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Recommendation 19:
The Human Rights Tribunal had made significant advancements in the effectiveness of its early mediation procedure, resulting in many complaints being resolved before going to formal adjudication. There may even be potential for further improvements around alternative resolution practices by embracing the concepts found in restorative justice. While use of a restorative justice model will be limited to appropriate cases, a restorative justice dialogue between parties can be expanded to include a discussion of their perspective of the harms and the impact on the parties, the issues, and what parties are seeking as an outcome. Restorative justice processes are holistic in nature and can facilitate a move toward resolutions that are cost effective, time effective and lasting.
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Recommendation 1:
The Government of Canada implement the recommendations from Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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Recommendation 18:
The direct access model used in British Columbia has been well received by participants involved in human rights disputes, experts and other stakeholders. The vast majority of advice we received urged us to maintain this model as it has been proven to be an efficient means of identifying and resolving issues that fall within the protections of the Code. This serves parties to the dispute well, in that it has eliminated lengthy delays relating to investigation that occurred in the past.
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Recommendation 17:
The CRC was created by Article 43 of the CRC to implement it, by way of General Comments, and provide international standards that apply to the work that B.C. judges, lawyers and other professionals do in family law. They identify children’s rights and the importance of legal guarantees and apply procedural safeguards in describing how to implement children’s rights in judicial proceedings, which includes but is not limited to obtaining children’s views and requiring all appropriate legal representation… requiring all appropriate legal representation (see CRC General Comment 14, para 93). These guarantees and safeguards are not implemented in B.C. nor across Canada and should be implemented.
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Recommendation 2:
The collection and routine publication of gender-disaggregated data on health and social and economic conditions for Inuit, Métis and First Nations women, men, girls and boys including rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls.
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Recommendation 21:
The clinic is the primary vehicle for helping complainants and respondents through the human rights complaints process. This role is performed well and is vital to B.C.’s human rights system. I heard calls for the clinic’s capacity to support complainants and respondents to be broadened. This recommendation arose particularly from small businesses and service providers that cannot afford to fund an expensive response.
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Recommendation 22:
The BC Human Rights Commission should undertake a review/inquiry into MCFD culture, training, policies, procedures, practices, and accountability mechanisms to assess whether MCFD policy and practice is in line with the Human Rights Code.
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Recommendation 2:
That the B.C. government, in collaboration and cooperation with Indigenous peoples in B.C., develop appropriate policy foundations and implement legislative changes to require anti-racism and “hard-wire” cultural safety, including an Anti-Racism Act and other critical changes in existing laws, policies, regulations and practices, ensuring that this effort aligns with the UN Declaration as required by DRIPA.
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Recommendation 21:
To facilitate meaningful access to counsel, we recommend legislation or policy providing: That outside agencies should be allowed to provide in-person legal aid clinics in SIUs on a regular basis. That CSC staff must deliver and facilitate all legal callback requests within 24 hours. That CSC must share relevant documentation directly with counsel at least three days in advance of all SIU reviews, without requiring a signed consent form. That outgoing faxes to counsel be provided to all prisoners free of charge and within one working day. That prisoners be provided sufficient time to meet with counsel in person, in a confidential room. That all necessary steps be taken to facilitate the attendance of counsel at hearings, including advising counsel of the time and date of the hearing as soon as it is scheduled and confirming requests by counsel to attend.
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Recommendation 20:
That a refreshed approach to anti-racism, cultural humility and trauma-informed training for health workers be developed and implemented, including standardized learning expectations for health workers at all levels, and mandatory, low-barrier components.This approach, co-developed with First Nations governing bodies and representative organizations, MNBC, health authorities and appropriate educational institutions, to absorb existing San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety training.
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