Human Resources committee  I think the social determinants of health approach to health care, for instance, attempts to build a different way of addressing policy issues. As a policy wonk, I can list off by ranked order the things that I think are most important, but what we need to move out of is looking

Human Resources committee  I started reading about the British Columbia School Trustees Association's approach to early learning in the 1990s. They're even dealing with kids who aren't in the system yet. We're talking about preparing kids to be able to arrive in kindergarten. My wife works with the West Si

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I don't have tons of experience with first nations issues. What I look at is how Canada is as a country and what our relationship is like with the first nations. I think we need to treat it more as an international relations issue, where we sit at th

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think that from an outside perspective, we can look anywhere in the country and try to examine what's going on on reserves. I watched several years ago with Attawapiskat.... From my vantage point in Vancouver, what I see is mediated by the news, politics, and partisanship,

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for your invitation to speak with you today. While I grew up and taught high school in the Tri-Cities down the street, I now live in East Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish people, and particularly the Squamish, Musqueam, and