Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is developing a strategy to identify the legal needs and to protect the legal rights of racialized communities in the justice system. “Clients from racialized communities are often over-represented and face unequal treatment in the justice system,” says John McCamus, LAO’s Chair. “Because of this, LAO needs to develop a strategy […]
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is making its formal submission on the issue of carding and street checks to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services available on its website. The submission outlines LAO’s analysis and offers a number of recommendations to regulate police street checks. LAO’s submission is one of 510 submissions (476 from […]
Infographic: Racialization of carding and street checks A “STREET CHECK” or “CARDING” is when police officers randomly stop and question someone and collect information about those people. The details about each person — their name, age, perceived skin colour, estimated height and weight, and often, the names of their friends — are recorded and entered […]
Infographic: Overrepresentation of racialized communities in the justice system The racialization of poverty A third of children from racialized communities live in poverty Workers from racialized communities in Ontario are paid 77.5¢ for every dollar earned by persons from non-racialized communities 19% of Ontario families from racialized communities live in poverty compared to 6% from […]
Infographic: Why we need a Racialized Communities Strategy What do we mean by “Racialized Communities”? Racialized communities refer to all people who do not consider themselves to be white. (First Nation, Métis and Inuit people are not considered racialized. To learn more about LAO’s Aboriginal Justice Strategy, please visit legalaid.on.ca/AJS.) We used to say “visible […]