2.4 Discussion: What should happen next?
Deirdre Maultsaid and Gregory John
Questions about individual employees
- What should Dale, who has experience navigating the complex issues involved in mining businesses and Indigenous communicating, do?
- Who should he talk to?
- How can Dale protect everyone’s ability to collaborate despite their very different views?
Questions about the organization
- Should SilverRocks hold the community meeting now? What would the implications of postponing be? Who gets to decide?
- Should there be concern for the safety of individual SilverRocks employees, whatever their identities, whatever their roles in the company?
- How should SilverRocks approach the security issue with the communities? What should they do?
- Should SilverRocks discuss the controversial issues with the community? Or should it approach this as a business-as-usual, logistical issue of simply needing a few security personnel?
- Should SilverRocks bring the RCMP to the community meetings? Should it hire its own security force?
Questions about the community
- How should concern for the safety for all the people in the Indigenous communities, including the leadership, elders and youth in the Indigenous communities, be shown?
- Should the community change the approach to consultation? Why? How?
- How can the community and the company listen, even to those that are angry, and hold a different perspective on partnering with the company?
- Should the Indigenous community provide security?
Questions for everyone affected
- How can a standard of care for everyone be maintained? What would it look like?
- Whose role is it to maintain a standard of care and safety?