Vancouver Liberal Leader Kareem Allam says landing Vancouver park board commissioner Scott Jensen is a coup for the upstart party, and they're 'aggressively pursuing' the other three Independent incumbents

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One question ahead of Vancouver’s 2026 election is what will happen with the four incumbent politicians who were elected with ABC in 2022 and now sit as Independents.

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These independents — three park board commissioners and a school board trustee — would tie the Greens as Vancouver’s second-largest group of elected officials if they were to formally unite.

We now have the first part of the answer: Park board commissioner Scott Jensen confirmed this week to Postmedia News that he will seek re-election this year running with the upstart Vancouver Liberals.

The Liberals were formed as a new civic party last year by a group including Kareem Allam, a political strategist who managed the successful 2022 campaign of Mayor Ken Sim and ABC, and plans to run for mayor........

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