Vision Vancouver
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Vision Vancouver
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| Active municipal party | |
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| Leader | Gregor Robertson |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Ideology |
Social democracy, Green liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colours | Blue, Green |
| Seats on City Council |
7 / 11
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| Seats on Park Board |
1 / 7
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| Seats on School Board |
4 / 9
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| Website | |
| www |
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Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented in the Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.
As centre-left civic party, Vision was founded by former Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) members first elected to Vancouver city council in 2002. Following that election, Mayor Larry Campbell and Councillors Jim Green, Raymond Louie and Tim Stevenson were soon dubbed "COPE Light" by the local media due to their moderate positions on taxation and development, as opposed to the more leftist "COPE Classic" Councillors.
Ongoing disagreements between the two factions led to Campbell and his allies forming an independent COPE caucus in December 2004. At the same time, supporters of Campbell and his allies created a fundraising organization independent of COPE called "Friends of Larry Campbell".
This group and its backers eventually formed a new party called "Vision Vancouver", initially to be led by Campbell. However, when Campbell announced that he would not seek a second term as Mayor, he called on Jim Green to run to succeed him. The party decided in August 2005 to run only five of a possible ten Council candidates and did not contest school board and park board slate elections.
In the November 2005 election for Vancouver City Council, four Vision Vancouver candidates (Raymond Louie, Tim Stevenson, Heather Deal and George Chow) were elected, but the party's mayoral candidate, Jim Green, was defeated by the Non-Partisan Association's Sam Sullivan. Six members of the NPA were elected along with one for COPE.
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