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Rollergirl

Indépendant pour Vancouver Conseil

Note de l'éditeur

Rollergirl asked to submit her candidate profile to us over the phone. We interviewed her and transcribed what she said, then organised her quotes to fit the VoteMate format. The edited version was run by Rollergirl for her final approval.
“Some people are in trouble, go help them. If people need something to eat, why not? I just step out of my zone and try to help people.”

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Businesses & Jobs

Revitalisation

Have weekly Car Free Days during the summer and fall across the city

“More Car Free Days, less pollution in the air, and that's what we want. [...] that’s what I would love to see happen. To see more Car Free Days, more family get-togethers, instead of just one family day a year.” — Rollergirl

Continue the Gastown Car Free Zone and bring in vendors

Small businesses

Provide leeway for business owners who can't afford business licenses or don't have the know-how to use online services
Snobby business owners should not have a business license

“If they can’t structure their business to serve people normally [...] they should not have a license.”

“If you can’t be polite to people, you’re in the wrong business.”

— Rollergirl

Climate Change

Cars and parking

Have weekly Car Free Days during the summer and fall across the city

“More Car Free Days, less pollution in the air, and that's what we want. [...] that’s what I would love to see happen. To see more Car Free Days, more family get-togethers, instead of just one family day a year.” — Rollergirl

Continue the Gastown Car Free Zone and bring in vendors

Walking and cycling infrastructure

Continue the Gastown Car Free Zone and bring in vendors

Housing & Homelessness

Homeless services

Reform the Carnegie Centre outreach team

“And the Carnegie [Centre] outreach team. That needs to be changed. They’re corrupted. The whole system down here is corrupted.” — Rollergirl

Rental housing

Reform the Residential Tenancy Board

“The RTB rules are all in favour of the management and the structure of their own, whatever society that they're in. All the Downtown East side structure, it's all messed up. Everything down here needs to be flipped upside down and done right, because down here it's structured for people to stay down here. It's not structured for people to help people.” — Rollergirl

Public Spaces & Services

Walking and cycling infrastructure

Continue the Gastown Car Free Zone and bring in vendors

Transit & Getting Around

Cars and parking

Have weekly Car Free Days during the summer and fall across the city

“More Car Free Days, less pollution in the air, and that's what we want. [...] that’s what I would love to see happen. To see more Car Free Days, more family get-togethers, instead of just one family day a year.” — Rollergirl

Continue the Gastown Car Free Zone and bring in vendors

Walking and cycling infrastructure

Continue the Gastown Car Free Zone and bring in vendors

Biographie

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“I like to be happy. I like to be kind. I like to just be cheerful, and that's what most people think I am. I am who I am.”

“It doesn't matter how many times people knock me down, push me down, emotionally, mentally. It does mess me up a little bit, but it takes a couple of days or hours to [get] kicked out of it, but sometimes it doesn't – I just snap out of it. I try to be as kind and as helpful as possible.”

“I'm not into crime. I'm into helping people, and sometimes I catch people stealing, and I try to help and I've done that, I've gone out of my way, and that's what you call a citizen that steps out and helps. Like an ambassador. I'm an ambassador of the city. You can add that in. I'm a citizen that wants to get out there and change how people think and people need to have more community.”

“Are you a kind person? Or do you wake up every day and see who you can mess around with? That's what I don't understand of people–why do they wake up and try to be mean to people just [for] the sake of being mean.

“You know, like if I go to a coffee shop, OK for example, and I'm a regular, and they know how I like my coffee, but they give me a hard time. See, snobby business owners should not have a business because snobby business owners, they don't know how to deal with the average citizen in society. All they care about is their money. They don't care about the interactions or how they interact; they care about only 1% or 2%, but the other whatever percent get treated crappy.

“My mother and father had two businesses when I grew up. I have one myself; I know how to deal with people. I'm not gonna say ‘oh do you, do you wanna buy my merch?’ That's very rude. You know, I would say ‘would you like?’ or ‘miss’ or ‘sir’ or they/he or whatever the pronouns are, use them.

“We're in a different world now. You know, before the pandemic everybody was more kinder. Vancouver is very kind, but it needs to be more kinder. I don't know, you know, the world is shifting. People's minds are shifting.”

Raison de la candidature

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“Well, first of all the RTB rules need to change. Second of all, people who can't pay rent, then they get kicked out. They can't feed their children right and they can't even feed themselves right. Then they get misplaced. Everybody in the community, if they can't pay rent or anything like that — it doesn't matter if they're different or not different — they get marginalized. Even if they're not marginalized, they get marginalized.

“It's just so simple. It's just the government should pay our rent then we won't have to worry about rent. We all have to worry about to feed our children and feed ourselves and to have a good time in life.”

“One of my buddies froze to death [after being released from the hospital with just a hospital gown]. He was over 75 years old [but] it wasn’t time for him to die. [...] The hospital should have found him a shelter, especially when it was extreme cold.”

“Nobody should die in the frozen cold. In Vancouver, somebody should have reached out and helped him he would have been alive. He passed away before his time.”

“The reason why I like to be kind is because I'm a peacekeeper, and that's [why] the Pisces sign’s there. You know, and that's why I’d like to be voted in.”


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