Land Acknowledgement

This campaign acknowledges that we, and the city of Pickering, are situated on land within the jurisdiction of the Williams Treaties, and it is on the traditional territory of the Mississauga of Scugog Island First Nations, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples that we work, live, and play. It is our continued responsibility to remember and remind also that reconciliation is a continuous and complex process, and a land acknowledgement is not enough; we need to continue to learn, unlearn, and take the time to put in the work and inform ourselves. I am explicitly and expressly committed to honouring, upholding, and implementing the TRC’s 94 Calls to Action, and I thank you for joining me in this.