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Recommendation 22: Working with Muslim community associations, human rights bodies, trade unions and civil society organizations, and other stakeholders, develop a strategy to combat the growth of anti-Muslim hate groups and online and social media dissemination of Islamophobia.
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Recommendation 6: We believe the victim service program…should be improved to maximize the voluntary cooperation of the victim in the trial process by implementing the following recommendations: Facilitate immediate victim referrals from police or Crown, and enhance communication and cooperation among these service providers in a manner which protects the privacy of the victim. The Committee recognizes this recommendation may require legislative amendments in some cases where victim services are not attached to the police. (p.7 – 50)
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Recommendation 26: Track and report publicly on all uses of force against prisoners, broken down by type (physical handling, OC spray, ERT, etc). Disaggregate data by race, gender, disability and centre.
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Recommendation 2: That the Ministry of Health require health authorities to collect and report key information pertaining to children and youth admitted under the Mental Health Act in a way that is standardized across the province and reported regularly, including but not limited to: identity factors (ethnicity, gender identity); Indigeneity – First Nations, Métis and Inuit identity; standardized length of stay data across all hospital settings; admissions of children on a voluntary basis at the request of their parents; requests for, and outcomes of, second medical opinions; detailed seclusion and restraint data; data related to extended leave; outcomes related to quality of care, effectiveness and patient satisfaction. This work to be completed by June 1, 2022.
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Recommendation 22: The provincial government should ensure K-12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequalities and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs. This includes restoring funding to school districts for special education assistants, lost programming in the arts, libraries, counsellors, school psychologists, custodial services, and deferred maintenance, among other areas that still require urgent attention in future provincial budgets. Schools need additional funds to implement the public health response measures during the pandemic.
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Recommendation 6: The Government of Canada should collaborate with provinces and territories to build on its COVID-19 response and strengthen existing strategies, programs and policies. This would ensure a coordinated and robust social safety net in Canada by collectively providing income support that is at least at the level of Canada’s Official Poverty Line.
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Recommendation 9: MCFD together with the Ministry of Citizens’ Services to initiate the development of a cross-ministry plan, in collaboration with the ministries of Health, MMHA, Social Development and Poverty Reduction, and Education, and in association with DAAs, health authorities and Community Living BC, to routinely collect high-quality demographic and service data that allows for disaggregation, providing an essential foundation for more effective policy development, program provision and service monitoring for children and youth with special needs and their families, including those with FASD who are receiving services from these public bodies. The cross-ministry plan to be completed and implemented by April 1, 2022 and fully
implemented by March 31, 2024.
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Recommendation 395: The Committee recommends that the federal government work with the provinces, the territories and relevant professions to promote media literacy education in the high school curriculum across the country. Media literacy instruction teaches students to critically assess media representations and messages including violence against women. (p.21)
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Recommendation 15: The CCB recommends that an audit be undertaken to determine who, how, and what data collection is being done for persons with disabilities. The general view by CCB and other stakeholders is that the census is grossly inadequate in fulfilling the information needs of people with disabilities, let alone people with sight loss. We need a national conference on the issue of data collection.
A Needs Report on Accessible Technology: Summary Report
Group/author:
Canadian Council of the Blind
Canadian Council of the Blind
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2019
2019
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Recommendation 4: That the Government of Canada implement automatic enrollment for federal benefits to ensure that people are accessing the supports and services that could keep them out of poverty. Automatic tax-filing is one mechanism that can help with this.
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