First Nations Engagement Phase 1 Summary Report

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Islands Trust Briefing Page 1 
 
 
 
 
BRIEFING 
 
 
To: Trust Council  For the Meeting of: July 7, 2021 
     
From: Lisa Wilcox, Senior 
Intergovernmental Policy 
Advisor 
 Date Prepared: June 9, 2021 
     
SUBJECT: First Nations Engagement Status Report 
 
 
PURPOSE: To provide Trust Council with an update on First Nations Engagement on the draft Islands Trust 
Policy Statement Bylaw. 
 
BACKGROUND:  
 
On November 20, 2017, Islands Trust attempted to begin engagement on the Islands Trust Policy Statement 
with a letter to First Nations, with little to no response.  On June 7, 2019, Islands Trust CAO Russ 
Hotsenpiller wrote a letter to First Nations within the Islands Trust Area to begin re-engagement on the 
Islands Trust Policy Statement Amendment Bylaw.  First Nations receiving the letter included: 
 
BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin) First Nation 
Cowichan Tribes 
Halalt First Nation 
Homalco First Nation 
Klahoose First Nation 
K’ómoks First Nation 
Lake Cowichan First Nation 
Lekwungen (Songhees) Nation 
Lyackson First Nation 
MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nation 
Penelakut Tribe 
Qualicum First Nation 
Scia’new (Beecher Bay) First Nation 
SEMYOME (Semiahmoo) First Nation 
shíshálh First Nation 
Snuneymuxw First Nation 
Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation 
Snaw-naw-as (Nanoose) First Nation 
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 (Tsawout) First Nation 
Stz’uminus First Nation 
SXIMEȽEȽ (Esquimalt) Nation 
Tla’amin (Sliammon) Nation 
Tsawwassen First Nation 
Tsleil-Waututh Nation 
T’Sou-ke Nation 
Wei Wai Kum (Campbell River) First Nation 
We Wai Kai (Cape Mudge) First Nation 
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JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip) First Nation 
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SIḴEM (Tseycum) First Nation 
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As a public engagement timeline was set, a parallel First Nation engagement process was undertaken.   
 
 

Islands Trust Briefing Page 2 
 
Over 2019 and 2020, Islands Trust staff began rebuilding meaningful relationships with First Nations in the 
Islands Trust Area to discuss past wrongs, to rebuild trust, and dialogue on the work that Islands Trust 
Council was undertaking on the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to 
Action, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  These 
meaningful engagements were necessary to develop the government-to-government relationship and to 
collaboratively work together as Islands Trust and First Nations governments began to review how to 
undertake the amendments the Policy Statement.   
 
Islands Trust in parallel undertook to build trust by passing the Islands Trust Reconciliation Declaration in 
March 2019, and committed in June 2019 to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action by 
putting in place a Reconciliation Action Plan.  Local Trust Committees (with the exclusion of Saturna and 
Bowen Island Municipality) passed Standing Resolutions on Reconciliation throughout 2019 and 2020 
committing to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  
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