May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - CR-EX. (GINDIN) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - CR-EX. (GINDIN)
S.E. TAYLOR - CR-EX. (GINDIN)
D.M. KNOL - CR-EX. (GINDIN)
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haven't been, if they've been adopted out or something like
that, but they've been treated like an indigenous person
because they look like an indigenous person, right,
regardless of what their environment has been. And then I,
I think that there's also a pretty common indigenous value
base that, as an organization, that we promote, and so when
we hire staff, you know, part of the intervening process is
about that value base, so I like to say that, you know, as
an indigenous, a First Nations woman, the organization that
I'm working for is very lined up with my personal values
and so I think that a lot of the staff would say that as
well, and so the families that come in would feel that, you
know, we would share that perspective and, and value base.
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MR. GINDIN:
So the staff are better able to
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understand what aboriginal families may have been going
through because of their own experiences; that, that would
help?
MS. ROUSSIN: They've -- yeah, they have a common
experience, a common history, yeah.
MR. GINDIN: And the families themselves, who are
mostly aboriginal, you get the feeling that they appreciate
that they're dealing with aboriginal staff who know where
they're coming from?
MS. ROUSSIN: Yes.
MR. GINDIN: Okay. Got you. Okay.
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