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We changed the campaign wording to make our ask clear. We want a study toward a town. We do not promise to keep the Trust. Ending the Trust is a separate petition. Read both signed texts below.

If you signed version 1, we still count your support for those words. Your private email link lets you change or remove your signature. You must agree to version 2 to sign its new words. Doing nothing keeps your name on the old words.

Version 2 (current)

Adopted 2026-08-23. Clarified that the petition asks for a town and does not promise to preserve the Islands Trust.

  • Kept the request for a provincial study toward municipal incorporation.
  • Explained that current law requires a municipality inside the Trust area to be an island municipality.
  • Stated plainly that abolition is a separate provincial petition and that planning could return to a municipality or the regional district.

We, the undersigned, call on the Province of British Columbia to study incorporating Gabriola Island as its own municipality, with a council its residents elect and the ordinary powers of a BC municipality. Under current law that municipality would be an island municipality for as long as the Islands Trust area exists (Local Government Act s. 6). This petition is for a town. It is not a promise to keep the Islands Trust. Abolishing the Trust — and returning planning either to a municipality or to the regional district — is a separate petition at abolishislandstrust.org.

Version 1

Adopted 2026-08-15. Original island-town petition statement.

We, the undersigned, call on the Province of British Columbia to study incorporating Gabriola Island as its own municipality — local decisions made by a locally elected, fully accountable council.

Private, personal project. Gabriola Town is built and run by Tony Aly. He lives at Camp Denman, a property with long land-use disputes with the Trust. Keep that interest in mind as you read.

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