David Maude

Vice-Chair, Islands Trust Council; Local Trustee, Mayne Island; Chair, Denman Island Local Trust Committee; Chair, North Pender Island Local Trust Committee; Chair, Saturna Island Local Trust Committee

Mayne Island, Denman Island, North Pender Island, Saturna Island · 7.8 years in office · 108,932 words on the record in 86 recorded meetings · 15 named motions in the minutes · present at 332 minuted meetings

Seats and terms

SeatAreaTermHowFromTo
Local TrusteeMayne Island2018–2022general election2018-11-062022-11-18
Local TrusteeMayne Island2022–2026general election2022-11-18present

Roles

RoleBodyFromTo
Vice-Chair, Islands Trust Council (Executive Committee)Islands Trust2022-11-18present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeDenman Island2023-01-17present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeNorth Pender Island2022-12-01present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeSaturna Island2022-12-14present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeSouth Pender Island2024-04-072024-04-26
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeGabriola Island2025-10-092026-04-23
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeGaliano Island2025-10-142025-10-14
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeSalt Spring Island2025-10-162025-10-16

In their own words

The most substantial lines attributed to David Maude in the transcripts, grouped by meeting; each timestamp plays the Trust's recording from that second.

  1. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, June 26, 2023 2023-06-26

    • [1:03:55] “community use. What I have in back of my mind is things like pickleball courts, something like that, you know, or say that somebody wanted to have a fair there or something, because it's a large piece of vacant land, and so it would just accommodate any sort of low-impact community use if it came along, because PCPari seem to be very open to having that used for other purposes.”

  2. Islands Trust Council special meeting, April 17, 2024 2024-04-17

    • [0:27:20] “So my motion is that executive committee direct staff to arrange a trust council committee of the whole meeting on May 2024 for consideration of the new draft of the policy statement to be followed by a special executive committee meeting for consideration of the next steps for trust council to deliver and develop recommendations on the new draft policy statement.”
    • [0:23:36] “And getting that feedback and the feel of the room as to what the process is forward and then immediately launch into whatever that process is that's driven by Trust Council because they are our boss.”

  3. Islands Trust Executive Committee special meeting, October 29, 2025 2025-10-29

    • [1:21:53] “And I guess I'm getting old. And we were going to be taking the old staff laptops and passing them on to trustees. I get that. I can totally support that. But I do not support spending an immense amount of money on commercial-grade laptops for what, in effect, is being utilized by trustees for word processing and opening PDFs.”

  4. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, July 23, 2025 2025-07-23

    • [1:23:34] “you, Jerry, because we've always referred to it as being the Policy Statement Amendment Project. So to me, it says your input on the draft Policy Statement Amendment Project, I think, is consistent wording with what we've used in the past. Because I do agree that draft new policy statement kind of isn't accurate because we have a policy statement.”
    • [2:39:40] “And quite frankly, if somebody brings in amendments at this point, I will be expressly disappointed because we've spent a lot of time getting it to the point of first reading so that we can get it out for further comments and further amend the document.”
    • [1:57:38] “Like we have a legacy of doing this on these type of projects where we start out with one budget and we end up in another and we end up in another and we end up in another.”

  5. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, June 21, 2021 2021-06-21

    • [0:36:36] “And a lot of the changes such with the park signs and the entrance signs, the community and all that, yes, but I think if it starts drilling down to being more detailed with all businesses looking the same and all that, it kind of strikes me that we're going to be driving through Banff or something.”

  6. Islands Trust Executive Committee special meeting, October 4, 2023 2023-10-04

    • [0:49:44] “And I totally agree. We're at the decision-making point of where we have to go. And there isn't time to do this in-depth analysis that I speak of. But I really, really feel bad about spending this type of capital on something that might end up being a very bad idea. So that's all my”

  7. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, August 25, 2023 2023-08-25

    • [0:28:19] “few things. One that's indirect to my responsibilities, which is Ornby Island, which as I was involved in the issue with B.C. Ferries with the tree cutting on Denman at Gravely Bay, when the issue came up with the midden disturbance this week, I seemed to be the first point of contact on that.”

  8. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, October 1, 2025 2025-10-01

    • [1:31:46] “So they don't have to be high-end laptops doing high-end things, as arguably a Chromebook would do what we're doing, and they're in the $250 range. So I would just give that feedback, because when the business case comes forward, I really need to understand how we're spending $2,000 per trustee on laptops.”
    • [1:32:25] “You know, I could understand a little bit more if we were getting new staff laptops and they were being passed down to trustees because we have a lower usage of that technology.”

  9. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, February 28, 2024 2024-02-28

    • [1:07:49] “I just wanted the assurance that Director Marler previously provided, that the staff is fully comfortable that we have met all of our statutory requirements for consultation, particularly with First Nations, but that this is indeed the right move forward and that we're not stepping outside of any boxes.”
    • [1:05:20] “They had some rather restrictive zoning there, and to meet the needs of BC Housing for funding of a future expansion of that facility, this just makes a little bit more flexible zoning, so it's easy to tick the boxes.”

  10. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, January 24, 2024 2024-01-24

    • [4:08:34] “you, Chair. I'm going to agree with everybody that's spoken before me. I think that there's two questions. One is, do we want to have an office on Salt Spring or not? And if we say yes, my strong preference would be, as previously spoken, for purchase versus lease.”

  11. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 6, 2026 2026-05-06

    • [2:24:48] “And just wondering if we could request that it sort of be expanded out to sort of explain what those sponsorships were for, because the other two are like explain it very well, but there's two there that kind of are very much lacking in information. Thank you.”

  12. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 21, 2024 2024-02-21

    • [2:47:38] “And I think in the interest of making it fair for all, that, you know, there is, with the exception of Gabriela and Salt Spring, who have, like, regionally based offices, we shouldn't be having on-island spaces because it costs money and we're trying not to spend it.”

  13. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, February 23, 2026 2026-02-23

    • [0:11:48] “just following up on that. So it's not about completion, it's about beginning. So if the applicant in this case had maybe taken an excavator and just dug a foundation, would that have triggered that timeline to be, or is it about project completion or project beginning?”

  14. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, August 2, 2023 2023-08-02

    • [0:25:09] “I would like to ask Director Cermak, in the context of the correspondence received over the past 24 hours, it seemed to me there were some concerns raised that kind of made sense with the checklist for the OCP, and for the LEP for that matter,”
    • [2:29:37] “know the return of chair welcome and just for the Chair luck and we just deferred final discussion on the three day agenda to your return so i'll conclude with this and go back to that awesome.”

  15. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, May 10, 2021 2021-05-10

    • [2:43:25] “And so if the embedding zoning guidelines said the provision of land for affordable special needs housing, I'd be a little bit more clear in my mind and a little bit more clear as to the legal things that are being hammered home right now.”

  16. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 5, 2025 2025-02-05

    • [1:27:42] “So I very much appreciate the amount of energy and effort and creativity that's gone into this document and fully support it and look forward to seeing it at Trust Council. I'm looking forward to a very robust discussion on it. Thank you.”
    • [2:48:23] “As with so many things, you know, if we micromanage or we're trying to wordsmith this, either on the executive level or trust council level, you know, we're going to go so far down a rabbit hole again.”

  17. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, April 24, 2024 2024-04-24

    • [1:42:27] “So I just thought timing was appropriate, and we seem to have a little bit of a window, I believe, on the Thursday that could incorporate sort of a 15-minute presentation and maybe a 15-minute Q&A that I think would be well received.”

  18. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, September 29, 2025 2025-09-29

    • [0:24:12] “So, it's not an elected thing, it's something that we've been told that we must do, and we're trying to do it with our very best abilities, and we have some excellent staff on board that are really helping us with it.”

  19. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, October 11, 2023 2023-10-11

    • [4:27:00] “You know, like all the way through, we kind of highlighted, this is why we said what we said, and we can expand on it. But I think that this report from staff really gives the points that we were talking about.”

  20. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, January 15, 2025 2025-01-15

    • [4:32:27] “only thing I struggle with a little bit with this deficit in communication is that there are two Bowen councillors that do sit on trust council and have voted on these matters and have spoken on these matters.”

  21. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, March 17, 2021 2021-03-17

    • [1:31:14] “Can we get, can the local trust committee actually sort of arbitrate and say, this particular instance is a community benefit so we're going to charge the logical lower fee? That's pretty much what I got to contribute.”
    • [1:30:58] “Because as Trustee Dodge said, something like the Camel Bay Music Festival or say the brewery, which arguably could be established as being community benefit, is it actually when we drill down to our definitions,”

  22. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, November 20, 2024 2024-11-20

    • [2:44:56] “I just had a question. You said it hadn't been circulated in First Nations. Do you feel that, as it stands, it's sort of in draft form still to be circulated, or is it publishable as is?”

  23. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, April 15, 2026 2026-04-15

    • [0:25:09] “So I would encourage people to have a look at the bylaws and see if they apply to any other islands or maybe bring them to your LTCs because I think it's an important step there.”

  24. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, August 6, 2025 2025-08-06

    • [2:28:24] “you. I concur with full-hearted support. However, as you recall, at budget time, I tried to push this line item for executive committee up to $25,000. It was reduced to $20,000 and then down to $15,000.” (probable)
    • [0:27:17] “But now the most recent, the neighbors now come to the local trust committee because they're upset because somebody's living in the house, whereas previously they were upset because somebody wasn't living in the house.” (probable)

  25. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, July 24, 2024 2024-07-24

    • [4:30:00] “So I will move that the Executive Committee request staff provide liability insurance for minute-takers, public notice providers who perform the Islands Trust's minute-takers, public notice providers group through the Municipal Insurance Association Associate Member Program,”

  26. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 29, 2024 2024-01-29

    • [1:48:12] “So it wasn't onerous, but it was providing clarity that I think people would require, basically to speak to what Trustee Dodd said, was that people aren't clear that a shipping container is an accessory building.”
    • [2:29:15] “That rather than people dealing directly with the issue of the ocean, some have elected to go down the path of talking about the personalities of the people involved in the application, which is inappropriate.”

  27. Denman LTC regular meeting, 24 August 2026 2026-08-24

    • [0:28:02] “I think my comment is similar to ones that have come previously, which is the element of subterfuge that seemed apparent to me at the beginning of the announcement of the work that's happening there.” (probable)

  28. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, November 1, 2023 2023-11-01

    • [4:00:07] “And hopefully it's something that we wouldn't look for pairing it up from the budget because, you know, if there's one thing we do, I think that that's probably the one thing we should do.”

  29. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, February 28, 2022 2022-02-28

    • [1:09:11] “I just wanted to ensure, it sounds like you have been working with the owners and just wanted to make sure that we've ticked all their boxes to make sure this is a successful operation.”

  30. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 11, 2021 2021-03-11

    • [4:43:06] “But I think it's probably time for us to open up a consultation period, maybe trust-wide, maybe just Main Island, but I'm not really clear where our community sits on that discussion. Thank you.”

Motions and votes from the minutes

Every motion the Islands Trust's published minutes record David Maude moving, seconding, voting against or abstaining on. The wording is the minutes' own; each row links to the minutes document in the archive.

DateBodyNo.MotionTheir partOutcomeMinutes
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-068that the meeting be closed to the public subject to Sections 90(1)(b) and (c) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to personal information about an identifiable individual who is being considered for an Islands Trust award or honour, or who has offered to provide a gift to the Islands Trust on condition of anonymity; and labour relations or other employee relations; and that staff attend the meeting.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-069that Islands Trust Council now resolve itself into Committee of the Islands Trust DRAFT 11 of 25 Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes June 16 to June 18, 2026 [[page 12]] DRAFT Whole to discuss the Policy Statement Companion Handbook and Policy Statement Implementation Planning.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-070that Committee of the Whole moves to Rise and Report back to Trust Council.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-079that Islands Trust Council request staff to amend the Budget Process Policy 6.3.1 in attachment 1 by replacing the word “in” with “by” in section 2.3.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-03-10Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-012that the meeting be closed to the public subject to Sections 90(1)(c)(f) and (g) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to labour relations or other employee relations; law enforcement, if the council considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the conduct of an investigation under or enforcement of an enactment; and litigation or potential litigation affecting the Islands Trust; and that staff attend the meeting.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-12-02Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-126that Trustee Gauvreau be nominated to the Governance Committee.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-12-02Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-130that Trust Council request staff to prepare a bylaw to rescind Bylaw 154 should staff be unable to resource the coordination of the Salt Spring Watershed Protection Plan in the 2026/27 budget.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust Councilthat Trustee Boland be nominated to Governance Committee Islands Trust ADOPTED Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes March 11 to March 13, 2025 Page 27 of 28 Trustee Boland agreed to stand and subsequently withdrew. Director Marlor asked three times if there were further nominations for the vacancy on Governance Committee and there were none. The paper ballots were prepared and distributed by staff and, after marking their ballot, each trustee walked to the front of the room and cast their vote placing it in the ballot box. TC-2025-042 It wasSeconded—minutes · source
2024-07-08Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-005to have a Committee of the Whole meeting scheduled for August 22, 2024, in the evening, to be held electronically.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-09-26Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-055that the meeting of September 26, 2023, be closed to the public in accordance with the Community Charter, Part 4, Division 3, s.90, (1)(i)the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose; and that the recorder and staff attend the meeting.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-06-27Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-046that Islands Trust Council close the meeting to the public subject to Sections 90 (1) (c)(g) and (i) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to employee relations, litigation affecting the Islands Trust, receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, and that staff attend the meeting.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-141that Trust Council ensure that the 2023/24 Budget allows for four in-person Council meetings.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-11-18Islands Trust Councilthat Trustee Ben Mabberley be nominated for the position of Vice-Chair. Trustee Mabberley agreed to stand. Islands Trust Council Quarterly Meeting November 18-19, 2022 ADOPTED Page 9 of 11 It wasSeconded—minutes · source
2022-03-08Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-035that a letter of support from Trust Council, signed by the Chair re: Mayne Island Conservancy Society Urgent Action Requested Regarding Fallow Deer be sent to the minister.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-122that the Islands Trust Council meeting be closed to the public subject to Section 90(1) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to: (c) labour relations or other employee relations, (g) litigation affecting the Islands Trust; and (i) receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege; and that CAO Hotsenpiller be invited to attend the closed session.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source

Attendance per the minutes

YearPresentAbsent or regrets
201820
2019110
2020180
2021110
2022240
2023690
2024741
2025840
2026391
Every minuted meeting (334)

Most-used words on the record

we're (549) · that's (427) · don't (372) · there's (274) · community (200) · number (190) · forward (171) · we've (154) · executive (143) · they're (139) · basically (138) · first (134) · discussion (131) · bylaw (129) · you're (126) · we'll (124) · certainly (119) · meetings (118) · doing (115) · anything (112) · public (111) · questions (98) · process (98) · today (89)

Meetings they speak most in

  1. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, October 16, 2025 — 2025-10-16, 5,886 words
  2. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, January 17, 2024 — 2024-01-17, 4,421 words
  3. Denman LTC regular meeting, 24 August 2026 — 2026-08-24, 4,153 words
  4. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, June 26, 2023 — 2023-06-26, 3,657 words
  5. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 3, 2023 — 2023-05-03, 3,445 words
  6. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, January 20, 2023 — 2023-01-20, 3,364 words
  7. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 29, 2024 — 2024-01-29, 2,841 words
  8. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 29, 2026 — 2026-06-29, 2,784 words
  9. Islands Trust Executive Committee special meeting, October 29, 2025 — 2025-10-29, 2,480 words
  10. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, October 30, 2024 — 2024-10-30, 2,405 words

Words on the record by year

YearRecorded meetingsLinesWords
2021105947,406
2022118319,846
2023242,93232,708
2024212,37925,632
2025101,67018,704
2026101,32914,636

Every transcript they speak in (86)

Transcripts are machine-made from the Islands Trust's own recordings; each speaker attribution carries a confidence mark (certain = identified by ear or hand, probable = matched to a saved voice), and every line links to the second of the recording so it can be checked. Motions, votes and attendance are taken from the Trust's published minutes and quote them verbatim.