Re: Liberal Federal Candidate Zoe Royer: Zoe Royer for Port Moody - Coquitlam | Facebook
Apr 17, 2025 I’m speaking out because people deserve to know the truth. Zoe Royer, who just announced she's running for federal office, has a history at Port Moody City Hall that should worry everyone. She was a city councillor for eight years. In 2022, even though she had strong support in past elections, she chose not to run again. Instead, she oddly ran for council in Coquitlam and school trustee in Port Moody at the same time. Many of us at City Hall knew why — if she ran again in Port Moody, information about serious ethical problems might come out. She hoped we would forget. We didn’t.
While Royer was a councillor, her family business, CityState Consulting Group, was working in real estate development. That’s a huge conflict of interest. As a councillor, she had access to private information about land, planning, and city legal matters — the exact type of information a developer would want. This went on for years, and staff at City Hall often saw things that made us uncomfortable. Eventually, it all came to a head when she directly tried to intervene in a lawsuit between the city and a landowner — a landowner who had hired her family's consulting company.
I have an audio recording of a meeting where Royer asked Mayor Rob Vagramov to help settle the lawsuit in her client’s favor. She even made a presentation with slides. The mayor warned her several times that she was deep in a conflict of interest and said he wouldn't go near it "with a 20-foot pole." She kept pushing anyway, even threatening to go to the Ombudsperson if the mayor didn’t act. This wasn’t a closed meeting — it was a Zoom call between her and the mayor, and legally, I can share it.
It was obvious to everyone that Royer was using her public office to help her private client. She had already spoken to the city manager, who worked under her, and then went to the mayor. She tried to spin the issue by claiming she was helping the environment or saving the city legal fees, but it was clear she was there for her client, not the public. That’s not just unethical — it’s illegal under community laws meant to protect people from corruption.
After a lot of thought, I decided it’s time to speak up. I didn’t release this information back in 2022, and I regret it. It’s important that voters know who they are electing. We need leaders who work for the people, not private businesses. This is especially important now, when trust in government feels so low and so many politicians are too close to big money and developers.
Today, Thursday April 17, 2025, I’m releasing this summary and the recording publicly. I hope journalists and voters in the Port Moody-Coquitlam area will take this seriously. Before we vote, we deserve to know if the people asking for our trust have already betrayed it.
Found the video at Reddit here: 🚨 I Work at Port Moody City Hall. Voters Deserve to Know the Truth About Zoe Royer. 🚨 : r/Portmoody
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