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Canadian Heritage committee I think education does play a role in that, and a large portion of the old action plan around racism focused on education, so there's a piece there. Naming and taking a stand is critical. For us, naming things such as Islamophobia and anti-black racism and issues in the indigenou
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee It would be fundamentally fruitful. Currently the funding structure at Canadian Heritage allows for programs where communities reach out to other communities, if I'm getting it right. The reality is we're not there at the point where communities are okay within themselves to star
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee The pillars have been teased out. I would direct you to look directly at the strategies so you can see what the targeted measures and priorities are within each pillar. The advisory committees have been critical, one, in that there's one overarching advisory, but more importantly
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee I would agree with everything you said. A strategy that just sets out recommendations is probably going to sit on the bench like the CAPAR did. The reality is that recommendations have to be set. Targets or measures have to be set, and timelines have to be set. As those timelin
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee I think this committee has probably heard the term intersectionality over and over, so I think sometimes when I sit in rooms and say intersectionality people are like, “Okay, intersectionality.” The truth is that, when you work with clients, you see that they identify as so many
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee I spoke about a race equity framework. It echoes what is already going on at the federal level with the gender plus framework. One overarching way of looking at this issue is that if you applied a race equity framework to any federal programming, you would be able to start to ide
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee We do. We serve the province, so we have a head office in Toronto and we have seven satellite offices, most of them spread between Hamilton and Durham. We also work with clients from London, Windsor, and Ottawa.
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee Absolutely.
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee We do. We have a system whereby we can input intakes by issues. As people raise issues, they can be input into the system. My own review was based on pulling information out of our system.
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee We've done a lot of legal education work within our own communities on their relationships with the police. I'll be very frank and say that the communities we work with have not yet been receptive to having that type of conversation. We are still working on a framework of buildin
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee There is still a real fear of engaging with the police. One of the things I didn't mention is that a lot of the people who are reporting are not in status in immigration. We have these categories of very marginalized clients who, for other reasons, will not engage in that system
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee It was a government representative.
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee I would take the position that you do a review of what is going on currently in Ontario. There are probably ways to improve, but the framework that's being created for the collection of data is very comprehensive. One critical piece involves the idea of disaggregated data. A lot
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee I think one of the critical things they've done a tremendous amount of work on is the collection of disaggregated data. One of the greatest strengths of the program was their commitment to the collection of that data throughout the province. They spent a lot of time developing th
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur
Canadian Heritage committee I think it's an interesting start and a good approach. I think the recommendations in the previous sessions are really critical, that a lot around employment equity requires a unified approach from the federal and provincial levels. We're just not there. A strong leadership and
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Shalini Konanur