The Downtown Eastside is being drawn into Yaletown
The BC Electoral Commission is tearing the Downtown Eastside apart!!! Parts of the Downtown Eastside is being redistricted into a Vancouver-Yaletown riding1. Yaletown elites will dictate the needs of the poorest community in BC!
Sign our petition and attend the Nov 4th in person meeting at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Downtown Vancouver and Nov 8th zoom public hearing to speak out!2
Registered voters for Yaletown outnumber those in the Downtown Eastside in the proposed riding 4:1! 3
While median household income is typically 3 times higher in Yaletown than in the Downtown Eastside! 4
Are you directly impacted?
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Sign This Petition!
We need your help! Make it clear to the BC Electoral Commission that tearing up communities is not acceptable!
1 Read the BC EBC Preliminiary Report for the proposed boundaries.
2 The BC EBC is holding public meetings the first 2 weeks of November. Sign up to speak out!
3 Registered voters approximated as 9545 in Yaletown vs 2450 in Downtown Eastside areas in proposed Vancouver-Yaletown riding: BC Gov Data Catalog
4 Typical media income in Yaletown is $101,000 vs $38,000 in the Downtown Eastside: Statistics Canada Census