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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it, and we're trying to create pathways into the civic
system for our aboriginal youth to be -- because there was
barriers all over the place before and we're trying to pull
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those barriers down.
So -- you know, and that's where
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people are at.
school --
People want to work, they want to go to
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MS. WALSH: Sure.
MS. ROUSSIN: -- they want to do better. They
don't, you know, want to just sort of be sitting there
taking all the time, and so how do we do that as
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organizations and how does the funding fit that?
It
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doesn't really.
We just have to be really creative about
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how we make that work.
MS. WALSH:
So you need more funding for
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prevention on sustained basis?
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MS. ROUSSIN:
Yes, like the -- also funding
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levels.
Like again, the -- you know, if we look -- if I
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compare any of our workers to folks who are in the child
welfare system, the wage parity, oh, it's ridiculous, you
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know.
Like, we can't pay our people the way -- and, you
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know, and I don't have a turnover issue at Ma Mawi, I think
it's because the way we deliver the service, but man, I pay
my people poorly. Like, it would be nice to be able to pay
them properly.
MS. WALSH: Thank you.
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