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Recommendation 18:
RESTRUCTURE FAMILY COURTS – Locate all of the aspects of family law in the same place, including separation, custody and access, and divorce, ideally under one judge.
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Recommendation 50:
Restrict the use of force in response to self-harm to circumstances where there is an imminent risk of grievous bodily harm.
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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: i. Providing sufficient funding to close identified educational achievement gaps within one generation. ii. Improving education attainment levels and success rates. iii. Developing culturally appropriate curricula. iv. Protecting the right to Aboriginal languages, including the teaching of Aboriginal languages as credit courses. v. Enabling parental and community responsibility, control, and accountability, similar to what parents enjoy in public school systems. vi. Enabling parents to fully participate in the education of their children. vii. Respecting and honouring Treaty relationships.
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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: i. Monitoring and assessing neglect investigations. ii. 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. iii. Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly educated and trained about the history and impacts of residential schools. iv. 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 53:
Require advanced training in working with people with mental health disabilities for all staff working on mental health units, in treatment centres, in segregation/SIUs, and as members of Emergency Response Teams as a prerequisite for performing these roles. Require regular refresher courses.
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Recommendation 440:
Report annually on progress made in implementing recommendations regarding justice initiatives made in the jurisdiction by task forces, commissions, and advisors in the past five years. (p.60)
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Recommendation 67:
Report all uses of force involving potentially inappropriate or unjustified force, or force resulting in injury to the prisoner, to police.
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Recommendation 42:
Repeal section 38 of IRPA.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 24:
Repeal and amend legislation that promotes racism and hate including Bill C-59 (the National Security Act) and Bill S-7 (the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act).
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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Recommendation 6:
Remove requirement for Attorney General’s consent: The Attorney General’sconsent is currently required to begin any prosecution for the willful promotion ofhatred and genocide. This is a uniquely high bar that should be abolished. Thesame should go for any future free-standing provision(s) around hate-motivated crimes.
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