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Canada’s courts stacked against Indigenous people, prominent lawyer says

“The criminal justice system has always sentenced Indigenous people differently.”

By Thomas Rohner, Nunatsiaq News July 3, 2019
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Jurisdictions such as Nunavut do not sentence Indigenous people fairly, because criminal court judges don’t have the whole story of offenders put in front of them before they pass sentence. That’s according to Jonathan Rudin, a lawyer who is program director of Aboriginal Legal Services in Toronto.

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