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This spring North Cowichan solicited community input on three growth scenarios, which included a proposed Bell McKinnon development that would make the area a major growth centre around the new Cowichan District Hospital.

With June’s “heat dome” and its heat-related deaths, followed by ongoing record-breaking fires and smoke-filled skies, the climate crisis is much on voters’ minds. This was reinforced by the recent release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest scientific report declaring a “code red for humanity”. One Cowichan invited each of the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford federal candidates from the four parties with seats in the House of Common in the last parliament to provide us with up to 250 words on what they and their party will do to address the accelerating climate emergency federally and here in the Cowichan Valley.

Here's what they said, in alphabetical order by last name...