And the last for that section was a priority so again more funding to DIO in order to fully implement mandate, mandated, with the AMA, sorry. Lucia: Next up is Lillian's table. Table #6: Lillian Shaw Okay for the development process, we there's not nearly enough awareness of the standards development and implementation, unless you're involved. We think that it seems like a pretty slow process with delays, and not really sure why, many not at all aware that they have to do the full implementation of the standard by November 1st. There's a huge lack of communication. Okay. The SMD [Society for Manitobans with Disabilities] is doing a train the trainer program tomorrow, as well as other days, and they'll be able to go out to different organizations and businesses and teach them the standard. MLPD [Manitoban League for Persons with Disabilities] also has a consultation business and supports to help create the accessibility policies, as well as the customer service standard. We think that there needs to be communication between all of the different stakeholders. We there's a giant concern that smaller and not for profit businesses that don't have HR [Human Resources] departments are going to be able to effectively develop and implement their policies. We think that they all need support and tools to meet the deadlines on development and implementation, and a lot more clarity is needed. In terms of implementation, we think that the province should be doing a lot more promotion of the existing services like SMD and MLPD do to enable the implementation. There isn't really a cookie cutter approach, different people with different forms of disabilities are going to need a lot of different accommodations and we're concerned that a lot of people don't know if and what they're going to be expecting. We think that this is going to be a movement forward to Manitoba being a lot more inclusive and it's really important and critical that legislation that a
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
November, then the minister is required to table that report in the legislature so it will become a public document for everyone to see. So once again thank you all again for participating, your input is going to help inform and strengthen the effectiveness of the Accessibility for Manitobans Act. the wonderful sunshine for the rest of the day. [12:30PM - Event ends]