Commentary
Provincial justice ministers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are urgently calling on the federal government to “convene a bail reform summit to address the increasing level of violence faced by Canadians.” Other provincial justice ministers have voiced similar concerns.
What is going on?
The immediate concern is bail reform. But it is part of an ongoing racially based strategy of the Supreme Court and federal government of attempting to reduce the high rate of incarceration of indigenous offenders (and now, black offenders) by the simplistic and wrong-headed method of releasing indigenous accused with records of violence where others would not be released, sentencing indigenous offenders to shorter jail terms than others would receive, and paroling dangerous offenders—or simply not using jail terms at all for violent offences….