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Advocacy
The Advocacy Working Group supports regional floodplains management activities by advocating for regional flood planning, regional funding, and any other components required to achieve floodplains resilience in the Lower Fraser. This working group meets weekly to develop briefing notes, plan meetings with government officials, and develop key messaging.
The advocacy working group promotes regional floodplains management by sharing our message with the broader media and meeting with government officials.
Government Relations
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Monthly Meetings with Interministerial Group (EMCR, WLRS, Agri, DFO, ISC …)
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17+ Meetings with Elected Officials at federal and provincial level
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Federal Policy Review to assess the federal landscape for floodplains management
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Provincial Policy Review to assess the provincial landscape for floodplains management
LFFC in the news
Fraser Valley official critical of B.C.’s extreme floods strategy
CBC News - March 2nd, 2024: Provincial authorities say a recently-released flood control strategy is a way to keep communities safer in the future, but Jason...
Sto:lo Nation reflects on Fraser Valley floods, two years later
CBC Early Edition - November 14th 2023: The Early Edition is Vancouver's connection to the latest breaking local news, interviews that cut through the spin...
Leaders of Lower Fraser River chart path for flood management, resilience
The Abbotsford News - June 29th, 2023: The leaders of 58 groups and organizations are working toward a flood-management action plan for the Lower...
Premier David Eby creates new ministry to make sure B.C. is 'ready to go' for next disaster
Times Colonist - December 8th, 2022: Premier David Eby stepped up the province’s focus on preparing for disasters and building more climate resilience...
First Nations Want Overhaul of Emergency Planning and Response
The Tyee - December 2nd, 2022: Back-to-back-to-back rainstorms are inundating coastal and southern B.C. Some communities have been evacuated or...
Still no pathway to fund $165 million flood mitigation plan in hard-hit Merritt
Vancouver Sun - November 30th, 2022: Devastated by historic flooding in 2021, the B.C. Interior community of Merritt sees little immediate relief in a national...
More dikes and bigger dams could be a multi-billion dollar mistake: here’s how B.C. could ‘build back better' The Narwhal - November 14th, 2022: Heavy rains have once again fallen in B.C., bringing back memories of a year ago when...
Senate report on B.C. flooding outlines flood mitigation and infrastructure issue
APTN News - October 27th, 2022: One year after the intense weather event called an “atmospheric river,” a senate committee has released a report on British...
Restoring salmon habitat could help B.C.’s flood problems
The Narwhal - September 12th, 2022: For many British Columbians the memories of November 2021 are still fresh. The torrential rains. The rushing rivers. The...
Flood recovery forum in Abbotsford focused on ‘breaking down silos’
Agassiz-Harrison Observer - July 15, 2022: A group of Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland government and private sector representatives have come together...
Local governments, First Nations on lower Fraser seek regional flood strategy
Vancouver Sun - July 13, 2022: Frustrated with provincial and federal efforts, First Nations and local governments on the lower Fraser River are seeking...
Stó:lō Tribal Council Chief Tyrone McNeil joins us to discuss the Abbotsford long-term flood mitigation and the work that's needed for the region CBC on the Coast - June 14th, 2022: Abbotsford council has...
Rebuild or retreat? B.C. communities face tough choices after catastrophic floods
CBC News - June 12th, 2022: The flowers at Martin O'Brien's former home in Grand Forks, B.C., are blooming, though no one lives there anymore to tend them...
Why B.C. can't always build its way out of risks
Vancouver Sun - May 5th, 2022: On a day in early spring, when the air is warm but the wind still bites, Grown Here Farms in Cawston is unseasonably quiet...
Indigenous-led action plan focused on flood management for entire Lower Mainland
The Chilliwack Progress - December 8, 2021: As the flurry of disaster response starts to settle down in First Nations communities, focus is on a regional action...
How Floods - and how we fight them - affect salmon
CBC: The Current - November 25, 2021: The Current is a meeting place of perspectives, ideas and voices. We take a fresh look at issues affecting Canadians...
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