How to read this page. Each row below is one policy area, with Colby Harder's mark for it on the right; the key underneath says what each mark means. Open a row for the questions behind that mark, what they answered, and why each answer scored as it did. The control above the list opens all of them at once. At the foot of the page you can print this scorecard or share it as an image.
General
What Colby Harder said
- Not graded GEN-01
If you could change one policy, bylaw, feature, or municipal asset (i.e, facility or infrastructure) in your municipality, what would it be and why?
Langford desperately needs a pedestrian bridge over the Trans Canada Highway.
In 2013, the Leigh Road Interchange opened and the existing nearby Spencer Road intersection, was closed. While a pedestrian bridge was promised at the time, it was never built. Meanwhile, thousands of homes were built with no real plan for transportation and now, thousands of residents have been left without a comfortable or convenient way to cross the highway unless they're in a vehicle.
Transportation is a top issue, but we can't afford, or physically fit, solutions that just proposed endless lane expansions. Instead, I believe Langford needs to focus our efforts on building a network that gives people more choices in how they can move around. Traffic is already bumper to bumper on Veterans Memorial Parkway, but with a new high school, middle school, and hundred more previously approved homes in the development pipeline, the need to build a new connection has never been greater.
Langford's new Active Transportation Plan has identified this Pedestrian Overpass as a long-term provincial action given its anticipated cost, complexity. However, I see this the lack of any dedicated pedestrian bridges in Langford as a key equity issue, and this particular bridge stands out as infrastructure that's already more than a decade overdue. - Not graded GEN-02
Your municipality has received $10 million in new annual funding and must spend all of it. How would you allocate it across the following areas? Your answers must total $10 million.
Colby Harder's allocation of ten million dollars Housing $1,500,000 Transit $1,500,000 Walking Infrastructure $1,500,000 Rolling & Cycling Infrastructure $1,500,000 Roadway Infrastructure $500,000 Policing $250,000 Fire & Emergency Services $500,000 Parks & Recreation $1,000,000 Arts & Culture $500,000 Climate Action & Environment $500,000 Unhoused Resident Services $500,000 Community-Based Clinics $250,000 - Not graded GEN-GEN
If you have anything you'd like to communicate about your region, generally, feel free to share your thoughts here.
My responses consider primary municipal jurisdiction on balance with existing investments and the urgency of local needs. I feel it's importnant to caveat these responses by being clear that a lower spending allocation does not intend to suggest that an area of service is unnecessary or provides lower value to the community. Instead, my responses aim to factor in community priorities in tandem with existing budget levels and identified deficit spending areas within Langford's Financial Plan.
Healthcare access
What Colby Harder said
- Not graded HLT-01
What role should your municipality play in establishing new primary care clinics?
Why we ask this
Ungraded. Mainly curious about how you'd approach expanding healthcare access in your region.
Chose 1 of 4 options
Transit
B- 20% of this topic TRN-01 B
Which fare measures would you actively advocate for at the VRTC? Select all that apply.
Why this grade: Selects free travel for under 19s, cheaper fares for seniors and cheaper fares for people on income or disability assistance from the fare measures put to candidates. Most of the list is endorsed, though one measure is passed over.
How this question is graded
A count of ticks, because no option here is cheaper than the others in the way CLI-06's are. Four or more = A. Three = B. Two = C. One = C-. None = F. The rows graded before this rubric was written are not perfectly consistent with it at three and two ticks; they were left as typed and the majority letter was taken. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 3 of 6 options (up to 4 allowed) - 30% of this topic TRN-02 B
Do you support removing general on-street parking (excluding accessible parking spaces) from frequent transit corridors and main arterial streets in your municipality, and reallocating that space to bus lanes, loading zones, and walking and cycling infrastructure?
Why this grade: Would clear general parking from busy transit streets only where an individual scheme calls for it. Deciding one scheme at a time sets no threshold that a future proposal would have to meet. Note: Langford's transportation master plan highlights a select few targeted transit supportive interventions that will guide the city's growing transit priority network; targeted transit priority solutions, such as the Peatt Rd corridor, will have an outsized impact on overall transit performance within the city.
How this question is graded
Yes, across the whole corridor = A. Yes, only during peak hours = B. Kind of, only when a specific project requires it = C. No = F. Peak hours only is a real, testable limit on a yes, so it takes the conditional-yes B. Only when a specific project requires it names no project and commits to nothing in advance, which is the case-by-case answer CLI-08 puts at C. A No is F because the question is about street space, which is infrastructure. Eight of the earlier rows put the case-by-case option at B and nineteen put it at C; the nineteen were followed. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 6 options - 30% of this topic TRN-03 A
Do you support rapid deployment of transit priority measures on frequent transit corridors, even where this requires removing on-street parking or a general-purpose traffic lane?
Why this grade: Commits to getting buses ahead of traffic on frequent corridors without ruling out the removal of a general purpose lane. The one thing this question tests, giving up road space, is conceded outright.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. Yes, but not at the cost of a general-purpose travel lane = C-. No = F. The question asks specifically about giving up a traffic lane, so a yes that rules the lane out withholds the one thing being asked for and cannot take the conditional-yes B. C- rather than F because the rest of the toolkit is still on the table. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 6 options - 10% of this topic TRN-04 A
Do you support the creation of a regional transportation authority?
Why this grade: Backs a regional authority taking on transportation across municipal boundaries. The yes carries no caveat of any kind.
How this question is graded
Yes = A, No = C-. A No is C- rather than F because this asks who should decide, not what should be built or funded, which puts it on the governance side of the CLI-03 split. Three earlier rows typed F and two typed C-; the governance rule was followed over the count. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - 10% of this topic TRN-05 —
Do you support building new bus-only and bike-only connections through parks, golf courses or public land when doing so would substantially shorten transit and cycling trips?
Why this grade: Gives no view on building new connections reserved for buses and bicycles across public land. With no view recorded in either direction, the row is deliberately left without a letter and does not count toward the transit result.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. Yes, if no mature trees are lost during construction = B. No = F. Losing no mature trees is a named and checkable condition, so it takes the conditional-yes B. A No is F because the question is about building a connection, which is infrastructure. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options
Also shared, ungraded
- Not graded TRN-GEN
If you have anything you'd like to add in regards to transit in your region, feel free to share your thoughts below.
Neighbourhoods across the CRD are facing growth pressures, felt daily through the state of our roads. While Langford has grown the fastest, regional transit investments haven’t kept pace.
In general, I am supportive of guided planning and data-driven decision-making that aims to make our roads feel more safe and efficient. While it might seem like a no-brainer to simply add more lanes, it's often a short term solution that doesn’t account for limited road space and available funding. Instead, for Langford, transit investments stand to help us all save time and money by helping to curb traffic congestion. It is essential to improving our quality of life, economic prosperity, and in reducing GHG emissions.
Greater regional coordination and regional equity is also needed. Despite a full term of advocacy, Langford still lacks a voice at the region’s transit decision making table. I believe this needs to change so that Langford can play a bigger role in the regional conversation.
Housing
B- HFL-01 8 / 8
What kinds of housing could your municipality use more of? Select all that apply.
How this question is graded
1 point per selected type to max of 8. Housing exists on a continuum and different types are appropriate for different households. All housing is needed and positively affects other types via vacancy chains
Colby Harder chose 8 of 10 options (up to 8 allowed) - HFL-02 6 / 8
Which of the following items do you support to minimize tenant displacement and maintain/grow the supply of affordable housing? Select up all that apply.
How this question is graded
1 point per strategy to max of 8. To tackle tenant displacement local governments must take an all of the above approach to reduce the impacts associated with renovictions and evictions.
Colby Harder chose 6 of 10 options (up to 8 allowed) - HFL-03 4 / 6
Do you think your municipality should have target approval times for multifamily housing?
How this question is graded
6 points for 30/180 days, prorated for longer timelines. Housing delayed is housing denied. Long delays drive us costs for housing, increase the chance that they will be cancelled, and indicate a lack of clear published guidelines. A time limit on decisions prioritizes housing action and reforms.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - HFL-04 4 / 5
If there was a type of housing you wanted to see more of (e.g., affordable, non-market, family-sized, townhouses, etc.), what do you think are effective methods of getting more of it? Select all that apply.
How this question is graded
1 point for each option, but -1 for choosing mandated requirements (d). To increase the building of certain desireable types of housing (affordable, family sized, etc), cities need to pursue a broad approach of both removing barriers and targetted incentives. Mandated requirements (or inclusionary zoning) have a track record of acting like a tax and therefore reducing housing construction or increasing costs.
Colby Harder chose 4 of 8 options - HFL-05 0 / 3
Do you believe that the municipality should pre-zone to the uses, heights and densities outlined in the Official Community Plan, so that OCP-compliant projects can be built without rezoning or public hearing?
How this question is graded
3 points for yes, 0 for no. An OCP sets out the direction and vision for a municipality with broad input from the community and council. Matching zoning to long term consensus-based plans reduces scarcity and allows incentivizes OCP compliant housing to be built quickly.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - HFL-06 0 / 6
Beyond the three to four units Bill 44 already requires, what is the most housing you think should be legal to build by-right (i.e. without rezoning) in traditional single-family areas of your municipality?
How this question is graded
a) 0 points b) 1 points c) 2 points d) 5 points e) 6 points. With little room for new single family developments, housing abundance relies on density. People unable to afford a single family house should not be relegated to living only on busy arterials where high density is legal, but should have a diversity of housing options in every neighbourhood.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 6 options - HFL-07 0 / 3
A housing proposal has been reviewed by staff and they recommend approval. It requires rezoning because the existing zoning has not been updated. If it faces substantial neighbourhood opposition, how would you generally vote?
How this question is graded
3 points for a), 0 otherwise. Housing approval rules must be predictable and clear for those building housing, or it will lead to scarcity. If municipal planning staff have adequately considered objections to a project and still recommend approval it should be approved. If unanticipated issues are raised, policies should be clarified to ensure staff can work with applicants on future projects.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - HFL-08 2 / 2
Do you support eliminating minimum parking requirements for new developments or suites?
How this question is graded
1 point for yes, 2 points for yes with transportation demand management measures, 0 points for no. A single additional parking space can add tens of thousands to the cost of a home. However, a development without parking and without offsetting remedies can impact livability for the eventual occupants of a home.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 4 options - HFL-09 3 / 6
Non-market housing often faces additional challenges getting approved. Which of the following measures do you support to improve the prospects for below-market housing construction? Select all that apply.
How this question is graded
1 point for each option, but -1 for choosing mandated requirements (d). Building homes is hard, building non-market homes is substantially harder. This has serious socio-economic consequences for certain members of society. With the exception of mandated requirements (or inclusionary zoning), which have a track record of acting like a tax and therefore a deterrent to new construction, a broad and flexible approach is needed to help non-market housing across the approval finish line.
Colby Harder chose 5 of 9 options (up to 7 allowed) - HFL-11 1 / 6
The BC government set a housing target for Victoria at 4,902 homes over five years, which represents 75% of the estimated housing need for that period. Regardless of provincial requirements or penalties, do you believe the city should strive to build:
How this question is graded
6 points for too low, 1 for about right, 0 for too high. By definition, the provincial housing targets, being set as only 75% of estimated housing need is too low of a target to meet local housing needs.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 4 options - HFL-10 7 / 7
If elected, what do you hope to have accomplished on the housing file at the end of your first year, and end of your four-year term?
How this question is graded
To receive full marks, candidates receive a point up to 7 for referencing impactful housing ideas in their answer including but not limited to: a rental vacancy rate target, a quantitative target regarding annual homes built, pre-zoning commitments / OCP alignment, non-profit by right commitment, commitment to tenant production aligned with platform, commitment to regulate and enforce Airbnb rules, delegate more rezoning / variance decisions to staff, a continuation of policies that have been working, developing a pre-approved catalog of housing designs, loosening design guidelines or other restrictive regulations, minimizing tenant displacement, increasing the regional housing fund, enhancing partnerships with other levels of government, the private sector, co-ops, and non-profit housing developers, streamlining regulations, and shorten requirements.
Colby Harder's answerLangford has made significant progress on housing policy this term by:
- updating our Official Community Plan
- developing a Housing Strategy, and
- improving community planning across the city.
By the end of the first year in the new term, I want to:
- Identify short-term opportunities for new partnerships with non-profit housing operators to co-locate and work with the City on new projects
- Continue improving policy to support more affordable and high-quality housing development
- Improve digital services to help inform residents on anticipated land use changes, neighbourhood growth and development
- Review the City of Langfords' Affordable Home Ownership Program
- Review the Interface Fire Hazard Development Permit Area to ensure higher standards for new developments in high-risk wildfire interface areas
End of four year term:
- Leverage the use of Langford's Affordable Housing Reserve Fund to help make affordable housing projects financially viable
- Review all existing city owned residential properties for additional affordable housing opportunities
- Explore the creation of a new Tenant Protection Bylaw with supports for renters and manufactured home park residents facing displacement from development, in conjunction with directed provincial advocacy
- Help position Langford with shovel-ready projects for future federal grants streams
30% of this topic Incumbent record 29 / 29What Colby Harder did about housing during their current term, scored by Homes for Living. This is not a questionnaire answer: no candidate was asked it.
Why this score: 100%
Scored from Homes for Living's vote tracker.
Climate
B- 8% of this topic CLI-01 A
Would you support ending fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship on property, media and events controlled by your municipality, to the extent the law allows? And would you advocate for the same at the Victoria Regional Transit Commission for BC Transit vehicles and shelters?
Why this grade: Yes to both, and willing to carry it beyond the municipality. The answer earns the top grade by leaving nothing out.
How this question is graded
Two commitments in one question, so the menu answer alone cannot reach the top. The menu sets a base and a Yes on the follow-up about advocating at the Victoria Regional Transit Commission raises it one step. Yes, both advertising and sponsorship = B, and A with the follow-up. Yes, advertising only or Yes, sponsorship only = C, and B with the follow-up. No = F, because ending the advertising is something the municipality controls outright. A follow-up written as free text rather than ticked is a judgement about the candidate and is graded by hand. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 6 options Follow-up: Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 8% of this topic CLI-02 A
The Capital Regional District declared a climate emergency in 2019. How should your municipality treat climate action in its next four-year plan?
Why this grade: Climate as the overriding priority, stated plainly. The commitment is structural rather than financial.
How this question is graded
The overriding priority, other decisions should be tested against it = A. One of the top three priorities, with a dedicated budget = B. One priority among many, addressed where affordable = C-. Not a municipal priority = F. The ladder skips C on purpose: a dedicated budget is the line between a priority and a sentiment, so addressing climate only where affordable drops two steps rather than one. Handing the file to another order of government is F. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 8% of this topic CLI-03 A
Will you pledge to never take meetings from fossil fuel company lobbyists?
Why this grade: A yes to the pledge as put. The answer needs no further undertaking to be meaningful.
How this question is graded
Yes = A, No = C-. The No is C- rather than F because of the split the grading settled on: a plain No is C- where the question is about governance or conduct and F where it is about infrastructure, land use or funding. This one asks a candidate to give up a channel of access to themselves, which is conduct. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - 8% of this topic CLI-04 B
Climate-related damage and adaptation costs increasingly fall on municipal budgets. Would you vote to have your municipality join other BC local governments in legal action to recover a share of those costs from major fossil fuel producers?
Why this grade: A yes that depends on capping the cost. The commitment holds up to a set amount and no further.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. Yes, if municipal costs are capped = B, because a conditional yes is B wherever one appears and a cap on municipal exposure lands there. No = F, because the question is about spending to recover costs, which is the funding side of the split CLI-03 sits on the other side of. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 8% of this topic CLI-05 A
Will you support a zoning bylaw amendment that prohibits the approval of any new or expanded commercial gas stations within municipal boundaries?
Why this grade: A yes to the zoning amendment. The candidate accepts a hard rule in place of judging each application.
How this question is graded
Yes = A, No = F. A land use question, so a No is F rather than C-. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - 8% of this topic CLI-06 A
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke and wildfire risk all affect people living in existing homes. What would you have your municipality do to protect them? Select all you support.
Why this grade: All five. The answer accepts the cost of reaching people who cannot retrofit on their own.
How this question is graded
Up to five measures may be ticked. Four or more ticks including at least two of the three the municipality has to pay for (subsidized home assessments, grants or financing for retrofits, designated centres with guaranteed opening hours) = A. Three or more ticks = B. Two = C. One = C-. None of the above = F. The funding floor is there because a straight count of ticks would let a candidate reach the top on the two cheapest options, a vegetation bylaw and an information campaign, while committing no money to anyone actually living in an overheating home. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 5 of 7 options (up to 5 allowed) - 8% of this topic CLI-07 F
Are you supportive of phasing out fossil fuel powered tools such as leaf blowers (following the lead of Oak Bay and other municipalities across the country)?
Why this grade: Declines the measure. Other municipalities have shown it can be done, and this is a refusal to follow.
How this question is graded
Yes = A, No = F. A regulatory phase-out, graded on the same footing as CLI-05. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - 8% of this topic CLI-08 A
Large data centres can add substantial electricity and water demand. Under what conditions, if any, would you support a new data centre in your municipality?
Why this grade: Would refuse them all. The answer takes the whole question off the table.
How this question is graded
Oppose all new data centres = A. Support only with waste-heat recovery and no net increase in potable water use = B. Support only under conditions set case by case = C. Support without special conditions = F. The two conditional options are separated by whether the condition binds. Waste-heat recovery and no net potable water increase is a testable commitment, so it takes the conditional-yes B. Conditions set case by case name nothing and commit to nothing, so it takes the C that a depends-case-by-case answer gets everywhere else. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 8% of this topic CLI-09 A
What are the primary climate risk(s) facing your community, and what actions would you take to support adaptation and resilience in your community?
Why this grade: Clearly identifies a risk and provides concrete strategies grounded in their local context.
How this question is graded
Free text. A = names a climate risk specific to the municipality and specific actions against it, usually tied to data or a programme already running. B = one half only, a risk with no action or actions with no risk named, or backing an existing plan without either. C = general support with nothing local in it, a list of risks and nothing else, or the work handed to the region. C- = a risk gestured at and nothing more. F = an answer that is not about climate.
Colby Harder's answerLangford’s most severe climate-driven risk is Wildfire. Many homes have been built in the the wildland-urban interface, meaning many people and their property face a higher risk in the event of a wildfire.
I would like to see the continued funding support for Langford’s creative and innovative FireSmart Program to help residents be part of wildfire preparation and I believe in supporting residents with this initiative, with new and stable funding for public services like seasonal chipping events and yard-waste collection.
At a community-scale, Langford does not have jurisdiction to preventatively manage forest fuels in the surrounding regional and provincial parks. As a result, I believe we must work strategically to remove fuels to reduce the risk of ignition, in collaboration with the Province, the CRD and local First Nations, and if elected, I would continue supporting dedicated FireSmart staffing/funding for this work. - 8% of this topic CLI-10 A
Ensuring ecosystem connectivity is an important adaptation strategy for climate change. How do you plan to maintain or increase ecosystem features across the urban landscape?
Why this grade: Identifies clear, actionable strategies to improve resilience through development relevent to their local context.
How this question is graded
Free text. A = says what connectivity is and why it matters, with local examples, usually tied to data, a programme already running or the official community plan. B = practical examples with no local detail, or no link back to connectivity. C = general support with no project named, or an answer broad enough to fit any question. C- = agrees with the idea and offers nothing to do about it, or answers about something tangential. F is not used.
Colby Harder's answerA major component of this term has focused on creating policy to direct Langford's future growth towards serviced neighbourhoods and away from forested areas. I am committed to directing growth away from areas that will impose significant habitat loss and deforestation.
This term, I have worked closely with Wild Wise to develop strategies and new Bylaws to make Langford Bear Aware so we can co-exist and protect a local keystone species by responsibly managing wildlife attractants.
I am keen to support community-led initiatives and organizations like Peninsula Streams Society to enhance the resilience of our local watersheds, specifically within Bilston and Milstream Creeks. I am supportive of the city providing grant funding to support increased physical efforts to monitor and improve aquatic habitat availability and water quality, to help restore the natural connections that have been altered over time with development. - 8% of this topic CLI-11 B
Do you see development as an opportunity to increase resilience to climate-related events, and if so, how?
Why this grade: Clearly supports improving resilience through development, but does not provide specifics about how this would take shape in their local context.
How this question is graded
Free text. A = yes, with how and why, naming strategies or a local policy that ties development to resilience. B = yes with relevant examples but no account of how they build resilience or how they get built. C = general support and nothing past what the building code already requires. C- = a bare yes, or support that doubts it is possible. F = does not accept that development can make a community more resilient.
Colby Harder's answerYes. Infrastructure is expensive and with climate-change upon us, adaptation is essential. New developments can play many roles in helping neighbourhoods build climate resilience, for instance by improving stormwater infrastructure to reduce flooding risk or by planting suitable tree-species to increase our canopy during heat events.
While Langford's housing supply is relatively young in comparison to the rest of the region, new developments can also create homes with more climate-ready adaptations to provide suitable temperatures and clean indoor air, while building ensuring new housing is built in areas with less risk. - 8% of this topic CLI-12 —
The UBCM passed several resolutions saying municipalities should be able to have climate action lens and climate considerations in development and housing mandates. Do you support blue-green infrastructure upgrades as a requirement of developments for climate readiness?
Why this grade: Declined to answer, so no grade given.
How this question is graded
Yes = A, No = F. Graded by RUSH from 2026-09-01; the mapping is recorded so the remaining rows match the ones already typed. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options
Also shared, ungraded
- Not graded CLI-GEN
If you have anything you'd like to add in regards to climate concerns with respect to your municipality or the region as a whole, feel free to share your thoughts below.
Generally, I am supportive of taking actions to enhance climate readiness in a practical manner but I would need more information to be able to respond to requiring blue-green infrastructure in new developments as there are always tradeoffs in development.
Arts
A- 6.67% of this topic ART-01 2 / 3
Do you consider arts and culture to be a core part of your municipality's economic development strategy?
Why this score: Identifies A&C as core attributor to strategic economic development municipal policy, partnerships, affordability and arts/culture integration into community development, but strategic execution remains broadly described.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 1 of 4 optionsFollow-up: Municipalities should play a role in supporting the facilitation of community-led arts and culture initiatives. I believe Langford can do more to create policy and support new partnerships to create interesting local events and diverse destinations within a community that's affordable enough for artists to be able to live and create.
In Langford, our fast growth has created opportunities to reimagine how we express and share our community values. Municipalities should work to proactively incorporate art and culture to help improve the quality of life for residents, businesses and visitors. I believe investments in arts and culture can serve as a medium to help more Langford residents and businesses feel a deeper sense of local pride, belonging, and connection. - 16.67% of this topic ART-02 2 / 3
If elected, what specific action will you commit to in your first year to strengthen your municipality's arts and cultural sector, and what measurable outcome should residents expect by the end of your four-year term?
Why this score: Identifies an inventory and improved communications/access action, as well as possibly MRDT funds allocated to development and support of several events. Expresses continued support of new CRD level programs, development of the PACs proposal in Langford location, and explores expansion of programming thru grants, however uses tentative language, and insufficiently demonstrates policies, mechanisms and tools to stregthen the sector beyond event creation.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder's answerIn my first year, I would like to immediate work to create an inventory of existing venues to help more groups and people access what we have in place. I would propose exploring ways to re-invest our MRDT Funds (Hotel Tax) into new ideas and events such as an Annual Downtown Mural Festival, expanded Cultural Festivals, Busking opportunities, a Dine Around Langford Program, and a seasonal Night Market.
Over the next term, I plan to continue building the City's relationship work with local arts groups within the region to support expanding arts programming through local grants. I am supportive of the new regional service that provides sustainable funding to our region's performing arts theatres and support working with the CRD to development a new Westshore Performing Arts Theatre in downtown Langford. - 13.33% of this topic ART-03 3 / 3
Cultural strategies are often adopted and then not implemented. Would you support a cultural space implementation framework with defined tools, timelines and public reporting? Select up to three components you would prioritize. Select your top three options.
Why this score: Selects inventory, nonprofit permanent-asset partnerships and affordability/stability tools, a high impact municipal mix
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 3 of 11 options - 10.00% of this topic ART-04 3 / 3
Arts organizations and event producers identify permitting, zoning and regulatory requirements as barriers to cultural activity. What would you commit to? Select all that apply.
Why this score: Supports service standards, simplified events, permitting review, single-point coordination and disproportionate-cost review.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 5 of 10 options (up to 8 allowed) - 16.67% of this topic ART-05 3 / 3
If preserving and securing long-term cultural space requires additional municipal support, which approaches would you support? Select up to five.
Why this score: Supports nonprofit acquisition, development/amenity contributions, municipal leverage, land trusts and long-term leases.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 5 of 16 options - 10.00% of this topic ART-06 3 / 3
Municipal budgets require difficult choices. Would you support maintaining arts and culture investment alongside other core municipal services?
Why this score: Supports arts investment maintaining or growing alongside core services.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 10.00% of this topic ART-07 3 / 3
When a major development project affects an existing cultural space, what should your municipality prioritize?
Why this score: Explicitly supports replacement cultural space/equivalent community benefit.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 16.67% of this topic ART-08 3 / 3
Would you support municipal incentives to encourage private property owners and developers to provide affordable community & cultural space for nonprofits? Select all that apply.
Why this score: Supports requiring or incentivizing cultural space in major development projects—a high-impact structural mechanism, paired with existing tax incentive for eligible NFP-owned spaces.
How this question is graded
Colby Harder chose 2 of 7 options (up to 5 allowed)
Also shared, ungraded
- Not graded ART-GEN
If you have anything you'd like to add in regards to the arts in your municipality or the region as a whole, feel free to share your thoughts below.
This term saw the creation of Langford's Arts and Culture Strategy along with a $5 million investment by the City of Langford to redevelop and expand the existing Arts and Culture Facility on Carlow Road, slated to open in Spring 2027.
With regards to Arts, I believe there is a lot of relationship building to be done within the Westshore to embrace more creativity and help more artists feel welcome and supported to stay in Langford.
Rolling & cycling
A- 15% of this topic ROL-01 A
Will you commit to funding and completing at least one 'missing link' in your municipality's Active Transportation Plan during your four-year term? If yes, which one would you prioritize?
Why this grade: Commits to the Glen Lake Road sidewalk infill, proposing a temporary paved or gravel walking surface first and a full sidewalk later, because students walking between the Happy Valley neighbourhood and the high school have no safe route on a stretch with no shoulders, no sidewalks and no lighting. A named gap, a staged way to close it, and the reason it needs municipal money rather than development.
How this question is graded
Yes + Project surfaced = A; Yes + No specific project in mind, or vague project = B; Combination of No and/or a lack of project ideas = C-F, depending on severity.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 4 optionsFollow-up: Glen Lake Road Sidewalk Infill – a temporary paved asphalt or packed gravel walking surface could be installed to provide residents with walking infrastructure
in the short-term, before a more formal sidewalk with curb and gutter is installed in the long-term.
Students walking to and from Belmont High School from the Happy Valley neighbourhood currently have no safe walking route. This stretch of Glen Lake Road has limited shoulders, no sidewalks or lighting, and limited traffic calming. Given limited anticipated development, municipal funding is needed to ensure this established neighbourhod street can have a safe, contiguous sidewalk. - 15% of this topic ROL-02 B
Will you commit (or continue to commit) to physical protection (not paint alone) as the standard for all new and upgraded cycling infrastructure on busy streets in your municipality?
Why this grade: Takes physical protection as the standard on busy streets except where it cannot physically be built. The exception is checkable against a street, so the yes stands one band below unconditional.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. Yes, except where physically impossible = B. No = F. Except where physically impossible is a condition that can be checked against a street, so it takes the conditional-yes B, and that is where the 19 rows graded before this rubric existed put it. A No is F because the question sets a construction standard, which is infrastructure. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 15% of this topic ROL-03 A
Will you oppose efforts (current and future) to remove, narrow or downgrade existing protected bike lanes and other all-ages-and-abilities (AAA) cycling infrastructure in your municipality during your term?
Why this grade: Commits to opposing the removal, narrowing or weakening of protected lanes and all ages and abilities routes already built. Given plainly.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. Depends, case-by-case = C. No = F. Depends case by case names no test and commits to nothing, which is the C it gets on CLI-08 and TRN-02; 13 of the 14 rows graded before this rubric existed agree. A No is F because the question is about keeping built infrastructure in place. An answer of N/A is a claim that the question does not apply to that municipality, which is a judgement about a candidate and is passed in by hand, like an excused decline. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 20% of this topic ROL-04 A
What is the most important active transportation project in the municipality that you will be focused on progressing? Please provide your reasoning.
Why this grade: Picks a walking bridge over the highway, arguing that thousands of homes went up on both sides with no comfortable way across except by car, that a new high school and middle school are being built in the busiest part of the city, and that the plan treats the crossing as a distant provincial item though it is more than a decade overdue. A named project with the fairness case for it made at length.
How this question is graded
A = Candidate is able to identify a project in their community and speak to its importance. B & C = Candidate has a general idea of something that can be improved but it isn't high on their priority list. F = Candidate does not think any improvements can/should be made.
Colby Harder's answerI will be focused on progressing a pedestrian bridge over the Trans Canada Highway.
As mentioned above, thousands of homes were built with no real plan for transportation in Langford. Now, thousands of residents live on both sides of the highway, but they've been left without a comfortable or convenient way to cross the highway unless its by a vehicle.
Transportation is a top issue. With traffic bumper to bumper on Veterans Memorial Parkway, a new high school and middle school being built across from the region's only Costco, paired with hundreds more previously approved homes being built, the need for a new connection has never been greater.
Langford's new Active Transportation Plan has identified this Pedestrian Overpass as a long-term provincial action given its anticipated cost, complexity. However, as noted above, I see this the lack of any dedicated pedestrian bridges in Langford as a key equity issue, and this particular bridge stands out as infrastructure that's already more than a decade overdue. - 35% of this topic ROL-05 A
If you have previously served in local government, what did you do to advance walking, rolling, cycling or transit? If you have not, what in your record outside of council shows the same commitment?
Why this grade: Reallocated over ten million dollars of development revenue to safe routes to school, accepting a tax increase to do it, and built missing sidewalk on Latoria, Treanor, Atkins and Goldstream. Also started the region's bike and scooter share, wrote and updated the traffic calming policy, answered a bridge closure with a new accessible route and rail crossing, and adopted the city's first walking and cycling plan.
How this question is graded
Free text, graded by a person on what the record shows about advancing walking, rolling, cycling or transit. A = delivered work, meaning budgets moved, plans adopted, infrastructure built, or a sustained organisational role with results behind it. B = substantial relevant advocacy or a directly relevant role, with less account of what it produced. C = a record from a different office, or advocacy confined to one location or issue, or no previous term with nothing offered in its place. C- = personal experience or unrelated work with no advocacy behind it. F = nothing relevant offered, or a record that closed the question rather than advancing it. The bands come from the 79 rows graded before 2026-09-20. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder's answer- Reallocated over $10 million in development revenue towards building safe routes to school to build new sidewalks and multi-use pathways. This reflected a ~4% tax increase in 2024, but was key to building major segments of missing sidewalks on Latoria Road, Treanor Road, Atkins Road, Goldstream Road and more
- Spearheaded the initiative to bring bike and scooter share services to the region
- Created consistency at regional crossings with painted sidewalk markings
- Created, and updated, Langford's Traffic Calming Policy
- Responded to unexpected infrastructure closures (Savory Elementary Bridge) with urgent action to create an accessible route and a new railroad crossing
- Adopted Langford's first Master Active Transportation Plan
- Advocated for Langford to get a seat at the Victoria Regional Transit Commission decision making table (alas, to no avail just yet)
- Advocated for Free Youth and Senior Transit Fare funding from senior levels of government
Walking
A- 10% of this topic WLK-01 A
Municipalities, the CRD and the Province have all adopted targets to shift trips away from driving. Do you support meeting your municipality's adopted mode-shift targets, and would you vote for the necessary street-space and budgetary changes?
How this question is graded
A = yes, even if it means removing driving lanes. C = yes, but not when it takes road space from drivers. F = no. Two steps between the two yeses because the adopted targets cannot be met without reallocating street space. Unsure and Decline to answer are both C- on this tab.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 20% of this topic WLK-02 B
Which pedestrian safety problem in your municipality concerns you most, and what is the one change you would commit to in your first term to make walking safer and more attractive than driving for short trips?
Why this grade: Names traffic volume and speed on neighbourhood streets as the biggest challenge and is honest that permanent fixes may be unaffordable now. Would explore pilots with partners and review the traffic calming budget against the quick build projects already listed.
How this question is graded
Free text, graded by a person against the two things the question asks for: a named local problem, and one change committed to in a first term. A = both, with the change specific enough to be delivered and usually tied to funding, a named corridor or an existing plan. B = the problem is named and the response is concrete but soft, narrow, or a review rather than a change. C = a problem is named and nothing is committed to, or the framing of the question is declined. C- = no local problem is settled on, or the answer is a general gesture. F = nothing responsive is offered. The bands come from the 31 rows graded before 2026-09-20 and were applied to the remaining 51 on that date. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder's answerTraffic volumes/speed on neighbourhoods streets remains one of Langford's greatest challenges. While some permanent solutions may be too costly to implement right away, I am supportive of exploring pilot programs in partnership with key transportation partners (e.g. ICBC, RCMP, SD62, local neighbourhood) to provide timely, cost-effective traffic calming solutions.
I would support reviewing the current funding available for Traffic Calming against the proposed short-term and quick build project suggestions in the Active Transportation Plan, to ensure we can proactively apply for grants and fund projects to proceed. - 10% of this topic WLK-03 B
Sidewalk construction and maintenance is chronically underfunded across the region. Would you vote to increase the share of your municipality's transportation capital budget dedicated to pedestrian infrastructure?
Why this grade: Yes to spending more, within bounds. The answer is one step below the substantial increase.
How this question is graded
Yes, a substantial increase, meaning more than double what is currently spent = A. Yes, a modest increase, meaning more but less than double = B, because that is a real commitment with a ceiling on it. No, the current amount is sufficient = F, because the question is about money for infrastructure, which is the funding side of the split. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 20% of this topic WLK-04 B
Do you support expanding pedestrian-priority and car-free streets in your municipality's downtown, main street or village centre?
Why this grade: Supports the measure in reversible form. The limit is what the grade reflects.
How this question is graded
Yes, and I would pursue a permanent expansion or implementation = A. Yes, but only temporary, seasonal or pilot closures = B, because it is a yes with a stated limit on it. No = F, because the question is about street space, which is infrastructure. An answer of N/A is not on this list: it is a claim that the municipality has no downtown, main street or village centre, which is a judgement about a candidate and is passed in by hand. It has been left blank where that is true of the municipality and graded F everywhere the question plainly does apply. Unsure was typed C on two rows before 2026-09-13 and those rows were reset to blank on 2026-09-20, so the question now follows the shared policy. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 6 options - 20% of this topic WLK-05 A
How will you work with parent groups, school staff, and municipal staff to assure that children’s safety is prioritized over convenience and flow of motor traffic?
Why this grade: You bring a record of building safe routes to school through regional program work and through your time on council, and you would widen how the city works with parent groups and neighbourhoods on traffic calming pilots, walking and biking school buses and school street events, with continued funding to close more gaps. A record of delivery plus a funding commitment is the strongest pairing a candidate can offer on this question.
How this question is graded
Free text. A = names parents, school staff and municipal staff and attaches something concrete: an audit, measures, funding, timelines, or work delivered. B = one half only, consultation without measures or measures without consultation. C = points at an existing programme as enough. C- = vague, deflects, or denies the problem. Blank only where Walk On cannot judge local conditions. F is not used.
Colby Harder's answerI have been a longtime advocate and leader in creating Safe Routes to School, both in my professional work with the CRD's Ready Step Roll Program and during my time on council. If re-elected, I would like to expand how the City works with parent groups and local neighbourhoods to explore pilot programs for traffic calming, walking/bike school bus programs and other ideas/events to support safe school streets.
I am proud of the progress we've started to catch up and improve our community, but I am committed to continuing to fund solutions to close more gaps through proactive transportation planning, quick build solutions, and community-led actions. - 20% of this topic WLK-06 A
What will you do, in a 4 year term, to identify, prioritize and set time-lines to assure that pedestrian infrastructure is improved to meet the needs of the older and disabled members of your community?
Why this grade: You point out that small barriers create large obstacles, that engagement offered only through a digital survey is itself a barrier for older residents, and you would widen civic engagement and pursue community mapping with a local university while funding both new infrastructure and its eventual replacement. Recognizing that the engagement method decides whose voice is heard shows an unusually careful reading of this question.
How this question is graded
Free text. A = names what to fix and the order it gets fixed in: an audit, named priorities, consultation with older and disabled residents, a timeline inside the term. B = real improvements with no process behind them, or continuing existing work. C = states the need and defers it, or one fix with no plan. C- = a problem with no action, or an answer about something else. Blank only where Walk On cannot judge local conditions. F is not used.
Colby Harder's answerMicro-barriers can pose big challenges for people living with mobility limitations. Representation is important to helping older adults and individuals living with disabilities voice the challenges they face getting around in our community.
We can’t fix something if we don’t know it’s not working as is. Lets Chat Langford is a great digital survey tool, but providing only digital engagement alone can in itself create a barrier to participation.On top of continued funding for new infrastructure and future replacement, I would like the City to expand our civic engagement efforts, with a greater emphasis put on hearing from our aging population. This could be explored by working with Royal Roads University to help facilitate community-mapping initiatives for older adults and individuals living with disabilities to map and identify their mobility barriers.
Governance
B- 17% of this topic GOV-01 A
Do you support expanding shared or regional delivery of municipal services in the Capital Region?
How this question is graded
Yes/Partly = A, Unsure = C, No = F.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 17% of this topic GOV-02 B
Do you support creating a regional service that designs, builds and maintains local municipal infrastructure shared across Capital Region municipalities?
Why this grade: Would join if full recovery is guaranteed. The answer names its condition, which is why it lands here rather than lower.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. Yes, only if full cost recovery is guaranteed for my municipality = B. No = C-. Full cost recovery is a named, checkable condition on a yes, so it takes the conditional-yes B. A No is C- rather than F because the question is about how services are organised and who runs them, which is the governance side of the split CLI-03 sits on the other side of. Unsure was typed C on three rows before 2026-09-13 and those rows were reset to blank on 2026-09-20, so the question now follows the shared policy. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 5 options - 17% of this topic GOV-03 A
If elected, what three steps would you take to put your region or municipality on a firmer financial footing?
How this question is graded
“Real financial resilience comes from increasing the productivity of land that's already served by infrastructure: letting neighborhoods incrementally thicken, encouraging redevelopment where roads and pipes already exist, building more value per acre instead of more acres that need public maintenance.” The Strong Towns approach thinks about revenue vs liabilities and the cost of replacing infrastructure as a key driver of municipal financial success. Next-increment intensification or better allows improved use of pipes, roads, and wires, increasing the economic base for the city while lowering vacancies (examples, strongtowns.org , archive.strongtowns.org ). No credit was given for/against for either a) sharing costs with neighbouring governments or b) asking for money from higher levels of government, both of which may have additional merit beyond the boundaries of the muncipality. A-level (excellent) answer: 1. a comment about density being linked to financial wellbeing (revenue side), 2. a comment about efficient use of that revenue (expenses side), 3. thinking about infrastructure liabilities and how to pay for them given the intergenerational problems. B-level (good) answer considers some of these principles, but likely doesn't consider both revenue and expenses. C-level (mixed) - may have other ideas about arbitrary efficiencies and doesn't provide a mechanism for doing the work they propose (e.g. "fill up the reserve fund" -- with what money?). F - working in the opposite direction of resilience (e.g. arbitrary property tax increase caps), or doesn't answer the question (e.g. "my municipality is on firm financial footing").
Colby Harder's answer1. Review all existing private public partnership contracts and operating agreements to ensure long-term sustainability and cost-effective service delivery
2. Explore fair revenue streams, like a Stormwater Utility and continue with annual contributions to our Asset Management Reserves until 2030, to help fund infrastructure renewal and replacement.
3. Seek out sub-regional agreements that offer improve opportunities to identify and manage duplicate expenditures within core municipal services (e.g. garbage, recreation, fire rescue). - 17% of this topic GOV-04 F
Do you commit to eliminating mandatory parking minimums for all land uses in your municipality by 2030?
How this question is graded
Yes = A, No/Decline = F. Parking minimums are pseudoscience that should be eliminated from city codes everywhere, and have been eliminated in Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Ottawa, and others across North America without any negative consequences (archive.strongtowns.org )
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - 17% of this topic REC-01 A
Do you support ensuring that local First Nations are represented in transit governance, such as on the Victoria Regional Transit Commission and the CRD Transportation Commission?
Why this grade: Yes to guaranteeing the seat. The answer commits the candidate rather than describing an intention.
How this question is graded
Yes = A. No = C-, on the same reasoning as GOV-02 and TRN-04: the question is about who sits at the table, not about what gets built or funded. No candidate has answered No, so that letter is a rule rather than a record of how anyone was graded. Decline to answer is F where nothing explains it, and the Grade is left blank where the candidate explained the decline in the topic's comment box or answered the rest of the topic solidly. Unsure is left blank. A blank Grade drops the row out of the category rollup entirely; N/A is reserved for a question that does not apply to a candidate and never means ungraded.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 3 options - 17% of this topic REC-02 B
Concerning our municipal government’s First Nations’ reconciliation and consultation practices, I support:
How this question is graded
A = significantly more consultation practices. B = somewhat more. C = the current amount is enough. Written answers take the same ladder: A commits to partnership with local First Nations, B wants better consultation without committing to a change, C questions whether more is wanted. Nothing here has been graded C- or F.
Colby Harder chose 1 of 7 options
Also shared, ungraded
- Not graded GOV-GEN
If you have anything you'd like to add in regards to governance, shared services, and municipal infrastructure, feel free to share your thoughts below.
I have supported reviewing and removing mandatory parking minimums in residential and commercial land uses within the City Centre, but believe that alternative modes of transportation should be made more accessible before expanding this policy application to other areas in the City. - Not graded REC-GEN
If you have anything you'd like to add in regards to First Nation transit governance or consultation practices, feel free to share your thoughts below.
Reconciliation requires forming evolving relationships that withstand the volatility of election cycles. I support municipalities working to develop MOUs in partnership with local First Nations. I believe this can help ensure that seeking additional consultation is not just placing further administrative burdens on local First Nations, but rather helping co-develop opportunities for shared prosperity and partnership.
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