Written submissions
How to provide written submission
All Indigenous Peoples (Title and Rights holders, Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous Peoples in Urban Settings, Health Directors and health staff, and Indigenous subject matter experts with expertise in health information privacy) are invited to make written submissions.
Please refer to the discussion questions provided on the website when preparing and organizing written submissions.
To provide a written submission, please email HIMA@gov.bc.ca There is no deadline for submission, but it will be more difficult to reflect your feedback in policy after approximately March 31st, 2024. Written submissions should be no longer than five pages in Word or PDF format.
Guidelines
Submissions must meet the following criteria:
- 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);
- 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;
- Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content;
- Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain;
- Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content;
- Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations;
- Does not appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign; an
- Is not far off-topic.
All submissions will be read and considered as part of the What We Heard report.