May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)
S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)
D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)
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you, please.
MS. ROUSSIN: Oh, sorry. You can't hear me. I
was pushing it away, I thought I would be too close.
MS. TAYLOR: You didn't want to sound like me.
MS. ROUSSIN: Yeah. So we, we deliver quite a
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variety of services.
You know, we've really grown since
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our inception and, and that's been very focused and
specific, just knowing that aboriginal people need to be in
a position to deliver services to our aboriginal families
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and that we can do that and we need to do that.
And, you
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know, there's a certain level of capacity within our
aboriginal community to do that, always recognizing that
there can always be more and there can always be
improvement.
I think the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, Ma Mawi
Wi Chi Itata is a, is a phrase, it's Ojibway, and it
translates into we all work together to help one another,
and that phrase is really grounded in this concept of
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reciprocity.
So when the organization was found, it
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recognized that, okay, so we will be some -- we'll, we'll
get some dollars, we'll hire some staff and we'll be these
helpers in the community. But there is such a large job to
do out there that we need to really rely on the community
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to get that job done.
So it's a reciprocal kind of
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relationship in that, you know, there's some things we can
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