Consultation with Local Government Regarding Resource Management

WHEREAS local government has expressed its duty to be consulted by elected and appointed representatives of the Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia, in more than 100 resolutions from the Union of BC Municipalities since 1983; AND WHEREAS the duties and obligations of local government are expressed by the Government of British Columbia in the Community Charter SBC 2003 Part 1 and Part 9 Division 1, which does not identify local government as a stakeholder, but rather, a duly appointed order of government; AND WHEREAS the Coastal Community Network, an independent non-government organization comprised of local governments and First Nations collaborating and operating within the Pacific Coast Watershed, expects to be included as a correspondent of all federal and provincial spatial planning processes and policy development as a clearing house of information: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM and the Coastal Community Network: a develop a mechanisms that ensures meaningful consultation with Canada and British Columbia with respect to all sustainability policies and processes affecting life in the Pacific Coast Watershed; and b establish an appropriate platform for community-to-community relations between the urbanrural local governments and First Nations at an appropriate regional level across the Pacific Coast Watershed.