Source documents, research sites, and the public record behind the campaign. Where a figure is an estimate, the platform says so.
Scott's initiative to fill vacant DTES and Chinatown storefronts with productive businesses, trades training, recovery services, and community enterprises — independent of any political outcome. Includes a full list of storefront concepts and suggested partners.
A factual chronology of Scott Gilbert's three VCH FOI requests seeking detox, harm-reduction, and spending data. Documents the $14,160 initial fee estimate for 2025-F-355, the $780 partial estimate for the narrowed follow-up, repeated scope reductions, VCH's threatened s. 43 application, and the absence of any granted fee waiver across all three files. Prepared July 6, 2026.
The full policy draft for Recovery Works: a voluntary partnership between the City of Vancouver and the demolition industry that turns recoverable materials into paid transitional employment. Covers how it works, industry incentives, the employment model, and public accountability metrics.
Scott Gilbert's measurable first-term DTES plan: a 1,000-person recovery-work pathway target, 365 treatment completions per year, a Recovery Jobs Guarantee at real wages, an independent 120-day audit of all DTES spending, and a monthly public dashboard tracking every metric from detox requests to 100-day lawful-work completions.
Scott Gilbert's personal disclosure: years of IV drug use, recovery through relationship and work rather than treatment, a plain assessment of what Vancouver's harm-reduction system does and does not do, and six policy commitments grounded in lived experience.
The full Great Scott plan for 24/7 AI-powered public service: 10 service areas, strict human-safeguard rules, privacy and security requirements, a four-year implementation roadmap ($9.75M–$19.5M estimate), and a monthly public accountability dashboard.
Scott Gilbert's April 2025 complaint to BC's Security Programs Division alleging that Skwarek, an ex-RCMP private investigator contracted by the landlord at 138 E. Hastings (FJL Housing/Terra Property Management), illegally entered a tenant's apartment, changed the locks without notice, made defamatory public statements, conducted unauthorized surveillance, and fabricated grounds for a bad-faith eviction. Includes chronology, YouTube and audio evidence links, and supporting documents.
AI-assisted legal analysis of the Skwarek complaint against the Security Services Act, Residential Tenancy Act, Personal Information Protection Act, Human Rights Code, and Criminal Code. Identifies apparent breaches across six regulatory frameworks, estimates civil damage ranges ($25K–$100K+), and outlines recommended pathways through licensing, civil, human rights, and criminal channels. Includes the landlord's rebuttal letter and correspondence excerpts.
Peer-reviewed academic review (Social Sciences, 2023) examining how Vancouver's 1,600+ nonprofits function as an industrial complex — managing dissent, shielding government from accountability, and expanding carceral systems under the guise of social care. Authored by researchers at SFU, UBC, VANDU, Pivot Legal Society, and others.