ATTENTION HIKERS, BIKERS, SLEDDERS, CROSS COUNTRY SKIERS, CAMPERS, LOGGERS, MINERS, HUNTERS, FISHERS AND ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS!
If you ever leave a paved road for recreation and/or employment, you must attend this town hall meeting tomorrow night, April 17th at 6pm at Splatsin Community Center in Enderby. Our local economy and lifestyle are at risk and the threat is immediate!
This informative session will shed light on information that you may not be aware of in regards to Section 11 and the Draft Partnership Agreement and the Caribou Recovery Plans and the Back Country Closures. The province had neglected to provide us, the stakeholders with the 60 days consultation process as promised, instead they offered us the opportunity for feedback from March 21 - May 3 which conveniently was extended yesterday until May 31! This is not enough time! We need at least 1 year to 18 months for consultation! We need to hold them accountable to this. The province has not provided us with a Socio-Economic Study in our area to assess the impact this will have! We need to hold them accountable to this! The province is not providing the stakeholders with real data and/or science to back this agreement, we need to hold them accountable to this!
Unless we speak up and tell both provincial and federal governments your concerns, entire swaths of this province, particularly in the interior and the north may be closed.
How can you help?
Attend this town hall meeting and become better informed.
Write emails to your provincial and federal leaders. Provide feedback through this
online form
or print and send to:
Caribou Recovery Program
PO Box 9546
STN PROV GOVT
Victoria, B.C. V8W 9C5
Or write a personalized letters on how this will affect you, your business and your community and send them to these direct contacts in government.
Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change: [email protected] and 613-946-8682
Sean Fraser, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change: [email protected] and 902-752-0226
Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard: [email protected] and 604-775-6333
Hon. George Heyman, BC Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy: [email protected] and 604-775-2453
Hon. Doug Donaldson, BC Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development: [email protected] and 250-842-6338
Hon. Scott Fraser, BC Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation: [email protected] and 250-720-4515
Hon. John Horgan, Premier and President of the Executive Council: [email protected] and 250-387-1715
