A Prince George City Councillor is helping to launch a campaign in Ottawa to showcase home town pride.
Garth Frizzell is in the nation’s capital as part of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention, where the main item on the agenda is to get the message out from citizens to the federal government about what matters to their communities.
“What Hometown Proud is, is a way of starting out talking about how proud we are of the communities that we live in and that we’re going to be able to talk to all of the different political parties and show them the importance Canadians place on the comm unites they live in,” he says.
“Mostly it’s one-on-one meetings we have at the offices of the MP’s and Senators in Ottawa,” Frizzell explains. “It’s a very effective way to get the issues in these MP’s home-towns and bring them from the municipal lens into their office.”
He says rail safety is a front-and-centre topic of discussion, this week.
“While the conversations we’re having here are about policy that affects all of Canada, it has a big impact on Prince George,” Frizzell says. “It’s an ongoing program that we have with the federal government and they’ve been very responsive enacting some policy changes that are going to roll out in the next five years.”
The Federation is also launching a contest with Air Canada looking for stories on Canadian life.
Full details can be found at HomeTownProud.FCM.ca.
(Image courtesy Garth Frizzell’s Twitter account)