Deferring the Urban Indigenous Action Plan recommendation to the PRLC
General Committee makes recommendations; City Council makes the final decision.
We haven’t matched this to Council’s final vote yet. Committee recommendations normally go to the City Council meeting on June 26, 2023.
Councillor Votes
Full Resolution Text
That Recommendation d) be deferred to allow PRLC to entertain the motion at their September meeting. d) Whereas 85.5 percent of First Nation, Metis and Inuit people live in urban or rural areas (off-reserve) in Ontario, and, Whereas the Urban Indigenous Action Plan was launched in 2018 to include Urban and Rural First Nations Metis and Inuit groups including Native Women’s Associations, and is not referenced as a guiding or policy document in the 2017-2022 Report Card, and, Thus, the Peterborough and District Wapiti MNO and Lovesick Lake Native Women’s Association were thus not invited participants in the Report Card regarding their community of Elders, Therefore, be it resolved that staff ensure that the above groups are included in the implementation of the new Age Friendly Peterborough Community Action Plan 2023- 2027.