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Politics This Morning: Feds introduce bill to scrap some mandatory minimum sentences

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Justice Minister David Lametti says mandatory minimums for some drug offences have led to the over-incarceration of Black and Indigenous peoples. 'Indigenous adults represent five per cent of the general population yet account for 30 per cent of federally incarcerated inmates,' he says. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

February 19, 2021

Happy Friday, Justice Minister David Lametti introduced a bill aimed at reversing a decades-long approach to prosecute low-level drug offences by repealing mandatory minimum sentences for some possession charges that, he said, has led to an over-incarceration of Black, In...

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