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Camil Dumont
Council · Vancouver
Kits 45 yrs
About
Camil Dumont grew up in Vancouver. A former Park Board Chair and current member of the Leadership Team at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC, he will bring care, ecological stewardship and community commitment to City Hall.
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.
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Support electrification of new buildings.
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Incentivize electric heat pumps and air filtration systems.
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Scale up energy retrofits for existing homes, businesses, and public buildings.
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Implement a 'right to cool' bylaw to protect tenants during extreme heat events.
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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.
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Pursue available legal options to recover a fair share of the climate costs facing our community from fossil fuel companies and other big polluters.
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Collaborate with Indigenous peoples as partners in the stewardship of the land, air, and water, and work towards reconciliation.
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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.
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Expand and protect tree canopy, parks, and green infrastructure to cool neighbourhoods, clean air, and manage stormwater.
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Prioritize native tree planting in all areas, especially those with low tree cover, higher population densities, and more vulnerable residents.
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Create connected urban greenways for people and wildlife.
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Land Use
We envision vibrant, walkable communities that protect nature and improve food security.
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Build affordable homes near jobs, schools, shops, and transit.
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Upgrade critical infrastructure for heat, fire, flood, and storm resilience.
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Increase food security by supporting local agriculture and community gardens.
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Transport
Connecting neighbourhoods through public transit and active transportation networks will cut pollution, improve public health, and make our communities more affordable (and fun!).
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Deliver reliable, frequent, affordable local transit.
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Advocate to improve regional public transit between communities.
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Build bike and roll networks that are safe for everyone.
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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.
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Support the development of a circular economy to eliminate waste and improve resilience.
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Implement bylaws to eliminate waste from new buildings, renovation, and demolition projects and to use existing buildings as efficiently as possible.
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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?
I have been an environmentalist all my life, and a climate activist since climate change became an urgent public concern. I work in food systems sustainability in a leadership role at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC, where climate action is a major focus of our research and educational programming. Through my work, I helped develop a climate leadership camp for teens that has run for the past two summers at UBC Farm. I completed my MSc at UBC with the climate and biodiversity crises central to my studies. In 2018, I ran for and was elected to the Vancouver Park Board, largely on a platform of climate action and ecological stewardship. I remain very proud of the climate work I was able to help embed into Vancouver’s parks system. My wife works for a national climate-organizing non-profit, and we are very much a climate-active family. Our responsibility to future generations drives much of our working lives, both paid and volunteer.
Questions for Vancouver
What is your position on gas hookups for new buildings?
I would like to see as much of a reduction in gas use as possible - we need to refresh, renew and repair the Climate Emergency Action Plan and reverse the reversal on gas in new homes, asap.
Will you vote to restore full funding for the Sustainability Office? In your view, what is the role of the Sustainability Office?
Hell yes. Much can be nested under the Sustainability office, climate mitigation and adaptation, certainly, but more as well. We need to increase bio-diversity and habitat for all living creatures, increase tree canopy, manage water in a sustainable way, etc. The sustainability office would be a priority for me and funding it accordingly is crucial.
What is your view on a moratorium on AI data centres, given the natural resources they require?
Evidence-based decision-making on this issue is key. There are already many data centres in Vancouver and across the region; what is emerging is the growth of AI and generative AI-related demand. I am open to a moratorium based on resource use, but I think we should be careful not to develop tunnel vision around AI data centres alone. Other industrial or commercial operations may have equal or even greater impacts on energy, water, land, and infrastructure, and those impacts should not slip through unnoticed. My commitment is to sustainable resource use across the board. The City should assess major land uses and industrial activities based on clear evidence, public benefit, infrastructure capacity, and long-term environmental responsibility.
Given the “controversy” of the Villages Plan, how do you envision accommodating the population growth of the City while dealing with the impacts of climate change?
The idea behind the Villages Plan aligns with many of my priorities. I strongly support walkable communities and neighbourhoods, eco-density, effective transit, and active transportation networks. I actually think the rollout, and the lack of meaningful community engagement, was a major ABC fumble on what was, in many ways, their own plan. The “what” of the plan has a lot of merit. The “how” undermined it before any of the good ideas had a chance to take root.
What is your plan to create climate safeguards for all of Vancouver’s inhabitants, including the unhoused population?
We need to plan for the short, medium, and long term. A response and action plan for acute climate-related emergencies needs to be operationalized, so the City can respond quickly and effectively when climate events occur. At the same time, we need to plan for a transition to greater resilience under the new climate baseline. That means looking 50 to 100 years ahead, or more, so future generations have a real chance to thrive. We are living through a very difficult moment, but there are still climate harm-reduction tools available to us. There are lots of climate solutions available to us but we have yet to see the political will to make them happen. I'd like to help change that. Giving up is not an option.
Campaign contributions
Public records from Elections BC — 17 contributions totalling $6,990.00.
2018 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS
17 contributions · $6,990.00
| Contributor | Date | Amount | Office | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADAM BLASBERG | Oct 5, 2018 | $1,200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| ARTHUR BOMKE | Oct 15, 2018 | $100.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| TARA CULLIS | Oct 4, 2018 | $500.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI | Oct 2, 2018 | $150.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| REBEKAH DAVIES | Oct 4, 2018 | $120.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| NATHAN DRILLOT | Oct 31, 2018 | $1,200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| ELIZABETH FLEMING | Oct 6, 2018 | $150.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| FIONA GOLD | Oct 2, 2018 | $250.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| PETER LADNER | Oct 2, 2018 | $200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| BRENDAN LADNER | Oct 22, 2018 | $120.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| MARCIA MENEGHELLA | Oct 9, 2018 | $100.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| LISA ROSS | Oct 4, 2018 | $200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| PATRICK ROSS | Oct 19, 2018 | $200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| EHREN SALAZAR | Oct 19, 2018 | $1,200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| ALISON STEWART | Sep 28, 2018 | $1,000.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| WENDY STEWART | Sep 28, 2018 | $100.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
| CHIYI TAM | Oct 2, 2018 | $200.00 | PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER | VANCOUVER |
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