Trustee Smith

Trustee, Islands Trust Conservancy Board, Islands Trust Council, Islands Trust Executive Committee. 6,094 lines across 22 meetings, 2021-04-12 to 2025-10-03. 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. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, October 3, 2025

    2025-10-03 · 227 lines

    • [2:04:39] “And make recommendations to them about where our policies infringe on sort of UNDRIP or Indigenous rights or where they're colonial in terms of their language or their objectives.”
    • [2:18:57] “The I'm pretty sure, actually, that the First Nations are very interested in conservation planning and how that is framed by the trust rather than just a five year plan.”
    • [2:19:16] “But I think that there will be a lot of interest if we frame it that way, that this is really, you know, they're worried about conservation planning.”

  2. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, May 27, 2025

    2025-05-27 · 226 lines

    • [1:30:59] “So I'm happy to see this. I just wonder if this position would report then to, like you said, there'll be an organization of structure, would it then report to the trust, to the other position on Indigenous relations for the Trust Council? Like would somehow this be integrated?”
    • [0:58:43] “You'd probably like that, but just to highlight what the goal means and where you might say at the beginning, the United Nations and governments of Canada and British Columbia, because that is where that goal comes from.”
    • [2:19:20] “yeah, that somebody should be appointed, and I don't know how much interest there is, but I would ask maybe you could call for interest and see if we can appoint somebody. Thanks.”

  3. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, January 21, 2025

    2025-01-21 · 302 lines

    • [0:43:30] “I guess I want to start too with thanking you, Manager Stewart, for the way you present things, the organization of it, these charts. It's so clear and so easy as a board member to follow where we're going. It's very transparent. And I can't thank you enough for maybe it's just the way you think, but you've really facilitated our discussions by the way that you present things. So thank you so much for that.”
    • [2:26:24] “Now, we need more professional services, obviously, because we've just said we want to contract a lot of stuff out. But before we had $16,300, we only have $13,000 for SAR with SAR next year. So now we've added $6,000, which, you know, half of which is the loss of the SAR budget. And that is what I don't understand.”
    • [0:46:06] “It's all like one package. All the demolition companies do that as part of their service, because before something is demolished, of course, they have to remove the contaminated material. So it's much easier. So we don't get a hazardous material assessment, remove the materials, and then do a demolition.”

  4. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, October 9, 2024

    2024-10-09 · 119 lines

    • [3:24:19] “For example, I realize every nation is going to have their own priorities and ways of working, and that's great, actually. There's no reason we should expect it to be otherwise. But I wonder if there's any sort of priorities that have emerged.”
    • [3:06:01] “Thank you. I'm Risa Smith, Chair of ITC, and I'm also grateful to be here in the territory of many different Coast Salish people,”
    • [3:39:57] “old days being in government and we'd always want to know well that's not enough but what is enough”

  5. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, October 1, 2024

    2024-10-01 · 676 lines

    • [1:09:38] “So maybe I'll ask you, Catherine, any of those issues, tools and incentives, ecological gifts, any of those size of NAPTEPs, any of those do you think you could answer now, mortgages, or do you think we should, it would be better, A, for coherence from your viewpoint, and maybe ours as well, to just have one briefing that addresses all those issues together in a package.”
    • [0:39:10] “I think that question about ecological gifts is a very important question, and I think maybe we could bring the person who's in charge of the ecological gifts program, I happen to know him, to talk to us about those things specifically, because I think we need to know about that.”
    • [1:46:16] “Yeah, so for people, if you don't know, Stuart Brand lives on Galliano Island. And he, I don't know, I think that's all I can say. He has a lot of ideas, and he's communicating with them. And I appreciate my correspondence with him. But it is a lot.”

  6. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, May 28, 2024

    2024-05-28 · 1245 lines

    • [4:21:14] “I did, it is a public, it is a nature reserve. I wasn't allowed to see the nature reserve or the property at all at that time, even though, you know, it is, it is a nature reserve and they're caretakers. And I'm very worried about the property. I want to just have a look at it. And I feel that's a legitimate thing for the board to do since we've talked about it so often. I'm not making a judgment on it, but I want to see what we're talking about.”
    • [0:52:54] “I got to go back to that. Sorry. You're okay with, you know, the sequencing not completing the ITC really reconciliation plan, but you want to know that we're doing something and that is going to be a different agenda item we're going to talk about that in more detail and I had questions myself about what we're doing.”
    • [2:52:09] “Well, to me, I think it's not very different what you've said. Like when I look at the goals, it doesn't mean, you know, you'll look at all the little each action in there. And you'll say, yeah, we could still do that, even if, say, this goal is not a priority, because it relates to the goals that are priority.”

  7. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, April 24, 2024

    2024-04-24 · 264 lines

    • [4:02:34] “Yeah, I think that's what we're thinking. And even mentioning something like IPCAs, I know a lot about that just in my other life. So I think it would be important. That's kind of an answer a little bit to the Minister without saying what the Minister said, but that we're thinking differently.”
    • [4:04:17] “So I'm wondering on that note, if I could somehow reach out to all the trustees and ask them if they want to give me some examples of particular conservation efforts in their communities that I could highlight.”
    • [4:09:58] “We don't know what we're going to do, and it would be good if we had a little bit of a brainstorm in this joint meeting about what we might do that would be significant.”

  8. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 14, 2024

    2024-03-14 · 51 lines

    • [1:35:00] “So the development of this risk management plan, I think, will be very interesting to everybody on council.”
    • [1:33:37] “provided, because I'm just going to assume you've all read it. I just want to talk to two items that”
    • [1:33:28] “going to, you don't have to put that up, but I'm not going to speak specifically, well you can leave”

  9. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, January 31, 2024

    2024-01-31 · 182 lines

    • [4:30:58] “I don't think we can do that. But I think we do want to deliver on that. And I think the executive wants to deliver on that too. So, so there is an opportunity, maybe a conversation to have appropriate funding, just for this aspect, or some other mechanism to do it.”
    • [4:19:15] “Oh, okay. I'm hearing him say that we can't really have a motion until we find out if we get the position. I'm hearing some differences of opinion, one that we're doing great with GIS, the other is that, well, we're short of staff and maybe not doing so great.”
    • [4:25:55] “And we really have to be enabled to tell that story together and present that story as something from the Islands Trust and the ITC together, seeking government to really support the ITC in a stronger way to implement these kinds of policies.”

  10. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, January 23, 2024

    2024-01-23 · 500 lines

    • [1:17:20] “super worried about time. I'm actually very worried about time. So if staff has anything to say that adds to what Director Frater has just said, that would be great. If not, I think we should leave it at that, because I think you've given a good explanation. And just time management, seriously. Okay?”
    • [1:02:48] “Given what Trustee Elliott has said and what various other people have said, my preference would be not to have the second motion at this point, but to bring it forward after we hear about our budget decision.”
    • [1:03:02] “So we might, you know, if we hear that we don't get any money, then we're going to have to have a new strategy and we would have to have a motion at the March meeting to reflect that.”

  11. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, December 5, 2023

    2023-12-05 · 63 lines

    • [4:29:27] “it anyways not through my role in itc but through my other roles so i think that's it did i do it in”
    • [4:28:57] “and climate risk and I just want to make everybody aware that the province has just initiated a big”
    • [4:25:54] “technical issues professional biologist needs for everyone provincial funding requests for itc work”

  12. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, November 21, 2023

    2023-11-21 · 403 lines

    • [0:39:00] “Would it be possible, Staff Murphy, to, in this report, you've got an executive summary, then you go right into each island or each nature reserve, could have just a section at the beginning on, you know, communications or some title like that.”
    • [0:25:33] “Okay, perfect. Do I have any, is there any discussion on that motion? No, don't see any. If I miss you, don't just call out, by the way. Okay, we have a seconder, which is Trustee Yates. All those in favor, put your hand up, please.”
    • [1:22:03] “here, like a lot of these briefings are very old. They've been prepared in 2019. Like, I'm sort of surprised, but I get it. Like, we're so busy. This is such a big issue, but we're so busy.”

  13. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, July 18, 2023

    2023-07-18 · 82 lines

    • [1:28:42] “Okay, so we need a motion. So the next, for the new people, we'll close this meeting and then we'll go in-camera for the in-camera portion of the meeting. So we need a motion. It's down there to close the meeting. Does anybody want to propose to close the meeting? Oh, I can't see”
    • [0:56:24] “It doesn't fit there, but it seems like there was just a resolution on reviewing the referral process, and it seems to me that would help us as well, but maybe I'm wrong.”
    • [0:24:04] “going to develop a policy uh to prevent this from happening again which i don't think we've done yet”

  14. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, March 14, 2023

    2023-03-14 · 769 lines

    • [2:43:19] “Just for politeness, I do know that we do have four people in the public here, and I would ask if any of them want to speak, and I would ask you if you do, could you please make your presentation in two minutes or less?”
    • [1:43:35] “So I would suggest a motion where we just say the ITC requests that the executive committee respond to or to the request for input into into both the the marine conservation strategy and the watershed security.”
    • [2:22:44] “No. So I think I'll just move on to the next item, which is the Trust Council update. So there's three people on Trust Council. So how about if we start with you, Toby, and then Susan and Grant can jump in.”

  15. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, November 22, 2022

    2022-11-22 · 75 lines

    • [1:45:33] “much work at the beginning so it might be uh since the commitment's so little either linda and i who”
    • [1:57:21] “appreciate trustee elliott willing to do it thank you so much uh i think we do need another body and”
    • [2:04:56] “K, negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a service that are at”

  16. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, October 4, 2022

    2022-10-04 · 170 lines

    • [0:57:34] “I just I think that makes our requests for increases weaker, but you probably know, Kate, that we we have allocated the funds and it's just that they haven't got out the door or something.”
    • [0:44:26] “Yeah, I was thinking of something much smaller than you guys were. I was thinking that what we really want is them to just report on the success of the tree planting”
    • [0:45:05] “So my wording would be, ITC requests the Pender Island Parks and Recreation Commission to report on the success of the tree planting three years after planting.”

  17. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, May 24, 2022

    2022-05-24 · 194 lines

    • [1:30:00] “Like, you know, like I think of hiring new people, it wouldn't be planners, it would be these people with specific expertise, but where would they work in the organization? So I'm just, I want to put that in writing, but I don't want to put it in writing if it's something so off the deep end to ITC. Is this a place to talk about that?”
    • [2:04:59] “And that's why being very clear about our recommendations, as was just said by Trustee Fast, are really important to say that, you know, this kind of decision has an impact on conservation areas, you know, and that we're clear on that this is important.”
    • [0:55:48] “You know, I read through all the stuff, and I think having a three-year plan is a very good decision because it, well, for all the reasons that you said, Kate, so I like this approach.”

  18. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, March 15, 2022

    2022-03-15 · 159 lines

    • [2:08:13] “I think the concept of having a secretariat independent, you know, like in between the elected people and the civil servants is very important because I think from the outside, that's a perception that it's very hard for the trustees to act in an independent way because their advice all comes from staff, that we don't have that usual separation in a governance model.”
    • [2:08:42] “So anyways, I did look at it. I looked at the deck. I looked at the report. I personally felt relieved by it. I felt it said what's happening. And I really hope that the trustees can go beyond the personal because I don't think it is personal.”
    • [2:02:54] “I think it's very hard if you're a trustee and, you know, it's so much work and you put so much of your heart into being a trustee to receive a report that is in many ways very critical of the way the trust is governed.”

  19. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 7, 2022

    2022-03-07 · 70 lines

    • [0:53:15] “And we even heard a discussion at one point where one of the issues, which was fragmentation, we heard a planner, which is trust policy, a planner say that he doesn't believe in fragmentation, which is trust policy.”
    • [0:53:05] “But I do respect the response to be reflected in subsequent planners' reports on this proposal, yet that has never happened.”
    • [0:54:51] “a look at the governance report that you're going to be discussing tomorrow and I was quite surprised”

  20. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, January 25, 2022

    2022-01-25 · 108 lines

    • [0:58:40] “development of a reconciliation action plan, and administrative needs, including policy updates, review of staff roles, structured training, maintenance and updates of internal databases, review of the new website and technology used in the field,”
    • [0:44:24] “It's occurred to me because I've heard a lot of people talk about this, at least on my island, that there's going to be a lot more NAPTEC requests because of the increase in property values that we've all experienced on all of the Gulf Islands.”
    • [1:27:56] “That the Islands Trust Conservancy Board approves attendance at eSummit of the Pan-Canadian Parks and Protected Areas Research Network for Trustees Stanford and Smith and allocate up to $300 for registration.”

  21. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, November 23, 2021

    2021-11-23 · 141 lines

    • [0:33:30] “But I was also thinking about stream beds because of this predicted increase in precipitation in the winter and what we're seeing right now in B.C.”
    • [1:41:00] “So I would like a proviso in there, because if I can't do it at the trust office, there's just no way my bandwidth would allow this for me.”
    • [0:33:22] “So when you're out there anyways, it would be nice to have a scan of some of these species, maybe particularly cedar.”

  22. Islands Trust Conservancy Board community information meeting, April 12, 2021

    2021-04-12 · 68 lines

    • [0:36:17] “This hook in the new plan manages to usurp the entire ridge, effectively cutting off ecological continuity between the middle and upper areas that would be nature reserve, infringing on sensitive areas, and disconnecting an existing walking trail from the neighbouring properties to DL 87.”
    • [0:35:55] “Recent research has indicated clearly that the use of trails in natural areas in Canada and the world has increased significantly during COVID-19, because walking in nature is the only reprieve from the isolation felt by many due to pandemic restrictions.”
    • [0:36:12] “Anyone who lives on Galliano knows the importance of this always, but particularly in the past year.”