Beyond 94 Actions and Reactions 2019 by Morley, Lyle

#3: Jordan's Principle

2022-10-27 16:51:06 UTC

Jordan's principle is a call for the government to support First Nations children while they determine the status of the child. Generally the government won't help a native person with things like medical needs, housing, or things for school, unless they have Indian Act status. Jordan's principle kicks in when the government is trying to determine whether or not a child is considered "Indian" by their standards. The government must put the needs of the child first and then come to a decision about their status, not decide, then help. The government is still trying to fight this idea, but a lot of progress has been made since the principle was introduced in 2007 by the House of Commons. I believe this is important because children should not suffer because the government says that you are one thing, if you are in a vulnerable situation I think you should be supported. If the government embraced this principle it would show the country that they want reconciliation to happen. -Rohan Kenyon

#64. "We call upon all levels of government that provide public funds to denominational schools to require such schools to provide an education on comparative religious studies, which must include a segment on Aboriginal spiritual beliefs and practices developed in collaboration with Aboriginal Elders."

2022-10-27 16:51:23 UTC

Simplified, this call to action is asking for accurate and mandatory Aboriginal education in public schools. The call is to provide mandatory classes in collaboration with elders to educates others on Aboriginal spiritual beliefs. Challenges include finding elders, making these classes mandatory, and getting the funding. This is important because we need to respect and understand the people who lived here before us. In order to do this, we must learn about their culture.
-Katie

#6: Repeal Spanking Law

2022-10-31 16:16:08 UTC

"Section 43 allows parents, caregivers and educators to use force toward a pupil or child as a means of correction, "if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances."
The spanking law, section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada, allows adults to use physical force against young children.
I believe it is important to repeal this law, because it is unfair for our nations most vulnerable people to have their rights and bodily autonomy violated by the people who are supposed to protect them. Allowing adults to physically harm children only leads to further abuse.
-Winter

#75 R.S grave location and maintenance

2022-10-31 16:22:25 UTC

Residential School Graves often remain undiscovered and unmarked. The reason it is so important that these graves are found is so that they can either be maintained or it's so that the bodies can be returned. The difficulty comes when trying to find these graves. Since these mass graves were nothing but holes dug in the ground without any significance, they were never marked, after all this time, there are still thousands of our children in the ground that we haven't even discovered yet. Fund the locating and maintenance of these graves so that the children may find peace. -Malachi

#18 Recognize and implement health care rights for Aboriginal People

2022-10-31 16:24:17 UTC

The rights of Aboriginal people are not being implemented by the federal government. Instead, they are drafting new legislation to increase Indigenous peoples' access to culturally appropriate healthcare. The Government of Canada thinks that the current state of Indigenous health is because of shameful historical legacy of many colonialists polices and interventions against Aboriginal people. Many Aboriginal people have experienced hardships in hospitals because workers were racist and not treating them correctly. For example, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman died in the hospital after filming a hospital worker insulting her whilst crying for help. This goes to show how terrible the current state of the health care rights for Indigenous people.
- Lorenzo Butalid

#57: Educate Public Servants on the History of Aboriginal People

2022-10-31 16:28:26 UTC

"We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to provide education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples,"

Educating public servants in Canada on the history of FNMI people is absolutely necessary. Knowing the history of FNMI people in Canada will help with understanding and recognition between cultures, anti-racism, and conflict resolution. Understanding of Indigenous peoples by public servants will be beneficial to furthering reconciliation and improving government relations with Indigenous people.
-Winter

#89: “We call upon the federal government to amend the Physical Activity and Sport Act to support reconciliation by ensuring that policies to promote physical activity as a fundamental element of health and well-being, reduce barriers to sport participation, increase the pursuit of excellence in sport, and build capacity in the Canadian sport system, are inclusive to Aboriginal Peoples”.

2022-10-31 16:28:48 UTC

To summarize discussions with Indigenous sport organizations have concluded that they will put a long-term effort in which that the given changes to legislation require consultation with other federal governmental departments in cooperating with the aboriginal sport circle and of the indigenous peoples in Canada. The challenges include considering the covid-19 pandemics public health measures and the economic fallout many indigenous communities that the sport organizations faced. I believe that this is important because the federal government is adjusting the physical activity and sport act to support reconciliation and everyone that they would go for a long term.
-Jerome

Recognize the value of Aboriginal healing practices and use them in the treatment of Aboriginal patients

2022-10-31 16:29:32 UTC

it important to respect aboriginal requests for the use of their style of healing to be adopted by students, doctors and nurses. the land we call home used and is theirs's so we have to try and do it. and it's a way of showing respect to their culture. it would not hart to learn aboriginal healing practices because they may even be used on unoriginal people to heal them if needed. hospitals knowing more healing knowledge is great for the community so they should learn it.
king James

#11. "We call upon the federal government to provide adequate funding to end the backlog of First Nations students seeking a post-secondary education."

2022-10-31 16:29:55 UTC

This call is for the Canadian federal government to provide financial aid for the Aboriginal students that want to go into university or college. Canada's federal government invests a budget for Aboriginal peoples to use for secondary education. The budget put out by the federal government in 2019 was $824 million over a 10-year span. However, previous budget was $90 million per year while the 2019 budget comes to $82 million per year. The government has claimed that it is working towards increasing this budget but has continuously not delivered. Possible challenges could be the economic impact covid had as well as the inflation. Yet, the government has continuously not delivered on their claims to increase the budget and has even decreased the budget. Lack of dedication is a very possible reason of why this is. I find this call important because giving Aboriginal peoples the opportunity to succeed in a society that we (white people) forced on them is an obligation.
-Katie

6: Repeal the Spanking Law

2022-10-31 16:30:40 UTC

#6: “We call upon the Government of Canada to repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada.”

This call to action is also known as the spanking law. The spanking law allows the parent or guardian to use “reasonable” force to educate a child. I think that this law should be repealed because of the damage that it could cause children. Even if the force used is “reasonable” it would still have mental damage on a child especially at such a young age. Since this law only allows you to use force against children at the ages of 2 and 12, this law affects many children and can cause problems for them in the future. This law further encourages the use of violence against children by adults who are supposed to be the model for their children. Teaching children through violence isn’t the right way to hand children, it will only cause more harm.
-Gabriel

#57 Educating Public Servants

2022-10-31 16:33:36 UTC

Most of the discrimination that indigenous peoples face happens in public. It happens in line for the cashier, when the police don't take what you say seriously, when you are charged more for the same apartment. That's where most of it happens. Educating Public Servants on indigenous issues could bring great strides of progress, as it is where most of the discrimination happens. The hardship comes in the form of trying to break stereotypes, but if we can teach public servants to respect us, I'm sure the rest of society will follow. -Malachi

#28 "Require all law students to take a course in Aboriginal people and the law."

2022-10-31 16:35:02 UTC

Though it's difficult to explain, many law students can be prejudiced toward Indigenous people because they lack understanding of the culture and loss that many Indigenous people have endured. Having the background information provided by this conversation enables law enforcement to safeguard the subject without passing judgement. People's continued ignorance of this is the main problem. ignoring the minority population and enabling inequity to persist. This is significant because there are numerous incidents of prejudice against Indigenous people in the legal system, particularly when there is a large white judge or audience.
-abby;)

#62: “We call upon the federal, provincial and territorial governments, in consultation and collaboration with Survivors, Aboriginal Peoples and educators to: 1) Make age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, Treaties and Aboriginal peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to Canada, a mandatory education requirement for kindergarten to Grade 12 students. 2) Provide the necessary funding to post-secondary institutions to educate teachers on how to integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into classrooms. 3) Provide the necessary funding to Aboriginal schools to utilize Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods in classrooms. 4) Establish senior-level positions in government, at the assistant deputy minister level or higher, dedicated to Aboriginal content in education.

2022-10-31 16:40:20 UTC

This is an important call that is currently underway. Currently all provinces and territories include Aboriginal people into their curriculum. However, this information is not mandatory, and therefore some schools are reeling back on how much information they provide. For example, In Ontario, the curriculum was mandatory, but as of recent it has been changed to optional content. More recently it has been changed for this content to be mandatory, even providing classes for post-secondary on language and culture. Keeping this content mandatory will educate our generation, past generations, and generations to come about the history of aboriginal people that was never passed on and told, without making it an option for people to ignore. It also will teach about culture and show that they are human beings like the rest of the world. This may also help aboriginal children who struggle learning culture at home, to learn it through school.
-Ash

#7: Eliminate educational and employment gaps

2022-10-31 16:40:36 UTC

THE CALL TO ACTION:
We call upon the federal government to develop with Aboriginal groups a joint strategy to eliminate educational and employment gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

I think that this call to action is really important, because education is a tool that help people in aspects of life. Those who get an education have higher incomes, have more opportunities in their lives, and tend to be healthier. Societies benefit as well. Societies with high rates of education completion have lower crime, better overall health, and civic involvement. Eliminating this education gap would benefit the First Nations community in a very positive way. Next, everyone requires financial assistance. For many people, the biggest advantage of having a job is that it offers a constant source of money. A consistent income might give somebody a sense of stability and security. This is why this Call to Action is important personally, because education will provide First Nations people with better opportunities, for example higher incomes. And having a job makes sure that they have a constant source of income.
- Sybil !

Section 43 Spanking Law

2022-10-31 16:42:44 UTC

Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada has not been repealed. It is about teachers, caregivers, and educators slapping children to discipline them. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2004 that using force against children aged two to twelve cannot be done in rage. Rulers and belts cannot be used to strike the child's head. In December 2015, the Senate presented legislation to remove the spanking law, but it failed on second reading.
- Louejie

#13 Acknowledge that Aboriginal rights include Aboriginal language rights

2022-10-31 16:44:49 UTC

The federal government wrote in a joint statement confirming that Aboriginal rights must include Aboriginal language rights. According to a joint news release from the federal government, the Assembly of First Nations, the Métis National Council, and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the creation and enactment of an Indigenous Languages Act would recognise "First Nations, Inuit, and Métis language rights and jurisdictions" and be "fundamental to Indigenous self-determination." In order to write the Indigenous Languages Act, the federal government conducted a national consultation process, asking Elders, language instructors, and leaders of Indigenous groups for their opinion. This call to action is important because language is very important for the Indigenous people and for it to recognized under Aboriginal rights was necessary for them.

- Lorenzo Butalid

#30: “We call upon the federal, provincial and territorial governments to commit to eliminating the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in custody over the next decade, and to issue detailed annual reports that monitor and evaluate progress in doing so.”

2022-10-31 16:46:53 UTC

This is an important call that has only been proposed. The federal government committed funding for the creation of programs designed to reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in custody. Indigenous people account for roughly five per cent of the population in Canada, but when it comes to federal custody, they now account for more than 30 per cent of the federal inmate population. Indigenous women now account for 42 per cent of women in federal custody. This call will implement more justice and fairness into the court and justice system, to stop the stereotyping and racism towards Aboriginal people that cause them to go into custody. Aboriginal people should be judged on their actions just as everyone else, not on race.
-Ash

#6 Repeal the 'Spanking Law'

2022-10-31 16:50:49 UTC

Section 43, also known as the 'spanking law' allows parents, educators, and caregivers to use force to children as long as it is reasonable under the circumstances. This law hurts more than it helps. Some children go through the trauma of being abused at home and now educators or caregivers are allowed to use force when they misbehave. This law just makes children go through more trauma and will affect how they raise their children.
- Osnec

#26 Review and amend statutes of limitations

2022-10-31 16:51:50 UTC

#26: We call upon the federal, provincial and territorial governments to review and amend their respective statutes of limitations to ensure that they can conform to the principle that governments and other entities cannot rely on limitation defences to defend legal actions of historical abuse brought by Aboriginal people.

This call-to-action talks about the lack of amendments to provincial and territorial statutes of limitation acts regarding the historical abuse against first nations. Furthermore, claims of loss of language or culture as historical abuse have been barred in all provinces. This call to action is important because it gives justice upon the historical abuse against the Indigenous peoples. The law talks about the amendments towards the abuse that the Indigenous people faced.
-Gabriel

#45: Develop a Royal Proclamation of Reconciliation to be issued by the Crown

2022-10-31 16:52:21 UTC

THE CALL TO ACTION:

We call upon the Government of Canada, on behalf of all Canadians, to jointly develop with Aboriginal peoples a Royal Proclamation of Reconciliation to be issued by the Crown.

This call to action is important to me, because it re-affirm the nation-to-nation relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. I think that the Calls to Action are not being completed fast enough, because the time to complete some has already passed, like the Call to Action that was to be completed by Canada's 150 Anniversary Mark that was not finished. I believe that when the Royal Proclamation of Reconciliation is issued by the Crown, it would bring more awareness to the Calls of Action. As a result of more awareness and the Crown's acknowledgement, there would be even more steps taken to reconcile, and the Calls to Action would be achieved a lot faster.
- Sybil !

#5: Develop culturally appropriate parenting programs for Aboriginal families.

athenameiespino — 2022-10-31 16:52:22 UTC

This call to action was to include Community Well-Being and Jurisdiction Initiatives funding "to support First Nations communities to lead the development and delivery of prevention services."
I believe this kind of action should receive an extended funding because some Aboriginal couples have issues that affects their way of raising the children or they needed more education on raising a family's. By this program the parents would be able to learn a proper way to raise their kids and it could also help stop their addiction and heal the mental health problem they have. And they should consider having Aboriginal councilors so that the people who would attend the programs will learn their cultural way of raising a family. -Athena

#69 Library and Archives Canada to adopt UNDRIP, ensure records on residential schools accessible to public

2022-10-31 16:52:57 UTC

-To summarize this discussion with the library and Archives of Canada has not released a statement fully adopting and applying the United Nations Declaration on the rights of the Indigenous peoples, although it to reproduce support of UNDRIP. They are calling for the opening of the province territorial, municipal and community archiving the works of combinedly with the national Centre for truth and reconciliation to identify and control copies of all the records related to the history and legacy of the residential schools. I believe that this is important because the library and Archives of Canada adopting UNDRIP of recording residential schools accessible to the public.
-Jerome

# 18 Recognize and implement the health-care rights of Aboriginal people

2022-10-31 16:54:07 UTC

# 18 Recognize and implement the health-care rights of Aboriginal people means the federal government is creating new legislation to increase Indigenous peoples' access to culturally appropriate health services, but it has not yet implemented the health care rights of Indigenous people. It is very important because each and Aboriginal citizens should have equal health care rights. Health is one of the most important necessities in this nation and each and everyone should get equal health care rights. Many First Nations people do not get equal rights so the government should prioritize health care for indigenous citizens. - Audric Ontario

Aboriginal Right and Language Rights

2022-11-01 00:11:46 UTC

The federal government acknowledged Aboriginal and language rights in 2017. Many Indigenous languages have been lost as a result of residential schools. The Indigenous Language Act will better appreciate and acknowledge Indigenous peoples' rights. The Act creates the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages, which will develop technology tools, record fluent speakers, and fund programmes to restore and sustain fluency in Indigenous languages. The Indigenous languages commissioner, like the official languages commissioner, will be appointed by the federal cabinet for a five-year term.
- Louejie

#74: Inform the families of children who died at residential schools of the child’s burial location

athenameiespino — 2022-11-01 14:28:45 UTC

THE CALL TO ACTION:

We call upon the federal government to work with the churches and Aboriginal community leaders to inform the families of children who died at residential schools of the child’s burial location, and to respond to families wishes for appropriate commemoration ceremonies and markers, and reburial in home communities where requested.

This call to action should be prioritize and should have done years ago. As we all know that residential schools play the big part on Indigenous history it did not only took away their identity and history it also took away their loved ones. And as years goes by, we still find unmarked graves from each province. I believe that before they give a better home to the graves, they should make an investigation and autopsy if it still possible to find out the identity of the deceased. By this procedure the family that they left in this world would be able to recognize them and they would be able to mourn and give prayers. -Athena

# 11 Provide adequate funding for First Nations students seeking post-secondary education

2022-11-01 15:08:42 UTC

Provide adequate funding for First Nations students seeking post-secondary education means that The Post-Secondary Student Support Program and the Inuit and Métis Nation Post-Secondary Student Education Strategies are proposed in Budget 2021, along with $26.4 million in 2021–2022 for COVID–19, to support Indigenous students over a two-year period. The program's goal is to help First Nations provide eligible students with financial aid so they can take advantage of post-secondary education opportunities and better their socioeconomic status. This is in line with the idea that education should be under the jurisdiction of First Nations. This is important because it can helps millions of First Nations Citizens who cannot fund their education for college. As a nation everyone should have get education for the better of their future so funding is a necessity for every First Nations citizens. - Audric <3

18 :Recognize and implement the health-care rights of Aboriginal people

2022-11-14 03:46:45 UTC

We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and Aboriginal governments to acknowledge that the current state of Aboriginal health in Canada is a direct result of previous Canadian government policies, including residential schools, and to recognize and implement the health-care rights of Aboriginal people as identified in international law, constitutional law, and under the Treaties.

On the website for Crown-Indigenous Relations, it is stated that "The Government of Canada acknowledges that the current state of Indigenous health is a direct result of the shameful historical legacy of colonialist policies and interventions against the well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities, including Indian residential schools, the Sixties Scoop and other harmful practises. The effects of Indian residential schools on subsequent generations are amply attested by international and domestic evidence cited in publications by the Government of Canada, and they are expressly acknowledged in partnership agreements with Indigenous governments and representatives.

How it can be improved: By putting methods for removing obstacles into place, the provision of healthcare to indigenous populations can be made better. Some of the best tactics include education and fostering indigenous peoples' faith in the healthcare system
- Bolu. Adejugbe