Policy Statement Amendment Project - 2022 Trust Council Resolutions

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Background: In June and September 2022, after receiving engagement feedback from 
First Nations, referral agencies, and the public, the outgoing 2018-2022 Trust Council 
passed a number of resolutions requesting staff to undertake the following work on the 
draft new Policy Statement Bylaw No. 183, for review by the new 2022-2026 Trust 
Council and its committees in early 2023: 
 
   Part 1 – Structural Revisions: 
1 
Reformat the draft Trust Policy Statement to simplify the structure and shorten the length to 
improve readability and understanding, for example, separate the mandatory directive policies from 
the remainder of the text. (June 2022) 
2 
Develop a Glossary of Terms used in the Trust Policy Statement to be an appendix to that document. 
(June 2022)  
3 
Remove detailed coordination policies from each subsection and instead develop more general 
coordination principles in accordance with the object of the Trust. (Sept 2022) 
4 
Remove detailed “commitments of Trust Council” from each subsection and instead develop more 
general guiding principles in accordance with the object of the Trust. (Sept 2022) 
5 
Add a new category of “recommendation policies” that local trust committees and island 
municipalities should address in addition to the existing category of “directive policies” (must include 
in local official community plans and regulatory bylaws). (Sept 2022) 
6 
Draft a companion handbook to foster better understanding for Trustees and across the Trust that 
includes greater detail on the rationale for policies and how local trust committees and island 
municipalities are expected to implement each policy. (Sept 2022) 
7 
Separate out introductory/history sections from the official bylaw and place them in the companion 
handbook. (Sept 2022) 
8 
Explore updating and integrating Trust Council’s Policy Statement Amendment Policy 1.2.1 and 
Policy Statement Implementation Policy 1.3.1 into the draft Policy Statement bylaw. (Sept 2022) 
Policy Statement Amendment Project 
2022 Trust Council Resolutions on  
Draft Policy Statement Revisions & Next Steps 
 

 
   Part 2 – Revisions to Existing Content: 
9 
Remove the draft directive policy to prohibit new desalination plants. (June 2022) 
10 
Change the term “Indigenous ways of knowing” to “Indigenous Knowledge”. (June 2022) 
11 
Reword “seven generations” language to better reflect relationships to past, present, and future 
generations. (June 2022) 
12 
Refine the draft directive policy and recommendation policies prohibiting new private docks to 
highlight areas of concern, for example prohibiting or limiting new private docks in areas that have 
been identified as culturally significant for First Nations, identified for community use, or in locations 
that provide critical habitat for species at risk, and/or requiring cumulative effects assessments prior 
to approval of applications. (Sept 2022) 
13 
Refine the draft agricultural policies and recommendation policies to highlight t

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