Dave Thompson

Evidence vintage (summary). Verified 1 Sep 2026 against his current campaign site, 25 Aug preliminary platform update, City biography, June re-election coverage, self-linked social channels and the four-year City/CRD record. The prior statement that no 2026 site was located is obsolete; a final platform is still in development. Re-verified 2 Sep 2026 — second pass, full-site enumeration. The blog was enumerated from `post-sitemap.xml` (132 posts) and `page-sitemap.xml` (6 pages) rather than sampled; 26 sources carrying a 2026 date were read in full, plus the Bluesky feed to 30 Aug and five outlet reports. The 12-topic rating card moved from n = 1 to n = 10 on that evidence. Card: Dave Thompson · Council · inc.

Web, campaign & socials (checked 1 Sep 2026). Campaign site and blog · Bluesky · Instagram · Threads · Facebook—2026 campaign · Reddit · X · City biography

Profile. Dave Thompson is a first-term Victoria councillor and CRD director, lawyer by training, small-business owner and governance and public-policy consultant. He has practised law in Ontario and British Columbia, worked for governments and non-profits, and co-founded a firm serving Indigenous communities across Canada. Before council he held several roles with the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association, including director, treasurer, vice-president, land-use committee member and neighbourhood-improvement chair. He has lived in four Victoria neighbourhoods as both renter and owner and lives in the city with his family. First elected in 2022 with 12,271 votes—the fifth-highest council total—he presents himself as an evidence-oriented progressive focused on housing, climate, mobility and social supports. Voters can judge that record alongside his support for every term budget and his concurrent bid for a CRD seat.

2026 campaign and social verification. davethompsonvictoria.ca is a current, authorized campaign site with a frequently updated blog, donations, volunteer and lawn-sign forms, and a 2026 platform consultation. A post updated 25 Aug says the programme remains preliminary and draws on City surveys, more than 45 public coffee chats, correspondence and monthly meetings. It names six priority areas: diverse housing; homelessness, mental health and addiction; safer streets for all modes; climate action, trees and the environment; a vibrant city and economy; and evidence-based, efficient governance and reconciliation. The site directly links a broad current social presence—Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, a 2026 Facebook page and Reddit—while its footer also links an older Facebook identity, X and LinkedIn. Instagram and Facebook bios explicitly say he is seeking re-election; the blog is the best dated source for current positions. No final downloadable platform, cost table or consolidated target sheet was published as of this check.

Sources. Campaign site, 25 Aug platform-development post, City biography, 2 Jun re-election coverage, social profiles linked by the campaign and council/CRD records. Family relationships are background only and are not treated as evidence of policy positions.

Current-platform note (rewritten 2 Sep 2026). The platform is still explicitly consultative and still publishes no numerical housing, safety, climate or fiscal target, no permit benchmark, no debt rule, no quarterly dashboard and no costing. What the second pass changed is the evidence base, not the platform. The blog carries 30-plus dated 2026 posts in which he describes motions he brought himself, and under Decision 14 Commits means "an action they will take or have taken" — so those are 2026 campaign text and they score. The marks below are rebuilt on that basis and now match the rating card cell for cell.

⚪ Weak (3). Capacity-first sequencing on Pandora with no instrument in the topic (M34–M37). Growth location as the emissions tool, with no target reaffirmation or annual publication (M58). "It is not 'trees vs housing;' its trees and housing" with no planting number, canopy percentage or date (M59–M63).

📋 Accountability. Supported the 2026 financial plan; the recorded opponents were Kim, Hammond and Gardiner. His own 4 Jun post states "The overall tax increase is 7.28%" and "5.06 percentage points (about 70% of the entire increase) is attributable to the police budget increases" — the same arithmetic the framework uses, confirmed from the other side of the table. He is in the 5–4 majority that cut VicPD's four-officer ask to two on 3 Mar 2026 (derived: all four opponents named on a nine-member council); the board appealed 16 Jun 2026. Named NO on the non-binding amalgamation question, 25 Jun 2026 — which does not contradict M81, since M81 says finish the file rather than re-run the process. Still nothing in four years on permit benchmarks, a dashboard, ZBB, a debt rule or the household bill. His ❌ on managed competition was removed in v1.8 for having no source; it has not been reinstated.

Corrections to the 1 Sep entry. The Hoboken Vision Zero line and the June 2025 Coordinated Access motion are carried here without a primary URL and were not reproducible in this pass — find the minute or drop them. "Eliminate parking minimums" belongs to a Jan 2023 motion he moved with Coun. Loughton (carried 6–3), which is a Record, not 2026 text. "Great neighbourhoods" is not in the 25 Aug post; the wording is "a clean, vibrant downtown and neighbourhoods," a Mention. The peer-city benchmarking line is about bike-and-roll lanes, so it sits in the mobility cluster, not M20b walking-and-transit.

Traps for the next verifier. The 2022 Victorians for Transportation Choice questionnaire is live and answerable in his own words — 13 questions on parking minimums, speed limits, transit fares and budgeting to targets. It is 2022 text, excluded by rule, and would otherwise produce four or five easy marks. Homes for Living ranked him top council candidate in 2022 — third-party, and not a source in either direction. He is Downtown neighbourhood liaison (2026) and sits on the DVBA and Regional Housing Trust Fund committees, and discloses a CRHC board seat: a seat held is explicitly not a source and none of it was used.

The open gap worth asking about. He is standing for both Victoria Council and the CRD Board, and has published nothing in 2026 on the regional water-rate path or the Goldstream filtration plant — the largest driver of the household bill (M66d, M70c). That is the cleanest question to put to him before the 11 Sep lock.

Unresolved. Council remuneration this term or next — M79f turns on it and the reporting conflicts. The 26°C motion's disposition. Authorship of the hotel-rooms motion. His individual Crystal Pool vote. Times Colonist returns 403 to this verifier, so anything sourced only to TC needs re-sourcing.

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. No 2026 URL for either was located in this pass, so neither is scored on the card.