The Big City Executive Partnership works to:

The Big City Executive Partnership, or BiCEP, mission is to build robust, reciprocal, direct and sustainable relationships among senior officials from Canada’s largest cities and their counterparts in the other orders of government to ensure policy making and investment decisions benefit from local knowledge and expertise.

Strengthen

Strengthen relationships among its members through improved information sharing and identification of shared challenges and opportunities to work collectively to advance solutions.

Create

Create opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and problem-solving through the identification of resources and international colleagues developing leading practices in other jurisdictions. 

Engage

Strengthen partnerships between members, government officials and other civic entities through regular engagement and improved collaboration and information sharing.

Inform

Inform federal budgets, programs, policies, legislation and agency priorities. 

Discuss

Inform with data, expertise and best practice the engagement and advocacy efforts of key organizations.

Advance

Advance a new urban agenda reflecting the critical role of big cities to the economic, environmental and social well-being of Canada.

Meet the BiCEP Cities

BiCEP is providing collaborative infrastructure to accelerate learning and adaptation in a rapidly changing environment.