{"id":51765,"date":"2021-06-06T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=51765"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:59:23","slug":"community-engagement-process-on-prime-ministers-statue-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/community-engagement-process-on-prime-ministers-statue-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Community engagement process on prime ministers&#8217; oath statue project ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Host: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/namishmodi\">Namish Modi<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The First People\u2019s Group is in the midst of conducting a community engagement process in regards to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmot.ca\/en\/living-here\/prime-ministers-path.aspx#\">Prime Ministers' Path in Baden<\/a> and steps forward.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CKMS interviewed Guy Freedman, president of the First People\u2019s Group, an Indigenous advisory firm based out of Ottawa, on May 26 on the issue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Debate around the need for the path began when the Sir John A. Macdonald (SirJAM) statue was painted red in June 2020. The painting off a heated debate within the community of whether the statue should remain. After much deliberation, Wilmot council temporarily removed the SirJAM statue later in 2020.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier in 2021, council hired the First People\u2019s Group to conduct a consultation process and conduct community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmot.ca\/en\/living-here\/prime-ministers-path-public-engagement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engagement for the path.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThese are Wilmot recommendations,\u201d said Freedman, highlighting the need for community engagement on the future of the path.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The community engagement process launched earlier in May. The next official update from the First People\u2019s Group is on June 5 and the public can give feedback right now on the Township of Wilmot website.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Check out the archived versions of\u00a0 this program and other episodes on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/radiowaterloo.ca\/news\"><i>radiowaterloo.ca\/news<\/i><\/a><i>., and other stories commissioned under the Local Journalism Initiative at\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/\"><i>canada-info.ca<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You can\u00a0 follow us on twitter\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/radiowaterloo\"><i>@RadioWaterloo<\/i><\/a><i>. If you want to get in touch with comments, or ideas about stories to cover, email us at news@radiowaterloo.ca<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: Namish Modi The First People\u2019s Group is in the midst of conducting a community engagement process in regards to the Prime Ministers&#8217; Path in Baden and steps forward. CKMS interviewed Guy Freedman, president of the First People\u2019s Group, an Indigenous advisory firm based out of Ottawa, on May 26 on the issue. Debate around&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[6264,5814,8016,8017],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51765"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=51765"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=51765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}