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Podcast: The Rodgers Brief
Episode: What It Means for the MCC to be “Trauma-Informed”
Description: There are seven sections in the matching Federal and Provincial Orders in Council which established the Mass Casualty Commission and gave it a mandate. The Orders set out a list of issues to be explored, set deadlines, give the Commissioners power to enact procedures, and they also give direction that the whole enterprise be “guided by restorative principles in order to do no further harm, be trauma-informed, and be attentive to the needs of and impacts on those most directly affected and harmed”. For many, it may be unclear what, if any, legal effect those words may have. Trauma-informed court...