e-2160 (Sentences in the Criminal Code)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons
- Aboriginal Healing Lodges are correctional institutions where we use Aboriginal values, traditions and beliefs to design services and programs for offenders;
- We include Aboriginal concepts of justice and reconciliation;
- The approach to corrections is holistic and spiritual. Programs include guidance and support from Elders and Aboriginal communities;
- Canada’s over-incarceration of Aboriginal people is already at crisis level and is a gross injustice;
- Supporting longer prison sentences where there are grossly inadequate rehabilitation and treatment programs offered to prisoners to decrease recidivism;
- Bill S-215 would protect Aboriginal Women from violence and homicide, however our legal system and law enforcement agents are either unable or unwilling to give Aboriginal Women the protection they deserve;
- By implementing mandatory rehabilitation and treatment within Bill S-215, it would be far more successful for all offenders in general; and
- Bill S-215; An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sentencing for violent offences against Aboriginal women), was defeated on April 10, 2019.
- Open for signature
- May 9, 2019, at 5:05 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- August 7, 2019, at 5:05 p.m. (EDT)