It's interesting watching people twist progressive policy to suit agenda only to have it backfire on them.
Justice Minister David Lametti has forwarded a motion to amend the criminal justice legislation, Bill C-75, that will require judges to consider harsher sentences in cases of violence against Indigenous women. This appears to be in response to the MMIW commissioner, Marion Buller telling a parliamentary committee this week that homicides involving Indigenous women must be treated automatically as first-degree murder.
Unfortunately, some who are looking at the bigger picture have realized that since studys show that it is aboriginal men that are responsible for about 70% of this domestic violence against aboriginal women, this new amendment to the justice legislation is going to directly contradict other aspects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which calls for less incarceration of indigenous people, including indigenous men. Doh!
Justice Minister David Lametti has forwarded a motion to amend the criminal justice legislation, Bill C-75, that will require judges to consider harsher sentences in cases of violence against Indigenous women. This appears to be in response to the MMIW commissioner, Marion Buller telling a parliamentary committee this week that homicides involving Indigenous women must be treated automatically as first-degree murder.
Unfortunately, some who are looking at the bigger picture have realized that since studys show that it is aboriginal men that are responsible for about 70% of this domestic violence against aboriginal women, this new amendment to the justice legislation is going to directly contradict other aspects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which calls for less incarceration of indigenous people, including indigenous men. Doh!