By Cheryl Jahn

City Supports the Troops

Feb 12, 2024 | 3:27 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Council has added the City’s name to a letter to the Minister responsible for ICBC in support for BC joining the Support our Troops Licence plate Program.

“It’s a program similar to BC Parks license plates, where you pay an increment over and above the regular fee. And those dollars go to help that charitable cause,” explains Eric Depaneau, Manager of Intergovernmental Relations. “And so in this case, in Ontario, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, you can pay an additional fee that will help support things like summer camp programing for military families to send their kids off for scholarships, educational opportunities.”

BC already has veterans’ plates. So what’s the difference?

“If you’re the grandparents of that child who’s gone off to uniform service and you want to express your support in some form, this license plate program would be the venue that you could do that through. So this would be a custom license plate, a vanity plate with a signature yellow ribbon, which is the program’s icon”

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And the timing is perfect, given ICBC’s appetite for the program. “ICBC has recently had an engagement process that opened in the fall of 2023 and just closed at the end of January. And so lots of conversation was sparked through that.”

The letter of support will make a repeat performance at the upcoming meeting of the North Central Local Government Association AGM in May.

by Cheryl Jahn

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