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B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />

D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)<br />

S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)<br />

D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)<br />

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like the fact that Healthy Child goes from zero to 18, so<br />

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that.<br />

But on another hand, I'm looking at that I don't<br />

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want anybody to be in charge, I want where we come to the<br />

table, where we are valued and respected as an equal<br />

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partner because we do do the front line.<br />

I am so tired of<br />

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being at meetings where we're consulted but it's after the<br />

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fact, to validate what they want to implement.<br />

It's about<br />

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bring us in at the beginning and work with us there.<br />

So I<br />

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would say, if I'm just looking provincially, because I also<br />

have federal funding which brings up a whole bunch of other<br />

different issues, but provincially it would be Healthy<br />

Child because they have the mandate zero to 18 and they do<br />

look, there's enough ministers with a diverse portfolio<br />

there to look holistically at children if it was done in a<br />

good way.<br />

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MS. WALSH:<br />

And so you're saying collaboration<br />

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means being an equal partner?<br />

MS. TAYLOR: Yes.<br />

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MS. WALSH:<br />

Which, of course, is what we heard<br />

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from Shauna MacKinnon and the study that I think probably<br />

many of you participated in, the results of community-based<br />

organizations' views on, I think the topic was<br />

accountability, and you talked about needing to be an equal<br />

partner.<br />

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MS. ROUSSIN:<br />

It was about who gets to define<br />

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