Metro Vancouver has unveiled localgovernmentmatters.ca, a website where it's quizzing provincial parties on their positions on municipal issues leading up to the May 14 election.
The regional district hopes it puts more focus on the need for reform of TransLink, get long-term sustainable funding for transit and infrastructure, and other municipal issues member cities want the next government to address.
So far only the Green Party has provided answers, but the other main parties have promised to participate.
“The board will not be endorsing any political party," Metro vice-chair Raymound Louie said, calling it an "entirely non-partisan initiative."
The region says cities are profoundly affected by senior government decisions – such as new federal sewage effluent regulations that are forcing Metro to upgrade to treatment plants at a cost of $1.4 billion.
The topics include agriculture, with a question asking what provincial parties would do to prevent industrialization of viable farmland.