Arthur McInnis

Evidence vintage (summary). Re-verified 2 Sep 2026. All ten article hubs now read in full (the 1 Sep pass read four), plus the site's own sitemap.xml, the 25 Jun launch coverage, a signed 18 Apr Victoria News letter under his byline, the Livable CRD questionnaire status and the campaign-linked Facebook forum. Site-declared lastmod: `/platform` 17 Jul 2026; article hubs 1–10 all 12 Aug 2026. No HTTP Last-Modified header is served (NationBuilder), so sitemap.xml is the authority. The platform has not changed since 17 July; the hubs are the newer material.

Web, campaign & socials (checked 1 Sep 2026). Campaign site · Governance hub · Campaign-linked Victoria City Hall Forum · Professional profile · no dedicated campaign Instagram, X, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok or YouTube account was verified

Profile. Arthur McInnis is a James Bay resident, law professor, former international construction and projects lawyer and former tribunal member with more than 30 years of experience examining government, infrastructure, finance and contractual decisions. He has taught law in Canada and abroad and describes four years of close analysis of Victoria planning and governance decisions before entering the race. For voters, his professional strength is institutional accountability: he offers the field’s most detailed legal and procedural programme, although many proposals would still require staff, statutory and financial feasibility review.

2026 campaign and social verification. arthurmcinnis.ca is a current, authorized campaign site with a full platform, biography, ten long-form article hubs, donations, volunteering and sign requests. Its five planks are open government and fiscal discipline; neighbourhood planning and responsible growth; housing affordability and tenant protection; transportation for a functional city; and public safety with measurable accountability. Named mechanisms include a real-time taxpayer dashboard, civic land inventory, independent Integrity Commissioner, zero-based budgeting, a 90-day consultation before above-inflation tax increases, binding CALUC consultation, infrastructure-capacity certification, a lobbyist registry, pre-approved housing patterns, rental replacement and right of return, 99-year city-land leases, an emergency-access audit, a safety performance contract and community paramedicine. The campaign site links the Victoria City Hall Forum Facebook group, which McInnis administers, rather than a conventional candidate page. No official campaign account on Instagram, X, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok or YouTube was verified.

Sources (all retrieved 2 Sep 2026). Campaign site · full platform (lastmod 17 Jul 2026) · about Arthur · all ten hubs, each read in full (lastmod 12 Aug 2026): 1 Housing · 2 Governance · 3 Development · 4 Budget · 5 Transit · 6 Safety · 7 Civic Culture · 8 Accountability · 9 Environment · 10 Heritage · sitemap.xml · 25 Jun launch coverage · 18 Apr Victoria News letter, his byline.

Checked and empty. Livable CRD scorecard — his entry records no completed coalition questionnaire received, so there are no candidate answers to score there. Victoria City Hall Forum (723 members, he is admin) — visible posts are campaign organisation and fundraising, no policy instrument, no stable per-post URL. `/priorities`, `/why-im-running` and `/our-events` are empty stubs. No campaign Instagram, X, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok or YouTube account exists.

Current-platform note — the crosswalk asked for is now done. The full 12-topic, 55-measure crosswalk exists on his rating card under Alignment compute, scored 2 Sep 2026 against Program v1.10. 25 of 55 measures carry a scored answer; 30 are dashes. Internal proposal B (n = 25, mean 2.20), not applied. Reading the six hubs the 1 Sep pass skipped moved the internal proposal down from B+, not up: it produced one upgrade (canopy) and three weak-to-middling conversions (water transit, district energy, turnout). Newly sourced since 1 Sep and not reflected in the mark counts below: a first-term commitment to direct staff to prepare a public inner-harbour water transit feasibility report; raising tree cash-in-lieu from 2,000 to 5,000 dollars per tree into the Tree Reserve Fund to reach 40% canopy by 2050, with neighbourhood-level canopy reporting and natural-asset accounting; district-energy feasibility tied to rezoning approval with emissions baselines and monitoring; a compressed VicPD staffing timeline with quarterly public progress reporting; hate-motivated incidents tracked as a distinct CSWB reporting category; and a signed letter naming Victoria's 37.98% turnout as unacceptable.

⚠️ Quote provenance — must be resolved before publication. Four quotations used in the ✅/🟢 blocks below could not be located on the live campaign site or in any of the ten hubs on 2 Sep 2026: "Every emergency doesn't need a police car…", "streamlining approvals for appropriate infill through tools such as pattern books and pre-approved designs", "greater use of co-operative housing and city-owned land to create homes for working families, seniors, and young people", and "we need more Missing Middle housing: townhouses, multiplexes, courtyard housing". The live platform says the same things in different words — "Tiered Dispatch — Hold the Line" and community paramedicine, "a pattern book of pre-approved duplex, triplex, townhome, and laneway home designs", "long-term nominal leases to housing co-ops and non-profit providers", and missing middle as "the preferred growth form" — so the substance holds, but the quotation marks do not. A fifth, "Audits of existing city programs and spending," is Victoria News's paraphrase of his campaign documents, not his sentence, and should not be shown as a quote. Either re-source each to a dated URL or drop the quotation marks. The rating card deliberately uses none of these five and quotes only from the live site.

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.

Three of his mechanisms are things the Program has already considered and declined, so they are disagreements rather than gaps. His Public Parking Infrastructure Replacement Policy (60–75K dollars per stall into a Parking Infrastructure Reserve, funding parkades at Centennial Square, Wharf Street and Royal Athletic Park), his advocacy for OCP repeal and replacement, and his public integrity reviews of past rezonings are all recorded in the Program's declined-imports list. They cannot score, and saying so is fairer to him than leaving them as silence. Four further mechanisms have no cell in the 55 at all: the free-vote covenant, the single-meeting model, the open-books pro-forma audit before any affordability relaxation, and inner-harbour water transit.

📋 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. Confirmed 2 Sep 2026: the 25 Jun Victoria News piece states he "has taught law at the University of Victoria as well as other institutions in Canada, Australia and Hong Kong," in the past tense, and its headline now reads "James Bay resident, former lawyer" although the URL slug still says "lawyer-educator" — cite the current headline, not the slug. Third correction, 2 Sep 2026: this page previously recorded that the six unread hubs were not required for scoring. They were; hubs 5, 6 and 9 each carry commitment blocks that the platform does not contain, and see the quote-provenance warning above. 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 silent, confirmed by a full-text search of all ten hubs on 2 Sep 2026. The entire downtown-order topic (public order team, bylaw hours, encampments, daytime sheltering, drug-use buffers, reclaiming named spaces), managed competition, streetlighting and the surveillance limit, cleanliness, public washrooms and accessibility, families and schools, homelessness throughput and waitlists, GIS/LIDAR/open data/EV, a municipal AI standard, administrative attrition, the arts and sport floor, the regional bill and Goldstream, storefront vacancy, and the Foundation measures. Hubs 3, 7, 8 and 10 contain no first-person 2026 commitment at all — they are diagnosis of the 2022–26 Council. That is why these are searched dashes rather than unfound ones.