Islands Trust Council gave First Reading to the draft Policy Statement at its meeting of July 29, 2025. Read more about the Policy Statement Amendment Project on Islands-2050.
Learn more about the draft Policy Statement by attending the virtual Town Hall on September 10, 2025. Register here.
Phase 4 of public engagement on the draft Policy Statement has begun and will be ongoing until February, 2026. Referral of the Policy Statement bylaw to Indigenous Governing Bodies and other agencies will coincide with public engagement. Input on the draft Policy Statement can be provided several ways:
Complete the Survey online, or pick up a postage-paid, paper version of the survey at select on-island locations from September 1, 2025:
- Bowen Island – Bowen Island Public Library
- Denman Island – Dora Drinkwater Community library
- Gabriola Island – Gabriola Island Library
- Galiano Island – Galiano Island Community Library
- Hornby Island – Hornby Library
- Lasqueti Island – Lasqueti Community Association Community Hall and Lasqueti Post Office
- Mayne Island – Mayne Island Community Library
- Pender Island – Pender Island Public Library
- Piers Island – Piers Island Library
- Salt Spring Island – Salt Spring Island Public Library
- Saturna Island – Saturna Island Library
- Thetis Island – Forbes Hall Library
Call: 250-405-5151
Email: islands2050@islandstrust.bc.ca
Present to Islands Trust Council at its meetings in September 2025 and December 2025. If you wish to be a Delegate (virtual or in person) at a Council Committee meeting, use this form.
Participate in an on-island engagement event:
- Gabriola Island: Staff-led Community Information Meeting during regular local trust committee meeting – November 20, 2025
- Galiano Island: Staff-led Community Information Meeting before regular local trust committee meeting – December 9, 2025
- Gambier Island: Special Community Information Meeting – November 25, 2025
- Hornby Island: Town Hall during regular local trust committee meeting – January 23, 2026
- Lasqueti Island: Town Hall during regular local trust committee meeting – October 6, 2025
- Mayne Island: Town Hall during regular local trust committee meeting – September 29, 2025
- North Pender Island: Town Hall during regular local trust committee meeting – October 3, 2025
- Saturna Island: Community Information Meetings before regular local trust committee meeting – January 15, 2026
- Salt Spring Island: Staff-led Community Information Meetings (in-person, North and South ends) – December 6, 2025 and January 13, 2026
- South Pender Island: Staff-led Community Information Meeting during regular local trust committee meeting (in-person) – December 5, 2025
- Thetis Island: Town Hall during regular local trust committee meeting – February 3, 2026