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JC Rathwell
Independent for Kelowna Council
Businesses & Jobs
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
Welcome AI and data‑centre investment only with strict energy, water, and heat‑recovery requirements, and fast‑track permits for projects that prove net community benefit—not just corporate tax breaks.
Business Permitting
Slash red tape and publish clear timelines for permits, but enforce compliance hard—no more endless extensions for businesses that ignore bylaws or burden neighbors.
Economic Growth
Prioritize growth that creates local jobs and tax base without exporting costs to residents, and kill any “growth” that depends on tolerating crime, chaos, or unchecked utility demands.
Tourism
Support tourism that respects neighborhoods and public safety, and tie any tourism spending to measurable outcomes—more clean, safe streets and occupied rooms—not just marketing slogans.
Climate Change, Heat, Fires, & the Environment
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
Welcome AI and data‑centre investment only with strict energy, water, and heat‑recovery requirements, and fast‑track permits for projects that prove net community benefit—not just corporate tax breaks.
Zoning
Protect renters from retaliatory evictions and illegal suites, but also cut red tape that blocks legal rentals—more compliant units, not fewer, is the only real affordability fix.
Culture & Events
Housing & Homelessness
Affordability
Stop subsidizing chaos: tie any new affordability spending to measurable outcomes—more treated addictions, fewer repeat offenses, and verified housing retention—not just “beds added.
Building Maintenance & Occupant Health
Enforce existing bylaws on unsafe or unsanitary buildings and penalize landlords who ignore health hazards, because decent housing starts with basic enforcement, not new slogans.
Homelessness
Treat open drug use, theft, and intimidation as enforcement failures; expand shelter and treatment for those who want it, but end the policy of tolerating crime in public spaces.
Housing Accessibility
Fast‑track accessible units in new projects and retrofit incentives, but only if developers meet real occupancy targets instead of collecting subsidies and leaving units empty.
Indigenous-Led Housing
Support Indigenous‑led housing with streamlined approvals and dedicated funding, while requiring clear performance metrics so money actually produces occupied, safe homes.
Property Taxes
Keep property tax increases disciplined and tie any new housing levies to specific, audited results—no blank‑cheque taxes for programs that don’t reduce visible disorder.
Public & Assistive Housing
Expand supportive housing only with mandatory wrap‑around services and strict tenancy rules that protect neighbors and prevent buildings from becoming unmanaged crisis zones.
Zoning
Protect renters from retaliatory evictions and illegal suites, but also cut red tape that blocks legal rentals—more compliant units, not fewer, is the only real affordability fix.
Local Government, Planning, & Democracy
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Mental Health Crisis Response
Promise: Shift to enforced, consequence‑based crisis response—pair outreach with mandatory treatment or shelter acceptance, and stop allowing repeated 911 calls with zero follow‑through.
Overdoses & the Contaminated Drug Supply
Expand supervised consumption and rapid naloxone access, but tie every site to strict rules, clean‑up standards, and measurable reductions in public drug use and discarded paraphernalia.
Treatment for Addiction
Fund only treatment programs that publish completion and relapse data, and prioritize beds for people who commit to structured programs—not open‑ended, no‑questions‑asked services that enable repeat cycles.
Public Safety & Policing
Non-Police-Based Public Safety
Deploy bylaw and outreach teams with real teeth—mandatory move‑along orders, clean‑up directives, and enforced treatment referrals—so “non‑police” doesn’t mean “no consequences.”
Police Funding
Keep RCMP funding stable and tied to measurable outcomes—response times, repeat‑offender reductions, and downtown incident counts—instead of blank‑cheque increases with no public dashboard
Police Wrongdoing & Accountability
Support independent investigations and transparent reporting on misconduct, while rejecting blanket defunding that weakens enforcement against the very crime hurting residents.
Upstream Causes of Crime
Target upstream drivers—addiction, untreated mental health crises, and repeat offending—with mandatory treatment pathways and strict probation conditions,
Public Spaces & Services
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
Biography
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JC Rathwell — Kelowna City Council. Public safety first, accountability over slogans. I pledged eight RCMP/Bylaw ride‑alongs; if I don’t complete them, I give up a year’s salary. Challenging every candidate to do the same. No fluff. No excuses. VoteForMeOrDont.com
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