A New Direction for Vancouver

A New Direction for Vancouver
By James Green
Written June 2007

Message from James Green:
Since the 2005 election I have spent many hours working on community advocacy committees, attending city forums, attending council meetings and meetings with other city agencies. This experience has given me a city wide view of what we are doing right and wrong as a city and what we need to do to meet and beat the challenges we face. It is clear that as a city we must rethink much of what we do and come up with new ways and means to attack and solve our problems.

It is clear that Vancouver's people want effective, fair, democratic treatment from their mayor, city councilors, and the city hall bureaucracy. It is clear that many feel that democratic process has been diminished in this city and that our mayor and council often disregard the wishes of the Vancouver people and put their political parties and wealthy supporters first.

It is clear that the Vancouver people want a civic government that has the vision and the plan to take us forward in a positive way into the 21st century. The people have spoken and want solutions to residential and business tax increases, poverty, drug addiction, crime, the sex trade, strikes, transportation congestion, pollution, lack of social and affordable housing, homelessness, the terror of gangs in Vancouver, and more. Many want the problems of the Downtown Eastside solved and the focus taken off this area. I decided to write this guide to lay the groundwork for improving our city and the way it is governed.

I offer this document to give all Vancouverites an understanding of what I stand for and what I feel needs to be accomplished to make this city even better than it already is. I offer this document, "A New Direction for Vancouver", as a guide and discussion paper. Please read through this paper and use my email address jamescarlgreen@shaw.ca to respond with your comments, suggestions or opposition.

I hope this document will help Vancouver become the best city on earth in which to live. I hope this document will motivate all Vancouver people to take more responsibility, accountability and play an important role in the future of Vancouver. Lastly, this document should help restore democracy to city hall and be sure all of your voices are heard.

My Vision for Vancouver:
I see a city that celebrates its strengths and works collectively to solve its problems. I see a city that is governed by a mayor and council that makes decisions based on the common good of all Vancouver people and not for the gain of interest groups who support the mayor and council financially. I see a city that is led by a mayor who takes action on serious problems and solves them and who commits the necessary funding to ensure that programs are sustained. I see a city that is governed by politicians who love this city more than their parties and supporters. I see a city where all elected representatives be they the Mayor, Councilors, School Trustees, Parks Board Commissioners, MLA's and M P's, work collectively to solve the problems of this city.

I see a city where all citizens accept responsibility for their actions in everyday life and before the courts. I see a city where all citizens work with their mayor and council, the city agencies and bureaucrats to reduce homelessness, poverty, crime, transportation problems, pollution, traffic congestion, densification and growth. I see a city where the rule of law prevails and where the laws and those mandated to preserve and enforce the laws are open to review, investigation, revision and change. I see a city where democracy is the guide to all we do and that the rights of all citizens are respected. I see a city where we measure the impact on the lives of the people before we implement any projects, programs or initiatives.

I see a city where arts and culture are fully funded and supported. I see a city where the rights of all people are protected and preserved. I see a city where we establish a city wide disaster readiness program that all of the people of Vancouver are aware of. I see a city that comes together and reaches its full potential.

Role of the Mayor:
For this city to thrive and solve its problems and celebrate its strengths we require a strong leader as our mayor. We need a mayor who represents all of the people of the city.
The mayor of this city is elected to lead and to act to solve the problems of the city. In fact he is, by the Vancouver Charter, The Chief Executive Officer of the city and president of the council. The mayor must first and foremost be the chief protector of the people's rights in the city. The mayor must connect with citizens on a regular basis and learn what the people want their city to be. The mayor must take responsibility for excellence in leadership and problem solving in all areas of city administration and governance and most important communicating with the citizens of Vancouver.

The mayor must be in constant contact with all city and community associations and should hold monthly open forums in communities throughout this city.

The mayor must inspire all of us, have a plan and be capable of making things happen. The mayor’s overriding goal should be to implement new initiatives that integrate sound business principles, social justice, public consultation and cooperation into city government. The mayor should use a wide range of techniques and programs to achieve this. He should use all resources available to him to create a cohesive and effective team out of council. He should use his strong leadership and communication skills to transform city government from an adversarial based political body to a collegial team based cooperative body where action and resolution of problems prevail.

Mayor's Communications Initiatives:
The mayor of Vancouver must be in constant contact with the people of Vancouver. To ensure this occurs, the next mayor should implement a series of initiatives to keep in constant communication with the people of Vancouver including:

A mayor's call in show on the city of Vancouver television program.
Monthly forums with citizens in all communities of Vancouver.
Panel discussions lead by the mayor.
Regular reports to the citizens on the work of the mayor and council.
Use of a mayor's chat rooms, blogs and spaces on the internet.
Council meetings held in communities throughout the city.
Informal meetings between the mayor, council, city staff, and the various community
advocacy groups and associations.
Citizens breakfasts, lunches and dinners with the Mayor.
Attendance at community meetings on a regular basis to discuss issues.
Online surveys and polls.

The New Council Member:
The reality is that we have political parties at the civic level. However, for all of us to receive fair treatment and consideration, it is important for voters to vote for the person not the party. It is important that we as voters set lists of expectations we have of candidates and that they show us that they can meet these expectations before we vote for them. Below I suggest the criteria that voters should use in selecting a candidate for mayor and for council:

Is capable of making decisions independent of his/her party line.
Illustrates an understanding of the city’s problems and puts forward programs and solutions to solve these problems.
Can work as a councilor without being confrontational and divisive.
Can articulate the concerns of the people from all areas of the city.
Is not financially supported by big interest groups such as unions, developers or other powerful groups and organizations.
Can work cooperatively with all councilors regardless of the party they are from.
Cherishes the democratic rights of all citizens.

The City Wide Plan:
Vancouver’s planners and politicians traditionally are short term thinkers. Their solutions are often reactionary and they seldom plan for the long term and they seldom are proactive.
This city needs to enter the 21st century and begin using the modern planning technology available to us. We need to create a Virtual City on the internet where all levels of the city will be built. This virtual city will be based on an autocad/ Sim City planning model. All aspects of the city should be included in this virtual city including future housing, transportation, streets and roads, bridges, policing stations, sports and community centres, new retail and business outlets, social housing treatment centres and more. This instrument will lay out the city plan for the next 15 years and give all stakeholders an opportunity to influence the future plan for our city.

Tax Maintenance, New Revenue Generation and City Efficiency Program:
In times when housing, food, clothing, transportation and education are so expensive for citizens and the costs are rising, your mayor and council must determine new and innovative ways and means to generate new revenues other than property taxes and other traditional sources of revenue. To take the burden of high taxes off homeowners and businesses, we need to establish a new program that will accomplish this. To solve our social problems we must get our fiscal house in order first. The components of our program are listed below and explained below and will afford the city $100,000,000 in new non tax based revenue over a two year period which in turn will allow the city to reduce both business and property taxes:

Form a new Mayor's Advisory Board on Fiscal and New Revenue Generation Initiatives and Policy where new and innovative programs are developed and vetted to generate new non tax based revenues.
Joint ventures with the development community where the city shares in project profits for the life of projects. These new joint ventures will see equal sharing of profits between developers and the city. This will gain the city benefits far beyond the usual amenities the city gains from developers.
Profitable programs in our venues such as the QE Theatre and an
increase of festivals and city wide arts and entertainment seasonal celebration events.
City website advertising and sponsorship programs.
Parking Meter Advertising Program: As part of a new revenue generation program, we should establish a program that will use the thousands of parking meters we have as advertising spaces. The program will see pop up ads for sponsor’s each time a payment is made. This program will earn the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in new revenues.
Form a city hall efficiency advisory committee.
Reduction of all senior non union staff members salaries by 10%. Reduce senior non union management staff by 20 %.
Amalgamation of the planning and engineering department and a 15 percent reduction of the engineering and legal senior staff.
Contracting out the management of the civic theaters to a private sector firm that has a record of making civic ventures profitable.
Proper business plans must accompany all administrative reports and city plans, projects and initiatives.
An independent body will be formed to appoint a city auditor general who will review and recommend improvements to the city's fiscal management including spending of taxpayer monies. This auditor will report quarterly to the citizens of Vancouver.
The release of unconsolidated financial reports along with the city's consolidated financial reports so all citizens will have a clear breakdown of how their taxes are spent.
Weekly council meetings and regular meetings of the mayor, council and the senior management team to deal with all fiscal management problems.

Elected Official Standards of Conduct and Recall Program:
In the last ten years some city councilors and mayors have been involved in very negative activities and in some cases have broken the law and been found guilty or have pleaded guilty. Leaks of in camera information, purchasing drugs, drunk driving and being drunk in public, are among the unacceptable behaviours some have been involved in.

Elected persons must adhere to a set of rules of behavior written by an independent commission. The following ideas should form the basis of a new Standard of Conduct for the city's Mayor and Councilors:

Recall legislation of civic politicians including the mayor.
Suspension of councilors from their duties should they be proven to have breached the privacy and rules governing in camera meetings.
Legislated resignation if the mayor or a councilor is found guilty of an offense under the criminal code of Canada. The Mayor and council must resign if they are found guilty of drunken driving, selling or using drugs, or any criminal offense.
Removal from committees and acting mayor responsibilities.
Exclusion from in camera meetings.

Election Reform:
The way we elect our council and mayor requires reform and change as it is too lax and easy to run for an elected position in Vancouver and the rules that govern the mayor and council and their conduct, once they are elected, are very weak and unenforceable. The following reforms should be enacted:

To be nominated to run for mayor, potential candidates would require 200 nominators rather than the current 25 nominators.
The fee for registering to run would go from $100 to $1000.
To be nominated one will have to be a resident of Vancouver.
All campaign donations should be reported to the public before election day.
Campaign donations should be set as $1000 per business and $3000 per individual.
Should it be proven that the mayor or councilor has breached the confidentiality laws that govern in camera meetings there should be a suspension from in camera meetings and from council meetings.
Provincial recall should be enacted in Vancouver where the mayor and council can be recalled.

Compensation for Businesses Impacted By City Projects:
It is a fact that numerous businesses on Cambie Street have been negatively affected by the construction of the Canada Line. This could have been avoided if the mayor of the day had insisted on a business compensation package before he signed the street access agreement and agreed to partially funding the construction of the system. To avoid a repeat of this fiasco the mayor and council must enact the following initiatives:

The Mayor and Council must work with the community to pressure the senior levels of government to compensate the affected businesses.
We must work to establish a city fund to compensate businesses financially hurt by city projects.
Business compensation must be established and factored into all city projects that could have negative financial impact on city businesses.
Establish a Business Advisory Council to oversee all city projects and how they impact small and large businesses alike.
Ensure that Business Improvement Associations serve as watchdogs regarding how city projects affect the businesses in their areas.
Establish a fund that will compensate the Cambie street businesses for their losses.

New Budget Priorities:
It is essential that this city spend its money on initiatives that the Vancouver people place high on their priority lists. As the president of the council and the leader of this city the mayor must establish the following methods and strategies to be sure this is accomplished. All things must be based on what benefits the Vancouver people, not just what benefits the mayor, council and staff.

We must put an end to such low priority items such as a wireless program, an Olympic Slush Fund and a 311 telephone system.
Place public safety, affordable and social housing, safe communities, reducing taxes, improving transportation, and an end to street crime and property crime as the top spending priorities for the city.
Limit spending to monies that the city can afford or that we earn from new revenue generation initiatives.
Decrease senior management at city hall by 20% by the end of 2009.
Decrease the operational budget for city hall by 10 % by the end of 2009.
Generate $100,000,000 in new revenue through New Revenue Generation Programs.
Reduce or eliminate the thousands of dollars the city spends on outside consultants and studies.

Council Procedures and Operational Reforms Program:
Due to poor organization of the business of council and the ongoing divisiveness between the civic parties at the council table, the city council operates as a dysfunctional and ineffective body. In order for the council to perform at a professional level a number of new initiatives must be planned and implemented.

These initiatives will create a means for the mayor and council to become effective and capable of better serving the Vancouver people.

Appoint one deputy mayor and replace the existing alternating program to ensure the continuity of the mayor’s leadership.
Pre council meeting briefing of administrative reports for mayor and councilors.
Expanded meeting and office space for councilors.
Increase staffing assistance for councilors to improve councilors ability to
research and gather information.
Increase the operational budget of councilors offices by 25%
Omit issues that are not legislative or policy from council agendas and
refer operational issues to the senior management/council members joint team.
Establish a council appeal board for citizens to challenge and appeal senior management team decisions.
Reestablish the mayor as the chief executive officer of the city as approved by the Vancouver Charter.
Business plans and community impact studies for all city projects and programs.
Written briefs will be submitted to the mayor and council from delegates and presenters prior to verbal presentations.
Committee structure and membership changes to include more members of the community at large.

Women’s Safety Initiatives:
It is clear that the Mayor and Council, the police, crown counsel, and the courts do not place the safety of women as a high priority in this city. It would seem that the lessons taught by the deaths of women, on going sexual assaults, verbal and physical assaults on women, for all intents and purposes, go unpunished and undeterred. Having dealt with these agencies on many occasions I stand by these statements. Overall the criminal justice system is a system that offers assaulters of women light sentences, counseling services, restraining orders that are not a deterrent, community service retraining programs that do not deter repeat assaults and an easy ride for those who commit crimes against women.

As a city we need to plan and enact a series of initiatives to put the emphasis back on the survivors of assaults and victims of abuse and place the criminals who commit crimes against women in a second tier position while being sure the criminals are locked up for long periods of time. We cannot call our city a progressive and democratic city without the rights of women being protected. The initiatives we must work to enact are outlined below:

A joint City of Vancouver, Province of BC and Federal Government Women’s Safety Commission should be established and fully funded. This commission should be tasked with investigating all cases regarding assault against women and should have the power to recommend and lobby for changes in the entire criminal justice system. The Mayor and Council should push the provincial and federal governments to establish this commission.
The Vancouver Police must receive retraining to become sensitive and understanding of assault and abuse of women and new procedures must be established to ensure that the police and crown become advocates of women not protectors of criminals.
Police procedures must be changed where men charged with assault do not receive bail until pre sentence assessments are held.
A court must be established that deals solely with assaults against women.
Minimum sentences for assault of women must be two years in prison.
Vancouver must become a zero tolerance city regarding assault against women and men who have three strikes must be jailed for a minimum of five 5 years.
All conditional discharges or sentencing must be abandoned by the courts
and all plea bargain sentencing must be stopped.
Crown must be monitored by a women’s advocate commissioner and this commissioner must have the ability to call witnesses, gather evidence and recommend charges be laid against those in the system who do not adhere to new system laws and procedures.
Men who are convicted of assault against women should have their picture and names published in the media on a regular basis.
Where a police officer is called to investigate an assault against a women,
the officer must take the accused into custody immediately and the accused should not be released if he displays any signs that he may re offend.
Accused assaulters should be forced to wear monitoring devices until they go to trial.
Work to reform the Main Street provincial crown prosecutor’s office as
this office is understaffed, staffed by inexperienced and non caring prosecutors who care about preserving their jobs ahead of giving victims of crime the quality of service they deserve.
Adopt a zero tolerance for assault against women.

With these and other initiatives in place we can begin to ensure crimes against women are punished and that women are treated as equal and important citizens under the law.
It is clear that there are jurisdictional issues with the above, but a strong Mayor and Council along with MPs and MLAs can lobby for these reforms.

Seniors Enhancement Programs:
Our seniors have played an important role in building this city and deserve preferential treatment and respect and the best life we can afford them. The following initiatives will lesson the burden on Vancouver’s seniors:

Cap all senior’s taxation and services levies.
Establish a universal standard of living act for all of Canada's seniors to ensure that all seniors have a high level of housing, clothing, health care, transportation, food and nutrition and other needs they require to live happy and stress free lives.
Establish a seniors’ advisory board to the mayor.
Subsidize free bus passes and other free services to seniors in the city.
Establish a Seniors Innovation Centre where seniors of the city can meet, share and plan new initiatives for the city.
City supplied security systems for seniors.

Community Assemblies:
Many Vancouver citizens are frustrated and feel helpless regarding projects the city wishes to implement in their communities and neighbourhoods. We should establish Community Assemblies that will be comprised of representatives of all of Vancouver's community groups, associations and advocates. These groups will meet monthly and all issues will be open for discussion and all concerns and decisions would be brought to the council table before any decisions are made by council.

Vancouver Development Partnership Program:
Communities throughout Vancouver seek a say over what buildings and developments are situated in their neighbourhoods. In fact many feel the development community, the city bureaucracy and the mayor and council make zoning decisions regarding communities without an extensive and fair consultative process. This is largely true and it is time to establish a balance where citizens have a say and control over what the city can do in their communities. To remedy this we need to work to establish a Vancouver Development Partnership Program. The major components of this program are outlined below:

Pre Zoning and development conferences between the developers and community assemblies. Consultative forums, polls, exhibitions, panels and conferences between developers and community assemblies, before projects go to city hall for zoning, permits, or any level of city approvals.
Community Veto requiring two thirds of community assembly membership.
Council may Veto or Override assemble decision by a two thirds vote.
Use of the virtual city to illustrate developments in the city.
Establish a citywide plan.
Community Assembly involvement in the hiring of planning staff and a
planner advocate assigned to each assembly.

War on Violent Criminal Predators:
This city is plagued by violent gangs, various mafias and criminals who traffic people, alcohol drugs and guns. These violent criminals control drug dealing on our streets and commit numerous violent crimes. Also, as we move toward 2010, crime will increase in our city especially during the Olympics. Many of these criminal predators have been involved in struggles for control of the drug trade and other various crimes in this city. Their struggles for control and the violence associated with it must be stopped. We must establish a Vancouver Crime Reduction Foundation to help fund our crime fighting initiatives.

We must work with all levels of government to plan and implement the following programs:

Increase the street police with 300 officers by the end of 2009.
Increase detectives by 100 by the end of 2009.
Increase the number of crime analysis positions by 50 by the end of 2009.
Form a City Crime Task Force comprised of university criminologists, the police, lawyers, citizens, businesses leaders, former prosecutors and former judges to develop new and innovative ways to fight the criminal predators in this city.
Full enactment of the Canadian Gangsterism laws.
Push federal government to make gang membership illegal with a 5 year minimum sentence for those convicted of being a member of an outlaw gang.
Form a Multilevel investigation branch comprised of the Canadian Revenue Service, the Vancouver Police, RCMP and The Police Board of Vancouver to ensure criminals are investigated and prosecuted for all levels of crime including tax evasion.
Arrest detention of all drug dealers and a push for a 5 year minimum sentence for drug dealing and drug smuggling.
Lobby for a three strike law for violent criminals with 25 year jail terms for criminals who commit three violent and drug related crimes.
Development and Implementation of a public education system and media Crime Prevention Program.
Early detection and screening programs in our schools.
Form a regional data base and technical centre that is accessible to all BC Police Forces.
Declare Vancouver a Crime Free City.
Work with the education community to establish programs and treatments for students who display criminal behaviour.
Establish 5 year minimum sentences for violent offenders.
Closer investigation of money laundering, tax evasion and other all crimes committed by businesses that pose as legitimate.
Pressure judges to give longer and harsher sentences for violent criminal offenses.

Business Enhancement Programs:
The city has been somewhat lacking in initiatives to support businesses and increase it's commercial aspects. We need to enact the following programs:

Form a landlord, business tenant, BIA and Board of trade joint committee to develop new and innovative initiatives to enhance business in Vancouver.
Develop a Business Tax Break Program and tax equalization program. This will be based on decreasing business taxes as the city generates non tax based revenues.
Establish a business planning and consulting office to support small businesses.
Form an Arts and Business Coalition where the arts community and the business community can develop new joint marketing programs.
Create a city wide Vancouver Business Discount Card to help market all Vancouver businesses to Vancouver, BC and tourist consumers.
Designate land and buildings in the city for future business office space.
Enact tax credit and other tax incentive programs for businesses.
Improve the services city hall supplies to the business community.

New Policing Strategies:
Often the popular belief is that more police do not curb the incidence of crime. The reality for most citizens is that they want perpetrators of crime caught and put away for serious time. With the few new budget in 2006 -2007, Vancouver received a mere 17 new officers. Due to gang violence, the growing numbers of criminal predators in Vancouver as well as property and street crime it is not debatable that we need to have an acceptable level of law and order in this city.

Far too many crimes go unsolved and not investigated and in many cases our police force is over worked and overwhelmed by the number of crimes they have to deal with. Also, as more drug addicted crime based street offenses take place we need an increase in the number of police we have and the way these new officers are deployed in the city.

The mayor, who is chair of the police board, must push for the following initiatives:

Fully manned police substations in all communities of the city to reduce response time and neighborhood property crime.
Cops walking the beats throughout the city.
Expansion of police reserve and new officer training programs.
Appointment of an independent police review and investigation office and an end to police investigating police.
Increase the police budget by 50% by the end of 2009.

Safe Neighbourhood Programs:
Many citizens feel that crime is at an unacceptable level in their communities. Even though officials report a decline in crime, any level of crime must be seen as a challenge to beat.
Therefore, the mayor of Vancouver needs to enact the following ten point plan to make neighbourhoods safer and more livable.

Community police stations in all communities.
Enhancement of Block Watch Programs.
When services are in place to deal with homelessness, drug dependency and mentally ill people on the streets, and street and property crime are under control we must establish a city wide vagrancy law. This law will stop people from sleeping on our streets, panhandling and loitering in neighbourhoods they do not live in. This program must be backed up with a complete and accessible social safety net for all street people.
City funding of Block parties and neighbourhood celebrations.
Neighbourhood Multicultural Friendship Centre as part of existing and new community centres.
Close the office of the commissioner of the civil city program.

Labour Peace and Strikes Prevention Initiatives:
Vancouver's inside and outside workers are the most important asset this city has. The prevailing principle of my program will be that all Vancouver workers will receive equal or better wages, benefits and working conditions than any other Metro region. However, a series of safe guards for the public and for the good of all union members should be established to put an end to any further strikes in this city. Lastly, no action by the city or the unions should be allowed to negatively effect the programs or lives of the ill, the needy, the children and the seniors in this city.

Vancouver will offer its unionized staff 2% better than any pay range other workers in the region are paid or settle for during their negotiations.
The mayor and councilors will not make political statements during union and city contract deadlocks or problems.
The city and the union will be fined a predetermined amount per day for every day that they cannot reach an agreement on contracts.
All monies paid into the fine pool will be used as part of the refunds citizens receive as compensation for services they do not receive during a strike.
Citizens will receive a refund on their taxes for services that were not delivered during strike action.
All services to children and seniors will be considered essential services and will be supplied by union members during strikes.
Preliminary contracts will take place before contract negotiations actually begin and both sides will work to agree to the terms of reference and scope of wages, working conditions and benefits of the actual contracts.
Both the city and the union will pay for private garbage pick up during a strike.
Should both parties fail to reach an agreement after two weeks of negotiations, binding arbitration will be initiated.

Transportation Improvement Climate Change Control Programs:
Vancouver tax payers pay an unfair proportion of costs for the transit system including bus costs. We need to consider a new Vancouver owned and operated transit bus system. This will allow the Vancouver bus system to be more efficient and less expensive. With our own money staying in Vancouver we can purchase more buses and more rapid pick up and drop offs. This will allow us to keep all advertising revenue and run a variety of the size of buses based on the rider ship numbers and time of trips. Further, this will allow Vancouver to offer car owners incentives to reduce use of their cars. With a new, efficient, customer service oriented Vancouver Bus Company, bus transportation will be greatly improved.

Over and above this consideration there a good number of initiatives below that will improve transportation in Vancouver and get people out of cars.

Free bus fares for seniors, youth and seniors partially sponsored by the private sector.
Enhanced advertising programs on the interior and exteriors of all buses.
Convert parking meters into ad screens and sell to companies.
Increase city cycle routes by 50% and new cycle route maintenance programs.
Enhance businesses work at home programs so more employees will not have to travel to work downtown every working day of the week.
One day a week car ban in the downtown area.
Increase bus fleets by 50% by the end of 2008.
Incorporate the private bus companies into the public system to gain more buses and shorter waits. No driver will lose their jobs because of this system.
Shorter work days to allow more citizens to walk to work or to cycle to work.
Work with ICBC and the senior levels of government to offer financial incentives to people who drive less and choose to bus, cycle or walk to work. This could include tax breaks, insurance breaks, and other incentives.
Reduce use of cars by 50% by 2012 through improved transit and financial incentives for those who stop using their cars.
Establish company division offices in neighbourhoods so employees can work at home or in their neighbourhoods.
City wide car free days when no cars will travel in the city.
Manufacture and market a battery powered car called the VAN CAR.

New Vancouver Identity and Celebration of Vancouver Programs:
The city of Vancouver has been identified far too often with panhandling, the problems of the DTES and drug abuse. Although some have called this city the best place on earth in which to live the UN has said some very negative things about our city. Many have dubbed our city a "no fun" city. To excite our citizens, tourism, and our image and to afford citizens greater time to celebrate their city and to make Vancouver an overall fun city we need to enact the following:

Three city wide arts, culture and entertainment events per year.
Celebrations of the seasons.
Downtown New York style New Year’s Celebration.
City wide schools music performance festivals.
Increased block parties.
Citywide Cultural Sharing days.
Festivals based on our port and the sea.
City Wide Dance in the Street Program.
City wide Walks, Cycling and Runs for Fun.
Increase sidewalk café space by 50% by the end of 2008.
Citizen's Recognition and Awards ceremonies increased.
Winter, Spring, Summer Fall parades downtown.
City Exercise and Citizens Sports Olympics.
Bring back an NBA team and an auto racing event.
Establish a Vancouver Day to celebrate Vancouver city wide with concerts, parades, festivals, runs, walks, and other events.

BC Place Nutrition, Exercise, and Health Centre And Community Centre Project:
Some have planned to demolish BC Place Stadium after the Olympics and replace it with high rise apartments. We need to lobby the provincial government to sell BC Place to Vancouver to allow the city to establish a Centre for Health, Sports and Fitness in this stadium.

This centre would offer the following programs:

Walking tracks for the public year round.
Indoor training and competition track.
Fitness centre.
Nutrition and Exercise Centre.
Community and schools playing fields.
Sports medicine and medical Centre.
Health, Nutrition, Exercise Trade Fairs.

Multicultural Enhancement Programs:

This city is home to all races, nationalities, religions, creeds and colours as well as cultures. However, many people feel that they are not treated fairly and in fact many feel they suffer racism and racial profiling in various areas of the city. Though this is an extremely racially peaceful city there is no doubt that racism occurs in Vancouver. To combat this the Mayor, The Chairman of the School Board, the Chief of Police, The Superintendent of Schools and representatives of the city’s cultural, racial and community groups must form a task force to identify areas and agencies where racism occurs and plan and implement strategies to
end racism in this city.

Some initiatives this task force should consider are listed below:

Establish friendship centres where members of all cultural and racial groups can meet and share experiences and problems and work together to arrive at solutions.
Plan a new type of Multiculturalism where the focus is what the varied cultures and racial groups have in common with less emphasis on their differences.
Hold citywide events based on the diversity and multicultural makeup of this city. i. e. A city wide cultures of the world food and dance festival.
Concerted programs to enlist an increased number of ethnic groups to join the city’s public service agencies.
Lobby federal government for stiffer penalties for hate crimes.
Increase cultural and racial acceptance programs in our schools.

New Community Consultative Program:
There has been an increasingly decline in the process of consultation in regards to city based projects. Many of the city's projects are pushed through without a full and fair consultative process. Prior to the council, city committees or board’s approvals of a project, we must work to establish a professional consultative process. This process will include the following:

Hiring of professional facilitators to organize and conduct community consultative meetings.
Affording members of communities to vote and/or veto projects they do not want in their neighbourhoods. Broad use of the internet for polling and surveys.
Virtual representations of the proposed project.
Business plans written and submitted to all stakeholders.

This plan would include project definitions, financing strategies, cash flow projections, human capital requirements, needs assessment reports, tax implications for 5-10 years, funding sources, impact assessments and all other aspects of proposals that need clarification for the taxpayers, residents and city council.

DTES Revitalization Program:
The Downtown East Side of this city is considered to be the worst ghetto in Canada
We need a the task force to revitalize this community and in doing so we need to enact the following initiatives:

Build housing for all homeless people in these areas. This will be financed through joint fundraising programs and contributions from the city, investors, private businesses, the unions, the senior levels of government, non profits, the churches and the education communities.
Build housing through contributions of time, equipment and materials from
all sectors of society.
Ensure that all homes for the homeless have treatment centres, detox beds, retraining opportunities, counseling and the other, on site.
All addicts caught shooting up in public or who are high in a public place will be arrested and sent to a treatment center.
The city will ensure that there are ample shelters throughout the city.
All drug dealers will be rounded up and jailed and longer sentences will be pushed for.
Establish a program that involves the food bank, private food stores, non profits, churches, and fundraising communities to feed all people who do not have a daily and complete nutritional diet.
Form a joint board of non profits and other help agencies in the area to
work collectively to solve the problems of the area.
Installation of public washrooms throughout area.
Strict loitering bylaws will be passed and enforced.
A City Lottery to raise funds for programs needed such as a Win a House a Month Lottery.
Establish a city funding adjudication committee to determine the effectiveness of organizations who receive monies to service the people of the Downtown East Side. Organizations that fail the test and criteria for receiving city money will be cut off city money.

New Citywide Growth Plan:
To date the growth of the city has been based on a program called Eco Density. To be clear a program to density our city should form one component of the City Wide Growth Plan. The plan or charter the city is currently grappling with merely dictates how the development community can gain control over land and build high rise high density and overpriced apartments combined with lower floor retail space throughout this city. This program merely talks about building and density but leaves out the many areas that must be funded and included in any growth program. Our City Wide Growth Program will include an Eco density component but will also include the following programs:

Transit and Transportation upgrades.
Public safety and policing upgrades.
Preservation of commercial and industrial lands.
To guarantee the rights of all Vancouver people we need to disband the City Visioning Committees and replace these committees with community assemblies who vet all growth programs and have a vote before any projects are implemented.
Develop a city wide growth plan that will lay the basis for all future buildings, parks, stadiums, apartments, commercial space, office space and industrial space.
Set population growth ceilings based on the level of services the city has and can afford.
Include all services and a city commitment to funding these services including necessary transportation, transit, fire, policing, health care and schools that will be part of any future growth programs and projects.
Establish a joint city council, parks commission, school board and community assembly representation to adjudicate all city projects.
Assign planners to work with community assemblies to respond to evaluation of rezoning, development applications and permits the city is considering.
Enact a community veto in all circumstances.

Film and Television Enhancement and Investment Program:
The television and film industry is multi million dollar industry
Co productions with big US studios and world sales characterizes this industry. However, the number of programs and films produced in Vancouver has decreased in the last few years. Also, due to the increasing value of the Canadian dollar, Vancouver productions will suffer in the coming years.

Therefore we must establish a new Vancouver Film and Television Enhancement Program. Included in this program will be the following components that are aimed at preserving and strengthening the film and television industries and city revenues by $50,000,000 by the end of 2009

Discount on rentals of all civic properties and buildings.
Discounts on city licenses.
City Film and television production and Investment fund.
City tax Credit program backed by the city.
City Film and Television Joint Financing and Profit Sharing Program.
Reorganize city film offices to plan and implement these initiatives.
City industry co productions about Vancouver.
Profit sharing where the city participates in a project.

Vancouver and Industry Products Program:
The city of Vancouver is known as one of best places to live and visit. With our universities and innovation we will develop a series of products that we will joint venture with the private sector. The first four considerations are listed below.

A Vancouver Car
A Passport to Vancouver credit card.
Design and manufacture a Vancouver bicycle.
Create a Vancouver Innovation in Industry Centre.

Community Advocacy Office:
The last 6 or more years have seen many groups and organizations established to oppose, change or protest against many of the city's projects and programs. However, many of these entities lack the knowledge and know how to challenge city hall. To address this situation we need to establish Community Advocate Offices. These offices will be comprised of the following:

Photo copy machines, computers, faxes and telephone equipment.
Researchers and secretarial services.
Access to city reports and research
Council minutes and meeting packages ie administrative reports.
Office space and meeting space.

City Hall Service Enhancement Program:
City hall must become the most friendly service provider in the city. As citizens are our clients and shareholders all staff must treat everyone who comes to city hall with great respect, cooperation and consideration. Overall, City Hall must become a service centre for the people of Vancouver. Therefore, as the CEO and President of the council, the mayor must initiate the following programs.

City hall welcoming program where all staff will be directed to treat all people who visit or contact city hall with utmost courtesy, cooperation an understanding.
Opening the Community Advocates office in city hall.
City Ombudsman's office at city hall.
Open a complaints office.

Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Initiatives
For many years the problem of drug addiction has plagued this city.
The city mayor and council, police, social services and bureaucracy have failed to make a significant reduction in drug and alcoholism abuse in the city, especially in the DTES. To accomplish this we must enact the following programs.

All addicts caught shooting up on city streets will be arrested and sent to one of the city's new treatment centres. The rule of law will prevail and the assistance of those addicted to drugs will form the basis of this strategy.
We will build 6 treatment centres in Vancouver with the help of the city’s new revenue generation initiatives.
We will open 5 new injection sites with treatments centers and housing attached to them. To use these sites users will have to agree to treatment.
All drug dealers will be arrested and we will push for minimum sentences of 5 years for anyone convicted of drug dealing.
We must push for the return of habour police, additional city police at our harbour and cargo facilities at the Vancouver International Airport.
Establish three community courts and ensure the backup programs and services are available to sustain these courts.

Multi-Cultural, Gay and Lesbian, Racial, Gender Equality and Enhancement Programs and Initiatives:
The diversity of Vancouver is what makes it great. However, much more must be done to ensure that all racial, cultural and ethnic and gay and lesbian citizens are well represented in all institutions of the city from the police force and fire department to the city unions and city bureaucracy.

To ensure that this happens, we must work with council and the community to plan and enact new diversity rights protection programs.

Social Housing for the Homeless:
Vancouver mayors and councils have given a great deal of lip service to solving the homeless problems of this city. However this city has a large and suffering number of homeless people on its streets. This problem must be solved. We need to enact initiatives that will the solve the homeless problem in this city.

Form a Metro Vancouver Mortgage Corporation to help finance affordable and social housing in Vancouver and other metro Vancouver areas.
Form a coalition with the development community, the union community, construction community, the provincial and federal government , the investment and philanthropic communities, the banking and credit union communities, habitat for humanity and city wide volunteer organization to fund and build 3000 new social housing units in Vancouver by the end of 2009.
Establish a win a house monthly lottery to assist in funding the construction of 3000 units of social housing.
Joint community city, province and federal government service clubs.
Use of the city’s property endowment fund in conjunction with a banking partner to finance apartments for the homeless.
Renovate existing buildings for apartments for the homeless.
Force renovations of all SROs in the city.
Freeze all projects that do not have a strong social housing component or a funding of social housing component.

Affordable Housing:
The basis of family life is the family home that can be passed on from generation to generation. The hope of the young for a better life and high quality of life is the ability to own a home. Through an investment in affordable housing, the city will be securing the dreams and futures of our young middle wage earners and others who are in need of housing. Without affordable housing a wide range of our citizens will have to move out of Vancouver leaving the city as a place for the wealthy which in turn will damage the social fabric of this great city. Their travel to work from outlying areas will increase car and bus pollution.

To this end the following initiatives should be implemented as soon as possible. By participating in these programs all citizens will be investing in the future quality of life in Vancouver for generations to come.

Formation of a Vancouver City Mortgage Corporation to jointly finance housing with chartered banks and credit unions.
Include city land on a purchase or 100 year lease basis for affordable housing construction.
Use of the city’s property endowment fund to support the Vancouver City Mortgage Corporation.
Dedicate new monies earned by the New Revenue Generation program to afford buyers grants to support their affordable housing mortgages.
Institute a one time tax levy on property owners to help fund the affordable housing projects.
Reduce city property taxes on new home purchases.
One time tax level for the development community.
Reduction of taxes and city licensing costs for developers who participate in the affordable housing initiatives.
New partnership with all levels of government to finance affordable housing through the new Vancouver Mortgage Corporation.
Tax breaks for affordable home buyers.

Densification of our City:
The council and mayor have endorsed a program called Eco density that is better described as a means for the development community to build more towers in Vancouver. City Planners have had to adopt this program that is merely a cause marketing ploy. We must set a direction for the growth and planning of our city based on the needs of our citizens and their quality of life that is affordable and sustainable for our taxpayers.

End the Eco density program and replace it with a City Plan and Environment Improvement Plan for the entire city of Vancouver.
City board, school board, parks board, provincial, federal government agencies and community based groups compose a complete needs and impact assessment for all aspects. This assessment must include densification, transportation, school needs and locations, park needs and locations, community centres, industrial and commercial land, building needs and all other needs of the city and it's residents.
Write a Business Plan to accompany the City Plan and Environment Strategy.
Cap city population growth until a complete plan is in place.
Once the growth plan is completed and a charter is agreed to a city referendum should be held to approve it and the expenditures necessary to enact the City Plan and Environmental Strategy.

Amalgamation of Metro Vancouver:
In order for Vancouver and the surrounding areas to prosper in the future we all need to research and compose a plan for the future amalgamation of Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, New Westminster and other cities and municipalities into one Vancouver. This plan may not be enacted for years to come but we must begin planning for this future need. In fact we have too many problems in common to confront them as separate civic governments. Form a joint Metro Board to begin planning a future Metro Vancouver Amalgamation.

Granville Street and Hooliganism Reduction Program:
The downtown entertainment area has become a centre of drug use, violence, alcohol abuse and crime. To deal with the violence and fighting in this core we will work with the city council, the province and federal government to implement the following programs.

Establish a $1000 fine and 100 hours of community service for a first fighting and disorderly conduct offenses, $2000 fine and 200 hours of community service for a second offense and $5000 fine and 500 hours of community service for a third offense.
Establish a jail/boot camp in the interior of BC for third time offenders. Those convicted of their third offense will be sent to the boot camp and will do hard time with military discipline and community based work projects.
Should a fourth offense occur offenders would receive a minimum of 3 years in jail.
Close any establishment that admits patrons who are drunk, stoned on marijuana or any chemical drug.

City Plan:
Vancouver has become a concrete jungle with limited services. City planners have done a poor job of producing a Vancouver plan that places the quality of life in the forefront of their city community plans. Instead the head planners have teamed with the development community to give the development community the best bang for their buck without much consideration for the Vancouver people. The concrete towers of the former expo lands and the numerous big box stores on Cambie Street are just a few examples of poor planning that cannot be undone. The trendy term Eco density, that the former mayor and the city planners are attempting to force on the people of Vancouver is another example of politicians, city planners and developers joining forces to cause market their attempts to increase bottom line while piling people in high density zones. These zones will include limited affordable and social housing, limited green spaces, decreasing rental stock and limited services.

Should I be elected mayor of Vancouver I will table a program to guide the growth of our city based on the following components:

Yearly caps on population growth based on affordable city services.
Development of one city plan that will include long term planning for all aspects city life including funding commitments for increased transit, fire, police, parks,
schools, socials services, social and affordable housing and all other aspects of what makes a city function effectively.
Increase the amenities the city gains from developers who build in Vancouver.
Inclusion of various types of residents such as condos, lofts, apartments.
Control of rising prices for rental units and sales of housing and apartments.
Building of affordable housing on city and provincial lands in Vancouver and
affordable houses and affordable rental units for middle income earners.
Full implementation of a new investment/ revenue sharing program between the city and the development community for selected new buildings in Vancouver.
Community vetoes of developments the Vancouver people do not want in their communities.
50% increase in park, green and treed programs in all future development.
Increase green spaces along all shoreline areas of Vancouver.

Arts and Cultural Enhancement Projects:
The arts, when working with the entertainment and businesses, can gain excellent financial return. The arts are the soul of our society and a mirror to all we do. The arts are an integral part of the quality of life in this city. Traditionally, the fine and performing arts have been under funded under utilized by city hall and the private sector.

We need to enact the following:

Purchase art works for city owned spaces.
Increase the arts grants budget by 100%.
Display of city artists work in all city buildings and at all city events.
Increase the arts budget by 25% per year for artists and arts organizations.
City wide cash arts awards.

Olympic VOC Transparency Program:
Far too many decisions, programs and contracts have taken place by the Vancouver Olympic Committee without public or government scrutiny. This body has not used basic expense forecasting tools and has often sprung added costs to the Olympic budget or has left out costs that are undoubtedly Olympic costs. This is evidenced in the budget first set by the committee of the security cost for the games. The number set was $175 mil. which is nowhere near what the actual costs will be for security. Furthermore, the committee did not produce a business plan for the games in Vancouver long after the building and other programs were well under way. Also the chair of the Vanoc company bid on the construction of the Athletes Village.

The city of Vancouver set aside $20mil for Olympic spending without any budget or approval mechanism. Due to these facts many taxpayers are suspicious of the Committee and its personnel and demand more accountability and oversight of the Vanoc board and administration. Should I be elected mayor of Vancouver I will enact the following regulatory measures to make Vanoc open, accountable and trusted by the taxpayers of the city.

Complete audit of Vanoc financial information by an independent auditor.
Vanoc meeting will be open to the public.
Review of all contracts signed by Vanoc.
Monthly unconsolidated financial statements presented on the internet.
Critique of Olympic business plan by an independent business and financial firm.
Strict adherence of conflict of interest laws and guidelines and penalties for those who break these laws.
A city appointed auditor and Olympic Ombudsman.
Review and increase of the Olympic's security budget.

Elected Officials Standards of Conduct and Recall Program:
In the last ten years numerous city councilors and mayors have been involved in very negative activities and in fact have broken the law and been found or have pleaded guilty. Leaks of in camera information, Purchasing drugs to drunk driving and public drunkeness have been some of the unacceptable behaviours some have been involved in. Elected persons must adhere to a set of rules of behavior set by an independent commission. The following should form the basis of a new Standard of Conduct for the cities Mayor and Councilors:

Recall legislation of civic politicians including the mayor.
Suspension of councilors from their duties should they be proven to have breached the privacy and rules governing in camera meetings.
Legislated resignation if mayor or councilor are found guilty of any criminal offense including drunken driving.

Poverty Reduction Program:
This city cannot view itself as the best place on earth in which to live while so many people live in poverty, do not have homes, are drug and alcohol addicted and who have lost all hope of having better lives. The Mayor and Council of Vancouver need to establish a safety net so that we have the lowest number of people in these conditions in the country.

Form a joint, non partisan commission to establish and plan an implementation strategy to reduce poverty in our city, comprised of the city’s MLAs, senators, councilors and Members of Parliament lead by the Mayor of Vancouver and City Councilors community and business representatives.
Write and enact a Guaranteed Standard of Living Charter for the city of Vancouver.
Pressure the provincial government to increase the minimum wage to $11.00 per hour automatic of living increases as the economy dictates.
Pressure the provincial government to allow welfare recipients to earn monies without deducting these additional monies from their welfare benefits.
Bill other provinces for the assistance Vancouver social programs afford non residents of Vancouver and BC.

Prostitution and Sex Trade Reduction Initiatives:
Ultimately I would like to wipe out prostitution in Vancouver. Though many will respond that this is an impossible mission, we need to aim high and we will win the battle if we collectively put our minds to it. A civilized society cannot condone or allow women and girls to continue to be bought and sold and abused by pimps, madams and johns. The program or crackdown will be based on protection of the workers and a harsh and far reaching investigation, arrest and prosecution of the pimps, madams and johns. The entire program must place the protection and rescue of the sex workers first and foremost.

Following are the major components of James Green Crackdown on Prostitution and all areas of the sex trade.

Crack down on pimps and madams that is based on a multi leveled investigation and prosecution of pimps, madams and johns including investigation of tax returns, drug crime, import and expert of women, money laundering and assaults and murders, cross border crimes and living off of the avails of prostitution.
Impound of john’s cars.
Published photos of johns in paper and electric media.
John schools.
Pressure courts for harsher and longer sentences.
Arrests of sex trade workers caught soliciting clients.
Licensing of all sex trade workers and tax filing and payments.
Safe houses and witness protection for workers who are forced out by the law or wish to leave the trade.
Treatment centres for addictions and counseling services.
Financial support, training and employment programs.
Close all message parlors, bawdy houses and brothels.
Application and arrest of all gang members under Canada’s new gangsterism laws.
Increased police detectives and crime analysts mandated to deal with prostitution and the sex trade.
Relentless enforcement of prostitution laws.
Investigation and prosecution of calls girls and escorts.
Investigation, arrest and prosecution of pimps and johns who buy and sell underage girls.
Full fledged education programs regarding prostitution and the sex trade in the schools of Vancouver.

Celebrate Vancouver and Fun City Initiatives:
This is the third largest city in Canada and is growing rapidly. It is time for our leaders to act as leaders of a growing city that needs to catch up to Canada’s and North American’s other great cities. An important part of this growth must be developing the city’s identity as a fun, entertaining and lively city where world class events and activities take place on an ongoing basis. Therefore, we need to work towards the following initiatives:

The creation of a City Celebration and Events Board to set new programs to put Vancouver on the world map as a city known as a Fun City where numerous events and activities take place on a regular monthly basis.
Work to locate a Major League Baseball team in Vancouver.
Monthly world class city wide arts, culture and entertainment festivals.
Establish festivals based on the sea and harbour.
Establish a Times Square styled New Years Event on Granville Street.
Re Establish NBA and WNBA teams in Vancouver.
Push for the CFL to increase salaries for football players in their league and attract a higher level of players to the CFL making it more competitive with the NFL which will attract a much larger fan base and attendance at CFL games played in Vancouver and throughout Canada.
Establish a Vancouver Marketing Board to develop new and innovative ways and means to market this city to the rest of Canada and the world.

Gambling and Casinos:
Many of our citizens enjoy gambling and in fact our city and province benefit financially by sharing the proceeds of gambling. However, if we wish to keep our city safe of crime and gambling illness and political corruption we must reduce the number of casinos in this city until they are closed in all residential areas of the city. There are many casinos in other cities in the region and many other cleaner ways to raise the much needed monies this city needs.

Hastings Park:
Given the climate change and global warming crisis this city and the world faces, we in Vancouver must use every means available to combat these problems. The key to this fight is green space and developing new and existing d technology. One method of doing this is to create as many parks and trees as possible as well as locations to study alternative energy sources and their applications to life in our city. Therefore, it is important for us to develop and preserve as much park land and green space as possible and to become a leader in study and action to slow down the climate change and global warming of the world from our city.

Hastings Park is the perfect location to implement programs and spaces to confront the problems. Therefore, we should enact the following Hastings Park initiatives:

Rename Hastings Park The Hastings Park Environmental Centre.
Relocate the PNE and the Race Track and Horse Barns to another location.
Establish a Climate Change and Global warming Technical Innovations College or University on the Hastings Park Site.
Create a Green based theme park at the Hastings Park site.
Establish trees and flowers of the world exhibition on this locations.
Establish a world Green Conference Centre on the site.

About James Green:
James Green has accumulated over 40 years experience in the arts and culture, education, business, and entertainment sectors. Beginning his career as a professional musician, in 1972 James turned his attention to public education, and shifted to entertainment industry in the early 1990’s as an emcee and talk show host, and finally as a TV Producer and Director.

Mr. Green trained in the Professional Development Program at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His first teaching position was in Delta, BC, and during his 20-year career in education James taught English, Socials Studies and Choral Music, Band and Guitar. At the close of his teaching career he was elected as the first independent candidate in Delta to win a seat on the Delta School Board. Serving in this capacity as School Trustee from 1989 to 1991, James and the board over-saw the district’s three-year cumulative budget of $224,000,000.

As an arts administrator, James has managed various arts groups and a fine/performing arts school. He has produced and promoted national and international acts, stage shows, dance competitions, and plays. It has been his good fortune to work with an extended list of internationally famous actors and performers from a wide range of the arts such a BB King, the late John Candy, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and many others.

James’ strong commitment to education paired well with his work as an Executive Producer in the television industry. His first TV project was a local cable program called Stage Of The Arts. With a budget of $2.5M James entered the professional broadcasting arena as co-creator and Executive Producer of one of the most successful Canadian television series ever produced. “The Urban Peasant” with host chef James Barber, was propelled onto the international stage by the force of James Green’s unique and innovative management style, with some 130 episodes being sold to CBC Canada, TLC - USA, SKY Channel Europe and STAR Channel-Asia. The program is now in syndication and is still viewed daily by millions of viewers. At its peak, the show was broadcast in 120 countries and was a pioneer program that helped put the Vancouver television industry on the world map.

Mr. Green’s next venture was an equestrian program called Catch the Step which was aired on BCTV. He produced pilots for two more cooking genre programs and distributed 31 episodes of the CBC TV series Cycle which aired on The Outdoor Life Network. Following this venture, James raised $4.5M for other television productions in Canada and the United States.

A community activist, a campaigner for environmentally sustainable and low income housing, and savvy follower of politics on all levels from city, to national and beyond, James understands the complex relationship between business and government. He believes business must act with a social conscience at every level, beginning with building corporate strength, but never forgetting the importance of giving back to the environment, the community, and to those less fortunate.

James Green’s 40 year career path has produced a man with the presence, strength of purpose, and knowledge to act as Chairman and CEO of this progressive and exciting company. He is an excellent communicator and a dynamic leader, and has the interpersonal skills required to communicate with producers, sponsors and investors, directors, employees, students, athletes, artists, politicians, and news and entertainment media.

As an innovator and visionary, James recognizes new ways to approach and solve the issues that challenge us today, and he possesses the determination to bring them to fruition and inspires others to take up leadership roles.

As a corporate and community leader, James Green is committed to bringing on board the skilled professionals required to fully implement corporate and community programs. He has the experience, the industry contacts, the drive and commitment to excellence, and most important, the respect of his peers; so important to building and leading a team.

A New Direction for Vancouver

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