QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Justice
Restorative Justice
November 19, 2025
Minister, seeing as your government has reduced spending targets for Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations, in an effort to prove your government’s commitment to reconciliation, will your department also be prioritizing reconciliation through the funding of restorative justice programs that focus on rehabilitation and reintegration for Indigenous offenders?
Thank you. In addition to programs that have the potential to fund the activities of groups who promote this, we have the opportunity to adjust legislative measures that will better address restorative justice. There are certain proposals that we are considering presently to include in upcoming pieces of legislation to address restorative justice.
My own view is the path to reconciliation is going to include more than one-off legislative reforms and more than one-off funding decisions. Thankfully, we benefit heavily from the group of the Indigenous Advisory Council and other tripartite tables that help us with the implementation of the Indigenous Justice Strategy and the UN declaration more broadly. I’m out of time, but this is a conversation deserving more than the 45 seconds we were allotted.
