ARC
P.O. Box 33067, Quinpool Centre B3L 4T6 Halifax, NS, Canada

Any restorative process must be based in the full, free and informed consent of those whom it wishes to serve and must never be imposed. Please read this open letter and listen to the ANSDPAD perspective: The government’s proposed restorative approach to improving public safety is an unnecessary and illegitimate diversion from the work that we have been doing. It does not respect the longstanding work and expertise of ANS and Black organizations and individuals who have been leading responses to anti-Black racism in the province’s justice system. Again, the imposition of this process on our people is a form of anti-Black racism. It is in no way restorative. Indeed, the manner in which this has come about is antithetical to the very principles that are purported to guide restorative processes.

Carol Millet: I see you. I hear you. I no longer believe you.