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Pivot Legal Society
Recommendation 4:
Make discrimination based on social condition a priority for systemic investigation by the Commission.
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Recommendation 21:
Require that all police-imposed conditions are electronically registered, including:
- the date of imposition;
- the date or causal mechanism by which the condition will expire;
- the specific content of the condition; and
- the underlying reason for imposing the condition.
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Recommendation 25:
Increasing income assistance rates to the Market Basket Measure and indexing them to inflation.
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Recommendation 27:
Increasing access to in-person services for income assistance and disability applicants.
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Recommendation 34:
In its first year in operation, the BC Human Rights Commission should prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations, including, but not limited to:
- public space governance; income assistance and disability policy;
- housing policy and residential tenancy law;
- child welfare law and policy;
- policing law and policy;
- health policy related to mental health and substance use; and
- privacy law as it relates to people who live in public space and people who are criminalized as a result of substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Ageism ,
- Classism ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Substance use ,
- Tenancy rights
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Recommendation 6:
In consultation with experts, including human rights law organizations, trauma specialists, and people with lived experience, the Province of British Columbia should adopt a standardized tool and training protocol for conducting “stigma audits” of current laws, policies, and regulations in BC, and to inform the development of new laws, policies, and regulations.
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Recommendation 32:
In consultation with experts, including human rights law organizations, trauma specialists, and people with lived experience, the Province of British Columbia should adopt a standardized tool and training protocol for conducting “stigma audits” of current laws, policies, and regulations in BC, and to inform the development of new laws, policies, and regulations.
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Recommendation 16:
Establish a Practice Direction re-affirming the presumption of unconditional release and the requirement that Crown individually justify the imposition of every restriction on release.
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Recommendation 28:
Ensuring that people living with disabilities can access disability support by:
- simplifying the application process to reduce wait times and lessen reliance on advocates;
- providing provincial guidelines for doctors/service providers on how and when to fill out disability forms; and
- ensuring that hospital social workers are resourced and directed to work with patients in need to apply for disability benefits.
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Recommendation 22:
Ensure that PRIME-BC can be searched to track all police-imposed conditions in the aggregate, rather than only being tied to an individual’s file.
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