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Recommendation 32:
Universal public healthcare coverage to include supplements, prescriptions, counselling, dental, optical, mobility devices, adaptive equipment, and alternative treatments like acupuncture.
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Recommendation 84:
Universal public healthcare coverage to include supplements, prescriptions, counselling, dental, optical, mobility devices, adaptive equipment, and alternative treatments like acupuncture.
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Recommendation 198:
Universal public healthcare coverage to include supplements, prescriptions, counselling, dental, optical, mobility devices, adaptive equipment, and alternative treatments like acupuncture.
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Recommendation 26:
Ultimately, a systems change approach would need to be applied to adequately address the root causes of these issues. As noted in the Resilient Vancouver Phase One Engagement report (2018), many of these issues are interrelated and solutions need to involve multiple city departments, all levels of government, and other stakeholders.
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Recommendation 61:
Transfer prisoners with acute mental health needs or histories of serious and chronic selfharm to community psychiatric facilities
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Recommendation 21:
To facilitate meaningful access to counsel, we recommend legislation or policy providing:
- That outside agencies should be allowed to provide in-person legal aid clinics in SIUs on a regular basis.
- That CSC staff must deliver and facilitate all legal callback requests within 24 hours.
- That CSC must share relevant documentation directly with counsel at least three days in advance of all SIU reviews, without requiring a signed consent form.
- That outgoing faxes to counsel be provided to all prisoners free of charge and within one working day.
- That prisoners be provided sufficient time to meet with counsel in person, in a confidential room.
- That all necessary steps be taken to facilitate the attendance of counsel at hearings, including advising counsel of the time and date of the hearing as soon as it is scheduled and confirming requests by counsel to attend.
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Recommendation 1:
Despite the Canadian federal government ratifying the UN CRC, provinces are inconsistent in how and when legal counsel is appointed for children (CBA, 2020; Child Projection Project Committee, BCLI, 2020; Lovinsky, 2016). Even within a province, there are often inconsistencies across different areas of law (Child Protection Project Committee, BCLI, 2020; Lovinsky, 2016). The literature also notes that current independent provincial and territorial Child Advocate and Representative Offices vary widely across provinces and are vulnerable to funding and operational changes due to provincial restructuring and changes in political priorities (Bendo & Mitchell, 2017; CBA, 2020). For instance, Ontario’s Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth was recently closed, and its investigative functions were transferred to the Ontario Ombudsman, which does not carry the same specialized approach towards children’s rights as the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth (CBA, 2020).
These issues can be addressed through a national plan across provinces to coordinate efforts and maintain consistency (Byrne & Lundy, 2019; CBA, 2020; Collins, 2019). The CBA recommends that the federal government develop an independent National Commissioner for Children and Youth reporting to both Houses of Parliament, with a statutory mandate to protect and promote human rights amongst children and youth in Canada, including their rights to participation, and to liaise with provincial, territorial and Indigenous counterparts to coordinate efforts of mutual concern and overlapping jurisdiction. The CBA further suggests that the National Commissioner should serve to coordinate and ensure consistency amongst independent child advocate offices across provinces and territories. Finally, the CBA emphasizes the importance of incorporating and protecting the rights and interests of Indigenous children and youth when developing a national policy on children’s rights.
These issues can be addressed through a national plan across provinces to coordinate efforts and maintain consistency (Byrne & Lundy, 2019; CBA, 2020; Collins, 2019). The CBA recommends that the federal government develop an independent National Commissioner for Children and Youth reporting to both Houses of Parliament, with a statutory mandate to protect and promote human rights amongst children and youth in Canada, including their rights to participation, and to liaise with provincial, territorial and Indigenous counterparts to coordinate efforts of mutual concern and overlapping jurisdiction. The CBA further suggests that the National Commissioner should serve to coordinate and ensure consistency amongst independent child advocate offices across provinces and territories. Finally, the CBA emphasizes the importance of incorporating and protecting the rights and interests of Indigenous children and youth when developing a national policy on children’s rights.
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Recommendation 4:
These examples indicate a need for there to be an explicit legal obligation on the Ministry to actively consider placing the child with extended family members or returning the child to the parent. The federal standard, as set out in Bill C-92, requires that a reassessment of available alternative placements is “conducted on an ongoing basis.”
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Recommendation 6:
There should also be a requirement that the Ministry respond to alternative proposals by parents, Nations, and community-based organizations that support the parent. The Yellowhead Institute recommends that the legislation include “affidavit evidence from the Indigenous group that there is no available placement.
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Recommendation 57:
There must be priority to keeping income levels consistent to avoid an influx of youth experiencing homelessness. Provide youth with resources and adequate preparation time to transition off government support to employment.
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