May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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aboriginal people, as factors that, that affect the health
and wellbeing of, of those people.
Q Okay. In, in the chapter you cite some fairly
startling statistics.
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Right.
Now, this was published in 2010 so I understand
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some of these might be a little bit dated but I want to go
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through some of them with you.
The statistics, I
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understand, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but
they're meant to explain why there's such, at least in part
why there's such a serious over-representation of
aboriginal children in the child welfare system in Canada
as well as, as in Manitoba in particular; is that right?
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That is correct.
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Q Okay. So in terms of the statistics themselves,
and I'm not going to -- I have the document up on the
screen, they're referred to in pages 127 to 129 of the
chapter, and I'll just sort of summarize them rather than
going through them in the, in the chapter itself.
Firstly, in 2003, INAC, which found that
nationally 5.5 percent of all First Nations children living
on reserve were reported to be in child welfare care.
THE COMMISSIONER: What, what percent?
MR. OLSON: Five point five percent.
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