{"content":[{"text":"2 Surrey Place, \n Toronto ON M5S 2C2 \n 416-925-5141 \n 416-925-3402","bbox":{"left":0.726863,"top":0.047167,"width":0.1919599999999999,"height":0.072727}},{"text":"The Honourable Chrystia Freeland \n Deputy Prime Minister of Canada \n Member of Parliament University-Rosedale","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.167879,"width":0.344854,"height":0.052122}},{"text":"July 8, 2021","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.24197,"width":0.093468,"height":0.015152000000000027}},{"text":"Dear Ms. Freeland,","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.27894,"width":0.151165,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"We are writing today to ask for your urgent attention to the Truth and Reconciliation \n Commission of Canada Calls to Action. As our representative in Ottawa, we respectfully \n request that you advocate for and support the immediate enactment of the recommendations \n from this crucial document.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.315909,"width":0.7531589999999999,"height":0.07060700000000003}},{"text":"Surrey Place is a developmental service agency with our main clinical site in your riding of \n University-Rosedale. We provide a broad range of clinical services to individuals and families \n with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fetal \n Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), and Blind-Low vision in the Toronto area and 25 Indigenous \n communities in Northwestern Ontario through partnerships with the Sioux-Lookout First \n Nations Health Authority and the Lac Seul First Nation Education Authority.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.408334,"width":0.754329,"height":0.10772800000000005}},{"text":"In our work, we have witnessed first-hand the disproportional burden of both physical and \n mental illness and disability experienced by our Indigenous families and communities. In our \n Northwestern Ontario communities, we have seen families with no clean drinking water, \n inadequate housing, and facing extremely high rates of suicide, addictions, and serious mental \n health challenges. In our urban Indigenous communities in Toronto, we have seen how the \n enduring effects of social policies (such as residential schools) have led to intergenerational \n substance abuse, the dissolution of families, and resulting mental health issues being treated \n through our FASD diagnostic clinics.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.537879,"width":0.750964,"height":0.14454600000000006}},{"text":"The confirmation which came on May 27, 2021, that the remains of 215 children were found on \n the site of Kamloops Indian Residential School is a national tragedy. The subsequent \n announcements of an additional 751 unmarked graves found at the Marieval Indian Residential \n school and another 182 unmarked graves found near the former St. Eugene's Mission School, \n with the potential of additional discoveries, further underscores the need for immediate action. \n This news has filled us with grief and has had a profound effect on our country as a whole. It \n reminds us that there is much work to be done.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.704243,"width":0.762399,"height":0.12621300000000013}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.002042,"top":0.84432,"width":0.996078,"height":0.155173},{"left":0.064951,"top":0.048485,"width":0.365033,"height":0.030678},{"left":0.690441,"top":0.047096,"width":0.02549,"height":0.019697},{"left":0.690441,"top":0.081124,"width":0.02549,"height":0.019697},{"left":0.690441,"top":0.099558,"width":0.02549,"height":0.019697}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.002042,"top":0.84432,"width":0.996078,"height":0.155173},{"left":0.064951,"top":0.048485,"width":0.365033,"height":0.030678},{"left":0.690441,"top":0.047096,"width":0.02549,"height":0.019697},{"left":0.690441,"top":0.081124,"width":0.02549,"height":0.019697},{"left":0.690441,"top":0.099558,"width":0.02549,"height":0.019697}]}