COPE is fighting for an affordable Vancouver.
Around the world, billionaires are buying politicians and elections to make governments work for them instead of us. But Vancouver doesn’t have to be this way. We can fight back.
On October 17th, vote Sean Orr, Solomon Yi-Kieran, Devyani Singh, and Chloe Leslie for City Council.
Sean Orr
For City Council
Sean Orr is an outspoken advocate for affordable housing, justice, and public integrity. He was elected to City Council in 2025 to expose Ken Sim and his billionaire backers for what they are doing to our city.
Sean was working as a dishwasher before being elected to City Council, but quickly became one of the hardest working city councillors, moving over 30 motions in one year, and leading the resistance against Ken Sim's brutal austerity budget.
Since being elected, Sean has moved to open libraries 7 days a week, protect our public services, cut Ken Sim's office budget, give tenants the right to buy their rental buildings to convert into co-ops, protect climate programs and arts & culture programs, increase the empty homes tax, create a free transit pilot, protect low-income modular housing, and fight ultra-bright headlights.
He was the only city councillor to vote against removing affordable rental protections in new builds, the only city councillor to vote against the million dollar Vancouver sign for tourists, the only city councillor to vote against a floating hotel.
sean@copevancouver.ca
Find on your ballot: #111 - ORR, Sean
Chloe Leslie
For City Council
Chloe Leslie is a food security worker and poverty reduction advocate with years of experience working in Vancouver's non-profit sector.
She'll fight to strengthen our local economy, protect arts and cultural spaces, invest in libraries, and ensure everyone can access affordable food.
chloe@copevancouver.ca
Find on your ballot: #124 LESLIE, Chloe
Devyani Singh
For City Council
Dr. Devyani Singh is a climate scientist and a financial analyst who knows that the root of the climate crisis and the affordability crisis is the same thing: the political power of the super-rich.
As a lead researcher at Stand.earth, she’s helped stop millions of dollars in financing for deforesting the Amazon, and she’s also helped design climate action strageties for multiple cities across North America.
On Council, she’ll fight relentlessly to tackle climate change while making life more affordable with things like free transit and better libraries, push for climate-safe affordable housing that people can afford to live in, and to make Vancouver a climate leader again.
devyani@copevancouver.ca
Find on your ballot: #121 SINGH, Devyani
Solomon Yi-Kieran
For City Council
Solomon Yi-Kieran 易行天 is fighting for fast, free transit, government transparency and accountability, and to make it affordable to build a life in Vancouver.
Solomon is an on-campus organizer and student organizer, and the VP External at AMS, the UBC student union. They worked with other student unions and activists to lobby MPs to create a Youth Climate Corps, and won a $40m investment for youth climate jobs, even amidst cuts in the federal budget.
They also led a student team to campaign for the UBC SkyTrain, collecting over 15,000 signatures, and contributed a motion to city council co-moved by Sean Orr that passed unanimously.
solomon@copevancouver.ca
Find on your ballot: #155 YI-KIERAN, Solomon
Vancouver doesn’t have to be this way.
On October 17, we can elect a City Council that works for people instead of the billionaires.
We got this.