Hi Betty Lou,
- just to be clear I was re-posting the thoughts of http://apihtawikosisan.com/
- yah, quite the revealing world out there in the internet of where people are...at. I do worry sometimes how organizations become afraid of being open to hearing such thoughts and comments due to "key organizational message" control imperatives, liability and branding problems. We actually need to know, what is "out there," and that it can be ordered/bounded. But hey I think we are getting off topic of what apihtawikosisan is advocating for.
- Her call, that there is danger of bafflegab by not bothering to actually enter the world and depth that the TRC is bringing us to, by not at least starting to engage in the report itself is such a valid one. This is especially true, if anyone can remember... the not so long ago Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/...ations/prb9924-e.htm - super focused and comprehensive guide to "change" at policy and the front line, yet continues to drift away from the relevance in government and policy planning. I remember even a few years after the final report sitting in a federal government department seeing glazed eyes on the relevance of RCAP to next steps on homelessness planning.
- I am going on. I bring the same view to the work on the Mental Health Commission Recommendations http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/...rep/rep02may06-e.htm such as coordination and building of services in government that advance Recovery and still see the glazed eyes, in amongst happily, the occasional pocket of twinkling ones.