2025 R19 – BC Ferry Advisory Committees

Whereas Ferry Advisory Committees provide route-specific input and advocacy and exist as part of BC Ferries’ strategic goal to be customer and community centred;

And whereas BC Ferries has dissolved the Ferry Advisory Committees;

And whereas the BC Government’s Coastal Ferry Services Contract, last amended on March 31, 2024, states that it is committed to “ongoing engagement in support of provincial reconciliation efforts”:

Therefore be it resolved that the UBCM advocate to the BC government to amend the Coastal Ferry Services Contract and include a provision for BC Ferries to develop an engagement framework that meaningfully considers input from local governments and Indigenous communities that rely on the BC Ferry System.