Alex ThurlbornIndependent

Wants government held to account for promises, spending and results — practical solutions, working services, straight answers.

• Running as an Independent because government should answer for what it promises, what it spends and what it delivers — 'not party politics'.
• Campaign theme: practical solutions, public services that work for the people who rely on them, and straight answers about decisions made in their name.

“I'm running because government should answer for what it promises, what it spends, and what it actually delivers. Not party politics — practical solutions, public services that work for the people who rely on them, and straight answers about decisions made in our name.”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands

Confidence:High

Demands every program publicly answer five questions: who is responsible, what was promised, what it cost, what happened, what changes.

• Demands radical transparency: every program should have to answer five questions, in public.
• The five questions: who's responsible, what was promised, what did it cost, what actually happened, and what needs to change.

“Every program should have to answer five questions, in public: Who's responsible? What was promised? What did it cost? What actually happened? What needs to change?”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands

Confidence:High

Proposes a 24-month ban on taking consulting contracts from the same government entity that paid exit pay.

• Wants a 24-month ban on bidding for or taking consulting contracts from the government entity that just paid you to leave.
• Targets the revolving door: officials taking exit pay, then returning to the same entity as paid consultants.

“If you take exit pay from a government entity, you shouldn't be able to turn around and sell your services back to that same entity as a consultant.”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands

Confidence:High

Thurlborn would cap exit pay for senior public managers at 8 weeks — the Employment Standards Act baseline.

• PRE-WINDOW: undated site content on gozander.ca, verified absent from the 6 banked Thurlborn rows and all Oct 20-22 run/import files
• Capped at the Employment Standards Act baseline rather than custom multi-year salary continuances
• Covers senior public managers, regional district executives and contracted consultants

“Senior public managers, regional district executives, and contracted consultants should be capped at 8 weeks of exit pay — the same protection everyone else gets under the Employment Standards Act.”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands · October 22, 2026

Confidence:High

Thurlborn would reserve 1/3 of public-board seats for frontline workers elected by peers, not appointed.

• PRE-WINDOW: undated site content on gozander.ca, verified absent from the 6 banked Thurlborn rows and all Oct 20-22 run/import files
• Wants at least one-third of seats on major public boards, health authorities and Crown corporations reserved for frontline workers
• Those frontline seats would be filled by peer election, not appointment, with full and equal voting rights

“I want at least one-third (1/3) of the seats on major public boards, health authorities, and Crown corporations reserved for frontline workers — elected by their peers, not appointed, with full and equal voting rights.”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands · October 22, 2026

Confidence:High

Proposes capping public-sector executive pay at 3.5–4x the lowest-paid full-time worker's pay in the same organization.

• Proposes a strict wage ratio cap: no executive or senior administrator at a Crown corporation, health authority or large municipal operation should earn more than 3.5x to 4x the lowest-paid full-time employee in the same organization.
• The cap would apply to management roles only, not to specialized technical, engineering or medical credentials such as surgeons.

“We keep handing big raises and bonuses to a small group of top executives while the people at the bottom do the heavy lifting. That double standard has to stop.”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands

Confidence:High

Thurlborn would ban confidentiality clauses on public-service contracts; publish exec pay in open archive.

• PRE-WINDOW: undated site content on gozander.ca, verified absent from the 6 banked Thurlborn rows and all Oct 20-22 run/import files
• Executive bonuses and severance amounts, perks and reasoning published in a searchable public archive
• Follows the banked revolving-door and five-questions-transparency rows but is a distinct, previously unextracted statement

“And confidentiality clauses on public service contracts should be illegal.”

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Source: Alex Thurlborn — Independent Candidate for Langford-Highlands · October 22, 2026

Confidence:High