A Conversation with Professor Debra Parkes: Mandatory Life Sentences, Constitutionality, and Bill C-5.

Appointed: A Canadian Senator Bringing Margins to the Centre

Reports and Papers

• Click here to access Injustices and Miscarriages of Justice Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women.
• Click here to read Carly Peddle, Emma Ronsley & Debra Parkes, Toward Abolishing the Mandatory Life Sentence and Parole Ineligibility Periods for Murder: Discussion Document.
• Click here to check out Sarah Chaster’s paper, Cruel, Unusual, and Constitutionally Infirm: Mandatory Minimum Sentences in Canada.
• Click here to access Marie-Eve Sylvestre’s research, Moving towards a minimalist and transformative criminal justice system: Essay on the reform of the principles and objectives of sentencing, prepared for the Department of Justice Canada.
• Click here to access research by the Department of Justice on MMPs
• Click here to read the Senators Go to Jail report.

Legislation

• Click here to access Bill S-233
• Click here to read Bill C-223
• Click here to check out Bill S-230

PBO Reports

• Click here to read the PBO report titled The Federal Cost of Minimum Sentences.
• Click here to check out Demonstrative Examples of Costing Sentenced Inmates
  • Click here to access the PBO report, The Fiscal Impact of Changes to Eligibility for Conditional Sentences Imprisonment in Canada.
• Click here to check out the PBO report on the Funding Requirement and Impact of the “Truth in Sentencing Act” on the Correctional System in Canada.

Jurisprudence

• Click here to read R. v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23
• Click here to access Twins v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FC 537
• Click here to read R. v. Luxton, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 711
• Click here to access R. v. D.B., [2008] 2 S.C.R. 3, 2008 SCC 25
• Click here to read R. v. Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13, [2012] 1 S.C.R. 433

Other Resources

• Click here to check out Kim’s Senate Bio page
• Click here to access publications by Professor Parkes