INDIGENOUS WOMEN VICTIMS – are going to be a special class of victim. Offences against them will bring a harsher sentence. Justice Burstein’s granting a conditional discharge for impaired driving to an indigenous woman is entirely consistent with this policy. But it seems inconsistent with the Gladue principles applicable to victimized indigenous men who already suffer higher rates of incarceration.

Justice Minister David Lametti said Monday that the changes to the bill are ‘in the spirit of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls’

Source: Government to accept Criminal Code changes pushing for harsher sentences in crimes against Indigenous women

WHICH JORDAN LIMIT APPLIES?

Which of the JORDAN presumptive ceilings of unreasonable delay is applicable is not determined by whether it is a one-step or two-step proceedings but simply by whether the trial proceeds in the Ontario Court or the Superior Court.
 
http://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2019/2019ONCA0600.pdf
 

ALCOHOL IS A UNIQUE SUBSTANCE in that it is well studied and the results of consumption are very predictable. Other drugs are not the same in that every drug affects every person differently. We can’t equate the effects of marijuana consumption with the effects of alcohol consumption on driving impairment. The underlying assumptions are not valid. They are not the same.

Source: A Majority of Consumers Don’t Think Cannabis Impairs Their Driving