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2021
Recommendation 3:
Currently “Specialized Service Agreements” under Part 2, Section 4(3) are focused on criminal investigation services, traffic enforcement services, police communication services, and forensic services. If the Ministry wished to ensure behavioral health and crisis response supports were coordinated with policing within designated service areas, this section could be amended to include such supports, with regulations in place to limit the role of police officers in mental health response while providing access to alternative service agreements to support coordinated, community-based crisis response.
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Recommendation 2:
Create cross-sector collaboration to ensure adequate data collection related to women experiencing homelessness and the ability for knowledge sharing.
- Women are more likely to be a part of the invisible population of those who experience homelessness, which has resulted in an inaccurate estimation of how many women experience homelessness in our province.
- Cross-sector organization will promote more accurate data collection as a result of increased awareness through knowledge sharing.
- Connections between sectors can use the strengths of each sector to help limit barriers to housing by creating more efficient systems.
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Create accountabilities to Métis health and wellness within the MNBC—Province of British Columbia Métis Relations Working Table by establishing a Health and Wellness sub-Working Table that includes leadership from MNBC, BC Ministry of Health, BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, and regional health authorities.
- The Health and Wellness sub-Working Table should report regularly to the Métis Relations Working Table on progress related to co-development and implementation of strategies, programs, policies, and services to support the following:
- Enhancing cultural safety and cultural wellness for Métis people;
- Ensuring that provincial health systems are responsive to and inclusive of the unique needs and cultural traditions of Métis people;
- Developing Métis-specific cultural safety and cultural wellness training; and
- Increasing the numbers of Métis health care providers (physicians, nurses, etc.).
- Use the MPHS program report findings as indicators of the Métis Relations Working Table’s progress on improving determinants of health and health outcomes for Métis people.
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CMHC and BC Housing should clarify that the National Occupancy Standards are simply guidelines and are not legally mandated. These organizations should publish definitive statements on their website to make this information publicly accessible.
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Recommendation 4:
Chinese and Asian Canadians also face racism as workers. As frontline and essential workers during the pandemic, they are vulnerable to racist attacks and the same vulnerabilities that frontline and essential workers face. Fighting anti-Asian racism is also about recognizing how systemic inequity renders racialized communities more likely to be frontline and essential workers, and also ensuring that these workers have the protections they need:
- Ensure all workers have access to legislated paid sick days: seven permanent paid sick days in regular times and 14 paid sick days during health emergencies.
- Ensure satisfactory income support during and after the pandemic for all.
- Ensure status on arrival and implement a regularization program to grant permanent resident status to all migrants and people with precarious immigration status.
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Recommendation 3:
Central agencies in federal, provincial, and territorial governments should explicitly incorporate health resilience into climate lenses to inform cost-benefit analyses and policy decisions.
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Canada’s emerging national adaptation strategy should map all key adaptation policy levers across government departments and orders of government against top climate health impact areas.
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All orders of government should implement health adaptation policies to address both symptoms and root causes.
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Recommendation 12:
Agencies can advocate for funders to pay for internet for anti-violence workers.
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Affordable internet and phone programs can build on their work by undergoing a review of their accessibility that applies a barriers reduction approach in order to maximize their impact. Simultaneous work could be conducted related to program equity. (This could include, for example, exploration of innovative policies such as sliding scale payments.)
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