SEAN ORR

for Vancouver City Council

✓ FIGHT FOR HOUSING
✓ FIGHT FOR INTEGRITY
✓ EVICT KEN SIM

Sean Orr is a housing activist, renter, working-class dishwasher, and columnist who has been writing about Vancouver for 20 years. He’s known in Vancouver for being an outspoken and sincere advocate for people. He’s not afraid to be outspoken or fight for what is right.

Endorsements

  • We need Sean Orr's strong, progressive voice on Vancouver City Council more than ever. Your vote could make the difference.

    Svend Robinson
    NDP MP 1979-2004

  • I support Sean Orr because he stands for humanity and justice on issues both local or global.

    Gabor Maté M.D.
    Member of the Order of Canada
    & Vancouver’s Civic Merit Award

  • Sean Orr’s years of advocacy for housing, environmental, and social justice issues will bring a strong, principled voice with integrity to Vancouver.

    Katrina Chen
    Former BC NDP MLA
    & Minister of State for Child Care

  • Sean gives me hope. He’s not just showing up when it’s convenient. He’s been showing up for years—for tenants, for unhoused people, for Indigenous sovereignty, for peace, for climate justice. That matters to me.

    Janelle LaPointe
    Indigneous Rights and Climate Justice Organizer

  • Sean Orr understands the assignment. He stands out as someone who can turn words into action.

    Andrea Reimer
    City Councillor 2008-2018
    Community Organizer on issues of Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

  • If you live in Vancouver, please remember to vote for Sean Orr in the April 5 by-election. Vancouver is off track and we need Sean Orr. COPE is back.

    Harold Steves
    Former BC NDP MLA and Richmond City Councillor (1969, 1977-2022)

  • From fighting for renters to standing up for climate, Sean Orr deserves one of your votes.

    Dr. Devyani Singh
    Climate Scientist
    Former Green Candidate

  • I like the things Sean says, and the no-B.S. way he says it. I can see Sean Orr causing a ruckus on the ABC council.

    Jean Swanson
    Former City Councillor
    Member of the Order of Canada

Sean’s letter to supporters:

Vancouver doesn’t have to be like this.

I love Vancouver, but I hate what it’s become.

The city is a playground for the 1%. Our social fabric is fraying from a housing system that prioritizes return on investment over human needs. People are sleeping on the streets every night and in every neighbourhood, tenants can't afford rent, and it’s getting worse.

We are at a pivotal time. We are in multiple overlapping crises; the housing crisis, climate change and the drug poisoning epidemic. The thread that connects all of these problems is the disproportionate political power of the rich.

People like Elon Musk are buying off politicians to shape the world in their own image and scrap services that people need. Billionaires are exploiting workers, driving up the costs of housing, and burning up our planet. They are scapegoating immigrants, trans kids, and drug users to hold onto power. For the billionaires, the system isn’t broken, it’s working as designed.

Our millionaire Mayor was installed by billionaire backers like Chip Wilson for a reason. Ken Sim is in power to serve the elite.

He killed the living wage policy, he killed the renters office, he killed social housing at Little Mountain, he killed the class action lawsuit to sue Big Oil for climate change, he tried to scrap the Integrity commissioner, he lied about the park board to get elected and then tried to scrap it, and he gave $3.8 million in empty homes tax earmarked for affordable housing to his wealthy developer friends.

Now is not the time for 'nice.' Now is the time to fight.

If I’m elected, I will spend every moment fighting Ken Sim and ABC and exposing them and their billionaire friends for what they are doing to our city.

We can fight for housing. We can fight to protect tenants from demovictions and exploitation. We can fight like hell to end homelessness. We can fight for fully funded and free public transit that connects everyone in Vancouver to amazing public services, parks, pools, and libraries in every corner of the city. 

We’re the ones with the energy. We’re the ones with the principles. We’re the ones with the ‘swagger.’

Together we can take democracy back from the billionaires.

Together we can build the city we need.

Together we can Evict Ken Sim.

Sean Orr,
COPE Candidate