By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet In the final two weeks of Paul Dub\u00e9\u2019s decade-long tenure as Ontario\u2019s ombudsman, he delivered its first Indigenous Services Plan \u2014 a promise to improve cultural competency and transform how complaints create systemic change. Those he consulted to write the plan are cautiously optimistic. \u201cWhen we have the privilege to occupy these positions for however long we have them, we have a moral duty, we have a moral imperative to address some of these issues,\u201d Dub\u00e9 said of the five-year \u201cherculean\u201d process. \u201cAnd as I look over the landscape of Ontario, I saw no more pressing issue than to contribute to reconciliation and get things moving, in whatever way we can.\u201d His plan proposes \u201cproactive ombudsmanship,\u201d a commitment to take complaints and… <\/p>\n
By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet In the final two weeks of Paul Dub\u00e9\u2019s decade-long tenure as Ontario\u2019s ombudsman, he delivered its first Indigenous Services Plan \u2014 a promise to improve cultural competency and transform how complaints create systemic change. Those he consulted to write the plan are cautiously optimistic. \u201cWhen we have the privilege to occupy these positions for however long we have them, we have a moral duty, we have a moral imperative to address some of these issues,\u201d Dub\u00e9 said of the five-year \u201cherculean\u201d process. \u201cAnd as I look over the landscape of Ontario, I saw no more pressing issue than to contribute to reconciliation and get things moving, in whatever way we can.\u201d His plan proposes \u201cproactive ombudsmanship,\u201d a commitment to take complaints and... <\/p>\n