Victoria has moved a step closer to introducing a voluntary reconciliation fund that will give homeowners the option of contributing financially to local Indigenous nations later this year.
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said if it weren’t for the pandemic, the process would have been completed by now and the municipalities might have been voting on amalgamation this fall.
Still reeling from having his $63.4-million budget rejected this week by Esquimalt council, Victoria Police Chief Del Manak said he is now concerned about establishing a two-tiered police service.