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Recommendation 6:
Restore minimum unit size to 320 sq. ft. so people have a home that feels permanent.
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Recommendation 14:
Restitution should be embedded in fee structures. Indigenous artists should receive higher resale fees, especially communities that have been historically exploited by the market (such as Inuit). Regardless of industry standards, Black and Indigenous artists should receive fees for showing in private and commercial galleries.
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Recommendation 10:
We call on the federal government to draft new Aboriginal education legislation with the full participation and informed consent of Aboriginal peoples. The new legislation would include a commitment to sufficient funding and would incorporate the following principles:
- Providing sufficient funding to close identified educational achievement gaps within one generation.
- Improving education attainment levels and success rates.
- Developing culturally appropriate curricula.
- Protecting the right to Aboriginal languages, including the teaching of Aboriginal languages as credit courses.
- Enabling parental and community responsibility, control, and accountability, similar to what parents enjoy in public school systems.
- Enabling parents to fully participate in the education of their children.
- Respecting and honouring Treaty relationships.
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Recommendation 5:
Research whether additional “light” or “lightweight” versions of websites can be developed in order to decrease demand on the internet for individuals trying to access these sites ( CBC news recently launched “CBC Lite” to make news more accessible to rural and remote Canadians. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/introducingcbc-lite-1.5943819)
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Recommendation 4:
Research the state of youth homelessness in British Columbia and promising practices to prevent and reduce its occurrence.
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Recommendation 1:
We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and Aboriginal governments to commit to reducing the number of Aboriginal children in care by:
- Monitoring and assessing neglect investigations.
- Providing adequate resources to enable Aboriginal communities and child-welfare organizations to keep Aboriginal families together where it is safe to do so, and to keep children in culturally appropriate environments, regardless of where they reside.
- Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly educated and trained about the history and impacts of residential schools.
- Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly educated and trained about the potential for Aboriginal communities and families to provide more appropriate solutions to family healing. v. Requiring that all child-welfare decision makers consider the impact of the residential school experience on children and their caregivers.
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Recommendation 11:
Requiring representation of graduates of international medicals schools on all committees and other forums which make decisions that effect graduates of international medical schools’ access to the medical profession.
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Recommendation 131:
Require that all child welfare decision makers and courts must mandatorily consider the impact of the residential school experience on children and their caregivers.
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Recommendation 39:
Require staff to make all reasonable efforts to ensure this assessment is not mediated by physical barriers such as bars, security glass, door hatches or screens. If officer presence is required for safety reasons, the officer(s) must not have been involved in the use of force.
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Recommendation 3:
Require officers to weigh the risk of not intervening with force against the risk of harm (including psychological harm) resulting from a use of force and to ensure interventions are proportionate in light of this assessment.
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