A man slid open the door to the Public Education Project’s election office on East Hastings near Nanaimo at 8:35 p.m. tonight and asked “Am I too late to vote?”
Campaign volunteers directed him to a nearby polling station that was still open and advised him to “Vote for Gwen and Jane.”
PEP candidate Jane Bouey said she was feeling “extraordinarily positive” minutes earlier.
She said a retired teacher she spoke to on the street today asked her how she could help PEP organize after the election, understanding that no matter what the results at the polls are tonight, the work of educating the public about the sorry state of funding for public education would continue.
Bouey said she believes the message of PEP, Vancouver’s first party to focus solely on education, is just getting out and she’d feel even more positive about the election results if the race was continuing two more weeks.
Gwen Giesbrecht, PEP’s other candidate, believes whether they’re elected or not, they encouraged more dialogue about public education during the civic election.
Much of the election talk focused on affordable housing, homelessness and the potential of rapid transit to the University of B.C.
But Vision Vancouver and the NPA, the two main parties in the civic election, also sparred over whether Vancouver schools should accept money from Chevron Canada and who thought of investing more money into meal programs for kids in schools first.
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