Trustee Critchley

Trustee, Islands Trust Conservancy Board, Islands Trust Council, Islands Trust Executive Committee, Islands Trust Programs Committee, Denman Island Local Trust Committee. 5,559 lines across 47 meetings, 2021-01-18 to 2022-10-14. The longest three lines from each meeting are shown; the transcript page has every line, with its confidence mark, and the recording plays from any of them.

  1. Denman Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, October 14, 2022

    2022-10-14 · 134 lines

    • [0:41:14] “But of course, looking at the past history, normally we would be going to second reading on the Agricultural Regulations Bylaw, but because of our procedure of actually revoking an earlier draft of it and starting again,”
    • [0:07:32] “And just so that people know what I'm talking about, the motion would be that the Deminal Local Trust Committee request staff to insert into proposed bylaw 229 following section 1.8.”
    • [0:41:35] “Again, I do think it's in order to give two readings at this time, just to get it, catch it up to where it would have been had we adopted a different procedure.”

  2. Denman Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, October 6, 2022

    2022-10-06 · 117 lines

    • [0:06:09] “The second one says 30 meters for buildings and structures, comma, including fencing, comma, associated with agriculture, comma, except for a fence or used to accommodate domestic animals other than household pets.”
    • [0:34:33] “I think it's a matter of fundamental kind of philosophy in regards to how close you allow farm animals or any animals that are within a fence close to wetlands in particular.”
    • [0:05:44] “Thank you. So I've got a number of things that I just wanted to check, check in on and make sure that we're on the same page and doing, writing what we're intending.”

  3. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 22, 2022

    2022-09-22 · 35 lines

    • [1:55:32] “I was informed by staff that it was really a major project and a standalone, and it was just not feasible to be done at that time. Nonetheless, I think it is something, it is a nettle that we need to grasp. And I'm not really comfortable with the idea that the name carrying capacity.”
    • [1:22:40] “And the topic will be on the health of Bain Sound, particularly looking at failing septic systems and the effect on the shellfish industry in particular and on the ecosystem in general.”
    • [1:23:15] “Attempts to get a seat at what is a DFO table, it's called the Shellfish Agriculture Management Advisory Committee.”

  4. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, September 21, 2022

    2022-09-21 · 55 lines

    • [0:16:40] “You know, is it man-centered, or is it the rest of nature-centered that we're to be looking at? That's the way I see the essential breakdown of this. And I have to say that I'm a bit dismayed by the legal report that we got, the legal opinion, which basically says, well, it's up to trust counsel to kind of, you know, decide what that is.”
    • [0:20:11] “But I'm presuming that you've got adequate within the Conservancy. And why couldn't we access that? The question really arising from some concerns that we rely too much on the professional, the third party professional giving us reports, that professional having been hired by an applicant,”
    • [0:16:12] “I mean, it's pretty fundamental to me. And I assumed it was axiomatic for everybody who was going to be involved in the trust. But now I see what the division is. Essentially, is it an ecologically focused organization, or is it anthropologically oriented or anthropomorphically oriented?”

  5. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 20, 2022

    2022-09-20 · 118 lines

    • [1:09:53] “So that's another area for consideration. I'd be interested in hearing from anybody else about that general topic of how do we get the proper scientific information, and how can we help the creatures of our local environments who are undergoing great stresses? Thanks.”
    • [0:30:25] “Now, I recognize that trust's role has historically been quite limited in this and what we can do. We can approve or not approve applications that are brought before us for rezoning, but we can look at how we might facilitate affordable housing in a better fashion.”
    • [1:08:50] “I do wonder if there is a time coming when we ought to have a biologist on staff that we can consult with regularly or alternatively have a consultant retained in the same way that we have lawyers retained and we can tap them for questions.”

  6. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, August 26, 2022

    2022-08-26 · 57 lines

    • [2:37:15] “So I would be interested. I think this is a very crucial topic to have discussion of the committee on whether we should be looking at a standalone provision dealing with EC's power for these purposes.”
    • [0:59:30] “Yes, thank you. I was just going to respond to Trustee Wright, who I perceived as sort of questioning the validity or the benefits from this sort of program.”
    • [0:03:30] “And I have to say my internet is very unstable today. It keeps dropping me out. So I think I'll probably drop the video and just stay in sound.”

  7. Denman Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, July 27, 2022

    2022-07-27 · 259 lines

    • [1:03:02] “I don't have a good handle for one thing on the size of ALR parcels, could you give me any broad brush info on that, like what is the range of size and kind of the average size, median size?”
    • [2:28:27] “This is a motion in response to an invitation, unexpected invitation from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to make an application to join their committee, which is called SAMAC,”
    • [0:48:53] “Yeah, just chiming in on that. Another virtue of that, although it is bureaucratic and involves expense, but it does give us a bit of a handle on the thing for a three-year period.”

  8. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, June 21, 2022

    2022-06-21 · 54 lines

    • [4:22:43] “Yeah, point of order, Chair. Point of order, David Critchley. That is my view as well, that David Marler is correct. We didn't vote on that actual motion, which was severed. And I've tried to look at the procedure, and strangely enough, I'm not finding anything about severance per se within Robert's Rules of Order, but I think”
    • [0:34:29] “I think largely, I don't want to unfairly criticize our sister island, Hornby, but, you know, Hornby is a very tourist-oriented island, and Denman bears the burden of that, and no benefit of it, essentially.”
    • [0:34:45] “So there's a bit of resentment floats around always at these times when we're stuck looking at two, three sailing weights.”

  9. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, May 13, 2022

    2022-05-13 · 44 lines

    • [0:19:11] “One other thing, just anecdotal, we on Denman had an event last weekend that was a newcomer event, and it was very well organized, not by any trustees. All trustees were invited, and both Laura and I attended.”
    • [0:17:26] “Although one could then interpret that variously as either indifference or it could be reflect a certain level of satisfaction with the status quo.”
    • [0:17:41] “So I could also say that I have not experienced a lot of communication from residents here about this topic.”

  10. Denman Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, April 29, 2022

    2022-04-29 · 169 lines

    • [1:03:00] “But this is such a fundamentally important issue to the protection of the environment and to the protection of wells in the immediate neighborhood there, not the least of which is the very well that's going to be serving the water needs of the residents of this project.”
    • [0:38:55] “So I'm wondering, can you say what is proper maintenance and would it be part of our concern that we have some sort of covenants in our documentation, much as we did on the DCLTA file for continuous well monitoring and so forth?”
    • [1:02:44] “You know, professional opinions can vary. Mistakes can be made in professional reports as well. I'm not suggesting that there are any that I detect here. There are a couple of questions that I had, of course, that I saw.”

  11. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, April 8, 2022

    2022-04-08 · 101 lines

    • [1:14:53] “And what I'd like to point out for this, generally speaking, the way this secretariat role works in the trust is exemplified by this group.”
    • [1:15:05] “You know, just looking down at the steering committee, one of our co-chairs is on the Comox Valley Regional District.”
    • [1:16:21] “limitation, and this motion does that, so I will support it. What I had in mind was to carve $1,000”

  12. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, February 15, 2022

    2022-02-15 · 184 lines

    • [2:23:22] “Thanks. Yeah, I'm a bit wary of the unintended consequences aspect of this, unless there was a very clear support by the planner. And I'm also concerned that we haven't really telegraphed this. It is a change in land use bylaw. We haven't sort of given any notice of it, really.”
    • [1:14:03] “I'm wondering if, and if I understood Planner Zupanets correctly, did you say that there is actually a clear policy from the Ministry of Highways against having parking which would involve backing out directly onto the roadway?”
    • [0:35:56] “We did receive some correspondence that said, you know, objected to the speed of going ahead with this questionnaire because it was only posted on the website a couple of days back, I suppose, last week.”

  13. Denman Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, January 13, 2022

    2022-01-13 · 138 lines

    • [0:00:25] “I was on my computer an hour ago with no problems, and I tried getting in about three minutes, too, and I had no Wi-Fi.”
    • [1:54:11] “consider. And I would like to have more discussion on it. And I would certainly reserve the right to”
    • [1:08:42] “some school of thought that this is a matter that should be dealt with exclusively by the municipal”

  14. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, January 10, 2022

    2022-01-10 · 90 lines

    • [0:53:40] “If necessary, I suppose, I don't know the wording that was used with the interviewees, but if they were led to think that their participation was confidential,”
    • [0:53:28] “And the, what I'll call the other people who, the seven or eight that were interviewed, I think for transparency purposes, that is quite important.”
    • [0:48:14] “And I would be interested in knowing, in particular, if all the interviews that are contemplated have, in fact, been completed.”

  15. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, November 30, 2021

    2021-11-30 · 100 lines

    • [2:33:59] “It seems to me very strange that while anybody else in Canada could become publicly involved in any political issue that they see fit, regardless of jurisdiction, anywhere in Canada, that trustees should be uniquely restrained from engaging in their political rights.”
    • [2:33:37] “And it's caused me some difficulty because I see it, first of all, as an unreasonable restraint on the right of free speech and freedom of expression, which are rights which are protected within our Canadian Constitution.”
    • [1:10:24] “Wonderful, wonderful experience. I think approximately 75 people attended by Zoom. It was both elected officials and senior staff. We did have a number of senior staff from Niles Trust attend this event.”

  16. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, November 2, 2021

    2021-11-02 · 377 lines

    • [4:05:26] “thank you. It's hard to argue with Trustee Bershaken's sentiments there. However, it comes down to an issue of whether the general taxpayer who doesn't receive the service should be paying something for that service.”
    • [1:45:39] “Oh, sorry, my screen just went blank. That was helpful. Yeah, I was really puzzled to begin with by this thing of the definition of a family member, and it sounded like the wife couldn't be older than 65 years.”
    • [3:30:27] “And then secondly, will there be an analysis of climate change possibilities, probabilities sort of overlaying the various data sets that you've got, how they might change in the next one or two decades?”

  17. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, November 1, 2021

    2021-11-01 · 21 lines

    • [0:22:50] “I'm thinking that maybe it would be just better if the consultants filed the report with Trust Council”
    • [0:21:33] “utility of a meeting uh particularly the february 7th meeting when the final report would be tabled”
    • [0:23:46] “inference if we were to not see it before anybody else saw it. Those are my thoughts. Thank you.”

  18. Islands Trust Programs Committee community information meeting, October 29, 2021

    2021-10-29 · 139 lines

    • [0:21:14] “I just wanted to chime in and give my personal observations of participation in the Bainsound Lambert Channel Forum.”
    • [1:09:56] “everything in our power that we can to reduce our impact on the environment and to reduce the amount”
    • [0:08:02] “to forests and your discussions there. I received an invitation as I presume everybody did to attend”

  19. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, October 4, 2021

    2021-10-04 · 26 lines

    • [0:20:01] “committee even mentions it it is deemed received so it's it is um superfluous in a sense and so”
    • [0:21:37] “on their list for interview in which case this might be referred to them anyway chair i'm sort”
    • [0:20:47] “unless we take some action by actively sending or passing along this particular submission”

  20. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 22, 2021

    2021-09-22 · 105 lines

    • [6:30:17] “And, you know, I would love to take up the suggestion by Trustee Rogers, you know, and the people who have formulated it in this way, that if there's a local trust committee that's interested, you know, let them know and they'll get going on.”
    • [7:45:56] “Well, I don't recall the minutes in that way, or there's something missing. Wouldn't it be an appropriate thing to discuss with a colleague and say, do you recall the resolution being thus and such, or do you recall something being left out?”
    • [6:31:21] “So I see as being in a real bind, and I would ask that the Regional Planning Committee reconsider this approach and consider proceeding with a model bylaw in the absence of other local trust committees specifically requesting it.”

  21. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 13, 2021

    2021-09-13 · 39 lines

    • [1:01:04] “I may be putting a cart before the horse. Maybe this isn't directly before us at the moment, but I just see these questions as being really unanswerable by this committee.”
    • [0:57:15] “Just generally, then, for the consultants, when you get these sorts of inquiries posing questions and making suggestions,”
    • [1:00:54] “you. I was just going to concur with both Trustee Gluckom and Trustee Morrison on the handling of this correspondence.”

  22. Denman Island Local Trust Committee meeting, September 7, 2021

    2021-09-07 · 227 lines

    • [2:07:33] “And more broadly for our local trust committee is whether we should, down the road, be looking at having some sort of events bylaw to try and get a bit of a handle on larger events, particularly in the summertime, where it presents a heightened risk of wildfire.”
    • [2:07:53] “I know that the fire chief locally is concerned about this and thinks that it would be useful to have that as a tool to manage larger events on private property, which currently it's very restricted as to what can be done about it.”
    • [0:33:42] “you. I'll move that the Denman Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 239, cited as Denman Island Housing Agreement Bylaw No. 239-2020, be forwarded to the Secretary of the Islands Trust for approval by the Executive Committee.”

  23. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, August 27, 2021

    2021-08-27 · 43 lines

    • [2:08:52] “So I'm wondering about the value in preparing some materials which could go out generally, and so they wouldn't be sort of focused just on one organization, you know, and sort of alleging that, well, you're not paying sufficient attention to us or acknowledging the existence of Iowa's trust.”
    • [2:09:10] “But some slightly more generic materials informing governments of our existence, number one, and our legislative mandate, including what we perceive to be the reciprocal obligation of other governments and agencies to cooperate with us.”
    • [2:03:49] “But I think that we need to be quite aware of what's going on with our beachfronts, especially these days with ocean rise.”

  24. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, July 8, 2021

    2021-07-08 · 147 lines

    • [0:28:31] “So I move that Trust Council affirms its understanding that preservation and protection of the natural environment is central to the mandate of the Islands Trust, and that this responsibility must be given special and profound consideration in all our decisions and in all we do.”
    • [3:12:41] “Let's get real about that. Really. As far as reconciliation is concerned, I'm hearing from other trustees that they are getting the message from certain Indigenous people that they are not happy with the way that engagement has gone so far, and they want more.”
    • [3:12:24] “There is not a darn thing that we can do, whether we ban automobiles in the trust area, whether we ban burning fossil fuels or trees or anything else that's going to have one bit of impact on climate change.”

  25. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, July 6, 2021

    2021-07-06 · 391 lines

    • [0:12:19] “We had our guest speakers were from the Comox Valley Conservation Partnership, and it was suggested that they tell us their history because we thought that possibly their method of organization, their mode of operation might be something which we could emulate or take elements from for the Maine Sound Forum as it continues on.”
    • [3:08:29] “But I'm wondering then from a long rambling statement here, just by way of predicate towards a question for staff about experience in the trust area, or even elsewhere for that matter, with septic systems of this sort, these type one septic systems in an area that is using wells and in an area that has a fair density of other”
    • [3:40:25] “Considered for emergency considerations should temporary should temporary demand be greater than design storage or well capacity five proposed plan for irrigation and gray water use reuse six proposed groundwater monitoring and reporting and seven proposed stormwater management.”

  26. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, June 15, 2021

    2021-06-15 · 33 lines

    • [0:59:52] “16 drafts. And that was a relatively simple matter. Now, I'm not suggesting I would hate to go through”
    • [0:59:17] “told us in the first one, and this is it. There's a lot of nuance in this document. There's a lot of”
    • [0:58:06] “concerned to hear early the discussion from staff today the the message that i took was well here is”

  27. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, June 9, 2021

    2021-06-09 · 152 lines

    • [6:22:32] “So I just wanted to let people know that that has been ongoing, and what our plan is for the future on that. And in so stating, I'm hoping that we'll forestall a discussion of that rather difficult topic at this particular juncture at the end of the day. I don't think it would be productive. Anyway, thank you for that opportunity.”
    • [0:51:01] “And I know it sounds a bit radical, but I would really like to know what the savings would be from having all planners attend only by Zoom to these meetings, because I see a tremendous amount of travel time, of planner time being used up in travel, unavoidably to this point.”
    • [6:22:06] “All trustees would have ample time to consider it and possibly give me or Dan Rogers personal feedback on it and the opportunity for tweaking it and getting as much consensus as we could on a replacement for the polarized positions that we experienced at the last council.”

  28. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, June 8, 2021

    2021-06-08 · 43 lines

    • [2:58:22] “Thank you very much. I've been going back and forth on this. I did want to ask a question earlier, but I think now I'm in favor of this. I think we should proceed with this because I can see that in the future, we're going to save enough money, whether there's the potential for saving enough money to offset these additional costs.”
    • [2:58:45] “You know, if we, for example, had half our trust council meetings done via Zoom, the travel costs saved from that would probably go a long way towards funding this.”
    • [2:59:28] “always having a planner there. And that would save a tremendous amount of planner time if they didn't”

  29. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 31, 2021

    2021-05-31 · 41 lines

    • [0:43:06] “But one thing that occurs to me is that it is very convenient to have extra special meetings of trust counsel via Zoom because they can be fairly conveniently organized and we don't have the enormous travel expenses associated with them.”
    • [0:42:26] “As far as looking at Trust Council and how that is going to work, I think we might think outside the box on that in terms of it just being a regular addition of the quarterly, the usual quarterly meetings.”
    • [0:43:45] “So if that is correct, is there any move afoot to seek legislative or regulatory amendment to permit us to continue to have Zoom meetings even outside of a pandemic situation?”

  30. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, May 14, 2021

    2021-05-14 · 153 lines

    • [1:15:19] “I don't favor doing that. So I think we need to stay within our budget. And thinking about what could be dropped, I do think that the economic, whatever it's called, sorry, I don't have it, Southern Gulf Islands Forum request for participation and funding, is the one that I think is the weakest in terms of our mandate.”
    • [4:48:12] “So the carrying capacity of the groundwater region becomes irrelevant in that context. If we are prepared to continue with that, which was a bit of an ad hoc policy at the time, to say that, yes, captured rainwater is fresh water for the purposes of the trust policy statement.”
    • [4:45:07] “That's where I'm coming from, first of all. And I'm hearing from various, a number of people increasingly, that there are islands within our trust area that are at or past or near capacity right now.”

  31. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 10, 2021

    2021-05-10 · 79 lines

    • [0:59:22] “And whether this is crown provincial or federal, whether it's transportation, shipping, whether it's shellfish industry matters, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, various other forestry, agricultural land reserve, land commission.”
    • [1:00:00] “So the more that those can be identified, it may build a case for us when we go to government, either seeking legislative change or at least increased cooperation from other levels of government.”
    • [0:58:03] “I would say by way of background that I think that among the 26 trustees, we don't have any trustees who are stalking horses for developers seeking to undermine and dismantle the trust.”

  32. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 4, 2021

    2021-05-04 · 286 lines

    • [1:24:27] “And I think that going into a complete OCP review, it's not a good time for that in the sense that when I was looking at the revisions to the trust policy statement that are proposed, there's a lot of new things, you know, directive policies that in their official community plans, local trust committees shall have this and that and the other thing in there.”
    • [1:49:14] “And, you know, rather than just these things that might possibly work, in which I don't think have much prospect of really working, and to which our chair has added her voice of confirmation regarding the Bowen experience, what I am seeing, you know, there's this idea of, yeah, just give everybody the right to build.”
    • [1:09:34] “In fact, one that opened my eyes a little bit, I thought I knew a lot, was the statement that the trust area is home to an exceptional variety of rare and culturally significant species, including over 100 federally listed and over 300 provincially listed species at risk.”

  33. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, May 3, 2021

    2021-05-03 · 68 lines

    • [1:58:13] “I do think that if it's going to be in the document, we have to have an understanding of what it means, whether it's a precise definition or whether it's something in the kind of more interpretive contextual framing that's been done in other phrases.”
    • [1:55:57] “I want to start off by thanking staff and congratulating them on producing a very literate document. I found it very easy to read. I like the way it flowed. I like the style. And I like most of the content.”
    • [0:44:56] “Because I think it's such a crucial concept that even at this high level of a trust policy statement, it has to be defined.”

  34. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, April 8, 2021

    2021-04-08 · 159 lines

    • [3:39:38] “Chair Morrison had been concerned about and that was the ability of a disqualified person in respect of one application to be able to participate in the voting for the remaining applicants in the situation where there is insufficient funds to pay all of them.”
    • [3:16:31] “Yeah, thank you. I think it needs to be made clear. It's not just, you know, if you're sending this to a lawyer conflict of interest well yeah if you have conflict of interest you don't vote.”
    • [0:07:18] “And that was with regard to whether or not a trustee who is involved in one of these organizations should recuse themselves from voting in respect to this allocation of money.”

  35. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, April 8, 2021

    2021-04-08 · 159 lines

    • [1:43:33] “And I have to say that this is, you know, it's a very tenuous connection. I'm just trying to be, take the best practices view of this, because, you know, as comments were made, this is essentially the work of the Islands Trust, and, you know, when it comes right down to it, I don't feel a conflict so much as possibly a bias, because, you know, being involved in it, it's hard to say that I wouldn't be already predisposed towards it.”
    • [3:25:03] “But, you know, I think it's that cluster of things that we want to put to legal counsel. And then a secondary question is, if there is that conflict of interest, does that disqualify the person from then dealing with other applications in which there is a limited pot of funds available for distribution?”
    • [1:43:07] “Yeah, so I was alive to that issue because it seemed to me when we've got less funds than we've got applications for that necessarily any comment that I might make against another, you know, might enhance the chances of the particular one that I'm associated with.”

  36. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 29, 2021

    2021-03-29 · 90 lines

    • [0:15:39] “You, Julia, are envisaging an evaluation team, which in the normal course of things would be a smaller number or a subset of this committee.”
    • [0:44:41] “comprised of two trustees two staff and the BC bid uh person to be the chair I I don't see that that”
    • [0:46:20] “involved or political people shouldn't be involved in a procurement process. I mean, that's the very”

  37. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, March 16, 2021

    2021-03-16 · 371 lines

    • [1:03:41] “But apart from that, yeah, I want to hear from people. And what else? Oh, as far as the deadline and submitting materials, I would say to people that, you know, I would like to have that as a kind of general rule still, you know, so that you have adequate time to review these materials.”
    • [3:45:25] “But from what I'm told by staff is that anytime that there is a curiosity about something being constructed and so forth, if there is a permit, staff are more than happy to deal with that on an individual basis, that there's not a lot of requests for such things.”
    • [1:22:47] “I'll move the Denman Island Local Trust Committee in respect of application DESUB 2019.2, accept a water treatment covenant under Section 219 of the Land Title Act from the registered owners of the east one-half of Section 28, Denman Island, Nanaimo District,”

  38. Denman Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, March 15, 2021

    2021-03-15 · 13 lines

    • [0:25:56] “And my understanding was from our last local trust committee meeting, we had expressed a view, a preference to deal with the bylaws on the day following, in other words, tomorrow's local trust committee meeting, rather than this evening immediately following on the heels of the public hearing.”
    • [0:26:17] “And so, I guess question number one is, A, is that still the plan? Because I certainly, that was raised by my colleague, Trustee Boucherkin, and I support that.”
    • [0:26:30] “The other was to do with the ability to amend the housing agreement and the restrictive covenant.”

  39. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 11, 2021

    2021-03-11 · 74 lines

    • [3:37:02] “Yeah, I think that goes a long way. I'm wondering in terms of budget, I know that there is certain amount of, I was going to say redundancy, I don't know if that's the right word, but built into budgeting that you have a sort of a fund that's available for extraordinary circumstances.”
    • [3:34:20] “What are the parameters for use of contract planners? What does that cost to an applicant? And is that something that is an alternative that's available for somebody who wants an application to go forward despite the lack of staff to work with it?”
    • [4:59:45] “But you may recall that we've had two affordable housing projects on Denman. One is eight units, seniors affordable housing in the so-called village area. That is still proceeding. As a matter of fact, it's proceeding to a public hearing on.”

  40. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 10, 2021

    2021-03-10 · 41 lines

    • [1:03:24] “So I'd like to make an amendment to this motion. And if it receives a seconder, then I'll explain or have some words in support of it. But what I'm proposing then is to amend it by adding at the end, the words subject to the paramount object of preservation and protection of the natural environment.”
    • [1:29:10] “I move that trust council affirm its understanding that the paramount object of the Islands Trust Act is protection and preservation of the natural environment.”
    • [1:28:25] “I move that Trust Council affirm its understanding that the paramount object of the Islands Trust Act is protection and preservation of the natural environment.”

  41. Denman Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, March 2, 2021

    2021-03-02 · 33 lines

    • [1:09:18] “Thank you. I just want to ask our freshwater specialist if he's got any information, any estimate of the annual cost that DCLTA would be incurring under this proposed scheme of having an annual report done by a professional, albeit off island, just by the transmission of data to the professional's office, presumably by email.”
    • [1:32:48] “is there not some requirement for registration did I recall seeing that people have to do something”
    • [1:23:58] “only thing we really talked about in the past, I remember the issue of the, uh, turnaround having”

  42. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 1, 2021

    2021-03-01 · 53 lines

    • [1:40:32] “I don't think that's appropriate because this committee is appointed by Trust Council by named persons, not by the status or office of those persons.”
    • [1:40:23] “Number one, the question about whether a substitute could appear for Trustee Morrison in the form of the Vice Chair of Trust Programs.”
    • [1:41:00] “that the general practice would be that a chair is competent to give a report on behalf of a committee”

  43. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 16, 2021

    2021-02-16 · 5 lines

    • [0:20:15] “little less formally and go through it and have a discussion uh we're not yet into a final draft”
    • [0:20:34] “to get really bogged down if we're we're going to have motions on everything that's my view”
    • [0:20:27] “that we changed here um we're going to have subsequent meetings so uh i think we're going”

  44. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, February 5, 2021

    2021-02-05 · 54 lines

    • [1:54:08] “you. Yeah, I also think it's an important subject and that it deserves a fair bit of attention. I'm concerned about putting it in kind of last minute into the housing only and wondering whether it is a bit late to start with, in regard to the trust policy statement review.”
    • [2:31:28] “I think asking our staff to have input on this topic now without having due consideration and study of it and without any direction from us as the political part is really asking them to do something in a way that's unprofessional.”
    • [2:15:50] “I realize that would be a separate motion from this, but I'm just wondering if it may assist people in deciding whether or not to vote for this to see if there was another next step that we could take.”

  45. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, January 22, 2021

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    • [0:24:32] “this particular motion? Those are concepts which I think require significant expansion for somebody”
    • [0:08:27] “questions and can invite a wide array of responses so I personally like the way that they have been”
    • [0:59:29] “put the screen up where we're we've got the actual wording of this motion, I'd like to look at that”

  46. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, January 19, 2021

    2021-01-19 · 348 lines

    • [2:16:32] “And I'm wondering about whether that is a necessary thing because there's really not much to it other than it seems to me it recites a lot of the standard data about who drilled the well and when and where the data logger is sitting at and this sort of thing.”
    • [2:16:51] “And then there's a section for comments, and it seems to anticipate a professional signing off on this, although there is no, there's nothing on the document to indicate that it's signed by a certain level of professional.”
    • [2:17:06] “So I'm really querying, A, the necessity for this, because does it provide any more useful information than the raw data which is going to be presented and available to our freshwater specialist?”

  47. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, January 18, 2021

    2021-01-18 · 73 lines

    • [0:45:52] “And I would also ask CEO Hudson-Piller if you have any suggestions of people who might be good candidates for a project like that to put this into a ship-shape order as an RFD.”
    • [0:45:27] “Now, I think because of the nature of this project, it should be some outside consultant type person who could sort of bring this all together and polish it up.”
    • [1:52:39] “I wanted to change the thinking on the group of three, because I think getting people together and having more cooks stirring this old broth now is unnecessary.”