Sim’s election was propelled by a surge of fed-up voters who hoped his centre-right party could make a difference on Vancouver’s most difficult files
A year ago, Ken Sim upended more than a decade of left-leaning civic politics to become Vancouver’s mayor, propelled by a surge of fed-up voters who hoped he and his new centre-right party could finally make a difference on the city’s most difficult files: homelessness, housing, crime, public disorder.
“I’m worried that they’re forgetting that it’s not just about making the developers happy,” she said. One of Mr. Sim’s biggest promises was to hire 100 new police officers and 100 new nurses specializing in mental health to work along with them, a promise welcomed by law-and-order advocates on one side and those wanting a compassionate approach to the city’s homeless people on the other. But that promise has been slow to materialize.
But Mr. Meggs, who recently left his job as chief of staff to former premier John Horgan, is sympathetic to how much more entrenched Vancouver’s problems seem since he first started work at city hall in 2002. Chinatown leaders who also favoured Mr. Sim for his promise to devote more attention to their historic neighbourhood – he opened a satellite city office, for example – say the new council has made a difference.
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