Sign the petition.

We, the undersigned, residents and supporters of Denman Island, British Columbia, ask the Province of British Columbia to commission an independent Restructure Study under the Local Government Act for Denman Island as an island municipality within the Islands Trust area, on the model of Bowen Island Municipality (1999) and Okanagan Falls (2025).

We do so because Denman is presently governed by fourteen separate bodies, none of which is a single elected council answerable to Denman residents. We do so because the patchwork has produced measurable failures — a Denman Green housing project first proposed in 2013 and declared shovel-ready in 2024, with no completed homes yet; a food bank with a growing caseload; aging infrastructure decisions made off-island; recurring power outages on lines no local body has standing to renegotiate. And we do so because the institutional architecture required to be a real partner to the K'ómoks Nation under its modern treaty does not yet exist on the Denman side of the table.

Signing this petition is a request for a study, not a vote on incorporation. Denman residents will decide that question, by referendum, on a fair record.