Victoria–Beacon Hill · 12 numbers, every quarter

Scorecard

A number on every promise. A report every quarter.

Baseline: . First quarterly report after the election. · Next update due within 30 days of quarter-end.

Coming How I voted: printed beside every line once there are votes to report.

Two promises, checked every three months

  1. Promise 1

    This page ships within 30 days of quarter-end.

    All 12 lines, sources, as-of dates, and my votes. If a source has not released yet, the line says “awaiting [source], due [month]” — that is not a fail. Silence is a fail.

  2. Promise 2

    No new provincial taxes, and no higher rates, in any bill I vote for.

    If a bill raises a rate or invents a new tax, I vote no. I will not print a year for restoring the 5.06% bottom rate until a budget sets one.

The report card

Tap a line for the full target, today’s number, the source and my lever.

Promise I control it, so I promise it. Target A target, and the lever I have to move it.

  1. Target

    1. Tax on your first dollars

    5.60%

    on the first $50,363 (2026)

  2. Target

    2. A public savings list

    $13.8 billion

    deficit projected in the first quarterly report; no public savings register

    QuarterlySource
  3. Target

    3. New homes, and what kind

    882

    net new homes in year two, against a 766-unit order

    Annual + quarterly stand-inSource
  4. Target

    4. Finding a rental

    3.3%

    rental vacancy, Victoria area, Oct. 2025

    Annual + quarterly stand-inSource
  5. Target

    5. Sleeping outside

    318

    people sleeping outside, March 2025 count

    Every 1–3 years + quarterly stand-inSource
  6. Target

    6. Toxic-drug deaths

    128

    deaths in South Vancouver Island, 2025

    Quarterly (monthly data)Source
  7. Target

    7. Crime in the city

    161.18

    City crime-severity index, 2025 (up 6%)

    Annual + quarterly stand-inSource
  8. Target

    8. Emergency wait for a bed

    15 hours

    median wait for a bed, all Island sites (target: 10)

    QuarterlySource
  9. Target

    9. Time to planned surgery

    40.7%

    of scheduled surgeries waited past their benchmark

    QuarterlySource
  10. Target

    10. A family doctor

    388 days

    Island Health median wait on the registry

    Quarterly (FOI if needed)Source
  11. Promise

    11. The riding office, on a clock

    Not published

    no MLA for this riding publishes these numbers

    Quarterly
  12. Target

    12. Treatment beds

    No count

    no official South Island inventory of seats versus demand

    Quarterly, once a source existsSource

How this page works

I will publish these 12 numbers every quarter, say whether they moved, and print how I voted beside them.

“Late” means late against the source’s own release date, not a fake 90-day clock on an annual survey. Where the headline number comes out once a year, I will also print a quarterly stand-in so the page still updates.

The 12 lines in full

1. The tax on your first dollars of income

Target Annual· As of 2026 tax year

Target

Bottom provincial rate back to 5.06%. Indexation restored. Keep the enhanced B.C. tax reduction credit so lower-income filers are not asked to fund the reversal.

Today

5.60% on the first $50,363 (2026 tax year). Brackets frozen 2027–2030. Average filer: +$76. More than 40% of filers came out ahead only because the tax reduction credit went up by $115. Reversing the rate without keeping that credit is a tax increase on those households.

Source & cadence

B.C. Ministry of Finance tax tables and Budget 2026. Annual.

My lever

Vote. I will not vote for a budget that raises rates. I will vote to restore 5.06% and indexation in a budget that sets the year and the offset.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 3: Cost of living

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2. A public list of real savings

Target Quarterly· As of September 2026

Target

A published, line-by-line savings register for the provincial government. New extra spending matched by a cut somewhere else. The dollar total follows a costed budget — I am not printing a personal $500 million figure that does not cover item 1.

Today

Budget 2026 books $3.5 billion in “expenditure management” over the fiscal plan, and the first quarterly report now projects a $13.8 billion deficit (First Quarterly Report, September 2026). There is no public, line-by-line register a voter can check.

Source & cadence

Public Accounts (annual); Quarterly Reports (quarterly).

My lever

Vote for dollar-for-dollar rules. Publish the register myself from the Quarterly Reports if the government will not.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 3: Cost of living

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3. New homes — and what kind

Target Annual + quarterly stand-in

Target

Victoria’s provincial housing order met or beaten: 4,902 net new homes by 2028. At least one in four new homes has three or more bedrooms.

Today

After two years the city is about halfway (882 net new in year two against a 766-unit yearly order). Family-sized rentals are still the scarce stock.

Source & cadence

City of Victoria Housing Strategy Annual Report; Housing Target Order progress. Annual, with building-permit counts quarterly.

My lever

Vote to enforce the order, fund the infrastructure that lets the units land, and cut the provincial cost stack on new homes.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 2: Homes people can afford

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4. How easy it is to find a rental

Target Annual + quarterly stand-in· As of October 2025

Target

Purpose-built apartment vacancy in the Victoria area at or above 3% each year. Three-bedroom vacancy printed separately so a studio glut cannot hide a family shortage.

Today

3.3% overall in October 2025, highest since 1999. Rented-condo vacancy about 0.3%. Three-bedroom stock is still tight.

Source & cadence

CMHC Rental Market Survey — October, published December. Annual. No quarterly official number.

Quarterly stand-in

New purpose-built completions and units under construction (CMHC monthly starts/completions).

My lever

Vote for rental supply incentives and against taxes that kill rental projects. I do not control a market vacancy rate.

How I voted

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Priority 2: Homes people can afford

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5. People sleeping outside

Target Every 1–3 years + quarterly stand-in· As of March 25–26, 2025

Target

Half as many people sleeping outside in Greater Victoria by the end of the term (October 2030), measured on the official count and on the regional by-name list.

Today

318 people sleeping outside, 1,749 without a home of their own, on the March 25–26, 2025 count. Unsheltered was 242 in 2023. The two counts are not strictly comparable.

Source & cadence

CRD / CSPC Point-in-Time count — every 1–3 years. Not quarterly.

Quarterly stand-in

Capital Region by-name / HIFIS list (people active, housed, returned to homelessness), if the region will publish it; if they will not, I FOI it and print the refusal.

My lever

Vote for housing-with-support, treatment seats, and an encampment standard on Crown land. Name the minister if the by-name list stays hidden.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 4: A downtown that works

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6. Deaths from toxic drugs

Target Quarterly (monthly data)· As of 2025

Target

40% fewer deaths in Greater Victoria by the end of the term versus 2025. Victoria, Island, and B.C. numbers printed side by side. Deaths already fell about 21% province-wide in 2025; the target is on top of that, not a victory lap for a trend that started without me.

Today

128 deaths in South Vancouver Island in 2025 (94 in the Greater Victoria local health area); 343 on the Island; 1,826 in B.C.

Source & cadence

BC Coroners Service — monthly preliminary, annual confirmed.

My lever

Vote for treatment capacity, and to fund the prosecutors, sheriffs and court time that bring dealers and repeat violent offenders to trial, which the Province pays for and runs. Bail is federal law, in the Criminal Code: I will press Ottawa to amend it. I cannot promise a death count.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 4: A downtown that works

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7. Crime in this city

Target Annual + quarterly stand-in· As of 2025 (Statistics Canada, July 2026)

Target

City of Victoria crime lower than 2024 by the end of year two, then down each year after. Repeat violent offences in the core published every quarter.

Today

City crime-severity index 152.17 in 2024 (down 11%), then 161.18 in 2025 (up 6%). Robberies in the city +19% in 2025 (126 incidents), Statistics Canada, July 2026. This city is still the regional outlier.

Source & cadence

Statistics Canada CSI — annual, July. Not quarterly.

Quarterly stand-in

VicPD quarterly counts for robbery, assault, break-and-enter, and mischief in the City of Victoria.

My lever

Vote to fund the sheriffs and court time that get cases to trial, which the Province pays for and runs. Bail and repeat-offender rules are federal law, in the Criminal Code: I will press Ottawa to amend them. I do not set the index.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 4: A downtown that works

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8. Time stuck in emergency after you need a bed

Target Quarterly· As of March 2026 (published July 2026)

Target

Island Health’s own target: median wait from triage to an inpatient bed of 10 hours or less at Royal Jubilee and at Victoria General.

Today

Island Health median, all sites, 15 hours year-to-date as of March 2026 (published July 2026; red). The measure is the median — half of admitted patients waited less, half waited more.

Source & cadence

Island Health “Wait Time in ED for an Inpatient Bed” — published with their performance measures. Ask for the two Victoria hospitals separately each quarter.

My lever

Vote for staffed medical beds and for paying hospitals for treating patients rather than for sitting on a block grant. Table the two-hospital split if Island Health will not.

How I voted

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Priority 1: Health care you can get

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9. Time to a planned surgery

Target Quarterly· As of March 2026

Target

Hip and knee replacement within 26 weeks, cataract within 16 weeks — the Ministry / CIHI benchmark, measured from the day the hospital receives the booking form to the day of surgery (Wait Two).

Today

Island Health, year to date to March 2026: 40.7% of scheduled surgeries waited longer than their clinical benchmark (their target is no more than 56.7% over). I will print hip, knee, and cataract separately for Island Health from the Ministry’s open data, not a secondary 32-week Canada-wide figure.

Source & cadence

B.C. surgical wait times open data — quarterly. Island Health performance measure — periodic.

My lever

Vote to pay for extra public and non-government operating-room time. Publish the Island Health rows myself.

How I voted

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Priority 1: Health care you can get

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10. A family doctor or nurse practitioner you can actually see

Target Quarterly (FOI if needed)· As of April 2026

Target

Cut the typical Island Health wait on the government list in half. Publish the Island attachment rate as soon as the Ministry will give it; until then the wait is the number.

Today

B.C. attachment 77.8%; 1,259,425 people unattached (minister in the House, April 2026). Island Health median time on the Health Connect Registry: 388 days (same exchange). Province-wide median: 295 days. About 345,000 people were on the list in March 2026. I do not yet have a clean Island attachment percentage; that is the first FOI.

Sources for today’s number

Source & cadence

Minister’s figures and Hansard — when they speak. Health Connect Registry extracts — FOI quarterly if they will not publish Island cuts.

My lever

Vote for less paperwork and more longitudinal practice. FOI the Island number. Print the refusal if they stall.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

Priority 1: Health care you can get

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11. The riding office, on a clock

Promise Quarterly

Promise

I control this. Cases closed, and ministerial letters answered, within 30 days. Volume and median days published on this page every quarter. Voting record published the same day as the scorecard.

Today

No MLA for this riding publishes those three numbers.

No public source yet: that is the point of this line.

Source & cadence

My office log. Quarterly, no excuse.

My lever

The office.

How I voted

Coming Printed here, beside this line, once there are votes to report.

How I'll report to you

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12. Treatment beds that serve Greater Victoria

Target Quarterly, once a source exists· As of 2025–26

Target

A public count of recovery beds and secure-care beds that serve this region — how many, how full, how long the wait, how many people still have housing 12 months later. Then grow the count until the wait is short.

Today

New locked treatment beds are being built in Surrey (60 beds, opening spring 2028) and Prince George (72 beds, from December 2027). Our Place’s therapeutic recovery community supported about 120 people in 2025–26. There is no official South Island inventory of seats versus demand. That number does not exist until someone publishes it.

Source & cadence

None yet. I will table a written question in the first sitting and print the answer, or the non-answer, on this page. After that: quarterly.

My lever

Vote for the capital and the operating money. Argue for secure care, with medical and legal safeguards, for people with severe addiction who are a danger to themselves or the public. That is what I will argue for.

How I voted

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Priority 4: A downtown that works

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