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To find services and organizations available to help people experiencing difficulties please contact BC211.
To speak in person with an information and referral specialist simply dial 2‐1‐1 from a landline or cell phone. This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
You can also text the name of your town or city to 2‐1‐1 to be connected with services in your area. This service is available from 8 am to 11 pm, seven days a week.
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What my Community Office can help you with:
Before calling or visiting one of my offices please confirm that you are a resident of Nanaimo~North Cowichan. Follow this link and enter your postal code:
https://www.leg.bc.ca/learn-about-us/members
When you contact my community office, my staff and I will do everything we can to assist. Your confidentiality is respected at all times. To give you a better idea of how we can help, please review the following information.
We can:
- Provide information on locating government services and contact information
- Assist in understanding government policies and services
- Assist in navigating through government bureaucracy
- Ensure due process is being followed
- Attend community events
- Provide congratulatory and greeting messages
- Provide government documents, legislation discussion papers and other web-based forms if you don’t have internet access
- Resolve issues you may be having with provincial ministries or agencies. (however, by law, there are some things we cannot help you with).
- Provide “certified true” copies of documents
- Provide fax service
We can help you if:
- You are a resident of the Nanaimo~North Cowichan riding; and,
- Your matter is with the provincial government.
Unfortunately, we cannot help you if:
- You do not reside in Nanaimo~North Cowichan.
- You have or need to retain a lawyer to represent you pertaining to your case.
- Your matter is pending before the courts.
- The police are involved. We cannot make inquiries about police investigations. If you have a complaint about police conduct , please direct them to the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner.
We are unable to:
- Offer legal advice or assist with legal action
- Overturn the decision of any provincial government ministry or body
- Influence processes set up in law to be independent of the Legislature –such as Ombudsman, Police Complaints Commissioner. Representative for Child and Youth, professional and other
- Change the time limits for filing appeals
- Take on casework that is federal or municipal in nature
- Interfere with federal or municipal issues
- Settle disputes between businesses or neighbours
- Find constituents housing
- Find constituents employment