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Access to justice
Recommendation 40:
The Ministry of Education must actively design and implement programming to actively inform and engage students/parents on redress mechanisms independent of the education system (e.g. Human Rights Commission). The Anti-racism legislation must consider legislating an independent complaint process for racialized students and their families.
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Recommendation 26:
The Ministry of Attorney General should provide support to the judicial council and law society for conducting studies to understand, capture, and prioritize concerns and recommendations of judges and lawyers of African descent in terms of these bodies’ capacity in attracting People of African Descent to the profession, and of potential avenues in reforming legal practice and the justice system in BC.
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Recommendation 32:
The Ministry of Attorney General should provide funding for the Law Society and People of African Descent community organizations to run legal clinics and legal aid programs for People of African Descent, predominantly led and designed by law practitioners of African descent. These programs must be accessible from anywhere within the province and run with an anti-Black racism lens and with a clear legal advocacy strategy. The Black Legal Action Centre in Ontario is a good example of a community legal aid program for the People of African Descent community.
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Recommendation 66:
The Ministry of Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing should explicitly regulate against gentrification and ban practices that pigeonhole People of African Descent and families into living in particular residential zones in BC cities. This should include funding and collaboration with People of African Descent organizations to deepen tenants and landlords’ awareness of their rights and responsibilities. This is particularly crucial for People of African Descent renters to more easily access information on their options in various scenarios and on how to protect their rights.
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Recommendation 65:
The Ministry of Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing should ensure that the upcoming Anti-racism Legislation provides clear, reliable and empathetic options for reporting anti-Black racism and discrimination in housing. The legislation should also impose adequate punishments for racist and discriminatory landlords.
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Recommendation 57:
The Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training must encourage BC’s post-secondary schools to have complaint, recruitment, award, leadership, admission, and promotion committees that have racially and gender diverse membership.
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Recommendation 1:
The Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General should lead the way in providing genuine, unequivocal, and public admission and acknowledgment that province-wide police forces, as institutions, have historically been characterized by colonial procedures that have led to discrimination and oppression towards People of African Descents and other minorities. Similar statements should also be expected from police chiefs across the province as a foundational act in restoring trust with the People of African Descent community.
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Recommendation 11:
The majority of Canadian provinces have separate government bodies in place that provide legal counsel to children (Lovinsky, 2016). B.C. must also assume the responsibility for providing funding and personnel to secure legal representation for children in all guardianship and family law cases in order to adhere to the UNCRC’s recommendations and FLA’s best interest provisions, and to concur with the 2020 CBA report recommendations.
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Recommendation 16:
The literature has long supported specific incorporation of the CRC in all legislation relevant to children. It is particularly important in family law and child welfare cases but has not happened in B.C. (Brown, Findlay, Martinson, & Williams, 2021; CBA 2020; Andreychuk & Fraser, 2007; UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations: Canada, 2012). An example of the effective incorporation is found in Ontario’s Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (CBA, 2020).
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Recommendation 4:
The Legal Services Society of BC must provide legal support for appeals where a person has been denied income assistance or disability assistance.
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