BLAC, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) urge Parliament to:
- amend Bill C-5 to remove all mandatory minimums,
- remove the ban on conditional sentences for offences with a mandatory minimum penalty
- allow trial judges to depart from mandatory minimum sentences and restrictions on the use of conditional sentences
- amend s. 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code to include specific reference to Black defendants
- fully decriminalize simple drug possession, and provide automatic expungement of criminal records for simple drug possession
Read our full submissions here or a summary of our submissions here.
