Green Coun. Adriane Carr had indicated in November that she was considering leaving council before the end of the current term, but wanted to take the Christmas holiday to think it over. She made it official Wednesday.
Vancouver council’s most senior member, Green Coun. Adriane Carr, announced Wednesday she is resigning her seat, setting up a two-seat byelection for later this year.
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There is already a civic byelection slated for this year to replace OneCity Coun. Christine Boyle, who was elected last year as a B.C. NDP MLA, and Carr’s resignation means there will now be two council seats up for grabs in the byelection. The byelection is expected to cost the city as much as $2 million. Carr had said last November that she would not have considered quitting early and forcing a byelection if there were not already one planned.
In 1983, Carr and her husband Paul George co-founded the B.C. Green Party. It was the first Green party in North America, and Carr served as its inaugural leader. Through the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s, Carr ran unsuccessfully for the Greens at the provincial, federal, and municipal levels, before finally picking up her first electoral win in Vancouver’s 2011 municipal election, becoming the Green Party of Vancouver’s first councillor.
Carr was the highest vote-winner in Vancouver’s 2014 election, when she was again the only Green elected, and again in 2018, when two fellow Greens were elected alongside her.
Carr’s departure will leave Coun. Pete Fry as the only Green, and only non-ABC member.
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