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Darlene Marzari

    LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “People might look back and say…well I don’t know what they had going for them; this is now, and things are different. But the state of mind that lay behind that kind of success is worth recalling for people,” stated Ken Cameron, co-architect of Metro Vancouver’s Livable Region Strategic Plan in the 1990s


    In 1990, an action plan provided a regional framework for maintaining and enhancing the livability of Metro Vancouver. Between January and June 1990, Creating Our Future produced some really important basic ideas, like environmental management and stewardship of water. And also a transportation system that put walking, cycling, goods movement and transit ahead of the private use of the private automobile. These had never been researched; they were taken as value statements and bolted into the vision. That led to the Livable Region Strategic Plan,” stated Ken Cameron.

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    LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “It became clear that if one did not have a way of building confidence amongst practitioners, the rate of innovation would be slow,” stated Dale Wall, former Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs


    “We were looking in a new way at infrastructure innovation. We needed quite a lot of innovation to achieve some of the things that we hoped to achieve through regional growth strategies. The convening for action process that built confidence among practitioners to introduce new approaches. We realized that we simply had to have practitioners having discussions so that they would become more comfortable with innovative approaches. A peer learning network was one of the strands to introduce infrastructure innovation and build more sustainable regions,” stated Dale Wall.

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    LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “Being an effective champion requires deep knowledge, experience and quiet resolve to make things happen,” stated Joan Sawicki, land and resource management champion, and former provincial cabinet minister


    “With the change of government in late 1991, all of a sudden land use planning and natural resource management was front and centre. We had Mike Harcourt as Premier and Darlene Marzari as Minister of Municipal Affairs. Both had come out of local government. They were very familiar with the urgent growth pressures and the ecological impacts that they were having. Then I was appointed Marzari’s Parliamentary Secretary. I had spent a term as an elected Councillor in Burnaby. So the Georgia Basin Initiative was a good fit for me,” stated Joan Sawicki.

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