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Recommendation 38:
Provide health-care and law enforcement professionals with regulated mental health crisis and de-escalation strategies to better support youth.
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Recommendation 9:
Non-profit and non-governmental workers should not just receive the mandate to conduct Street Sweeps, nor should civilians be “deputized” to do this work. Any alternative to Street Sweeps should be peer-led, specifically led by the community organizers who are currently experiencing Sweeps. These folks live, and survive, the realities of Street Sweeps and are best-situated to discern appropriate and long-term solutions.
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Recommendation 157:
Legislation should require Gladue factors to be used as mitigating factors only, unless the victim is an Indigenous woman in which case her wishes should take precedence over an offender.
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Recommendation 169:
Increased resourcing, capacity, and funding for section 81 Healing Lodges. Indigenous nations and urban Indigenous organizations must be able to operate Healing Lodges on a long-term basis and with full wrap-around supports. Change the policy of not allowing women with maximum-security classifications to be at CSC-operated healing lodges and increase access to all healing lodges.
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Recommendation 170:
Increased resources, capacity, and funding for section 84 agreements so that Indigenous nations are compensated and can provide full support for Indigenous women seeking section 84 releases. Indigenous communities and organizations should exercise control and self-determination in the development and implementation of reintegration plans.
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Recommendation 156:
Increase the ways in which failures to appear and other violations can be quashed early in the judicial process and take proactive steps to clear bench warrants for Indigenous women.
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Recommendation 15:
Increase investment in both capital and operating costs for shelter-rate housing, including through the Empty Homes tax, borrowing, reducing the annual police budget, and taxing homes worth over $5,000,000. Invest specifically in permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.
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Recommendation 25:
In the interim, reducing criminalization and stigmatization of community members would alleviate further social divides. Instead, we recommend an approach that allows them to thrive that takes an inclusive approach to housing, employment, social security, and access (services, food, other), which would require cooperative action by all levels of government and stakeholders.
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Recommendation 50:
In keeping with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal organizations, to fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes for the development, use, and understanding of Indigenous laws and access to justice in accordance with the unique cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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Recommendation 4:
IMPROVEMENTS TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM PROCESSESS AND SUPPORT FOR ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES—exploration of alternative programs and changes to the courtroom practices
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