Thanks to growing up with a French father in Vancouver, and having lived in Taiwan for 5 years, Françoise speaks French & English fluently and has conversational Spanish and Mandarin.

Françoise has more than 25 years of experience in education, publishing, and community services, and she is currently an elementary district support teacher in Vancouver. She knows that our schools and hospitals, which are vital hubs of our communities, are desperately suffering after decades of underfunding by both BC NDP and Liberal governments.

In order to have a strong social safety net, we need to fund the knots. Prevention always costs society less (morally & financially) than crisis response. But the education of future generations seems to be less and less of a priority for governments with every budget passed. When Françoise graduated from University Hill Secondary in 1992, education spending was about 23% of the total provincial budget and now it is less than 13%. 

Another key issue is the way in which the world’s biggest corporations are able to use their wealth to influence government policy. Public funds, like the more than $2 billion that BC gives fossil fuel companies per year, should not be going to private good. Only the BC Greens seem to recognize this in their policies and platforms.

Vancouver’s housing crisis, which has grown steadily in scale and severity since Expo ‘86, is now a desperate problem as well. Françoise is fortunate to live with her family in co-op housing in Vancouver-Fraserview, but she has nonetheless seen the housing affordability crisis first-hand. Insanely high rents and housing instability due to constant house-flipping by investor landlords have driven many of her friends and colleagues away from BC in search of a more affordable life in other parts of the country and overseas.  

If elected Vancouver-Fraserview’s first Green MLA, Françoise will be ready on day one to work with her colleagues across party lines to build more co-ops, social, and non-market housing on public lands, to shore up our failing health and education systems, to rehabilitate and protect ecosystems, and to ensure that our infrastructure is strong and resilient into the 21st century and beyond. Furthermore, as an MLA, Françoise will advocate for sustainably-produced local food, renewable energy grids, expanded public transportation networks, and more support for local and independent businesses.