The goal, ironically, was to make the justice system fairer for accused Indigenous criminals

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Our friends at the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) published some important data over the weekend with respect to Indigenous female victims of crime. This is perhaps the most-discussed group of crime victims in recent Canadian history, culminating in the 2019 report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). And yet, the IJB analysis found, their criminal assailants tend to get off easier than when the victim is non-Indigenous.

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Three-quarters of those found guilty of killing an Indigenous woman were convicted of manslaughter between 2019 and 2025, the IJB reported, versus one-quarter of those found guilty of killing a non-Indigenous woman, for whom a murder conviction was much more likely. Similarly, alleged killers of non-Indigenous women were considerably more likely to be charged with first-degree murder.

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