Rob Jackson

Council · Mission

Mission 15 yrs

About

Rob Jackson — telecom technician, Ambulance driver, single father, and former small business owner in Mission. Running for council to create dedicated revenue streams to lower property taxes, attract local jobs, expand trades training. Work Live Play

Policy commitments

Buildings

We all want healthy, affordable, and comfortable homes. These policies will help to lower energy bills, cut pollution, and improve indoor air quality.

✓ Support electrification of new buildings. Supportive

~ Incentivize electric heat pumps and air filtration systems. Neutral

✓ Incentivize renewable energy, battery storage, and smart-grid technologies in new and existing buildings to improve energy security. Supportive

✓ Scale up energy retrofits for existing homes, businesses, and public buildings. Supportive

~ Implement a 'right to cool' bylaw to protect tenants during extreme heat events. Neutral

Climate Justice

Our community is already experiencing the harmful impacts of climate change caused by fossil fuel pollution, and taxpayers are on the hook to upgrade and repair critical infrastructure.

~ Endorse the fossil fuel treaty and commit to phase out fossil fuels. Neutral

× Enact a moratorium on AI data centres to protect our energy and water resources. Opposed

✓ Pursue available legal options to recover a fair share of the climate costs facing our community from fossil fuel companies and other big polluters. Supportive

Ecosystems

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat all rely on healthy ecosystems. Nature can also help protect our community from extreme weather by controlling floods, protecting shorelines, and cooling neighbourhoods. Access to nature improves the health and well-being of residents, and supports biodiversity.

✓ Protect and restore ecosystems, which are essential to human survival, health, and economic well-being. Supportive

✓ Expand and protect tree canopy, parks, and green infrastructure to cool neighbourhoods, clean air, and manage stormwater. Supportive

✓ Prioritize native tree planting in all areas, especially those with low tree cover, higher population densities, and more vulnerable residents. Supportive

✓ Create connected urban greenways for people and wildlife. Supportive

Land Use

We envision vibrant, walkable communities that protect nature and improve food security.

✓ Build affordable homes near jobs, schools, shops, and transit. Supportive

✓ Upgrade critical infrastructure for heat, fire, flood, and storm resilience. Supportive

✓ Increase food security by supporting local agriculture and community gardens. Supportive

Transport

Connecting neighbourhoods through public transit and active transportation networks will cut pollution, improve public health, and make our communities more affordable (and fun!).

✓ Deliver reliable, frequent, affordable local transit. Supportive

✓ Advocate to improve regional public transit between communities. Supportive

~ Build bike and roll networks that are safe for everyone. Neutral

~ Expand EV charging infrastructure. Neutral

Watersheds

Climate change, increasing populations, and overconsumption threaten our water security. Healthy watersheds and forests are critical to support clean drinking water, stormwater management, climate resilience, and biodiversity for future generations.

~ Implement water conservation plans and educate the public to conserve drinking water. Neutral

✓ Protect and restore watersheds as vital municipal infrastructure. Supportive

~ Develop and implement a water security plan. Neutral

Zero Waste

Zero waste policies reduce pollution, keep waste out of landfills, build resilient local economies, and safeguard public health by shifting society away from a disposable culture toward a sustainable circular economy.

✓ Support the development of a circular economy to eliminate waste and improve resilience. Supportive

✓ Implement bylaws to eliminate waste from new buildings, renovation, and demolition projects and to use existing buildings as efficiently as possible. Supportive

✓ Supportive

~ Neutral

× Opposed

– No response

Climate action

How have you contributed to climate action in your community through advocacy, past work, advisory committees, volunteer work, and/or reducing your personal carbon footprint?

As an employee of a local Municipal Government Sanitation Department, I was witness to unnecessary waste daily. At my home, I am a heavy advocate for recycling and eco-friendly appliances.
In the past, I have volunteered in neighborhood street level volunteer garbage and waste removal programs, in the Downtown Vancouver core.

Questions for Mission

Are you in favour of accelerating Mission’s adoption of Level 4 of the Zero Carbon Step Code, currently mandated by the province by 2030?

Mission has bigger and more important concerns, like where people will work, safety and security, increased property taxes, and paycheque to paycheque living. At current, the EV technology and infrastructure is not capable of maintaining the needs of the users now, let alone forcing an increase to electric vehicles.

Would you support making an updated Environmental Charter the foundation policy against which all other policies and strategies are measured?

I am a supporter of family and especially children. Like our parents before us, and theirs before them, we leave behind our mistakes and our lessons for them to correct. We need to mandate proper environmental policies to lessen the footprint.

Would you support a policy of evaluating all decisions for their effects on future generations? (i.e. the effect on Mission in 20 or 50 years)

Yes. We leave behind our mistakes, and we need to make less, so that our children, and our children’s children aren’t burdened with those mistakes.

Would you support mandating EV charging points in all new residential construction?

Yes. Every bit counts, but we must also rely on the hydro system to upgrade and be able to support this infrastructure. We are already plagued with major power outages now, so we would need to have a major guarantee from the Provincially run Hydro company, prior to mandating this policy.

Would you support developing an anti-idling policy for the municipal fleet?

Mission is not a large city. During COVID to help with the rising costs of living, I was a SkipTheDishes driver. So I am experienced with the lengths of travel between all points of businesses and residential areas. The municipal fleet could be transferred to majority electric or hybrid vehicles, to reduce the need to anti-idling policies. For Commercial vehicles, there are existing laws for noise and travel, for truck routes.

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