The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s “Blueprint for Justice” released in 2020 describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities and revealed the depth and breadth of the durable policy and investments needed to truly reduce poverty and inequality in B.C. It describes the concrete actions needed to ensure nobody is left behind during the pandemic and beyond it, centering its recommendations on four principles: economic security, universal basic services, equity and climate justice. The full blueprint can be found here.
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Climate justice
Recommendation 7: Prioritize UNDRIP, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality in all climate change related policy planning.-
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Equity
Recommendation 10: Address the needs of those most likely to be living in poverty and impacted by intersecting colonialism, racism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, and gender inequality.-
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Equity
Recommendation 13: Implement stigma auditing within all provincial ministries to address stigma in service delivery throughout government.-
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Recommendation 17: Establish stand-alone pay equity and pay transparency legislation.-
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Recommendation 20: Implement a National Action Plan for Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence, and a provincial sexual assault policy, with mandatory training and increase investment in services and supports for those escaping domestic violence.-
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Equity
Recommendation 21: The BC Human Rights Commission to prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations including sex workers in areas such as:- Public space governance,
- Income assistance and disability policy,
- Housing policy and residential tenancy law,
- Child welfare law and policy,
- Policing law and policy,
- Health policy related to mental health and substance use,
- Privacy law as it relates to people who live in public spaces and people who are criminalized as a result of poverty and substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Public services ,
- Sexism ,
- Tenancy rights ,
- Workers’ rights
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 45: Consider the disproportionate impact of precarious labour within the child care sector on women and implement a provincial wage grid for early child educators to raise wages, and address recruitment and retention.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 60: Provide mandatory training to ensure all practitioners providing legal aid are trained in trauma-informed, culturally safe practises that include power analysis and gender-based violence training.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 64: Apply a gender-based analysis lens (GBA+) to all legal aid funding in BC.-
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 68: Apply an equity lens to all provincial, regional, and municipal transportation planning to ensure all forms of transportation infrastructure are affordable, accessible, and safe for at-risk and low-income community members.-
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