Andrea Reimer

CITY COUNCILLOR (#23, 2016)

The Protégé Gregor Robertson, Vancouver’s longest-serving mayor, is set to seek an unprecedented fourth term in 2018. Andrea Reimer—a former Green Party school trustee and, since 2008, Vision Vancouver councillor, has been Robertson’s closest ally on council and was widely seen as his heir apparent, spearheading many of Vision’s marquee initiatives, including the Greenest City Action Plan and a comprehensive new Downtown Eastside neighbourhood plan. With Robertson going nowhere fast, Reimer decided in October not to run for re-election—though it’s hard to imagine the energetic policy wonk exiting the civic stage completely.