Our Mandate
The CCCO is a uniquely positioned organization that works to create celebration, education, connection and pride across Canada through the diverse story of each Capital City.
This national level network of capital cities will serve Canada’s residents through relationships and initiatives highlighting the symbolic and substantive role of the Capitals.
Our Mission
The CCCO is a network for Canada’s capital cities and capital commissions, with the following mission:
- to support and focus on messaging the unique and symbolic significance of Canada’s capital cities and promote this to our residents.
- to network Canada through exchange experience and information, and share learning and best practices and to build links, relationships and collaboration across capital cities.
Our Vision
Outreach or citizenship programs are those that connect, celebrate, educate and inform residents around our shared history and heritage, culture and identity, democratic tradition and values.
They also foster collective pride and facilitate the achievement of people’s aspirations as residents.
■ The CCCO will be a relevant and effective forum for members to collaborate and strengthen outreach initiatives, across the country.
■ Our residents will have a stronger connection to, and pride in our shared:
- history and heritage
- culture and identity
- democratic systems, tradition and values.
Our Members
The CCCO includes participants from the federal, provincial, territorial and municipal sectors and the private sector. These participants are representatives from each capital who want to work together to promote the historic, cultural, economic and symbolic heritage of the capitals of Canada.
Our Strategic Plan
(2022 - 2026)
The Canadian Capital Cities Organization (CCCO), including representatives of capital cities from coast to coast to coast, national and provincial capital commissions, and Legislative Assemblies, launched in 2020 a 2021-2025 Strategic Plan to interactively engage capital city residents on current critical issues.
CCCO’s strategic plan is a roadmap for action highlighting how CCCO will achieve key objectives and goals, promoting the unique and symbolic significance of Canada’s capital cities, and providing an interactive network among Canadian capitals sharing learning and best practices, building links, relationships and collaboration.
The plan was updated to 2022-2026 in March 2022 and revised the 2022 Annual General Meeting.
Please click here to obtain the 2022 – 2026 strategic plan.
CCCO’s 2023-2024 Executive Committee, elected at the 2022 AGM is:
- President: Laurel Lea, Tourism Officer, City of Charlottetown, PE
- Vice-President: Sandy Hickman, Councillor, City of St. John’s, NL
- Treasurer: Monique Goffinet-Millet, Chief Executive Officer, Commissionaires South Saskatchewan
- Secretary: Erin McDonald, Manager Visitor Services, Legislative Assembly of Alberta
- Past-President: Marianne Alto, Mayor of the City of Victoria, BC
For more information please contact:
Raymond Carrière, Secretariat, at: secretariat@ccco-occ.ca
Board of Directors and Members
Sandy Hickman
Councillor
City of St. John’s, NL
Norman Beck
Councillor
City of Charlottetown, PE
Laurel Lea
Tourism Manager
City of Charlottetown, PE
Kate Rogers
Mayor
City of Fredericton, NB
Daniel Feeny
Director of Communications and Intergovernmental Relations – Mayor’s Cabinet
Ville de Gatineau, QC
Laura Dudas
Councillor
City of Ottawa, ON
Alain Miguelez
Vice-President,
Capital Planning
National Capital Commission
Cedric Pelletier
Strategic Communications Advisor
National Capital Commission
Cindy Gilroy
Councillor
City of Winnipeg, MB
Jenna Schroeder, RPP, MCIP
Provincial Capital Commission
Government of Saskatchewan
Sandra Masters
Mayor
City of Regina, SK
Cheryl Stadnichuk
Councillor
City of Regina, SK
Janet Schwegel
Director of Parliamentary Programs
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Erin Camponi
Manager, Visitor Services
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Erin McDonald
Edmonton, Alberta
MBA Student
Australian Business Institute
Marianne Alto
Mayor
City of Victoria, BC
Marg Gardiner
Councillor
City of Victoria, BC
Krista Loughton
Councillor
City of Victoria, BC
Laura Cabott
Mayor
City of Whitehorse, YT
Executive Committee
Laurel Lea
President
Tourism Manager
City of Charlottetown, PEI
Marianne Alto
Past President
Mayor
City of Victoria, BC
Sandy Hickman
Vice-President
Councillor
City of St. John’s, NL
Krista Loughton
Secretary
City of Victoria
Erin McDonald
Treasurer
Edmonton, Alberta
