then how are we supposed to do anything? That brings me to my second point, more engagement. I think the people in this room are very willing to be engaged, willing to be a part of that process, obviously you came out, I think we need to engage people more, we need to use that resource of these people who obviously are willing to be involved in this and use that to our advantage and the government's advantage, I should be specific in that way. And then third and kind of finally I think, we need to provide more resources, this was a huge discussion in the way we were talking and all the different points. I think that kind of came through with a lot of other peoples' conversations but these resources are incredibly important. I think there was a point in our table that I will say is, we talked about, it's not necessarily all about creating new resources but rather re-allocating resources like, the government tells us that this is a priority for them so potentially reallocating some of those resources to make that show that this is a priority for them is incredibly important. I think that's kind of our great message. Okay, Anupam’s table, is Anupam here? Uh, do we have a mic, for our rapporteur? You're live, you're live. Table #9: Anupam Sharma Sorry, first of all thank you to Lucia for acknowledging our land, obviously I'm first nations and we're on treaty 1 territory but I'd like to make a point that we're all treaty people because we're nation to nation and everybody's a party to those treaties. So one of the first things we were talking about on the standards was the timeline, everyone said that so I’m not going to repeat that. But being first nations we're also under federal jurisdiction, that was my big question when we got an email about this. I work under Jordan's Principal in Little Saskatchewan. I am a nurse and the case coordinator and manager, but I was going to point out there's a lot of barriers for us between what the province has and what the feds do and that, we kept repeating that here. The cost of the implementation for us to provide accessibility, for example for wheelchairs, is very expensive because our capital dollars are always tied
then how are we supposed to do anything? That brings me to my second point, more engagement. I think the people in this room are very willing to be engaged, willing to be a part of that process, obviously you came out, I think we need to engage people more, we need to use that resource of these people who obviously are willing to be involved in this and use that to our advantage and the government's advantage, I should be specific in that way. And then third and kind of finally I think, we need to provide more resources, this was a huge discussion in the way we were talking and all the different points. I think that kind of came through with a lot of other peoples' conversations but these resources are incredibly important. I think there was a point in our table that I will say is, we talked about, it's not necessarily all about creating new resources but rather re-allocating resources like, the government tells us that this is a priority for them so potentially reallocating some of those resources to make that show that this is a priority for them is incredibly important. I think that's kind of our great message. Okay, Anupam’s table, is Anupam here? Uh, do we have a mic, for our rapporteur? You're live, you're live. Table #9: Anupam Sharma Sorry, first of all thank you to Lucia for acknowledging our land, obviously I'm first nations and we're on treaty 1 territory but I'd like to make a point that we're all treaty people because we're nation to nation and everybody's a party to those treaties. So one of the first things we were talking about on the standards was the timeline, everyone said that so I’m not going to repeat that. But being first nations we're also under federal jurisdiction, that was my big question when we got an email about this. I work under Jordan's Principal in Little Saskatchewan. I am a nurse and the case coordinator and manager, but I was going to point out there's a lot of barriers for us between what the province has and what the feds do and that, we kept repeating that here. The cost of the implementation for us to provide accessibility, for example for wheelchairs, is very expensive because our capital dollars are always tied
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