司法部长布拉德·约翰斯（Brad Johns）在周年纪念活动中发表讲话，并更新非洲新星斯科舍省研究所的地位。照片：马修·拜德（Matthew Byard）。
The African Nova Scotian Justice Institute held a meet and greet Tuesday with representatives from a number of government departments and the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD) to talk about the next steps in the institute’s work.
自前自由党政府宣布将在该研究所支出的480万美元以来，周二标记了一年，这将支持非洲新斯科舍省与法律接触。该研究所的工作还旨在帮助解决司法系统中过度占代表性和反黑人种族主义。
非洲新斯科舍省司法学院的代理总监罗伯特·赖特（Robert Wright）说：“司法学院还活着，早就活了。”“但是一年前，我们确实标志着研究所与省政府之间存在的正式伙伴关系。这令人兴奋，值得庆祝。”
省级司法部长,布拉德·约翰斯。照片:马tthew Byard
司法部长布拉德·约翰斯（Brad Johns）周二参加活动。被任命为部长后，司法部审查了包括该研究所在内的计划，这些计划是在前政府领导下的。
“而且，DOJ，我本人和总理的工作人员之一就是认识到司法研究所是需要保留的计划之一，这对社区和Nova Scotians都是有益的。”
该研究所的成员说，他们仍在雇用律师和员工并获得办公空间。他们仍在致力于正式发布日期。
非洲诺瓦斯科舍省司法学院members, lawyers Michelle Williams and Brandon Rolle. Photo: Matthew Byard.
Speaking with the Halifax Examiner Tuesday, Brandon Rolle, a lawyer who works for the institute, said the institute will have a law firm with full-time lawyers on staff, a justice strategy working group implementation team, and a forensic assessment treatment unit.
他说，该律师事务所的运作方式与法律援助的行动不同。
罗尔说：“我们不会询问人们的财务资格。”“如果您是非洲血统，居住在新斯科舍省，处理刑事司法系统，我们将尽最大努力为您提供帮助并代表您。”
The justice working group predates the institution itself and was first在ANSDPAD的伞下成立为工作组。Rolle是司法工作组的成员。通过ANSDPAD，司法工作组能够游说政府实施沃特利报告，沃特利报告是该省合法禁止警察街头支票的催化剂。
The justice working group then lobbied and worked with both the Liberal and PC governments to have the ban amended making “reasonable suspicion” the legal standard in justifying police officers being able to detain citizens and/or record their information into police databases. That change essentially在街道检查禁令中关闭了“漏洞”。
“So when the minister earlier was talking about programs: What does African Nova Scotian restorative justice look like? Can we get African Nova Scotian court support workers? What would a bail supervision team look like?” said Rolle, with respect to the justice strategy working group implementation team.
“非洲新斯科舍省的过渡工人是什么，因为人们从拘留中过渡到社区。那是什么样的？所有这些计划确实将被安置在该司法策略支柱中。”
“然后，第三个支柱是法医评估治疗部门，目前负责种族和文化评估的影响[IRCAS]。因此，这些ircas都在那个雨伞下完成。”
去年，罗尔成功争辩并维持了量刑一个黑人在宣判后接受IRCA后被枪支指控的社区判决。
ANSDPAD聘请Rolle在该省的最高法院辩论此案，该案件通过维护该判决并在该省判处非洲人血统的人以犯有刑事罪行时，做出了先例的决定。
去年审查员与塞西尔·布特利尔（Cecil Botilier），，，，a formerly incarcerated Black Nova Scotian. Boutilier credits the IRCA and social worker Robert Wright for helping him get a better understanding of his life experiences and for helping him turn his life around.
Wright testified last year in support of IRCAs at the appeal hearing over the community sentence for the gun conviction.
Acting chair of the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute, social worker, Robert Wright. Photo: Matthew Byard.
Wright said IRCAs will soon be mandatory for Black people, not just in Nova Scotia but across Canada.
赖特周二对审查员说：“联邦政府在2019年底宣布，他们将制造[IRCAS]国家。”“他们已指控联邦法律援助秘书处在全国范围内完成这项工作，并正在进行三个项目。”
“Here in Nova Scotia we have been tasked with creating the training for the assessors. The Sentencing and Parole Project in Ontario has been charged with creating the training for lawyers. And the national judicial institute has been charged with creating the training for judges on IRCAs.”
“因此，工作正在进行中，可能会在2024年结束。当我说结束时，我的意思是所有培训都将进行，所有政策都应该在2024年之前制定。到2024年底，我们应该看到IRCAS正在在该国的每个司法管辖区实施。”
Though between now and 2024, Wright admits that there are Black Canadians who could be at risk of “significant harm” when being sentenced.
赖特说：“直到这成为标准的人，现在系统中的人，我想问题是，‘他们的律师足够通知吗？’”赖特说。“很长一段时间以来，这将是不统一的，直到我们将整个国家制度教育为新的现实。但这确实总是挑战。”
“For example, when weed became legal there were people in jail for a crime on a Thursday that is no longer a crime on a Tuesday.”
“There’s clearly a need to look backwards retroactively and say, ‘OK, let’s right the injustices that did occur before we saw the light,’ if you will. In terms of pardons, in terms of restitution, because if you go to jail a significant harm has been done to you.”
法学教授米歇尔·威廉姆斯（Michelle Williams）是非洲新斯科舍省司法学院的司法战略工作组实施团队的成员。照片：马修·拜德（Matthew Byard）。
米歇尔·威廉姆斯（Michelle Williams）是达尔豪西·舒利希（Dalhousie Schulich）法学院的一名法学教授，是该学校的原住民黑人和Mi’kmaq倡议的前任主任。赖特（Wright）将她描述为“非洲新斯科舍省司法研究所的大脑信任的守护者”。
威廉姆斯说，没有一个组织能够撤消几个世纪的结构性种族主义压迫，但他们可以采取集体行动并采用法律。
“White supremacy is intransigent, it will be there,” Williams told the Examiner on Tuesday. “And we won’t be able to eradicate it ever fully … But you still do it anyway. You still do the work anyway because it’s the right thing to do. It’s the right thing to work toward justice. You might not see it, but what other choice do you have?”
Wright said there are people alive today who worked to advance policies we see today as being racist.
“We need to advance the change and convince a living generation of people that the way we were going was the wrong direction,” Wright said.
非洲新星斯科舍司法研究所的成员。照片：马修·拜德（Matthew Byard）。
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