Justice Minister Committed to Repealing Minimum Sentences, Says Will Lower Canada’s Indigenous Imprisonment

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 16, 2022. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press

Justice Minister David Lametti says the Liberal government’s Bill C-5 will reverse the disproportionately high rate of indigenous imprisonment in Canada.

Lametti told The Globe and Mail he expects the incarceration rate to fall once the government implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and passes Bill C-5.