Fraser Valley Business Coalition

On October 29, 2026, three chamber CEOs stood up in Victoria in front of roughly 400 delegates at a Canadian Chamber of Commerce event and explained how neighbouring chambers had stopped lobbying alone. The Fraser Valley Business Coalition took the Nation Builder Award for it. The Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce is one of its founding chambers.

What the Coalition is

It is not a new organization with a head office and staff roster. The Coalition’s own site describes it as a non-partisan, unified voice for business across the Fraser Valley, built on the reach of the chambers that belong to it. Greater Langley’s CEO said as much after the award: you don’t need to build another organization to create greater impact.

Membership has shifted slightly over time, and the sources say different things, so here is exactly what each one says. The 2024 launch announcements name four founders: the Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Greater Langley and Mission chambers. The Coalition’s current website names Abbotsford, Greater Langley and Mission as its founding organizations, and the November 2026 news report describes a presentation by “the three current chamber CEOs”. We haven’t found a published explanation for the difference, so we don’t offer one.

The Abbotsford Chamber’s CEO is named as the Coalition’s chair in the February 2026 release, and the email and phone contacts on the Coalition’s site are that chamber’s.

How it got here

• March 2024. The chambers announce the Coalition, with five stated focus areas: infrastructure (including the Highway 1 corridor), economic development and industrial land, attainable housing, a fair share of health care and education for the Valley, and agriculture and agri-tech.
• May 21, 2024. The first Fraser Valley Economic Summit at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford. The Greater Langley Chamber’s release counted more than 200 attendees, the Township of Langley mayor among the four municipal mayors on a panel, and panels on infrastructure, food security and workforce.
• October 1, 2024. Ahead of that year’s provincial election, the Coalition published five priorities it wanted every candidate and party to address: farmland policy and agri-tech, universities and workforce, public safety, a 20-year transportation plan, and business costs. Its release says what it asked for and takes no side among candidates.
• May 21, 2026. The second summit, again in Abbotsford, with business leaders, elected officials, Indigenous leadership and post-secondary representatives. The Coalition’s site lists housing, workforce, infrastructure and trade as the themes.
• October 29, 2026. The Nation Builder Award in Victoria, as reported by the Langley Advance Times. Between them, the two summits have drawn around 500 business, government, Indigenous, post-secondary and industry leaders, according to that report.

Why Langley readers might care

The Coalition’s recurring ask is investment beyond municipal borders: Highway 1 widening and corridors, hospitals, transit, training. Those are the kind of decisions neither the City nor the Township can make alone (our City vs. Township page covers who handles what locally). The Coalition says it represents about 2,500 businesses across the region.

If you run a business and want to be part of it, the route is through your own chamber. The Coalition’s site has a newsletter sign-up for summit and advocacy updates, and the Langley Chamber keeps a Coalition page with its news releases. Our own page on the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce has the Chamber’s office address and contact details.

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