Youth advocate Callista Ryan will run with the BC NDP in Vancouver-Quilchena.

Callista Ryan is a communications professional with years of experience in advocacy and campaigns, with a particular focus on engaging and representing young people. She serves as a director on the board of the BC Council for Families and as the Co-Chair of the BC Young New Democrats. Young people in Vancouver need action on housing and the cost of living, and Callista is ready to deliver for them.

“People in Vancouver need action on housing, healthcare and the cost of living. David Eby’s BC NDP team has stepped up. We’re facing tough challenges and this team is ready to take them on,” said Ryan. “John Rustad and Kevin Falcon would shut the door on the progress we’ve made as a province. We can’t afford the risk.”

Since forming government in July 2017, the BC NDP has taken action on crucial issues that matter to the people of Vancouver-Quilchena, including:

• Helping BC’s renters find — and keep — their homes by limiting rent increases, providing a renter’s rebate, and bringing tens of thousands of rental units back to market through the speculation tax and tough new restrictions on short-term rentals;
• Helping people get care when they need it by building and upgrading hospitals in Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey and Richmond;
• Helping people with costs by eliminating MSP Premiums, reducing ICBC rates by $500 a year, boosting the BC Family Benefit by $445, cutting childcare fees in half, and making birth control free; and
• Taking action to create 75,000 good paying jobs in the last year to make BC an economic leader in Canada, with the highest wages in the country.

“Callista is deeply committed to young people and to her community,” said Premier David Eby. “People in Vancouver-Quilchena can count on her to work hard for more affordable homes, more doctors and nurses, and a strong and clean economy.”

Callista Ryan will join David Eby and 91 other exceptional BC NDP candidates in this fall’s provincial election, all committed to real action to help people build a good life here in BC.