SHOULD THERE BE SPECIAL RULES FOR SENTENCING BLACK OFFENDERS LIKE THERE IS FOR INDIGENOUS OFFENDERS? – Social change is always controversial however in a country with a fundamental principle that no-one is above the law and that the law applies equally to all, should there be special rules for disadvantaged minorities? We know what’s next. “What about” refugee groups, LGBTTQQIAAP communities and every other identifiable historically disadvantaged groups?

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‘When it comes to black people, the sentencing seems to be consistently void of any consideration of that additional source of disadvantage that they face’

Source: Ontario case could set special rules for sentencing black offenders, similar to Gladue for Indigenous people