There has been plenty of time for community discussion and I see no issues with this category request, so I’ll soon set up a simple poll that will run for 5 days. This will formally demonstrate community support for this new category and moderator team. After the poll succeeds, we’ll set up the category (with the imported content from the old forum).
this voting poll is to validate the initial moderation team for a “Canada” category. The list will be validated if it gets at least 80% of yes votes. Note that votes (who voted what) are public to help identify any abuses.
The #communities:ca category has now been set up (with the content imported from the old forum already in place). I’ve also added the approved moderators to the @mods-canada group.
For visibility, I recommend to advertise this new channel within your local community and request an update to the OSM Community Index to include this new channel for your community and remove any former/inactive one.