Written submission guidelines

Submissions were open for interested parties, including businesses, associations, local governments, and other organizations to submit a formal response to the discussion paper until July 23, 2024. Indigenous engagement was open until Sept 15, 2024.

Please refer to the questions provided throughout the discussion paper when preparing and organizing written submissions. Written submissions should be in Word or PDF format. 

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. 

All formal submissions that meet the above guidelines will be read and considered as part of the What We Learned report, and will be published along with the report. 

All British Columbians can also send us your written comment to CircularCommunities@gov.bc.ca and all emails will be considered as part of the What We Learned report. Emails will not be published along with the report.