Welcoming & Inclusive Communities (WIC)

Our final report highlighted numerous successes between 2016 and 2022 including:

■ Our Measuring Municipal Inclusion Grant funded eight municipalities to successfully evaluate their inclusiveness and implement an action plan to improve their organizational approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

■ Our Community Readiness for Newcomer Integration project funded seven municipalities to audit their community’s ability to successfully welcome and support the integration of newcomers.

■ We hosted 15 blanket exercises and 11 workshops to improve awareness of Canada’s historical treatment of Indigenous peoples and how municipal leaders can support reconciliation.

■ We hosted a conference, two symposiums, and made over 30 presentations at various events to over 4,000 people to advance awareness of how municipal governments can support equity, diversity, and inclusion.

■ We recorded seven educational webinars that have collectively been viewed over 1,500 times.

■ We updated and created new tools including a Measuring Inclusion Tool for Municipal Governments, a Municipal Guide on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, and a Communications Toolkit to Support Newcomers.

Our WIC initiative also fielded hundreds of calls and requests from municipal elected officials and administrators who sought guidance on how to advance goals and overcome challenges in support of equity, diversity, and inclusion. We continue to offer support with our online WIC tools and will seek new funding opportunities to support municipalities to advance community inclusion.