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Representation and leadership
Recommendation 8:
Create a staff/tribunal committee tasked with developing the Expanding Our Vision Implementation Plan. Indigenous lawyers and cultural leaders or academics with knowledge of human rights should be recruited to join these efforts. The Expanding Our Vision Implementation Plan should include immediate steps to be taken in the first 6 months, and then be renewed on a yearly basis.
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Recommendation 48:
Encourage the creation of regional, or circuit, human rights clinics to both educate and assist Indigenous Peoples in filing and carrying through human rights claims. Explore options for clinics or workshops that operate regionally over time so lawyers can stick with a case, including potentially working with the three BC law schools. Clinics should be led by leading Indigenous counsel and provide representation to Indigenous Peoples, individually and collectively.
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Recommendation 31:
Include Indigenous dispute resolution models, mediators and peacemakers in BCHRT mediation or settlement discussions. Consider use of co-mediation or joint processes involving Indigenous Peoples.
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Recommendation 3:
Increase the number of Indigenous Peoples at all levels of the BCHRT, including staff, tribunal members and contractors.
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Recommendation 15:
- Ensures an Indigenous lens and leadership role in developing a culturally responsive plan to support Indigenous programs and governments.
- Ensure adequate mental health, substance-use, life-skills, employment and education supports for youth.
- A strategy to incentivize coordinated supports at local levels.
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Recommendation 12:
- Collaboration with and advice to government on:
- Policy changes and coordinated, inter-ministry provincial responses; and
- Promising practices to end youth homelessness including prevention, housing, and support programs.
- Recommendations of financial resources from the provincial government to support local communities housing and support programs to end youth homelessness.
- An implementation plan and process that ensures Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices and B.C. communities are heard.
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Recommendation 3:
Take tangible steps to turn words into action through a diverse range of implementation initiatives that reflect the minimum standards in the UN Declaration.
There is no “one size fits all” approach to implementation; it will differ based on the context and the community.
As such, it would be beneficial for Indigenous Nations and Crown governments to advance new models of consent-based agreements in a number of different areas, such as aquaculture and community-industry agreements.
A legislative amendment could be made to allow decision-makers to enter into agreements and arrangements with Indigenous Nations, allowing legislative space for self-government.
There is no “one size fits all” approach to implementation; it will differ based on the context and the community.
As such, it would be beneficial for Indigenous Nations and Crown governments to advance new models of consent-based agreements in a number of different areas, such as aquaculture and community-industry agreements.
A legislative amendment could be made to allow decision-makers to enter into agreements and arrangements with Indigenous Nations, allowing legislative space for self-government.
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Recommendation 11:
Support efforts to understand, document, and record Indigenous place names by:
- Establishing a working group of Indigenous Peoples experienced with the placename process;
- Funding Indigenous communities to undertake dialogue and engagement; and
- Providing funding and staffing resources to the B.C. Geographical Names Office of the Heritage Branch to process and evaluate Indigenous place names applications, including engagement with Indigenous communities.
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Recommendation 2:
Support a central focus on Indigenous peoples choosing how they will organize and govern themselves consistent with the right to self-determination.
Indigenous self-determination is foundational to the UN Declaration.
Historically, self-government agreements have been paternalistic and subject to discriminatory colonial policies.
Advancing Indigenous self-government will require the BC government to invest in the work being implemented by Nations.
The right to self-determination necessarily includes the recognition and revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems.
The BC government should support this work apart from achieving agreements on other outcomes (i.e., resources), and without demanding a prescribed Crown role in the rebuilding effort.
Indigenous self-determination is foundational to the UN Declaration.
Historically, self-government agreements have been paternalistic and subject to discriminatory colonial policies.
Advancing Indigenous self-government will require the BC government to invest in the work being implemented by Nations.
The right to self-determination necessarily includes the recognition and revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems.
The BC government should support this work apart from achieving agreements on other outcomes (i.e., resources), and without demanding a prescribed Crown role in the rebuilding effort.
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Recommendation 8:
Harmonize statutory and operational relations between provincial agencies such as the Archaeology and Heritage Branches of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resources and Rural Development. This requires better communication and strengthened relations between provincial agencies dealing with ICH, including the Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation as a key facilitator of relations.
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