ELECT FOR CITY COUNCIL
Ellen Woodsworth has been twice elected to Vancouver City Council, once in 2002 and again in 2008. Described by many as one of the hardest working Councillors Vancouver has ever known, Woodsworth has served as Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee and representative to the Union of BC Municipalities and the Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Committee. She also sat on the Food Policy, Women’s and Creative Cities Task Forces and was Council’s representative to the Seniors and Youth Advisory Committees.
Woodsworth has shown strong leadership on key issues like housing, climate change, gender issues and protecting civil liberties. “I believe in safe, strong, diverse neighbourhoods and support for local businesses,” says Woodsworth. “But we can’t have any of those things unless we deal with the affordability crisis in our city. Unless we can make sure that seniors who built our city can continue to live here, along side new families who have so much to offer, we can’t realize our goal of a Vancouver for everyone. That’s what I am fighting for.”
Woodsworth has been a long time resident of Grandview Woodlands where she lives with her partner Jo.
You can follow her on twitter @EllenWoodsworth