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Summary:
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- Systems to support candidates through affirmative action
- Promote our policies and values with various ethnic groups
- Remove barriers ex. cost barriers for youth and others, provide resources and support to run as candidate
- Sharing knowledge on systemic biases and their impact on society
- Reach out to non-profits and community groups
- Get ambassador in each organization
- Get into places we wouldn’t otherwise go
- Connect with local community groups
- Create welcoming and a safe space for people from the different communities
- Review our policies and branding to determine what may appear exclusive
- Address areas where we need to be flexible or look at new policy areas?
- Having patience — engagement can be a long process need to be committed to doing it
- Relationships aren’t easy and require compromise. Some relationships won’t fit but need to make space for people
- Work on our internal culture and learn more about what we don’t know
- Unpack our own privilege and take down barriers from inside
- Use people's own connections through work that we do that is more community-based and increase community connections
- First Nation candidates are important for engaging communities
- Cultural knowledge, get different ideas from different people
- Build relationships with specific communities, be focused and put resources into developing the relationship
- Build bridges with ambassadors and show support for the community
- Bring in people of diverse backgrounds who are focused on business economy
- Talk to tradespeople about our vision for value-added industry and jobs
- Get members out to meet people so they can see what we are actually like
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