Improving anti-racism accountability systems in community safety

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 3: The Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General should ensure that sufficient authority is provided under the “Race-based” data legislation for the collection, access and use of race-based data to assess the progress of diversity measures undertaken by the Province in terms of People of African Descent membership of police forces and their leadership; and to assess operational activities such as street checks, arrests and detentions. Methodologies and data points used in public reports and engagements such as that of the Vancouver Police Department on this matter could be used as models and referents in drafting regulations.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems at the workplace

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 12: The Ministry of Labour should ensure that the race-based data legislation provides sufficient authority to collect, share and use data to evaluate fairness and equity in the wages provided to workers of African descent. This is critical to promote genuine, fair and accountable anti-racism mechanisms, both in the private and public sectors, that have been identified as non-negotiable prerequisites in contextualizing anti-racism complaints.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems at the workplace

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 13: The PSA should be provided with adequate authority under the race-based data legislation to collect, analyze and publish periodic reports on the number of People of African Descent across the public service and their relative distribution in leadership and strategic positions.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems in healthcare

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 19: The Ministry of Health should ensure that the race-based data legislation provides sufficient authority to regional health services, professional healthcare practitioners bodies, and other health services providers to collect data on the number of People of African Descent in various health professions across BC to better understand existing gaps and deficits.

Improving anti-racism accountablitity systems in the justice system

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 27: The Ministry of Attorney General should ensure that sufficient authority is awarded to the BC Law society and the BC Judicial Council, under the “Race-based” data legislation for the collection, access and use of race-based data on the number of Black judges and lawyers in BC, to enhance their ability to monitor and address representational disparities.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems in entrepreneurship

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 34: The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation should ensure that the “Race-based” data legislation provides sufficient levers for business associations and chambers of commerce to collect and use data to evaluate equity of awarding decisions of existing funding schemes along the lines of gender, race, and economic background.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems in post-secondary education

Deepen equity in service delivery by and to PADs

Recommendation 54: The Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training must require analysis on anti-racism, anti-discrimination, equity, equality, and diversity measures as part of the reporting by schools and other bodies that receive funding from the Ministry. The Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training must work with post-secondary schools to avert the ever-increasing tuition fee disparity between international students and domestic students.

Deepening PAD representation in post-secondary education

Implement policy and legislative safeguards for PADs

Recommendation 56: The Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training must collect data on the number of academics, counselors and administrators of African Descent in BC’s post-secondary education sector. This mandate can be backed by the Anti-racism data legislation.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems in housing

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 67: The Ministry of Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing should ensure that the race-based data legislation incorporate sufficient measures to allow BC Housing and other housing providers to collect, use, and publish data on People of African Descent housing situations in BC that would enable a holistic understanding of the prevailing trends and dynamics as they relate to ownership, accountability, access to credit, share of distributed affordable housing units, homelessness and the general place of anti-Black racism on access to housing.

Improving anti-racism accountability systems in public engagement

Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity

Recommendation 74: The Ministry of Citizens’ Services and Elections BC must ensure that the Race-based Data Legislation provides sufficient room for all public entities to submit periodic reports on their policies, choices and realities as they relate to diversity of leadership. It will particularly be important to ensure that Political parties can collect, use, and share information on minority participation at all levels of their political work.