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2021
Recommendation 55:
Support efforts to regulate the plastics industry at local, national, and international scales.
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Recommendation 45:
Study the symptoms and drivers of environmental injustice in your communities, with a special focus on waste pickers and vulnerable communities impacted by the plastics industry.
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Recommendation 2:
Strengthen violence against women/gender-based violence services:The pandemic has shone a much-needed spotlight on violence against women and gender-based violence in Canada. Full economic participation for women and uninterrupted access to the labour force requires safe communities, safe homes and safe workplaces. Moving ahead with a well resourced implementation of a robust national action plan on gender-based violence is critical to women’s current and future economic security. The federal government’s announcement of significant funding—$782 million over five years—to support “a National Action Plan for Ending Violence against Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBT and Two-Spirit People” should spur swift completion of this key, life-saving tool.
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Recommendation 54:
Speak out on behalf of communities and individuals whose voices are often excluded from decision making processes.
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Recommendation 4:
Significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring total welfare incomes up to the CFLIM after-tax poverty thresholds and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 27:
SHARE GOOD IDEAS Promote the sharing of new models, ideas and successes to expand the impact of innovation.
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Recommendation 48:
Serve as an intermediary between the informal sector and private and government actors.
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Recommendation 19:
Scale up funding to build thousands of new social and affordable rental housing units and maintain existing affordable housing stock to reduce the number of families in core housing need and to eliminate homelessness. This should include designating additional housing, created by BC Housing, for youth leaving care so they can find an affordable, safe dwelling as opposed to homelessness.
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Recommendation 10:
That the Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and
the health authorities, undertake a comprehensive review of practices for: a) children under 16 who have been “voluntarily” admitted, and take all necessary legal and administrative measures to ensure that “mature minor” capacity assessments are carried out where treatment is proposed, that the results of those assessments are recorded, and that physicians understand their duty to comply with the views of a mature minor regarding treatment, subject only to the order of a court; b) children assessed as mature minors who have been involuntarily admitted, and take all necessary legal and administrative measures to ensure that (i) despite the deemed consent provisions, the views of the young person are obtained, recorded and carefully considered before treatment decisions are made, and (ii) treatment information is conveyed in a manner that children and youth may understand. Review to be complete by March 1, 2022.
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Recommendation 26:
Review existing legislation, and pass legislation that prohibits violent whitesupremacist rallies on provincial property, while paying careful attention to ensure that the legislation is not overbroad and does not limit freedom to dissent.
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