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Discrimination and hate
Recommendation 24:
To address safety concerns expressed by interviewees, there are several larger structural solutions such as increasing the number of safe and affordable housing units, access to health-focused treatment, and equitable employment opportunities. One short-term measure could be to install lighting on streets and in alleyways to help people feel safe during evenings and at night.
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Recommendation 20:
Tie rent control to the unit to remove the incentive for evictions of current tenants to raise the rent for new tenants.
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Recommendation 24:
Through the Special Envoy, or through another body, conduct audits acrossagencies like the CBSA and CSIS to determine whether biased, Islamophobic, orother fallacious guides are utilized in decision-making processes.
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Recommendation 25:
Through Hate Crimes Accountability Units, build out methodologies for third-party reporting.
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Recommendation 2:
This federal income security initiative would generate savings for provinces, potentially $2 to $3 billion overall. It would then free up funding for provinces as the new basic income program would replace provincial/territorial social assistance for most working-age persons with severe disabilities. This amount is large enough to justify an investment and accountability framework that would enable provinces and territories to reallocate funds to urgently needed personal supports as well as home-based and community services for those with disabilities.
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Recommendation 16:
These issues are multi-faceted and many hold strong opinions. The commission will be well-placed to examine the various perspectives and considerations important to all stakeholders and, if appropriate, to make recommendations that will help advance these issues and our understanding of them.
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Recommendation 196:
The Violence in Relationships Check Sheet be amended to reflect the mandatory obligation on an investigating officer to attempt to persuade a reluctant complainant to cooperate with the investigation and prosecution or to attempt to obtain her consent to a referral to an appropriate community based victims services agency. (p.24)
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Recommendation 251:
The VAWIR policy should be monitored on a routine, ongoing basis and should be evaluated periodically in order to assess its impact on domestic violence cases, on recidivism, and on victims’ safety. (p.60)
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Recommendation 3:
The trafficking provisions found in the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act should be maintained as laws of general application and applied in all situations of labour exploitation. Sex work (the consensual exchange of sexual services for money) is not trafficking, and trafficking laws should not be used as a reason to investigate sex workers and sex work businesses unless there is compelling evidence of debt bondage, violence, deprivation of liberty, or similar exploitation.
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Recommendation 467:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must…review contracts for transition houses, sexual assault centres and victim assistance programs to allow adequate funding to bring staff salaries up to the level of comparable workers with government.
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