Indigenous Overrepresentation in the Canadian Criminal Justice System LITERATURE

First Nations persons accounted for 2.8% of the population of Canada, Metis persons accounted for 1.7% of the population of Canada, and Inuit persons accounted for 0.2% of the population of Canada. [...] However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders account for less of the total population of Australia than do the Indigenous persons of Canada, the problem of Indigenous overrepresentation in corrections is more severe in Australia. [...] In 2015, the federal government committed to removing the barriers that were delaying or preventing the creation of more Healing Lodges as per one of the calls for action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Office of the Auditor General of Canada, 2017). [...] Office of the Correctional Investigator               A significant government effort has been the focus of the Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada on Indigenous persons in federal corrections. [...] We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial governments to commit to the recognition and implementation of Aboriginal justice systems in a manner consistent with the Treaty and Aboriginal rights of Aboriginal peoples, the Constitution Act, 1982, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, endorsed by Canada in November 2012.