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Disaggregated data
Recommendation 1:
In order to ensure adequate and effective policing and law enforcement, the Ministry must have data to show how policing and law enforcement is performing related to mental health crises. If there is a crisis healthcare gap marked by police over-involvement in mental health crisis, it will appear as:
- High rates of police involvement in people accessing first-time mental health support
- High rates of arrest and/or incarceration of individuals with mental health challenges,
- High rates of police apprehending individuals for psychiatric evaluations in which the individual does not meet the criteria for hospital admission
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Recommendation 26:
Track and report publicly on all uses of force against prisoners, broken down by type (physical handling, OC spray, ERT, etc). Disaggregate data by race, gender, disability and centre.
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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.
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Recommendation 83:
The Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Division at the Ministry of Attorney General should acknowledge the multiple People of African Descent identities in BC by clearly emphasizing them in public communication related to the race-based data and the anti-racism legislations. It is also recommended that, in line with the proposed Canadian Institute for People of African Descent (CIPAD), the Province establishes a satellite institute in BC and collaborates with CIPAD, to promote a communal and focused approach to research, advocacy and the setting of priorities for persons and groups of African Descent in BC. This is particularly crucial in ensuring that People of African Descent plurality is adequately represented in diversity training curriculum within public bodies.
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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.
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Recommendation 20:
The Ministry of Justice and/or Court Services Branch must update any Ministry of Justice databases (e.g. JUSTIN) and related practices, policies, and technology platforms, to ensure that the imposition of bail and sentencing conditions can be tracked in correlation with housing status and race, and that breaches of bail or sentencing can be properly recorded and searched based on the type of condition breached.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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