Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)

Changing the Relationship: Draft Action Plan

December 8, 2021

The territory’s 150-page plan, titled Changing the Relationship, details 93 actions the territorial government plans to take to address colonialism and racial and gendered discrimination in its departments, agencies, and policies. Outcomes listed in the plan include improving the territory’s relationship with Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people by establishing trust and accountability and focusing on person-centred services.
Actions in the plan address calls for justice focused on culture and language, health and wellness, human security, and the justice system. Some of the work is already under way, like:

  • plans to develop a managed alcohol program
  • build a permanent wellness and recovery centre
  • provide cultural awareness and sensitivity training, and
  • support land-based activities such as the take-a-kid-trapping program.
  • promoting Indigenous worldviews, cultures, and languages in schools
  • Indigenous recruitment and retention
  • establishing patient advocates in Inuvik, Hay River, Fort Smith, and Yellowknife
  • a suicide prevention and crisis response network
  • a medical detox program; and
  • missing persons legislation.

https://www.eia.gov.nt.ca/sites/eia/files/16352_gnwt_mmiwg_action_plan_8.5x11in_web.pdf