Abbotsford West's candidates' promises on Human Rights & Equality

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Human Rights & Equality platforms

Here's what the candidates in Abbotsford West, and their parties, are promising.

Accessibility

BC Greens

Introduce a BC Accessibility Act.
Establish a housing office charged with assisting people with disabilities and youth aging-out to find suitable accommodation.

BC Liberals

Increase the supply of fully-accessible housing units for persons with disabilities in newly-built multi-unit residential buildings.
Modernize the BC Building Code to address accessibility.

BC NDP

Work with people across the province to develop and bring in comprehensive accessibility legislation.

Conversion therapy

BC Greens

Ban conversion therapy.

We don't have any BC Liberals policies on Conversion therapy.

We don't have any BC NDP policies on Conversion therapy.

Diversity in government

We don't have any BC Greens policies on Diversity in government.

BC Liberals

Adopt and ensure diversity commitments for hiring in the public service and for government-appointed boards.

BC NDP

Support increased representation of Indigenous, Black, and people of colour within government, and set targets for representation in the public sector.

Gender pay gap

BC Greens

Introduce equal pay legislation.

BC Liberals

Require companies with at least 50 employees to report the compensation paid to categories of male and female employees, via the Equal Pay Reporting Act.

BC NDP

Introduce new pay transparency legislation in an attempt to move towards equal pay for equal work.

Gender-based violence

We don't have any BC Greens policies on Gender-based violence.

BC Liberals

Extend the Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act beyond public post-secondary institutions to all of government.
Adopt Clare's Law, making violent criminal histories open to those at risk, esp. potential partners.

BC NDP

Develop an action plan to end gender-based violence, including minimum standards for sexual assault response.
More training for police, crown council and justices.
Establishing core funding for sexual assault centres.

Immigration

We don't have any BC Greens policies on Immigration.

We don't have any BC Liberals policies on Immigration.

BC NDP

Streamline foreign credential assessments processed by various regulatory bodies and health-related Colleges to make sure immigrants can access job opportunities in their field.

Period poverty

We don't have any BC Greens policies on Period poverty.

We don't have any BC Liberals policies on Period poverty.

BC NDP

Create a multi-sector Period Poverty Task Force to develop a long-term response to period poverty.

Policing

BC Greens

Restart the Police Act review.
Review procedures for wellness checks in consultation with BIPOC and health professionals, with a goal of expanding use of integrated mental health crisis teams.

Restart the police act review [...] This would include a review of: all provincial police force contracts, a comprehensive analysis of funding, the depth of policing activity in BC and the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement.

Review procedures for wellness checks in consultation with Indigenous and BIPOC organizations, with a goal of expanding the use of integrated mental health crisis teams in BC for mental health wellness checks.

Invite the BC Human Rights Commissioner to do a study on the impact of police violence and racial discrimination on Indigenous peoples in BC.

— From _The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC_.

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BC Liberals

Establish more Integrated Mobile Crisis Response Teams to respond to mental health calls.
Require police services to adopt anti-racism & anti-discriminatory conduct policies.
Establish standards to eliminate arbitrary racial-profiling.
Increase use of non-armed police patrols.

BC NDP

Modernize the Police Act based on the recommendations of the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act, prioritizing tackling systemic racism, creating a dedicated hate crime unit within local forces, and reviewing training and procedures for "wellness checks".

Racism

BC Greens

Support better demographic data collection to better understand disparities in our society, for health, education, housing, and employment outcomes in particular.
Carry out the requests of the BC Advisory Committee on the UN Decade for People of African Descent.

BC Liberals

Ensure all government services are free of racism and prejudice, and require all government offices to follow anti-racism policies.

BC NDP

Conduct a full review of anti-racism laws in other jurisdictions and launch a full stakeholder consultation leading to a new Anti-Racism Act.

Systemic discrimination

We don't have any BC Greens policies on Systemic discrimination.

BC Liberals

Require every provincial employee to undertake cultural safety and humility training.

BC NDP

Work with BC's Human Rights Commissioner and stakeholders to introduce legislation to collect race-based data on policing, health care, and education.

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