Nova Scotia’s New ‘Anti-Racism’ Judicial Policy Asks for Special Considerations for Black People

Nova Scotia has introduced a policy altering the way black people are prosecuted in the province’s judicial system to address “systemic anti-black” racism. The policy urges crown attorneys to apply different bail conditions, consider secure custody as “a sentence of last resort,” and lays out how the defence may dismiss jurors as unsuitable due to prejudice. Defence attorney and legal commentator Ari Goldkind told The Epoch Times that Nova Scotia’s newly implemented policy goes beyond other “anti-racism” justice policies in Canada and could mean some crimes “will go essentially unpunished or under-punished.” Mr. Goldkind says the policy overlooks the justice that “victims of these people’s crime deserved, who often are members of that very same community.”...