Safety and Downtown, Climate and Environment, Capital Projects, Governance, Affordability, Arts and Culture, Reconciliation, CRD Commitments), with a parallel ten-section Achievements record. Caution for future passes: these widgets carry no timestamp and editing them does not move the page's WordPress lastmod, so the platform text can change silently. Widget IDs: Platform b0d45202-53c9-4597-9bc8-f3fdcbfffbf6, Achievements c57bbdab-e6ca-4d79-ba37-4ea013b8d7a5, Future Focus 358090d7-1b04-4e83-82ba-b12bfa981149. Facebook and Instagram are visibly updated for re-election; Instagram identifies him as a councillor and CRD director running again. The X account is the published 2022 handle, but a reliable current-post chronology was not available. No separate TikTok, Threads or Bluesky campaign account was clearly linked from the accessible site text.

Sources. 2026 campaign site, campaign biography, City biography, CRD/Transit Commission records, December 2025 re-election coverage, and council records. The candidate’s new website is the principal source for 2026 promises; its achievement totals remain campaign-attributed until reconciled with City approvals and occupancy data.

Current-platform note. The campaign’s stated objective is to make Victoria “the safest, most prosperous, and sustainable small city in the world.” It presents the next term as an extension of the first: accelerate diverse housing, implement the Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan, continue climate and transportation work, complete the Crystal Pool replacement and protect cultural infrastructure. Now confirmed against the complete platform text, not inferred from framing: there is no permit benchmark, no tax cap or glide path, no debt rule, no Household Bill, no quarterly dashboard, no published enforcement record, no crime target, no managed competition, no zero-based review test, no Integrity Commissioner, no capital-approval threshold, no Local Area Plans, no community survey and no turnout instrument. The only numbers on the platform are the canopy target (30% to 40%) and the CRD Housing Corporation expansion (3,000–3,500 homes). Nomination status: he had not filed as of 2 Sep 2026 — the City lists Alto and Atkinson for mayor and Gardiner for council. Nominations close 11 Sep 2026 at 4pm; re-check then, and again if the accordion text changes.

Mark tally, 2 Sep 2026 re-score: 3 Aligned + 16 Close + 1 Partial+ + 8 Partial + 2 Weak = 30 scored, plus 5 Record and 20 dashes = 55. Mean 1.72, band C+, internal proposal C. ✅ Aligned (3), all three re-verified 2 Sep 2026. Tenant protection and indoor heat (M9/M64): co-mover with Dell and Thompson of the 14 May 2026 cooling motion (unanimous, 26°C), named again 23 Jul 2026 when council directed bylaw amendments so landlords cannot prohibit cooling devices; 2026 platform commits to "reviewing and expanding the new Tenant Protection During Redevelopment Bylaw." Sheltering enforcement (M33): "Continue to work towards winding down sheltering in Victoria's parks," behind a YES on the 18 Jul 2024 enforcement motion (8–1). Mobility (M22/M41): commits to an E&N light-rail feasibility study and business case and to expanding the AAA cycling network. Correction: the quote previously carried here — "the city for too long has done it all" — is not sourced anywhere retrievable. The Caledonia Place motion is real and stronger than the paraphrase: he co-sponsored it with Coun. Hammond on 14 Nov 2024 (City motion DocumentId 99779), and the sourced wording is "For too long, North Park has been expected to shoulder much of the obligations of sheltering and supportive housing for the entire region." That motion now supports M70b, not M9/M64.

📋 Accountability. Correction on the budget line. He is not named in the 7 May 2026 adoption; the only retrievable account names the three opposed (Gardiner, Kim, Hammond) in a 6–3 vote, and the City's eScribe portal returns 403. "Voted for every budget in the term" is inference, not a sourced fact, and should not be published as one. The adopted increases are sourced: 3.2% (2023), 7.93% (2024), 8.68% (2025), 7.28% overall and 9.34% residential (2026). Council pay. On 14 Mar 2024 he voted for and argued for a roughly 25% councillor raise effective May 2024, mid-term — "Either this is a part-time job with part-time pay and benefits, or it is a full-time job with full-time pay and benefits" — carried 5–3; after the backlash council paused it on 4 Apr 2024 and on 1 Aug 2024 deferred the increase to the 2026–2030 term at 45% of the mayor's salary, which is the outcome his campaign now claims. Called Coun. Hammond a "liar" over the pool (23 Jan 2025) and apologised (6 Feb 2025). No permit benchmarks, no dashboard, no ZBB 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. "At no cost to taxpayers" on the Hermann's purchase is inaccurate: $3.95M from the Land Sale Reserve, 18 Mar 2024, which is public money.

⚪ Still silent (20 dashes of 55). Pattern-book housing, civilian crisis response, bylaw enforcement hours, drug-use buffer zones, the Household Bill, the CRD cost position and Goldstream, the capital threshold, parking and permit fees, transparent waitlists, business-security cost-spreading, community paramedicine, smart streetlighting and the surveillance limit, the safety dashboard and crime target, managed competition, the quarterly performance dashboard, overhead by attrition, real-estate rationalisation, GIS/LIDAR/consultation imagery, the municipal AI standard, Local Area Plans and language access, community surveys and turnout. The pattern is consistent: he is close to the Program on what to build and absent on how anyone would check.