Priorities
Not a platform of promises — a set of values, commitments, and directions for how North Vancouver can do better.
Principles over promises.
This is an early-stage campaign, and Liam is clear-eyed about that. A municipal candidate who arrives with a fully itemized platform before talking to residents isn't listening — they're performing.
What you'll find here instead are the values and themes that guide how Liam thinks about North Vancouver's challenges, and the commitments he's willing to make about how he'll approach decision-making on council.
Specific positions on specific issues will emerge through the campaign — through community conversations, through listening sessions, and through honest engagement with the people who live and work here.
Neighbourhoods that work.
North Vancouver's greatest asset is its neighbourhoods — places where people know their neighbours, where streets feel safe and walkable, where local businesses and community services are accessible.
But neighbourhoods don't take care of themselves. They need active investment in the basics: safe streets, reliable transit connections, well-maintained parks, and community services that actually show up.
What Liam cares about here:
- Livable streets and pedestrian infrastructure that serves how people actually move
- Local services that are accessible and responsive to neighbourhood needs
- Community infrastructure maintained and improved over time, not deferred
- Development that respects neighbourhood character while allowing for growth
- Safe, welcoming public spaces that work for people of all ages and abilities
Community spaces that connect us.
What makes a city feel like a community? Shared spaces. The parks where families gather, the recreation centres where neighbours meet, the trails and waterfronts that belong to everyone, the cultural and community facilities that give a city its character.
North Vancouver has good bones — remarkable natural assets and community facilities built by generations of residents. Liam believes in protecting those assets, ensuring they're accessible to all, and investing in the new ones a growing city needs.
What Liam cares about here:
- Parks, trails, and natural areas that are maintained, accessible, and connected
- Community and recreation facilities that serve diverse needs and populations
- Cultural spaces and gathering places that strengthen community bonds
- Design of new development that includes genuine public benefit
- Protecting natural assets that define North Vancouver's character
A city hall that listens.
The biggest thing local government can do — and the most basic — is make residents feel heard. Not just consulted. Not just sent a survey. Actually heard, in a way that visibly shapes decisions.
Too often, public engagement processes feel like a formality. Residents speak, reports are written, decisions get made the way they were going to get made anyway. Liam wants to change that culture — not by making big promises, but by consistently showing, in the way he works, that community input actually matters.
What Liam cares about here:
- Transparent decision-making with clear explanations of how input was weighted
- Accessible public engagement that reaches people who aren't regular meeting-goers
- Clear, plain-language communication about what council is doing and why
- Genuine accountability to residents between elections, not just during them
- A council culture that values questions and pushback, not just consensus
Opportunity for the next generation.
One of the most important questions North Vancouver faces is whether the next generation — people in their 20s and 30s who grew up here, or want to build a life here — can actually do that. Housing affordability, economic opportunity, and the sense that a city has a future that includes you: these are not minor issues.
Liam is part of that generation. He understands this pressure personally. And he believes local government can take meaningful steps — even within its limited jurisdiction — to keep North Vancouver accessible and alive for the people who will inherit it.
What Liam cares about here:
- Housing options that allow younger residents and families to stay in North Van
- Local economic opportunity that doesn't require leaving the city to succeed
- Decision-making that takes the long view, not just the next election cycle
- Youth voices in civic life — in planning processes, in consultation, in leadership
- A city that's building something worth inheriting
Practical leadership & accountability.
Municipal government isn't glamorous. The work is often detailed, technical, and slow-moving. That's not a complaint — it's a reality that Liam has accepted going in. Real progress at the local level comes from showing up consistently, understanding how systems work, and building relationships that allow you to move things forward even when it's hard.
Liam's public policy and organizing background has prepared him for exactly that kind of work. He knows how to navigate institutions, how to build consensus, and — crucially — how to stay accountable to the people he's there to represent.
What Liam cares about here:
- Preparedness and diligence — doing the reading, asking the questions
- Building collaborative relationships with council colleagues and city staff
- Fiscal responsibility and clear value-for-money on public spending
- Regular, honest communication with constituents outside of formal processes
- Treating the role as a public trust, not a political stepping stone
Have thoughts on what matters most to North Van?
Liam wants to hear from you. These priorities are shaped by community — and they're still being shaped.