Correctional investigator’s scathing report illustrates Canada’s refusal to protect its own citizens

Reconciliation demands that we deconstruct the status quo. Listen closely, central agencies and parliamentarians: reconciliation demands two things of you, first, you are asked to learn more to do better, and second, this is going to cost some funds. If it were your kids, would you fight for it?

Last week the Office of the Correctional Investigator issued a scathing report on the state of Indigenous people in federal prisons. It’s bad. The overall proportion of Indigenous people is at 30 per cent, and for Indigenous women the figure is even higher.Photograph courtesy Pixabay

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

January 27, 2020

OTTAWA—Is reconciliation dead? Last week the Office of the Correctional Investigator issued a scathing report on the state of Indigenous people in federal prisons. It’s bad. The overall proportion of Indigenous people is at 30 per cent, and for Indigenous women the figure is even higher. About...

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