Priorities
Not a platform of promises — a set of values, commitments, and directions for how North Vancouver can do better.
Principles over promises.
This is an early-stage campaign, and Liam is clear-eyed about that. A municipal candidate who arrives with a fully itemized platform before talking to residents isn't listening — they're performing.
What you'll find here instead are the values and themes that guide how Liam thinks about North Vancouver's challenges, and the commitments he's willing to make about how he'll approach decision-making on council.
Specific positions on specific issues will emerge through the campaign — through community conversations, through listening sessions, and through honest engagement with the people who live and work here.
Jump to a priority
Convenient.
Traffic is getting worse, and too many North Van residents lose hours of their week just getting around. A liveable city has to be a convenient one — where getting to work, school, or a doctor's appointment doesn't mean sitting in gridlock on the bridge.
Liam will push for the transit and infrastructure investments our city has put off for too long, and make sure people who don't live or work here aren't clogging our streets for free during rush hour.
What Liam cares about here:
- Bring Bus Rapid Transit to North Vancouver
- Set up a North Shore Bridge Trust to break ground on a replacement Second Narrows crossing within the next 10 years
- A congestion charge for those who do not live or work on the North Shore during peak hours
Accountable.
Taxpayers are on the hook for billions in cost overruns on the North Shore wastewater treatment plant, and nobody has been made to answer for it. You aren't responsible for someone else's mistakes — but you're the one paying for them.
Liam believes accountability isn't optional. When public money is mismanaged or a neighbourhood is changing in ways residents don't understand, the city owes people real answers, not silence.
What Liam cares about here:
- Call a Metro Vancouver inquiry into the North Shore wastewater treatment plant disaster
- Call an inquiry into the proliferation of currency exchanges on Lonsdale Ave
Affordable.
Liam's parents moved to North Vancouver on two working-class salaries because the city was affordable and convenient. That's the promise of a liveable city — and it's slipping away for the next generation and for the seniors who built this community.
Liam wants a city where our loved ones, young and old, can afford to stay.
What Liam cares about here:
- Leverage city-owned lands to build more affordable seniors and family housing
- Establish a renter protection office
- More childcare
- Keep property tax increases under 3%
Fun.
A liveable city isn't only about the basics — it's also about the things that make North Vancouver feel like home. The community traditions and shared spaces that bring neighbours together.
What Liam cares about here:
- Bring back the Canada Day parade
- More artificial turf fields for our kids to play soccer
The full priority list.
A welcoming city
25% of our population are visible minorities. Liam will push for more programming at community centres in Farsi and Mandarin Chinese.
Childcare
Zone childcare as-of-right across the city, so new childcare spaces don't get stuck in the permitting process.
Environment
Increase grants and contributions for community organizations working toward environmental goals. Adopt 3-30-300 goals for tree cover. Aim for parks to be 100% invasives-free by 2040.
Have thoughts on what matters most to North Van?
Liam wants to hear from you. These priorities are shaped by community — and they're still being shaped.