Written Submission Guidelines



Columbia River Treaty Agreement-in-Principle

The Province of B.C. wants to hear your feedback on the Agreement-in-Principle reached between Canada and the U.S. to modernize the Columbia River Treaty.

Interested parties, including, but not limited to, Indigenous organizations, non-governmental organizations, and industry associations are invited to submit a formal response to the Columbia River Treaty Agreement-in-Principle. Members of the public may also submit written feedback.

The Agreement-in-Principle is described through a variety of resources on the Province of B.C. Columbia River Treaty website, including an Overview video, Backgrounder, and a document containing the content of the Agreement-in-Principle. It is recommended that you review some or all of these resources before providing your feedback. https://engage.gov.bc.ca/columbiarivertreaty/agreement-in-principle/

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2025.  If you would like to contribute after this deadline, please email columbiarivertreaty@gov.bc.ca for more information.

Written submissions should be in Word or PDF format.

Please share your submissions by email to columbiarivertreaty@gov.bc.ca

Or by mail to

Columbia River Treaty Team
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation
PO Box 9314 Stn Prov Govt.
Victoria B.C. V8W 9N1

Guidelines

Submissions should respond to the elements included in the Agreement-in-Principle, as outlined below:

  • Flood Risk Management
  • Canadian Flexibility
  • Hydropower and Transmission
  • Compensation
  • Kootenay/Kootenai Transboundary Coordination
  • Joint Ecosystem and Indigenous and Tribal Cultural Values Body (JEB)
  • Salmon Reintroduction

You may also include general comments about the Agreement-in-Principle.

Please reference the element(s) you are providing feedback on. You can choose as many elements as you’d like.

Your feedback will inform the next steps in the process to modernize the Treaty.

Criteria

We welcome all submissions but there are some guidelines. Submissions must meet the following criteria:

  1. Does not contain profanity or content that is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable);
  2. Does not appear to, or actually, infringe the copyright, trade-mark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party;
  3. Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content;
  4. Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain;
  5. Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content;
  6. Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations;
  7. Does not appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign; and
  8. Is not far off-topic.

Formal submissions from organizations

All formal submissions that meet the above guidelines and criteria will be read and considered as part of the Engagement Summary Report. Submissions may be published along with the report, subject to meeting the above guidelines and criteria.

Written submissions from individuals

All submissions by individual members of the public will be read and considered as part of the Engagement Summary Report. Individual submissions will not be published along with the report.