British Columbia Strategies

B.C. government strategies outline high level approaches to address key missions.

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A Pathway to Hope

A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap to making mental health and addictions care better for people in B.C., sets out priority actions over three years and a long-term vision to transform the province’s mental health and substance use care system.

Learn about B.C.’s new vision for mental health and addictions care

Read A Pathway to Hope (PDF, 1.1MB)

B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy

The B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy establishes the province's first shared vision for the B.C. coast. The strategy guides decisions over the next 20 years and help ensure we are prepared for the opportunities and risks that tomorrow may bring us.

Learn about the B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy

Read the B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy (PDF, 8.5MB)

B.C. Digital Health Strategy

The B.C. government is working with the Provincial Health Services Authority and regional health authorities to modernize technologies and develop more connected systems across the province, creating better access to health care.

Learn about the B.C. Digital Health Strategy

Read the B.C. Digital Health Strategy (PDF, 3.2MB)

B.C. Flood Strategy

As the flood risks to British Columbians are substantial and continue to grow due to land use pressures and climate change, a comprehensive flood strategy will better prepare the province for future flood events.

Learn about the B.C. Flood Strategy

Read the B.C. Flood Strategy (PDF, 10.5MB)

B.C. Life Sciences and Biomanufacturing Strategy

The Life Sciences and Biomanufacturing Strategy will position British Columbia as a global hub for life sciences and biomanufacturing, and as a leading centre for commercial scale biopharmaceutical and medical manufacturing.

Learn about Life Sciences and Biomanufacturing

Read the Life Sciences and Biomanufacturing Strategy (PDF, 4.3MB)

Read the Life Sciences and Biomanufacturing Strategy Progress Report 2023-2024 (PDF, 3.7MB)

B.C. Maritime Industries Strategy

The Maritime Industries Strategy aims to establish B.C. as a leader in innovative and high-value industrial maritime activity.

Learn about the B.C. Maritime Industries Strategy

Read the B.C. Maritime Industries Strategy (PDF, 6.1MB)

B.C.’s Intellectual Property Strategy

B.C.’s Intellectual Property Strategy will build the province’s intellectual property capacity by increasing the awareness, use and protection of intellectual property by small and medium-sized enterprises. This will ultimately create the conditions that will contribute to a more sustainable and viable innovation ecosystem in B.C.

Learn about B.C.’s Intellectual Property Strategy

Read B.C.’s Intellectual Property Strategy (PDF, 1.5MB)

B.C.'s Health Human Resources Strategy

B.C.’s Health Human Resources Strategy describes key actions across a range of priorities that will help improve patient care for people in B.C. They will add and retain more doctors, nurses and health sciences professionals to hospitals, clinics, and primary care facilities around the province, ensuring that the public health-care system is there for people today and for the decades ahead.

Read B.C.'s Health Human Resources Strategy (PDF, 2.8MB)

B.C.'s Trade Diversification Strategy

B.C.'s Trade Diversification Strategy is an innovative approach to export development and investment attraction. The Strategy uses B.C.’s competitive advantage to increase export and investment opportunities in targeted new markets, expand in key existing ones and increase the number and diversity of B.C.’s exporting businesses.

Learn about B.C.'s Trade Diversification Strategy

Read B.C.'s Trade Diversification Strategy (PDF, 8.4MB)

BC Road Safety Strategy

Based on three pillars and rooted in the vision of realizing zero fatalities and serious injuries on B.C. roads, this framework outlines the network of tools, initiatives, awareness campaigns and enforcement programs that are creating a road safety network in B.C.

Learn about the BC Road Safety Strategy

Read the BC Road Safety Strategy (PDF, 3.3MB)

Budget 2025 Strategic Plan

Our government is working to secure a brighter future by building on our strengths. We’re standing up for British Columbians to defend workers and our economy from the threats posed by tariffs. We’re strengthening and protecting the public services that people rely on.

Read the Budget 2025 Strategic Plan (PDF, 588KB)

Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy

B.C.’s Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy outlines four pathways to help ensure we stay safe and to prepare for a changing climate. The strategy highlights B.C.'s overall direction and actions that the Province is taking to help better understand and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Learn about the Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy

Read the Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy (PDF, 7.0MB)

Court Digital Transformation Strategy

The goal of this strategy is to enhance access to justice through innovation and by leveraging technologies that facilitate more effective and efficient interactions with British Columbia's court system.

Read the Court Digital Transformation Strategy (PDF, 17.1MB)

Emerging Economy Task Force

Examines the current state of B.C.’s economy with a view to providing analysis and advice on emerging trends, including transformative technologies and innovations that will change the nature of business and society over the next 5, 10 to 25 years.

Learn about the Emerging Economy Task Force

Read the Emerging Economy Task Force Final Report (PDF, 3.3MB)

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy

Where We All Belong is a 3-year equity, diversity and inclusion strategy for the BC Public Service. It ensures we are reflective of our province and inclusive of Indigenous peoples, minority communities, immigrants, persons with disabilities and the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Read the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy

Forest Health Strategies

The Provincial Forest Health Strategy guides government's forest health program to achieve the goals of maintaining and improving the productivity of British Columbia’s forests, extending the supply of the remaining timber resource, and protecting other forest resource values.

Learn about Forest Health Strategies

Read the Forest Health Strategic Plan (PDF, 5.6MB)

Poverty Reduction Strategy

British Columbia’s 2024 Poverty Reduction Strategy sets a path to reduce overall poverty by 60%. The strategy also sets a road map to reduce child poverty by 75%, and, for the first time, seniors’ poverty by 50% by 2034.

Learn about the Poverty Reduction Strategy

Read the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PDF, 3.1MB)

Powering Our Future: BC’s Clean Energy Strategy

Powering Our Future: BC’s Clean Energy Strategy outlines the actions that we are – and will be – taking in ten areas of focus to accelerate the shift to clean energy and create new opportunities for people and communities throughout B.C.

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Download Powering Our Future: BC's Clean Energy Strategy (PDF, 2.7MB)

Regional Growth Strategies

A regional growth strategy is a strategic plan that directs long-term planning for both regional district and municipal official community plans. It also informs decisions about on how provincial programs are implemented within a regional district.

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Strategic Framework for Tourism

The tourism strategic framework sets out a clear vision for a prosperous and sustainable tourism sector, in a way that distributes benefits to people throughout the province.

Learn about the Strategic Framework for Tourism

Read the Strategic Framework for Tourism (PDF, 2.7MB)

Read the Strategic Framework for Tourism Progress Report (PDF, 15.9MB)

Technology and Innovation Policy Framework

The British Columbia Technology and Innovation Policy Framework outlines a long-term strategy to drive economic growth by investing in technology, fostering innovation, and supporting inclusive participation across all regions and demographics.

Learn about Technology and innovation

Read the Technology and Innovation Policy Framework