May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - CR-EX. (MCKINNON) MAY 31, 2013
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decades.
Sorry, I meant to say -- right.
-- with us -- it's been with us for many
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Q One final question. I'm just going to have to
find a document.
THE COMMISSIONER: Do you have an explanation for
that, Doctor?
THE WITNESS: It's probably an incomplete
explanation, but one factor is the high proportion of
aboriginal children in Manitoba's population and the issues
related to deprivation that exist in those communities
that, you know, has contributed to that, to that rate of
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children in care.
It's also related to potentially other
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kinds of sort of related factors, like poverty, housing
and, and, and sort of addictions and related family issues
that flow from these issues, and it's not only aboriginal
children and families; it obviously affects some non-
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aboriginal families as well.
And perhaps what I've
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referred to earlier, a lack of adequate support measures
and initiatives that can help combat that by trying to
provide more family support and community caring types of
services in those communities.
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BY MR. MCKINNON:
Q Okay. Now, the one final theme I wanted to
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