2018 PROGRESS UPDATE ON

THE RECOMMENDATIONS

FIRST NATIONS YOUTH INQUEST:

Why We’re Late with the Two Year Report Card

1. The parties agreed to file their annual progress report by the endof June. Canada did not provide us their report until late July,

and Ontario not until August 14th.

2. The delay in getting responses pushed our process into the fall,and we were very busy with other matters in late September and October.

3. As we were getting ready to present the report card in lateNovember, we became aware that the OIPRD Report on the

Thunder Bay Police Service would be released in early December -we felt it was best to wait.

4. Once the OIPRD Report came out, we needed to speak with ourclients to get their comments and instructions.

If parties meet their deadlines for filing their Year 3 progressreports by the end of June, we will issue a Year 3 Report Card in

August or September this year.

145 RECOMMENDATIONS PROGRESS

2017 2018

44% InProgress

7% NothingDone

49%Complete

15%Complete

61% InProgress

24%Nothing

Done

OVERALL PROGRESS

2017 2018

35Nothing

Done

88In

Progress

22Complete

10Nothing

Done

64In

Progress

71Complete

LONG TERM

17 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017 2018

100% InProgress

71% InProgress

29%Nothing

Done

MEDIUM TERM

40 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017 2018

58% InProgress

5% NothingDone

37%Complete

75% InProgress

25%Nothing

Done

SHORT TERM

88 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017 2018

27% InProgress

9%Nothing

Done64%Complete

52% InProgress

23%Nothing Done

25%Complete

GRADING SYSTEM OVERVIEW

Purpose: Purpose is to quantify the progress of each organization.

Each organization will receive a % based on the actual progress

compared to the expected progress of each project.

Percentages will be found using a points system to compare the recommendedduration with the actual progress of assigned projects.

Formula used:Percentage grade for party N = (Actual Result/ Expected Result)

Ideal point assigned for each recommendation time-frame:

POINTS SYSTEMLong-Term Complete 6

Long-Term In-Progress 5Medium-Term Complete 4

Medium-Term In-Progress 3 Short-Term Complete 2

Long-Term Nothing Done 1Medium-Term Nothing Done 0

Short-Term In-progress -1Short-Term Nothing Done -2

Short-Term Complete: 2 PointsMedium-Term, In Between Complete and

In-Progress: 3.5 PointsLong-Term In-Progress: 5 Points

Individual Party Grade

EXPECTED RESULT = (Total number of short-term goals for party N x 2)

+ (Total number of medium-term goals for party N x 3.5) + (Total number of long-term goals for party N x 5)

ACTUAL RESULT = (Actual number of time-frame and progress combination for party N)

x (Point assigned to that time-frame and progress combination)

PARTY N GRADE = ACTUAL RESULT ÷ EXPECTED RESULT

Overall Grade

OVERALL GRADE =

THE SUM OF ALL PARTIES’ ACTUAL RESULTS ÷

THE SUM OF ALL PARTIES’ EXPECTED RESULTS

GRADING FORMULA

A + 90%-100%

A 85%-89%

A - 80%-84%

B + 76%-79%

B 73%-75%

B - 70%-72%

C + 67%-69%

C 64%-66%

C - 60%-63%

D + 55%-59%

D 50%-54%

F 0 – 49%

GRADES

THUNDER BAY POLICE SERVICE

There were 10 recommendations directed to the TBPS, some hadmultiple sub-recommendations.

TBPS has been very diligent in addressing the recommendations.

In December 2018, the Office of the Independent Police ReviewDirector (OIPRD) released Broken Trust - Indigenous People

and the Thunder Bay Police Service.

The report specifically looked at the TBPS’ investigation of four ofthe deaths examined at the inquest:

Jethro Anderson (M.N. in the report)OIPRD Concluded:

“We do not know how M.N. came to his death. We do know that wecannot solely rely on the investigation that has been conducted to date

in determining how he came to his death or an evaluation wethercriminal charges are warranted. A reinvestigation is necessary.” (p. 142)

Curran Strang (O.P. in the report)OIPRD Concluded:

“The requirements laid out in the Adequacy Standards of Ontario forthe investigation of suspicious deaths were not fulfilled here.” (p. 145)

Kyle Morrisseau (Q.R. in the report)OIPRD Concluded:

“Many investigative steps called for in this ‘suspicious death’ investigationwere not completed as mandated by Adequacy Standards and best practice.

As such, TBPS is not in a position to rule out foul play in this death.Therefore, it should be reinvestigated.” (p. 148)

Jordan Wabasse (S.T. in the report)OIPRD Concluded:

“Based on Police Adequacy Standards for the Province of Ontario,including the requirements of the Criminal Investigation Management

Plan, this investigation was incomplete and should be reinvestigated.” (p.151)

More generally, the OIPRD concluded:

“The failure to conduct adequate investigations and thepremature conclusions drawn in these cases is, at least in part,attributable to racist attitudes and racial stereotyping.” (p. 182)

The jury at the inquest was not able to look at the adequacy of theinvestigations into the deaths of the seven youth, nor was it able to probe

into the extent to which racism - direct and systemic - had an impacton the work of the TBPS. If they had known then what we know now,it is obvious that they would have made additional recommendations

involving the TBPS.

Under these circumstances, we have decided to not give a grade to theTBPS with regard to its work on addressing the jury’s recommendations.

We are keeping track of their progress and it is contained in the supporting documents that are available on our website. We have also considered the work of the TBPS when calculating the overall grade for all the parties in

meeting the jury’s recommendations.

When the Thunder Bay Police Service has completed its work ingaining the trust of the Indigenous community in Thunder Bay,

we will return to provide a grade for the work of the Service.

CANADA

81 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 51% (D) 2018: 71% (C+)B- (-Late Penalty) = C+

53% InProgress

7% NothingDone

40%Complete

48% InProgress

43% NothingDone

9%Complete

ONTARIO

61 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 67% (C+) 2018: 75% (B)B+ (-Late Penalty) = B

52% InProgress48%

Complete

74% InProgress

11%Complete

15%Nothing

Done

CITY OF THUNDER BAY

34 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 67% (C+) 2018: 80% (A-)10% In

Progress6%

NothingDone

84%Complete

74% InProgress

3%Nothing

Done

23%Complete

NISHNAWBE ASKI NATION

26 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 68% (C+) 2018: 72% (B-)

36% InProgress

4%Nothing

Done

60%Complete19%

NothingDone

50% InProgress

31%Complete

MATAWA LEARNING CENTRE

24 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 82% (A-) 2018: 72% (B)

4%Nothing

Done

33% InProgress

63%Complete

42%Complete

4%Nothing

Done

54% InProgress

NORTHERN NISHNAWBE EDUCATION COUNCIL & DENNIS FRANKLIN CROMARTY HIGH SCHOOL

25 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 80% (A-) 2018: 96% (A+)13% In

Progress

4%Nothing

Done

83%Complete

60% InProgress

4%Nothing

Done

36%Complete

KEEWAYTINOOK OKIMAKANAK

22 RECOMMENDATIONS

2017: 85% (A) 2018: 96% (A+)18% In

Progress

82%Complete

59% InProgress

41%Complete

OVERALL GRADE

2017:67% C+

2018:77% B+