Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[Jarnhamar]

631 First Nations ...
Any ideas re: how many you think would make more sense?

Zero ideas. Anytime a First Nation is offended about something it's an automatic attack on reconciliation. It's turned into a gun that gets pointed at everyone.

If you had 631 representatives on that council some Nations would be offended they don't get a bigger say because they have % more people or land.

The best thing PM Carney can do is plow ahead with projects that benefit Canada and all Canadians. FN benefit from a strong and productive Canada.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Zero ideas. Anytime a First Nation is offended about something it's an automatic attack on reconciliation. It's turned into a gun that gets pointed at everyone.

An (essential) veto that dare not speak its own name in government circles.

If you had 631 representatives on that council some Nations would be offended they don't get a bigger say because they have % more people or land.

Ask the Assembly of First Nations how easy it is to reach consensus among that many delegates

The best thing PM Carney can do is plow ahead with projects that benefit Canada and all Canadians. FN benefit from a strong and productive Canada.

Ideally for sure, but FNs - like workers at some companies - will say good economic times for Canada as a whole =/= consistently good economic times for FNs. I don’t have the answer either, but it’ll bear watching .

 

[lenaitch]

In a world that made a bit of sense, they could establish an advisory pool covering all areas of the country, either by treaty or ethnic 'tribe (there are a lot fewer 'ethnic groups than 'nations') plus Inuit (I'm purposely ignoring Metis) which could be drawn on depending on who is impacted by a particular project (i.e. Treaty 5 and Inuit for the Port of Churchill project). It would make logical sense, but would never work since they all claim to represent Turtle Island. We have created the problem by establishing a nation-to-nation relationship with individual communities, many of which have populations in the few hundreds. Canada didn't sign a treaty with Moose Factory or Poplar Hill FN, they signed Treaty 9 covering most of far-northern Ontario.

Many nations govern by consensus, so basically every single FN member claims a vote. If you've ever been to a FN council meeting, everybody gets a chance to talk. Whether anything is ever decided upon seems secondary to everybody being able to have a say.

Layer onto that the fact that some FN communities are divided between traditional (i.e. hereditary) and elected (i.e. 'white man's) leadership.

At the end of the day, in the vast majority of cases, money will talk. It's a bit of a shakedown.

 

[MilEME09]

Carney government to table bill proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences this week: source

Carney government to table bill proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences this week: source

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will introduce a bill this week proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences aimed at protecting people accessing places of worship, religious or cultural buildings, and schools.

www.ctvnews.ca

House is coming back and it sounds like criminal justice reform is on the menu

 

[Navy_Pete]

Carney government to table bill proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences this week: source

Carney government to table bill proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences this week: source

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will introduce a bill this week proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences aimed at protecting people accessing places of worship, religious or cultural buildings, and schools.

www.ctvnews.ca

House is coming back and it sounds like criminal justice reform is on the menu

There is also some intentions for bail reforms as well, see what the details look like but seems like reasonable updates.

I'm sure PP will be full of criticism regardless of the content. Some of the things Carney did was right out of their platform and somehow still had complaints that it was the wrong thing. It seems like reality matters a lot less then soundbites for their own crowd, even if it's straight out lies, spin or a 180 on their position.

 

[Jarnhamar]

We need bail reform before we need new criminal code offenses.

 

[Maxman1]

Or more specifically, we need to undo the reform we didn't need in the first place.

 

[daftandbarmy]

We need bail reform before we need new criminal code offenses.

There's the whole 'soft on crime' position too, of course...

Liberals’ soft-on-crime approach undermining Canadian law and order​

The Trudeau government introduced two pieces of legislation that significantly altered Canada’s justice system. Bill C-5 repealed the country’s mandatory minimum sentences for serious violent crimes and extended judicial discretion for sentencing that could take into account ethnicity and socio-economic background for those persons found guilty. Bill C-75 made it easier for serious repeat offenders to obtain bail quickly, including those charged with gun crimes, sexual assault, and other violent offences. This legislation also made it incumbent upon the prosecutors to prove that denying bail is justified. It established the principle of restraint, that a judge must release the accused “at the earliest of opportunity” on the “least onerous conditions,” regardless of the circumstances of the offender and the offense.

The effect of the Liberals’ sentencing policies can be found in the country’s crime data. A statistical comparison of urban centres in Canada and the United States completed by the Fraser Institute last year showed that both overall violent crime rates and property crime rates are now higher in Canada than in the U.S. cities like New York, L.A. and Detroit. The overall violent crime rate in Canada including murder, robbery and assault with a weapon was 434.1 crimes per 100,000 in 2022, a 43.8 per cent increase from 2014. By comparison, the U.S. violent crime rate in 2022 was 380.7 crimes per 100,000, a total of 14 per cent lower than in Canada. Also, the national figures for property crimes, which include burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, etc., are 27.5 per cent higher in Canada than in the U.S.

Liberals’ soft-on-crime approach undermining Canadian law and order

The Liberal government’s “soft-on-crime approach” to Canadian law and order has left many Canadians feeling threatened, insecure, and less safe on their city’s streets – and in their residential neighbourhoods. The data and a constant stream of serious, lawless incidents reveals that criminals...

niagaraindependent.ca

 

[Maxman1]

Some of the things Carney did was right out of their platform and somehow still had complaints that it was the wrong thing.

That's mostly because they did it in a very half ass manner that didn't actually address the problem.

 

[Eaglelord17]

Carney government to table bill proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences this week: source

Carney government to table bill proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences this week: source

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will introduce a bill this week proposing new hate-related Criminal Code offences aimed at protecting people accessing places of worship, religious or cultural buildings, and schools.

www.ctvnews.ca

House is coming back and it sounds like criminal justice reform is on the menu

So basically what our Intimidation law already covers but is never used for.