Ian Campbell (Canadian politician)

Campbell is a member of the Squamish Nation. He lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia.^[4]

In the years leading up to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Campbell was involved in the negotiations for First Nation governments participation in the games, as the Four Host First Nations.^[5]

In July 2010, Campbell, along with other First Nation leaders, called for Stanley Park to be renamed X̱wáýx̱way, a historic aboriginal name for the area.^[6]

In 2014, Campbell was a founding member of MST, participating in negotiations between the Musqueam Indian Band, the Squamish Nation, and the Tsleil-Waututh Nation for joint management of real estate on lands over which the First Nations groups had overlapping claims in the British Columbia Treaty Process.^[7][8] Based on the corporation's own estimates, MST's properties are valued at more than $1 billion.^[9][10]

In 2015, Campbell was one of the first graduates of the Simon Fraser University MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership.^[11][12][13]

As a hereditary chief of the Squamish Nation, Campbell has supported the proposed Woodfibre LNG project, subject to certain conditions.^[14][15] He has opposed the Trans Mountain Pipeline.^[16] He was chief when the nation filed a court challenge against the pipeline.^{[17][18][19][20]}

In October 2017, Campbell proposed tearing down the Fairmont Academy, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) barracks. He claimed doing so would assist the reconciliation process, citing the historic "marginalization of Indigenous peoples" by the RCMP.^[21]

In May 2018, Campbell announced that he intended to run for mayor of Vancouver in the 2018 election.^[7] Shortly after his announcement, he was confirmed as the Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate, replacing Gregor Robertson, who is not seeking re-election.^{[4][22][23][24]} Campbell campaigned on the promise of expanding the Broadway Skytrain extension to the University of British Columbia.^[25] On September 10, several days before the deadline to file necessary paperwork with Elections BC, Campbell announced that he would be withdrawing from the race.^[26]

In 2022, Campbell became the chair of the Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase. Campbell said the annual event provides a platform to advance economic reconciliation and "showcase[s] to broad audiences the progress that has already been made".^[27]