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This story about the Canadian justice system is almost unbelievable

By JOHN SEXTON

Monday the Free Press published a story about a growing trend in the Canadian justice system. Simply put, the idea is that when judges issue a sentence they should offer a kind of racial discount for prisoners of indigenous and African descent. The idea has become binding law in at least one province through the use of something called an Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA).

What is an IRCA? It’s a brief document which minority defendants can submit for consideration, essentially arguing that their history as members of a minority group and victim of systemic racism has played a part in whatever crime they’ve been convicted of committing.

The story offers several examples including the story of Edward Smith, a 23-year-old West African immigrant who, back in 2019, agreed to go along on a robbery with his cousin and another man. Smith didn’t have a gun but the other two did. He was arrested and pleaded guilty to two charges. And then a lawyer wrote an IRCA for him. It’s admittedly a rough story: Born in a refugee camp, abandoned by his father when he was one, being poor and not knowing the language in Canada.

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