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Like many cities and townships across Canada the city of Mission, BC is advancing a 15 Minute City plan under the guise of ‘affordable’ housing and safety (“reducing crime and fear of crime”). It’s important to note that Mission is plagued by rising crime, driven by rampant drug activity and a broken catch-and-release justice system that is failing Canadians. Surveillance cameras are not the answer!
The Mission Official Community Plan (OCP), Mission by-law #6350-2025 is an aggressive densification and surveillance scheme that poses a serious threat to citizens’ constitutional and inalienable rights and freedoms and it’s recommendations are going to be considered for third reading and potentially adopted this Tuesday, May 20th!
“The OCP incorporates policies and implementation strategies that align with and support the Environmental Charter” and “provides high-level understanding for residents and landowners around what they can and cannot do with their properties”. This ‘plan’ permits high-rise housing in rural and single-family areas:
“Small-scale multi-unit housing (SSMUH) includes gentle infill housing types like duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and townhomes. BC’s recent zoning reforms allow these in traditionally single-family areas to increase housing diversity. They help bridge the gap between detached homes and high-density apartments” and…”Enable more multiplex development in all single-family zones”
Imagine 4-8 story apartments going up all around your single family home. This plan has proven to fail as it increases the cost of rent and does not make home ownership more attainable for first time buyers. It also harms existing home owner’s property value and increases crime.
We challenge Action4Canada members to help defeat the City of Mission’s global densification and surveillance plan!
Call to Action:
- Copy and paste the following letter (or write your own) and send it to the list of recipients provided below. Here is a PDF of the letter below
- Inform others and attend the Council Meeting
- Sign and Send the 15 Minute City Notice of Liability
REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
May 20, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Council Chambers
8645 Stave Lake Street, Mission, BC
Email List:
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Learn more about 15 Minute Cities and what you can do HERE
Dear Mayor Horn and City Councilors:
This is an Open Letter to the Mission Council regarding the implementation of the BC provincial government’s Official Community Plan (OCP), Mission by-law #6350-2025. This plan is an aggressive densification and surveillance scheme that poses a serious threat to citizens’ constitutional and inalienable rights and freedoms.
I request that the Mission Council answer the following questions:
- The OCP, By-law #6350-2025, threatens mass densification of land both in rural and urban areas. This threatens homeowners’ property values, privacy, security, and agriculture. This is an egregious overstep. How will the city guarantee these infringements will not negatively impact residents?
- Can you explicitly guarantee that citizens will remain free to travel (as is their right under S6, 7 and 9 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) and that the city will not undertake any projects, pass any bylaws or install any equipment that has the ability to:
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- track and identify people or vehicles as they move through the town/city
- electronically control or physically restrict vehicles from residential areas or from traveling on existing roads
- fine vehicle owners or drivers for operating their vehicles in certain areas
- restrict access to essential or non-essential services ie. medical care, bank accounts, pensions, government benefits, entertainment, sporting activities, travel, etc
- restrict access to utilities (ie natural gas, water, electricity, gasoline), municipal services (garbage disposal), public areas, housing, education, churches, groceries, wireless and telecommunications, employment, consumer activities
- impede citizens’ ability to garden/farm (food security)
- collect personal data or distribute personal information publicly and/or violate protected privacy rights
- incentivise CBDC over the use of cash
- implement a social credit system
- enforce ESG (Environmental Social Governance) on businesses, employees and citizens
Provincial and federal legislators have a fundamental duty to uphold democratic principles, protect municipal autonomy, and guard against undue foreign influence in local governance. Increasingly, municipalities across Canada are being influenced by external organizations such as ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability – through initiatives like the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program.
These externally driven programs are circumventing established local decision-making processes, undermining transparency, and weakening democratic accountability. Municipal autonomy is foundational to Canadian democracy and must be protected.
In Mission, the Official Community Plan (OCP) has been advanced without ensuring that residents fully understand its long-term consequences. The plan threatens to negatively impact mobility, property values, privacy, densification, local businesses, and public safety. Some elements—such as zoning changes, urban boundaries, and traffic restrictions—have already been approved, even as the broader plan remains in the consultation phase.
I strongly urge the city to reject the proposed OCP as it will indeed infringe on constitutionally protected rights and freedoms, pose a risk of increasing crime, and offers no demonstrable benefit to the climate.
Moreover, it represents a significant and unjustifiable use of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. As stewards of public funds, the City has a fiduciary duty to ensure that all expenditures serve the best interests of its residents and align with sound, evidence-based governance. In our view this proposal fails to meet that standard.
The world is undoubtedly evolving, and reasonable adaptation is both necessary and expected. However, many so-called “green” initiatives form part of a broader, highly complex global agenda that is misaligned with Canadian laws, values, and constitutional principles. Alarmingly, numerous municipal councils have adopted these policies without conducting thorough due diligence. In doing so, they risk inadvertently endorsing directives influenced by foreign, unelected bodies—agendas that conflict with Canada’s national sovereignty and democratic institutions. Such actions raise serious legal and ethical concerns and could potentially expose mayors and council members to personal accountability, in extreme cases, actions tantamount to treason.
Conversations are essential to ensure the decisions made by the Mission Council are reflective of the needs and values of the people of Mission and not of agendas initiated from outside the community (Global, Federal, Provincial)
Therefore, I appeal to each of you as leaders whose decisions have a direct and lasting impact, and urge you to act in the best interests of Mission’s citizens by rejecting the Official Community Plan (OCP), Mission By-law No. 6350-2025.
Sincerely,
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