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The Canadian Justice System V.s. Aboriginal People - Online Term Paper

The Canadian Justice System V.s. Aboriginal People

Topic: Be it resolved that the Canadian justice system be significantly changed.
The Canadian justice system has failed the Canadian people. It has
failed the aboriginal people of this nation on a massive scale. The flawed
justice system has been insensitive and inaccessible, and has arrested and
imprisoned aboriginal people in grossly disproportionate numbers. Aboriginal
people who are arrested are more likely to be denied bail, spend less time with
their lawyers, and if convicted, are more likely to be incarcerated.

It is not merely that the justice system has failed aboriginal people;
justice has also been denied to them. For more than a century the rights of
aboriginal people ...

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bigot and they have also
been victims of discrimination that is unintended, but is rooted in police and
law.

Two specific incidents in late 1987 and early 1988 clearly illustrate
this unacceptable discrimination. The first of these was the November 1987
trial of two men for the 1971 murder of Helen Betty Osborne in The Pas Manitoba.
While the trial established that four men were present when the young aboriginal
woman was killed, only one of them was ultimately convicted of any crime.
Following the trial, allegations were made that the identity of the four
individuals who has been present at the killing was widely known in the local
community.

On March 9, 1988, J.J. Harper, Executive Director of the Island Lake
Tribal Council, died following an encounter with a City of Winnipeg police
officer. The following day the police department exonerated the officer
involved. Others, particularly those in the province's aboriginal community,
believed that there were many questions ...

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Added: 8/24/2008 09:39:12 PM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 559
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