Transport committee  Similar to Burnaby, we have formal emergency management plans in place. It's under the authority of our fire chief, who reports to council. Prepare Victoria is an agency of the fire department that has three employees and about 100 volunteers. They primarily respond to fires and

Transport committee  That's a good question. All the data is available on the City of Victoria website, and also the Capital Regional District website. It began by way of a notice of motion and a resolution adopted by our council. We proceeded to have a town hall meeting on the issue of the Trans Mo

Transport committee  The short answer is no, and that is why the City of Victoria and the Capital Regional District have adopted a position of opposition, both to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project application and to other policies or infrastructure that would result in increased fossil fu

Transport committee  I'll preface my remarks by pointing out that I'm not a marine biologist or a chemical engineer. My understanding is that crude products, particularly bitumen, are particularly harmful to the marine ecology and particularly challenging to recover by authorities entrusted with cl

Transport committee  That's a good question.

Transport committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to present to the committee. On behalf of Mayor Lisa Helps and the council for the City of Victoria, I provide the following remarks as acting mayor of Victoria. Victoria is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The shipping lan