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VIEA Strategic Plan Launched!

VIEA is excited to share our new strategic plan! With six goals and objectives the plan aims to enhance VIEA’s role in fostering a thriving and sustainable economy in the region through collaboration, visibility, and impactful initiatives. Thank you to all our members and community partners that supported the development of VIEA’s Strategic Plan!

Link to the Strategic Plan
 
Explore the Economic Dashboard

Your trusted source for data, analysis, and insights!

Visit the interactive Dashboard via our Economic Report page – click through below for both the current report access, as well as historical data.

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Island Good is Great!

We’ve licensed Island Good with expanding numbers of producers and retailers and built islandgood.ca to serve licensees and aid consumers.

GO TO ISLAND GOOD WEBSITE
Vision 2050

Vision 2050 is an exciting project aimed at building a diverse, sustainable, and self-reliant economy for Vancouver Island and the rural islands by 2050. 

Link to the Vision 2050 Kick-Off Workshop Report
Vancouver Island Regional Supply Chain Study

The Vancouver Island Regional Supply Chain Study is out!  It highlights the challenges businesses face—from infrastructure gaps to high costs—and lays out a clear path forward.

Learn more here
VIEA Supports
A balanced economy that is resilient, diverse, evolving, competitive, integrated, inclusive, equitable, urban and rural, wealth retentive, and export rich.
Vibrant, efficient, wasteless, regenerative use of natural resources, broad use of circular economic principles, disciplined, conservationist land use management.
Goods production capacity with coordinated supply chains sufficient to sustain the Island region population in case of emergency.
Development of a stronger ecosystem through advocacy and collaboration to address upstream challenges that prevent innovation from getting to market and contributing to the vitality of our economy.

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The 20th annual Vancouver Island Economic Summit

Tickets on sale Summer 2026

Three Days: October 20, 21 & 23, 2026

ABOUT THE SUMMIT

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Vancouver Island Regional Supply Chain Study

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