Ex-Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart sends letter to party supporters, hints at electoral reform

Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart may have lost the last election and found a new job, but that hasn’t stopped him from lending his name recognition to the party that still bears his name, leading some to speculate he could run again.

Stewart and the six candidates who ran under his party, Forward Together With Kennedy Stewart 2022, were shut out in the October election. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim won 51 per cent of the vote, compared with Stewart’s 30 per cent, which amounted to a 36,000 vote difference.

Three months later, Stewart has sent out a letter with the municipal party’s logo to wish recipients a Happy New Year and a hi from his dog, Fergus. At the bottom is a donate button that leads to the donations’ page of the party’s website.

The letter said the party will “continue to push for progressive change” and there will be more news from them soon; that he and his former chief of staff, Neil Monckton, will have some information about an electoral reform project later this year; and that he has returned to academia with a job at Simon Fraser University’s school of public policy.