Liberal mandatory minimums bill doesn’t go far enough: Murray Sinclair
Oct 20, 2022 | 3:16 PM
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OTTAWA — The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Liberal legislation to remove some mandatory minimum penalties from the Criminal Code doesn’t go far enough.
Murray Sinclair says Bill C-5 does not go nearly far enough to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black people in the criminal justice system.
He says the government has not provided data to justify a “piecemeal approach” that leaves two-thirds of mandatory minimum penalties in place.
Sinclair made the comments this morning at a hearing of the Senate’s justice committee, which is studying the bill after the House of Commons passed it in June.
