QUESTION PERIOD — Justice
Canada's Black Justice Strategy
March 26, 2026
You have heard me talk about the Black Justice Strategy many times in this place. The Arbour report didn’t make any recommendations with regard to Black people and their needs, but the Arbour report and the Black Justice Strategy have some things in common: Smart people took the time to provide great recommendations for us to do better, and these are reports requiring action.
How is the government going to do better to implement recommendations made to improve the well-being of people in the custody of Correctional Service Canada?
In February 2025, the Government of Canada published Toward Transformative Change: an Implementation Plan for Canada’s Black Justice Strategy. Notably, the government made a 10-year commitment to necessary, on-the-ground, transformative change in order to reduce the overrepresentation of Black people in the criminal justice system, including victims of crime.
The commitment is concretized by five pillars of action, backed by $276 million in government spending.
