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Recommendation 307:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must…add or make available specialized Crown counsel in every Crown counsel office to deal specifically with prosecution of cases relating to violence against women. (p.5)
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Recommendation 126:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must: establish a time-limited, inter-agency, multi-minority team to address the problems of family and sexual violence in the context of minority cultures. (p.5)
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Recommendation 31:
The provincial government must immediately raise welfare and disability rates to the Market Basket Measure (MBM), index them to the cost of living, and remove arbitrary barriers.
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Recommendation 399:
The Province, through the Ministry of Education, should implement an educational curriculum relating to family violence issues which reflects aboriginal specific content, and allows for community control over the process of development, implementation, and evaluation, by aboriginal leaders and educators. (p.22)
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Recommendation 283:
The province should provide strong leadership and develop a coordinated, cross-sectoral strategy, involving the justice, health, social services and education systems, to ensure effective utilization and enforcement of justice and MCFD protection orders…(p.2)
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Recommendation 46:
The policy should set out a strategy for expediting criminal checks so that no child’s placement is delayed because of a criminal record check.
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Recommendation 277:
The police should treat all requests for assistance to enforce protective measures, such as no contact orders, peace bonds, and civil restraining orders as serious and important matters. Police must fully investigate all allegations of breach of protection orders and recommend appropriate charges be laid where there are reasonable and probable grounds to believe an offence occurred. (p.7 – 31)
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Recommendation 17:
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has addressed the “Canadian experience” barrier in a policy published on its website dated February 1, 2013. It has set out a series of best practices for employers and regulatory bodies, with a focus on facilitating newcomers’ integration into and contribution to Canadian society.
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Recommendation 11:
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, in partnership with the MHMA, should issue a directive stating that no public funds may be used for private security patrols on public property, including in public parks.
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Recommendation 303:
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General should adopt comprehensive practice guidelines for assaultive men’s treatment programs developed in consultation with experts in the field, including the Ending Relationship Abuse Society of BC, as well as women-serving organizations. These guidelines should include directives that programs work in close collaboration with anti-violence and women-serving organizations in their community, to ensure that an appropriate gender analysis is maintained in the development and delivery of treatment for assaultive men and to enable victims to make informed choices about their safety. Contracts for assaultive men’s treatment programs should require programs to adhere to the practice guidelines which are adopted. (p.55)
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