Maamawe - All together: We honour the truth and reconcile for the future.

Goal

Strengthen the City’s relationships with Indigenous communities, leaders and organizations to advance Truth & Reconciliation priorities together.

Objectives

  • Empower all City departments to engage in formal and informal relationships with Indigenous organizations to identify shared priorities and advance long-term planning.
  • Accelerate commitments such as the Anti-Racism and Inclusion Accord.
  • Partner to enhance the consistency and effectiveness of reconciliation commitments.

Goal

Integrate Indigenous perspectives in City services, programs and places.

Objectives

  • Deliver continuous learning and reflection opportunities to support City employees to advance reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
  • Incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into Reconciliation Action Plans for each section.
  • Revise City policies and procedures to enhance access and experiences for Indigenous community members.

Goal

Work toward inclusion, diversity, equity, and respect for all.

Objectives

  • Adopt the *CityStudio approach to address priorities that advance the strategic goal.
  • Improve access to participation in governance and municipal decision-making for historically marginalized people.
  • Enhance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace, as indicated in the Human Resources Strategy.
  • Develop the ability of all City staff to be effective and proactive equity champions.

*CityStudio leverages the skills, knowledge and creativity of City staff, post-secondary students and faculty to co-design experimental projects that contribute to key strategic goals and priorities in an effort to advance sustainability, increase engagement and make the city more liveable.

Key performance indicators

  1. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: Increase in positive response by First Nations, Métis, or Inuk (Inuit) community members to quality of life survey questions.
  2. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: Increase in positive response re: Acceptance of people of all backgrounds.
  3. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: Decrease in positive response re: Experiences with discrimination.
  4. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: % agree racism is a serious issue in Thunder Bay.

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