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Similarly, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, calls to action 50–52 seek for the improvement of equity for Indigenous peoples within the Canadian legal system. [32] In 2018, the Canadian federal government issued a report on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security's investigation on Indigenous ...
The first is the term "provincial court", which has two quite different meanings, depending on context. The first, and most general meaning, is that a provincial court is a court established by the legislature of a province, under its constitutional authority over the administration of justice in the province, set out in s. 92(14) of the Constitution Act, 1867. [2]
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case is a 2019 nonfiction book by Kent Roach, a law professor at the University of Toronto [1] about the trial of Gerald Stanley, who was found not guilty of the 2016 killing of Colten Boushie—a twenty-two-year-old resident of the Red Pheasant First Nation by an all-white jury in an infamous court case in ...
The Justice Minister said families seeking answers over deaths deserve to be ‘treated with more respect and dignity’. Legacy Act has caused ‘huge problems’ in justice system – Naomi Long ...
A series of miscarriages of justice in Canada have led to reforms of the country's criminal justice system. In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was convicted of raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl. Originally sentenced to death by hanging, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was released on parole in 1969, and was freed from ...
The final report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry was presented in the fall of 1991, and made 296 recommendations in total. [1] [5] In its first page, the report summarized the relationship between Indigenous people and the justice system: [6] The justice system has failed Manitoba’s Aboriginal people on a massive scale.
There are a number of constitutional rights guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that can affect criminal sentencing: Section 7 states "everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." Since most ...
Donald Marshall Jr. (13 September 1953 – 6 August 2009) was a Mi'kmaq man who was wrongly convicted of murder. The case inspired a number of questions about the fairness of the Canadian justice system, especially given that Marshall was Aboriginal; as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation put it, "The name Donald Marshall is almost synonymous with 'wrongful conviction' and the fight for ...