Waswanipi, April 10-12, 2018 KIT for DELEGATES

ᒫᒨ ᐆᐦᐱᑳᐴᔥᑌᑖᐤ ᒪᔥᑰᐱ ᒫ ᑎ ᓰ ᐅ ᐧᐃᓐ Working together towards a healthy future Ensemble, vers un avenir en santé

2018 Eeyou/Eenou Regional General Assembly on Health and Social Services INFORMATION Waswanipi, April 10-12, 2018 KIT FOR DELEGATES

DAY 1: Tuesday, April 10 Opening Ceremony, Roundtable Discussion and Maamuu café TIME EVENT DETAILS 7:30 - 9:00 Registration and continental Entrance of Community Health and breakfast Fitness Centre Join your fellow delegates for cofee, tea and pastries 9:00 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony Erika Eagle - drumming and Opening Remarks Local Minister Allan Etapp Chief Marcel Happyjack Grand Chief Abel Bosum Romeo Saganash, MP Abitibi-Baie James-Nunavik-Eeyou Bella M. Petawabano, Chairperson 10:00 - 10:15 SNACK BREAK Caterer 10:15 - 10:45 Strategic Regional Plan Bella M. Petawabano, Chairperson Daniel St-Amour, Executive Director 10:45 - 11:45 Roundtable Discussion 1. Paul Linton (Mistissini Elders Hospice) on Partnership 2. Pauline Lameboy (Ashuukin Residential Services) 3. Matthew Mukash (Whapmagoostui Land-Based Healing) 4. Darlene Shecapio-Blacksmith / Lucy Trapper (Iiyuu Ahtaawin Miyupimaatisiiun Planning - IAMP) 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH Caterer 1:00 - 1:15 Ice-breaking Activity Drone photo outside the venue 1:15 - 1:30 Introduction to Maamuu Café Solomon Awashish 1:30 - 4:00 Maamuu Café Small group discussions 4:00 - 4:30 Signing Ceremony To be confrmed 4:30 - 5:00 Introduction to Open Space Method Solomon Awashish 7:00 Multi-denominational church Ministers service at Waswanipi Youth Centre

1 DAY 2: Wednesday, April 11 Roundtable Discussion and Open Space Method TIME EVENT DETAILS 8:00 - 9:00 Continental breakfast Caterer 9:00 - 9:15 Summary of Day 1 Jonathan Sutherland, Waswanipi CBHSSJB 9:15 - 10:15 Roundtable Discussion on 1. Marianne Martin (Minnie’s Hope) Partnership 2. Kelly Pepabano (Maamuu Uhpichinaausuutaau) 3. Gregory Brass (Aaschihkuwaataauch + Mistissini HUB) 4. Juliana Snowboy (Regional Mental Health Suicide Prevention Campaign) 10:15 - 10:30 SNACK BREAK Caterer 10:30 - 12:00 Open Space Question: How can we develop partnerships to build a healthy Eeyou-Eenou Nation, based on the 2016 priorities of the SRP? 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH Caterer 1:00 - 5:00 Open Space 6:00 - 10:00 CBHSSJB 40th Anniversary Celebration Community Feast and Dance

DAY 3: Thursday, April 12 Community Priorities TIME EVENT DETAILS 8:00 - 9:00 Continental breakfast Caterer 9:00 - 9:15 Summary of Day 2 Jonathan Sutherland 9:15 - 10:15 Distribute Open Space Reports for delegates to read 10:15 - 10:30 SNACK BREAK Caterer 10:30 - 12:00 Delegates meet according to community to identify top 3 priority items by community 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH Caterer 1:00 - 3:00 Communities report back to the Assembly with their priorities 3:00 - 5:00 Signing Ceremony with CBHSSJB and Regional Entities

2 HELPFUL INFORMATION

Charter Transportation Chisasibi and Whapmagoostui Monday, April 9: CBHSSJB charter will depart Whapmagoostui at 2:40pm. Depart Chisasibi 3:50pm. Arrive Chibougamau 5:15pm. Local transport will take you to your lodging. Friday, April 13: Charter departs Chibougamau 11:20am, arrival in Chisasibi 1:05pm, Whapmagoostui 2:15pm. Montréal Monday, April 9: CBHSSJB charter will depart from Ryan Terminal, 9475 avenue Ryan at 8:30am. Arrive Chibougamau 9:55am. Local transport will take you to your lodging. Friday, April 13: Charter departs Chibougamau 5:20pm, arrives Montreal 6:35pm. Delegates will be transported daily to and from their lodging outside Waswanipi. For other transportation: Allo Taxi: 418 770 6057. Monday Evening: Miituuhutisan Sweat Lodge ceremony outside Waswanipi. Spaces are limited. For more information about this, contact Sol Awashish: [email protected] or 514-891-3375.

Registration Travelling by charter from Montreal? Early registration at Ryan Terminal before your fight. Travelling by personal vehicle to Waswanipi? Early registration Monday afternoon 3-7pm at the venue (Waswanipi Community Health and Fitness Centre, 20 Alder Street). Regular registration Tuesday morning at the venue (7:30-9am). Cofee, tea and light breakfast will be served. Simultaneous translation services will be available during the Assembly. ID is required to use a headset. Lost or broken equipment will be under the responsibility of the participant.

Waswanipi General info about Waswanipi businesses: www.waswanipi.com/en/business-directory.

Documentation All documents for the Assembly: www.creehealth.org/health-assembly-2018.

Social Media Hashtag for the event: #2018CreeHealth Assembly. The event will be live-streamed on CreeHealth Facebook: facebook.com/creehealth and broadcast live on JBCCS.

3 DAY 1: afternoon MAAMUU CAFÉ

Six people are seated at small café-style tables. Set up progressive rounds of conversation, approximately 20 minutes each. Engage questions or issues that genuinely matter to your life, work, or community. Encourage participants to write, doodle and draw key ideas on their tablecloths (and/or note key ideas on large index cards or placemats in the centre of the table). Upon completing the initial round of conversation, one person will remain at the table as a “table host” for the next round, while the others serve as travellers or “ambassadors of meaning.”

The travellers carry key ideas, themes and questions into their new conversations, while the table host welcomes the new set of travellers. By providing opportunities for people to move in several rounds of conversation, ideas, questions, and themes begin to link and connect. At the end of the second or third round, all of the tables or conversation clusters in the room will be cross-pollinated with insights from prior conversations. In the last round of conversation, people return to their frst table to synthesize their discoveries. Each table will take a selfe showing the main idea which came out of their conversations and share with the other delegates.

This is what the Maamuu Café will look like. At the end of the Café, take a group selfie showing the main idea you discovered!

4 DAY 2: Open Space Meeting

What is an Open Space Method meeting? The goal of an Open Space Method meeting is to create time and space for people to engage deeply and creatively around issues of concern to them. The agenda is set by people with the power and desire to see it through.

What outcomes can I expect from an Open Space Method meeting? Every single issue that anybody cares about enough to raise will be "on the table". All issues will receive as much discussion as people care to give them. All discussion will be captured in a book, and made available to the participants. All issues will be prioritized. Related issues will be converged. Responsibility will be taken for next step actions.

How does an Open Space Method meeting work? Open Space operates under four principles and one law. The four principles are: 1. Whoever comes are the right people. 2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. 3. When it starts is the right time. 4. When it's over it's over.

The Law is known as the Law of Two Feet: "If you fnd yourself in a situation where you are not contributing or learning, move somewhere where you can.”

5 What does Open Space look like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACzQLDUs5U

An Open Space meeting proceeds along the following process: Group convenes in a circle and is welcomed by the sponsor. The facilitator provides an overview of the process and explains how it works. Facilitator invites people with issues of concern to come into the circle, write the issue on a piece of quarter size fip chart paper and announce it to the group. These people are “conveners.” The group then breaks up and heads to the agenda wall, by now covered with a variety of sessions. Participants take note of the time and place for sessions they want to be involved in. Dialogue sessions convene for the balance of the meeting. Recorders determined by each group capture the important points and post the reports on the news wall. All of these reports will be rolled into one document by the end of the meeting.

6 OUR MISSION, VISION AND VALUES

In partnership with the Quebec Ministry of Health The Board of Directors December 2016 meeting and Social Services (QMHSS), the mission of the formulated and approved the Eeyou Nation of Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Eeyou Istchee Vision statement regarding the Bay (CBHSSJB) is to provide for the management development of community Myupimaatisiiun: and organization of health and social services in the nine communities of the Cree Territory of James Bay. To do so, it must coordinate and implement Individuals, families and communities strive to achieve Miyupimaatisiiun VISION health and social services with a view to maintaining, refective of Nishiiyuu improving, and restoring the health and well-being of its population. In addition, it provides regional public health services involving prevention, promotion, As a Cree value driven organization, honesty, monitoring and protection of population's state of loving, caring and sharing form the foundation of 1,2 health and well-being. the CBHSSJB’s institutional values and principles. The establishment’s code of ethics, developed in 2009 and revised in 2016, defnes the key values and principles, as shown below.

Key Values and Principles

Keep people safe

Ensure public Treat people with trust through respect, empathy, professional trust and dignity integrity Ensure service users have adequate information to make knowledgeable decisions regarding care plans Help community members achieve Consider all greater levels of community self-sufciency and members’ needs autonomy in health with sensitivity and well-being Use a holistic and integrative approach

7 1. http://www.creehealth.org/about-us. 2. http://www.QMHSS.gouv.qc.ca/ministere/mission.php. BUILDING A NEW STRATEGIC REGIONAL PLAN

The majority of the 2004-2014 Strategic Regional Priorities based on Cree way of voting Plan (CBHSSJB, 2014) has been implemented; any Ideas generated under other topics (in brackets) remaining actions have been integrated into the will be included in planning four newly-drafted orientations of the SRP 2016- 2021. TOPIC Votes Diabetes and Chronic Disease A Cree Prioritization Process (link to dialysis and chronic care, health care 23 The SRP 2016-2021 is inspired by the people’s services and Wiichihiituwin) voice at the Regional General Assembly held April Mental Health 22 2016 in Waskaganish (CBHSSJB, 2016), and prior- (link to alcohol, drug and gambling addiction) ities from communities are a source of triangula- Traditional Medicine & Land-based Healing 20 tion with most recent Eeyou Istchee (EI) epidemio- Regional Therapy (Addictions) Centre (link to sexual abuse awareness and prevention, 18 logical data. parenting, marriage counseling) In Waskaganish, a Cree voting method identifed Elder Care & Abuse 16 health and social issues to be prioritized by the Youth Protection & Child Development (link to teen pregnancy, parenting, JBNQA 8 CBHSSJB in the SRP 2016-2021. These priorities— registration) among the most frequently voted on issues—were Respite home for Special Needs 8 identifed and used to develop the SRP orienta- (link to men’s shelter) tions for the years 2016 to 2021.

The assembly invited the nine communities to send fve representatives each. Over the course of three days, groups were assembled to determine the most important health and social concerns in Eeyou Istchee. These concerns were grouped according to topic, and further discussed in groups by topic.

Topics were presented by groups and a Cree voting method determined the top Eeyou Istchee health and social priorities.

8 FOUR STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS

Drawing from the Eeyou/Eenou Regional General Assembly on Health and Social Services 2016 held in Waskaganish (CBHSSJB, 2016), and taking into consideration the most recent data on the population’s health status as well as achievements and gaps from the 2004-2014 Strategic Regional Plan, FOUR ORIENTATIONS targeted for the 2016-2021 STRATEGIC REGIONAL PLAN have been defned:

Catch up with the Access quality key indicators of frst-line services health and social and specialized well-being observed care along the for the general service corridors. population of Quebec.

Access traditional Consolidate the Cree medicine and Succession Plan land-based as well as human, hr healing in a timely material, fnancial manner. and information MR IT technology resources. $

9 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ STRATEGIC REGIONAL PLAN 2016-2021 four strategic orientations

ᐋ ᐃᔑ ᒋᔅᒑᔨᐦᑖᑯᐦᒡ ᒥᑯᒋᒃ ᑖᐱᑑ ᐅᐦᒋ ᐊᓐ ᐋ ᐃᔑ ᐙᐱᐦ ᑖᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᐅᑖᐦ ᒥᓯᐙ ᐋ ᑭᓂᐙᐱᒫᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᐊᐙᓂᒌ ᑯᐯᒃ ᐊᔅᒌᐦᒡ Catch up with the key indicators of health and social well-being observed for the general population of Quebec.

ᒑ ᒌ ᓈᑎᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᔑᔮᑳᒻ ᑭᔮᐦ ᐋ ᒌᐦ ᑳᔮᔨᐦ ᑖᑯᐦ ᒡ ᓂᑐᐦ ᑯᔨᓐ ᐋᐱᑎᓰᐎᓐ ᐅᐦ ᒋ ᐊᓂᑖᐦ ᑯᑎᒃᐦ ᓂᑐᐦᑯᓂᑭᒥᒄᐦ Access quality frst-line services and specialized care along the service corridors.

ᒑ ᒌ ᓈᑎᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᐄᔨᔨᐤ/ᐄᓅ ᓂᑐᐦᑯᔨᓐ ᑭᔮᐦ ᐊᔅ ᒌᐤ ᒦᓄᐙᒋᐦ ᐄᐙᐎᓐ Access traditional medicine and land-based healing in a timely manner.

ᒑ ᒫᒨᓂᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᐋ ᐃᔑ ᐃᔮᐱᒋᐦᑖᑭᓂᐎᒡ: ᐋᐱᑎᓰᓯᐅᒡ , ᐋ ᐃᔑ ᐃᔮᐱᒋᐦ ᑖᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᒑᒀᓐ, ᔔᔮᓐ ᑭᔮᐦ ᒋᔅᒑᔨᐦᑎᒨᐦᐄᐙᐎᓐ ᐋ ᐃᔑᐃᔮᐱᒋᐦᑖᑭᓂᐎᒡ ᒑᒀᓐ Consolidate the Cree succession plan and human, material, fnancial and information technology resources.

10 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Community well-being, AREA 1: preventable illness and death 1 2 3

Promote healthy Ensure quality lifestyle prehospital Reduce suicide with regard to smoking, emergency services obesity, nutrition, attempt rate injuries and infant and emergency mortality measures

Reduce smoking rate Improve prehospital and Develop outreach and u by 25% emergency measures community partnership communication systems prevention programs Increase physical activity u by 50% u by 25% Apply CBHSSJB nutrition policy 4 5 Reduce infant mortality rate gap between EI and Quebec, taking into account CE/CLE Decrease injury rates u by 25% Bring BBITD Improve social rate to Quebec determinants average

Reduce chlamydia and Contribute to collaborative gonorrhea rates u by 50% interventions to advocate for and support education Contribute to collaborative interventions to advocate for and support housing and employment policies Decrease level of domestic violence and impact on individuals and families 11 u 90% of victims receive support services in territory ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS AREA 2: First-line services 6 7

Improve Improve organization regular access of frst-line to frst-line services services

Implement integrated Increase access to services services model (under in communities u 50 to development) 80hrs/week Increase access to psycho- social intake services in communities u 80hrs/week Decrease treatment initiation delay in Current Services u within 1 hour Improve access to home care Increase community outreach services

12 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS AREA 3: Specialized services

8 9 10

Establish formal agreements Develop Improve CNIHB for the corridor Wiichihiituwin program of specialized (CPS) management services

Sign agreements with Provide charter fights for Implement CNIHB model CISSS-AT, CBHSSJB, CUSM, coastal and inland patients no. 4 CIUSSS-ODIM, Gingras- u 75% CNIHB clients using Implement CNIHB guides Lindsay-de-Montréal, charter Villa Medica, Constance- Organize ground Lethbridge, etc. transportation u 75% clients Increase specialists PREM using ground transport Increase specialist visits on Improve Montreal and territory Val-d’Or lodging Improve nutrition services Increase after-hours access 11 at Montreal Wiichihiituwin

Develop telehealth services

Establish telepharmacy Implement telecardiology, telepsychiatry, teleobstetrics, teledermatology, etc. 13 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS AREA 4: Chronic diseases

12 13 14

Conduct opportunistic and Increase Increase population-based on-territory follow-up for screening for access to dialysis chronic disease chronic diseases patients

Provide screening for Evaluate feasibility for Increase % of patients cancer, diabetes and peritoneal dialysis seen in required delays for respiratory ailments u 40% follow-up u 50% increase Increase number of patients in the number of patients Attain recommended seen on territory u 80% followed vaccination coverage rates Increase access to smoking cessation program 15

Increase follow-up for patients at risk of kidney failure

Create kidney clinic run with multidisciplinary team u 90% of at-risk patients followed

14 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS AREA 5: Mental health 16 17 18

Establish Develop an Increase the holistic cultural efcient mental ofer of mental approach to health network health services mental health on the territory

Develop and implement u Cree model developed, crisis intervention protocols based on literature search on u Crisis interventions based other FN models on protocol, hot-line for clients in despair Set Mental Health Teams in communities Implement transition services

15 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS AREA 6: Addictive behaviours 19 20 21

Increase access to sexual abuse awareness and Develop harm Develop prevention, parenting reduction healing and marriage approaches services counseling program

Needs assessment for healing lodge Implement healing services, including mobile addiction intervention for drugs, alcohol and gambling per community u rehabilitation services provided in regional facility

16 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Elder care and AREA 7: abuse prevention 22 23 24

Promote Cree cultural values of Provide loving, caring and Improve elder institutional respect of elderly to homecare services long-term care prevent abuse services

Decrease abuse in elderly Increase homecare to elders u long-term care provided in u 0 waiting regional facility Increase capacity of frst-line workers to assess Optimize MSDC service and intervene in elderly ofer u increase rate of MSDC abuse u 90% of abused service use by 25% access support 25

Partner with communities to develop transitional facilities

u at least two transitional Elders’ homes in territory

17 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Youth protection and AREA 8: child development 26 27 28

Implement Implement Develop child program action plan development for youth in following YP and support model difculty YHS audits

u Improved services ofered u 100% of recommendations Develop partnership with for youth in difculty from audit implemented Cree School Board u at least 1 collaborative project in each community Improve family support in neglected situation u Rate of neglected youth < 10% Implement early child program u 100% of communities with early child 29 program Partner with child care centres

Consolidate Awash and Uschiniichisuu services

18 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Special needs and AREA 9: respite services 30 31 32

Develop contractual Develop and Develop home agreements or implement services for subsidies with trajectories of special needs communities to special needs clients create respite programs homes

u 75% of special needs clients brought back from outside

19 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS AREA 10: Perinatal care 33 34 35

Freedom to Midwives conduct Decrease choose perinatal high-risk care providers normal deliveries in birthing homes pregnancy (midwife, MD, rate nurse)

u 70% of all deliveries on u by 75% territory

20 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Quality of care and AREA 11: perfomance management 36 37 38

Ensure Implement performance Implement best computerized practice standards management information system throught throughout to support clinical organization organization services

Develop organizational u MPI completed; electronic Initiate hospital performance measure information system accreditation process system u 10 clinical implemented Develop client satisfaction indicators and 10 assessment system administrative indicators developed and monitored Develop department monitoring dashboards

21 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Traditional medicine and AREA 12: land-based healing 39 40 41

Formalize/legalize Provide choice Ensure culturally traditional medicine for traditional safe services to medicine clients

u S5 reviewed to include Provide Cree Helping Provide all services in traditional practices Methods along with accordance with Cree western medicine and social cultural values and realities services u 90% of CBHSSJB employees receive cultural safety training 42

Provide land-based healing and bush programs

Provide bush program Incorporate self-awareness activities into existing land- based program

22 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Traditional medicine and AREA 12: land-based healing (cont’d) 43 44 45

Provide Proceed for Waapimaausuwin gathering Implement TRC along with traditional calls to action midwifery services knowledge

Implement midwifery u 100% of calls to program action related to health and social services Implement implemented Waapimaausuwin program in all communities

23 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Human, material, fnancial AREA 13: and information technology resources 46 47 48

Develop attraction, Extend the ofer Implement retention and of services in the CBHSSJB succession of HR HRD succession plan

u 80% of positions flled; u at least two training Recruit Cree employees turnover rate decreased by programs have been set for u 25% increase in positions 25%; at least two actions workers and professionals flled by Cree of improvement in working conditions for unionized employees and managers; organizational chart implemented at 100%

24 ᒥᔪᐱᒫᑎᓰᐅᓐ ᐊᓈᓈᑭᒋᐦᑖᑭᓅᒡ SRP 2016-2021 FOCUS Human, material, fnancial AREA 13: and information technology resources (cont’d)

49 50 51

Optimize Address facility fnancial Implement IT and housing resources Master Plan needs management

Implement 2013-2020 u signifcant savings u all communities with full health agreement u continuous IT access 100% of capital projects in the health agreement implemented Prepare next agreement

25 26 27 28 29 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action Tis report is in the public domain. Anyone may, without charge or request for permission, reproduce all or part of this report.

2015

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2012 1500–360 Main Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3Z3 Telephone: (204) 984-5885 Toll Free: 1-888-872-5554 (1-888-TRC-5554) Fax: (204) 984-5915 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.trc.ca 1

Calls to Action

In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and publish annual reports on the number of Aboriginal advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth children (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) who are in and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to care, compared with non-Aboriginal children, as well action. as the reasons for apprehension, the total spending on preventive and care services by child-welfare agencies, Legacy and the efectiveness of various interventions. 3. We call upon all levels of government to fully implement Child welfare Jordan’s Principle.

1. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and 4. We call upon the federal government to enact Aboriginal Aboriginal governments to commit to reducing the child-welfare legislation that establishes national number of Aboriginal children in care by: standards for Aboriginal child apprehension and custody cases and includes principles that: i. Monitoring and assessing neglect investigations. i. Afrm the right of Aboriginal governments to ii. Providing adequate resources to enable Aboriginal establish and maintain their own child-welfare communities and child-welfare organizations to agencies. keep Aboriginal families together where it is safe to do so, and to keep children in culturally appropriate ii. Require all child-welfare agencies and courts to take environments, regardless of where they reside. the residential school legacy into account in their decision making. iii. Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly iii. Establish, as an important priority, a requirement educated and trained about the history and impacts that placements of Aboriginal children into of residential schools. temporary and permanent care be culturally appropriate. iv. Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly 5. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, educated and trained about the potential for and Aboriginal governments to develop culturally Aboriginal communities and families to provide appropriate parenting programs for Aboriginal families. more appropriate solutions to family healing. Education v. Requiring that all child-welfare decision makers consider the impact of the residential school 6. We call upon the Government of Canada to repeal experience on children and their caregivers. Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

2. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration 7. We call upon the federal government to develop with the provinces and territories, to prepare and with Aboriginal groups a joint strategy to eliminate 2 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

educational and employment gaps between Aboriginal 14. We call upon the federal government to enact an and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Aboriginal Languages Act that incorporates the following principles: 8. We call upon the federal government to eliminate the discrepancy in federal education funding for First i. Aboriginal languages are a fundamental and valued Nations children being educated on reserves and those element of Canadian culture and society, and there First Nations children being educated of reserves. is an urgency to preserve them.

9. We call upon the federal government to prepare and ii. Aboriginal language rights are reinforced by the publish annual reports comparing funding for the Treaties. education of First Nations children on and of reserves, iii. Te federal government has a responsibility to as well as educational and income attainments of provide sufcient funds for Aboriginal-language Aboriginal peoples in Canada compared with non- revitalization and preservation. Aboriginal people. iv. Te preservation, revitalization, and strengthening 10. We call on the federal government to draft new of Aboriginal languages and cultures are best Aboriginal education legislation with the full managed by Aboriginal people and communities. participation and informed consent of Aboriginal peoples. Te new legislation would include a v. Funding for Aboriginal language initiatives must commitment to sufcient funding and would refect the diversity of Aboriginal languages. incorporate the following principles: 15. We call upon the federal government to appoint, in i. Providing sufcient funding to close identifed consultation with Aboriginal groups, an Aboriginal educational achievement gaps within one Languages Commissioner. Te commissioner should generation. help promote Aboriginal languages and report on the adequacy of federal funding of Aboriginal-languages ii. Improving education attainment levels and success initiatives. rates. 16. We call upon post-secondary institutions to create iii. Developing culturally appropriate curricula. university and college degree and diploma programs in iv. Protecting the right to Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal languages. including the teaching of Aboriginal languages as 17. We call upon all levels of government to enable credit courses. residential school Survivors and their families to reclaim v. Enabling parental and community responsibility, names changed by the residential school system by control, and accountability, similar to what parents waiving administrative costs for a period of fve years enjoy in public school systems. for the name-change process and the revision of ofcial identity documents, such as birth certifcates, passports, vi. Enabling parents to fully participate in the education driver’s licenses, health cards, status cards, and social of their children. insurance numbers. vii. Respecting and honouring Treaty relationships. Health 11. We call upon the federal government to provide adequate funding to end the backlog of First Nations 18. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and students seeking a post-secondary education. Aboriginal governments to acknowledge that the current state of Aboriginal health in Canada is a direct result 12. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, of previous Canadian government policies, including and Aboriginal governments to develop culturally residential schools, and to recognize and implement appropriate early childhood education programs for the health-care rights of Aboriginal people as identifed Aboriginal families. in international law, constitutional law, and under the Language and culture Treaties.

13. We call upon the federal government to acknowledge 19. We call upon the federal government, in consultation that Aboriginal rights include Aboriginal language with Aboriginal peoples, to establish measurable goals rights. to identify and close the gaps in health outcomes Calls to Action| 3

between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate crimes in and to publish annual progress reports and assess long- which the government has its own interest as a potential term trends. Such eforts would focus on indicators such or real party in civil litigation. as: infant mortality, maternal health, suicide, mental 26. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial health, addictions, life expectancy, birth rates, infant governments to review and amend their respective and child health issues, chronic diseases, illness and statutes of limitations to ensure that they conform to the injury incidence, and the availability of appropriate principle that governments and other entities cannot health services. rely on limitation defences to defend legal actions of 20. In order to address the jurisdictional disputes historical abuse brought by Aboriginal people. concerning Aboriginal people who do not reside on 27. We call upon the Federation of Law Societies of Canada reserves, we call upon the federal government to to ensure that lawyers receive appropriate cultural recognize, respect, and address the distinct health needs competency training, which includes the history of the Métis, Inuit, and of-reserve Aboriginal peoples. and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations 21. We call upon the federal government to provide Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties sustainable funding for existing and new Aboriginal and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal– healing centres to address the physical, mental, Crown relations. Tis will require skills-based training emotional, and spiritual harms caused by residential in intercultural competency, confict resolution, human schools, and to ensure that the funding of healing rights, and anti-racism. centres in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories is a 28. We call upon law schools in Canada to require all law priority. students to take a course in Aboriginal people and the 22. We call upon those who can efect change within the law, which includes the history and legacy of residential Canadian health-care system to recognize the value schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal healing practices and use them in the of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, treatment of Aboriginal patients in collaboration with Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations. Aboriginal healers and Elders where requested by Tis will require skills-based training in intercultural Aboriginal patients. competency, confict resolution, human rights, and anti- racism. 23. We call upon all levels of government to: 29. We call upon the parties and, in particular, the federal i. Increase the number of Aboriginal professionals government, to work collaboratively with plaintifs not working in the health-care feld. included in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement ii. Ensure the retention of Aboriginal health-care Agreement to have disputed legal issues determined providers in Aboriginal communities. expeditiously on an agreed set of facts.

iii. Provide cultural competency training for all health- 30. We call upon federal, provincial, and territorial care professionals. governments to commit to eliminating the 24. We call upon medical and nursing schools in Canada overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in custody over to require all students to take a course dealing with the next decade, and to issue detailed annual reports Aboriginal health issues, including the history and that monitor and evaluate progress in doing so. legacy of residential schools, the United Nations 31. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties governments to provide sufcient and stable funding and Aboriginal rights, and Indigenous teachings and to implement and evaluate community sanctions that practices. Tis will require skills-based training in will provide realistic alternatives to imprisonment for intercultural competency, confict resolution, human Aboriginal ofenders and respond to the underlying rights, and anti-racism. causes of ofending.

Justice 32. We call upon the federal government to amend the Criminal Code to allow trial judges, upon giving reasons, 25. We call upon the federal government to establish a to depart from mandatory minimum sentences and written policy that reafrms the independence of the restrictions on the use of conditional sentences. 4 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

33. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial 40. We call on all levels of government, in collaboration governments to recognize as a high priority the need to with Aboriginal people, to create adequately funded address and prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and accessible Aboriginal-specifc victim programs and (FASD), and to develop, in collaboration with Aboriginal services with appropriate evaluation mechanisms. people, FASD preventive programs that can be delivered 41. We call upon the federal government, in consultation in a culturally appropriate manner. with Aboriginal organizations, to appoint a public 34. We call upon the governments of Canada, the provinces, inquiry into the causes of, and remedies for, the and territories to undertake reforms to the criminal disproportionate victimization of Aboriginal women and justice system to better address the needs of ofenders girls. Te inquiry’s mandate would include: with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), i. Investigation into missing and murdered Aboriginal including: women and girls. i. Providing increased community resources and ii. Links to the intergenerational legacy of residential powers for courts to ensure that FASD is properly schools. diagnosed, and that appropriate community supports are in place for those with FASD. 42. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial governments to commit to the recognition and ii. Enacting statutory exemptions from mandatory implementation of Aboriginal justice systems in a minimum sentences of imprisonment for ofenders manner consistent with the Treaty and Aboriginal afected by FASD. rights of Aboriginal peoples, the Constitution Act, 1982, iii. Providing community, correctional, and parole and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of resources to maximize the ability of people with Indigenous Peoples, endorsed by Canada in November FASD to live in the community. 2012.

iv. Adopting appropriate evaluation mechanisms to measure the efectiveness of such programs and Reconciliation ensure community safety.

35. We call upon the federal government to eliminate Canadian Governments and the UNITED NATIONS barriers to the creation of additional Aboriginal healing DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE lodges within the federal correctional system. 43. We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and

36. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial municipal governments to fully adopt and implement governments to work with Aboriginal communities to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of provide culturally relevant services to inmates on issues Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation. such as substance abuse, family and domestic violence, 44. We call upon the Government of Canada to develop and overcoming the experience of having been sexually a national action plan, strategies, and other concrete abused. measures to achieve the goals of the United Nations

37. We call upon the federal government to provide more Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. supports for Aboriginal programming in halfway houses Royal Proclamation and Covenant and parole services. of Reconciliation

38. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and 45. We call upon the Government of Canada, on behalf of Aboriginal governments to commit to eliminating the all Canadians, to jointly develop with Aboriginal peoples overrepresentation of Aboriginal youth in custody over a Royal Proclamation of Reconciliation to be issued by the next decade. the Crown. Te proclamation would build on the Royal 39. We call upon the federal government to develop a Proclamation of 1763 and the Treaty of Niagara of 1764, national plan to collect and publish data on the criminal and reafrm the nation-to-nation relationship between victimization of Aboriginal people, including data Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Te proclamation related to homicide and family violence victimization. would include, but not be limited to, the following commitments: Calls to Action| 5

i. Repudiate concepts used to justify European 47. We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and sovereignty over Indigenous lands and peoples such municipal governments to repudiate concepts used to as the Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius. justify European sovereignty over Indigenous peoples and lands, such as the Doctrine of Discovery and terra ii. Adopt and implement the United Nations nullius, and to reform those laws, government policies, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as and litigation strategies that continue to rely on such the framework for reconciliation. concepts. iii. Renew or establish Treaty relationships based on principles of mutual recognition, mutual respect, Settlement Agreement Parties and the UNITED and shared responsibility for maintaining those NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES relationships into the future. 48. We call upon the church parties to the Settlement

iv. Reconcile Aboriginal and Crown constitutional Agreement, and all other faith groups and interfaith and legal orders to ensure that Aboriginal peoples social justice groups in Canada who have not already are full partners in Confederation, including the done so, to formally adopt and comply with the recognition and integration of Indigenous laws and principles, norms, and standards of the United Nations legal traditions in negotiation and implementation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a processes involving Treaties, land claims, and other framework for reconciliation. Tis would include, but constructive agreements. not be limited to, the following commitments:

46. We call upon the parties to the Indian Residential i. Ensuring that their institutions, policies, programs, Schools Settlement Agreement to develop and sign and practices comply with the United Nations a Covenant of Reconciliation that would identify Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. principles for working collaboratively to advance ii. Respecting Indigenous peoples’ right to self- reconciliation in Canadian society, and that would determination in spiritual matters, including include, but not be limited to: the right to practise, develop, and teach their

i. Reafrmation of the parties’ commitment to own spiritual and religious traditions, customs, reconciliation. and ceremonies, consistent with Article 12:1 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of ii. Repudiation of concepts used to justify European Indigenous Peoples. sovereignty over Indigenous lands and peoples, such as the Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius, iii. Engaging in ongoing public dialogue and actions to and the reformation of laws, governance structures, support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights and policies within their respective institutions that of Indigenous Peoples. continue to rely on such concepts. iv. Issuing a statement no later than March 31, 2016,

iii. Full adoption and implementation of the United from all religious denominations and faith groups, Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous as to how they will implement the United Nations Peoples as the framework for reconciliation. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

iv. Support for the renewal or establishment of 49. We call upon all religious denominations and faith Treaty relationships based on principles of groups who have not already done so to repudiate mutual recognition, mutual respect, and shared concepts used to justify European sovereignty over responsibility for maintaining those relationships Indigenous lands and peoples, such as the Doctrine of into the future. Discovery and terra nullius.

v. Enabling those excluded from the Settlement Equity for Aboriginal People Agreement to sign onto the Covenant of in the Legal System Reconciliation. 50. In keeping with the United Nations Declaration on vi. Enabling additional parties to sign onto the the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we call upon the Covenant of Reconciliation. federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal organizations, to fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes for the development, use, and 6 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

understanding of Indigenous laws and access to justice iv. Promote public dialogue, public/private in accordance with the unique cultures of Aboriginal partnerships, and public initiatives for peoples in Canada. reconciliation.

51. We call upon the Government of Canada, as an 54. We call upon the Government of Canada to provide obligation of its fduciary responsibility, to develop a multi-year funding for the National Council for policy of transparency by publishing legal opinions it Reconciliation to ensure that it has the fnancial, human, develops and upon which it acts or intends to act, in and technical resources required to conduct its work, regard to the scope and extent of Aboriginal and Treaty including the endowment of a National Reconciliation rights. Trust to advance the cause of reconciliation.

52. We call upon the Government of Canada, provincial 55. We call upon all levels of government to provide annual and territorial governments, and the courts to adopt the reports or any current data requested by the National following legal principles: Council for Reconciliation so that it can report on the progress towards reconciliation. Te reports or data i. Aboriginal title claims are accepted once the would include, but not be limited to: Aboriginal claimant has established occupation over a particular territory at a particular point in time. i. Te number of Aboriginal children—including Métis and Inuit children—in care, compared with non- ii. Once Aboriginal title has been established, the Aboriginal children, the reasons for apprehension, burden of proving any limitation on any rights and the total spending on preventive and care arising from the existence of that title shifts to the services by child-welfare agencies. party asserting such a limitation. ii. Comparative funding for the education of First National Council for Reconciliation Nations children on and of reserves.

53. We call upon the Parliament of Canada, in consultation iii. Te educational and income attainments of and collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to Aboriginal peoples in Canada compared with non- enact legislation to establish a National Council for Aboriginal people. Reconciliation. Te legislation would establish the council as an independent, national, oversight body iv. Progress on closing the gaps between Aboriginal and with membership jointly appointed by the Government non-Aboriginal communities in a number of health of Canada and national Aboriginal organizations, and indicators such as: infant mortality, maternal health, consisting of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members. suicide, mental health, addictions, life expectancy, Its mandate would include, but not be limited to, the birth rates, infant and child health issues, chronic following: diseases, illness and injury incidence, and the availability of appropriate health services. i. Monitor, evaluate, and report annually to Parliament and the people of Canada on the Government of v. Progress on eliminating the overrepresentation of Canada’s post-apology progress on reconciliation Aboriginal children in youth custody over the next to ensure that government accountability for decade. reconciling the relationship between Aboriginal vi. Progress on reducing the rate of criminal peoples and the Crown is maintained in the coming victimization of Aboriginal people, including years. data related to homicide and family violence ii. Monitor, evaluate, and report to Parliament and the victimization and other crimes. people of Canada on reconciliation progress across vii. Progress on reducing the overrepresentation of all levels and sectors of Canadian society, including Aboriginal people in the justice and correctional the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation systems. Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action. 56. We call upon the prime minister of Canada to formally iii. Develop and implement a multi-year National respond to the report of the National Council for Action Plan for Reconciliation, which includes Reconciliation by issuing an annual “State of Aboriginal research and policy development, public education Peoples” report, which would outline the government’s programs, and resources. plans for advancing the cause of reconciliation. Calls to Action| 7

Professional Development and ii. Community-controlled culture- and language- Training for Public Servants revitalization projects.

57. We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and iii. Community-controlled education and relationship- municipal governments to provide education to public building projects. servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including iv. Regional dialogues for Indigenous spiritual leaders the history and legacy of residential schools, the United and youth to discuss Indigenous spirituality, self- Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, determination, and reconciliation. Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations. Tis will require skills- Education for reconciliation based training in intercultural competency, confict 62. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial resolution, human rights, and anti-racism. governments, in consultation and collaboration with Church Apologies and Reconciliation Survivors, Aboriginal peoples, and educators, to:

58. We call upon the Pope to issue an apology to Survivors, i. Make age-appropriate curriculum on residential their families, and communities for the Roman Catholic schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal peoples’ historical Church’s role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, and contemporary contributions to Canada a physical, and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit, and mandatory education requirement for Kindergarten Métis children in Catholic-run residential schools. We to Grade Twelve students. call for that apology to be similar to the 2010 apology ii. Provide the necessary funding to post-secondary issued to Irish victims of abuse and to occur within one institutions to educate teachers on how to integrate year of the issuing of this Report and to be delivered by Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into the Pope in Canada. classrooms. 59. We call upon church parties to the Settlement iii. Provide the necessary funding to Aboriginal schools Agreement to develop ongoing education strategies to utilize Indigenous knowledge and teaching to ensure that their respective congregations learn methods in classrooms. about their church’s role in colonization, the history and legacy of residential schools, and why apologies to iv. Establish senior-level positions in government at the former residential school students, their families, and assistant deputy minister level or higher dedicated to communities were necessary. Aboriginal content in education.

60. We call upon leaders of the church parties to the 63. We call upon the Council of Ministers of Education, Settlement Agreement and all other faiths, in Canada to maintain an annual commitment to collaboration with Indigenous spiritual leaders, Aboriginal education issues, including: Survivors, schools of theology, seminaries, and other i. Developing and implementing Kindergarten to religious training centres, to develop and teach Grade Twelve curriculum and learning resources curriculum for all student clergy, and all clergy and on Aboriginal peoples in Canadian history, and the staf who work in Aboriginal communities, on the need history and legacy of residential schools. to respect Indigenous spirituality in its own right, the ii. Sharing information and best practices on teaching history and legacy of residential schools and the roles curriculum related to residential schools and of the church parties in that system, the history and Aboriginal history. legacy of religious confict in Aboriginal families and communities, and the responsibility that churches have iii. Building student capacity for intercultural to mitigate such conficts and prevent spiritual violence. understanding, empathy, and mutual respect.

61. We call upon church parties to the Settlement iv. Identifying teacher-training needs relating to the Agreement, in collaboration with Survivors and above. representatives of Aboriginal organizations, to establish 64. We call upon all levels of government that provide permanent funding to Aboriginal people for: public funds to denominational schools to require i. Community-controlled healing and reconciliation such schools to provide an education on comparative projects. religious studies, which must include a segment on 8 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Aboriginal spiritual beliefs and practices developed in i. Determine the level of compliance with the United collaboration with Aboriginal Elders. Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher 65. We call upon the federal government, through the Social Principles, as related to Aboriginal peoples’ Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in inalienable right to know the truth about what collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, post-secondary happened and why, with regard to human rights institutions and educators, and the National Centre for violations committed against them in the residential Truth and Reconciliation and its partner institutions, to schools. establish a national research program with multi-year funding to advance understanding of reconciliation. ii. Produce a report with recommendations for full implementation of these international mechanisms Youth Programs as a reconciliation framework for Canadian archives. 66. We call upon the federal government to establish multi- Missing Children and Burial Information year funding for community-based youth organizations to deliver programs on reconciliation, and establish 71. We call upon all chief coroners and provincial vital a national network to share information and best statistics agencies that have not provided to the Truth practices. and Reconciliation Commission of Canada their records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the Museums and Archives care of residential school authorities to make these 67. We call upon the federal government to provide funding documents available to the National Centre for Truth to the Canadian Museums Association to undertake, in and Reconciliation.

collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, a national review 72. We call upon the federal government to allocate of museum policies and best practices to determine the sufcient resources to the National Centre for Truth level of compliance with the United Nations Declaration and Reconciliation to allow it to develop and maintain on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and to make the National Residential School Student Death recommendations. Register established by the Truth and Reconciliation 68. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration Commission of Canada.

with Aboriginal peoples, and the Canadian Museums 73. We call upon the federal government to work with Association to mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian churches, Aboriginal communities, and former Confederation in 2017 by establishing a dedicated residential school students to establish and maintain national funding program for commemoration projects an online registry of residential school cemeteries, on the theme of reconciliation. including, where possible, plot maps showing the 69. We call upon Library and Archives Canada to: location of deceased residential school children.

i. Fully adopt and implement the United Nations 74. We call upon the federal government to work with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and churches and Aboriginal community leaders to inform the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles, as the families of children who died at residential schools related to Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to of the child’s burial location, and to respond to families’ know the truth about what happened and why, with wishes for appropriate commemoration ceremonies regard to human rights violations committed against and markers, and reburial in home communities where them in the residential schools. requested.

ii. Ensure that its record holdings related to residential 75. We call upon the federal government to work with schools are accessible to the public. provincial, territorial, and municipal governments, churches, Aboriginal communities, former residential iii. Commit more resources to its public education school students, and current landowners to develop materials and programming on residential schools. and implement strategies and procedures for the 70. We call upon the federal government to provide funding ongoing identifcation, documentation, maintenance, to the Canadian Association of Archivists to undertake, commemoration, and protection of residential school in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, a national cemeteries or other sites at which residential school review of archival policies and best practices to: children were buried. Tis is to include the provision of Calls to Action| 9

appropriate memorial ceremonies and commemorative iii. Developing and implementing a national heritage markers to honour the deceased children. plan and strategy for commemorating residential school sites, the history and legacy of residential 76. We call upon the parties engaged in the work of schools, and the contributions of Aboriginal peoples documenting, maintaining, commemorating, and to Canada’s history. protecting residential school cemeteries to adopt strategies in accordance with the following principles: 80. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to establish, as a statutory i. Te Aboriginal community most afected shall lead holiday, a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to the development of such strategies. honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ii. Information shall be sought from residential school ensure that public commemoration of the history and Survivors and other Knowledge Keepers in the legacy of residential schools remains a vital component development of such strategies. of the reconciliation process.

iii. Aboriginal protocols shall be respected before 81. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration any potentially invasive technical inspection and with Survivors and their organizations, and other parties investigation of a cemetery site. to the Settlement Agreement, to commission and install a publicly accessible, highly visible, Residential Schools National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation National Monument in the city of Ottawa to honour 77. We call upon provincial, territorial, municipal, and Survivors and all the children who were lost to their community archives to work collaboratively with the families and communities. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to identify 82. We call upon provincial and territorial governments, in and collect copies of all records relevant to the history collaboration with Survivors and their organizations, and legacy of the residential school system, and to and other parties to the Settlement Agreement, to provide these to the National Centre for Truth and commission and install a publicly accessible, highly Reconciliation. visible, Residential Schools Monument in each capital 78. We call upon the Government of Canada to commit city to honour Survivors and all the children who were to making a funding contribution of $10 million over lost to their families and communities. seven years to the National Centre for Truth and 83. We call upon the Canada Council for the Arts to Reconciliation, plus an additional amount to assist establish, as a funding priority, a strategy for Indigenous communities to research and produce histories of and non-Indigenous artists to undertake collaborative their own residential school experience and their projects and produce works that contribute to the involvement in truth, healing, and reconciliation. reconciliation process. Commemoration Media and Reconciliation 79. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration 84. We call upon the federal government to restore and with Survivors, Aboriginal organizations, and the arts increase funding to the CBC/Radio-Canada, to enable community, to develop a reconciliation framework for Canada’s national public broadcaster to support Canadian heritage and commemoration. Tis would reconciliation, and be properly refective of the diverse include, but not be limited to: cultures, languages, and perspectives of Aboriginal i. Amending the Historic Sites and Monuments Act to peoples, including, but not limited to: include First Nations, Inuit, and Métis representation i. Increasing Aboriginal programming, including on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Aboriginal-language speakers. Canada and its Secretariat. ii. Increasing equitable access for Aboriginal peoples ii. Revising the policies, criteria, and practices of the to jobs, leadership positions, and professional National Program of Historical Commemoration to development opportunities within the organization. integrate Indigenous history, heritage values, and memory practices into Canada’s national heritage iii. Continuing to provide dedicated news coverage and and history. online public information resources on issues of concern to Aboriginal peoples and all Canadians, 10 | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

including the history and legacy of residential cultures and traditional sporting activities of schools and the reconciliation process. Aboriginal peoples.

85. We call upon the Aboriginal Peoples Television ii. An elite athlete development program for Aboriginal Network, as an independent non-proft broadcaster with athletes. programming by, for, and about Aboriginal peoples, to iii. Programs for coaches, trainers, and sports ofcials support reconciliation, including but not limited to: that are culturally relevant for Aboriginal peoples. i. Continuing to provide leadership in programming iv. Anti-racism awareness and training programs. and organizational culture that refects the diverse cultures, languages, and perspectives of Aboriginal 91. We call upon the ofcials and host countries of peoples. international sporting events such as the Olympics, Pan Am, and Commonwealth games to ensure that ii. Continuing to develop media initiatives that inform Indigenous peoples’ territorial protocols are respected, and educate the Canadian public, and connect and local Indigenous communities are engaged in all Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. aspects of planning and participating in such events. 86. We call upon Canadian journalism programs and media schools to require education for all students on Business and Reconciliation the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history 92. We call upon the corporate sector in Canada to and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties Indigenous Peoples as a reconciliation framework and to and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal– apply its principles, norms, and standards to corporate Crown relations. policy and core operational activities involving Indigenous peoples and their lands and resources. Tis Sports and Reconciliation would include, but not be limited to, the following: 87. We call upon all levels of government, in collaboration i. Commit to meaningful consultation, building with Aboriginal peoples, sports halls of fame, and other respectful relationships, and obtaining the free, relevant organizations, to provide public education that prior, and informed consent of Indigenous peoples tells the national story of Aboriginal athletes in history. before proceeding with economic development 88. We call upon all levels of government to take action to projects. ensure long-term Aboriginal athlete development and ii. Ensure that Aboriginal peoples have equitable growth, and continued support for the North American access to jobs, training, and education opportunities Indigenous Games, including funding to host the games in the corporate sector, and that Aboriginal and for provincial and territorial team preparation and communities gain long-term sustainable benefts travel. from economic development projects. 89. We call upon the federal government to amend the iii. Provide education for management and staf on the Physical Activity and Sport Act to support reconciliation history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history by ensuring that policies to promote physical activity as and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations a fundamental element of health and well-being, reduce Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, barriers to sports participation, increase the pursuit of Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and excellence in sport, and build capacity in the Canadian Aboriginal–Crown relations. Tis will require skills sport system, are inclusive of Aboriginal peoples. based training in intercultural competency, confict 90. We call upon the federal government to ensure that resolution, human rights, and anti-racism. national sports policies, programs, and initiatives are inclusive of Aboriginal peoples, including, but not Newcomers to Canada limited to, establishing: 93. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration

i. In collaboration with provincial and territorial with the national Aboriginal organizations, to revise governments, stable funding for, and access to, the information kit for newcomers to Canada and its community sports programs that refect the diverse citizenship test to refect a more inclusive history of the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Canada, including Calls to Action| 11

information about the Treaties and the history of residential schools.

94. We call upon the Government of Canada to replace the Oath of Citizenship with the following:

I swear (or afrm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada including Treaties with Indigenous Peoples, and fulfll my duties as a Canadian citizen.