Voters will choose between three approaches to governing growing and youthful city on top issues such as housing, homelessness, policing.
Voters are facing two unfamiliar party names, with Community First New Westminster, made up of councillors formerly on outgoing Mayor Jonathan Cote’s Team Cote, and the newly formed New Westminster Progressives, headed by a first-time municipal candidate.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“What the voters are seeing in writing on the issues is low contrast,” Shechter said. How the two parties are able to differentiate themselves will be revealed during the debates and in interactions with voters. Further mystifying the mayoral race is Chuck Puchmayr, a former councillor running as an Independent, who used to be on the same Team Cote slate as Johnstone, said Schechter.Article content
Voters will have to pay attention to individuals, as Community First candidates are more likely to frame poverty and homelessness as social justice and health issues, while the Progressives are more likely to link poverty with crime, said Schechter.Article content
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