Vancouver Task Force on Council Representation in search of consensus
Smaller measures find agreement, but one year in, big-ticket items remain controversial
Published: December 24, 2020, 5:12pm
Share: The Vancouver City Council gathers for its first meeting of 2020 before the pandemic at Vancouver City Hall in January. (The Columbian files)
After a year of debating strategies to diversify Vancouver’s government, the Task Force on Council Representation remains divided on which measures will ultimately move the needle.
“We started our work literally a year ago, and it’s been quite a year,” Tanisha Harris, one of the task force members, said during the group’s long-awaited presentation to the city council on Monday. “We are facing a lot of issues when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion.”