Alberta leads – others need to follow the suit

Alberta updates Crown prosecutor’s manual to go after hate crimes
Great progress indeed: “Prosecutors will now be explicitly directed that it would be in the ‘general public interest’ to prosecute a crime motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on the victim’s ethnicity, gender, religion and sexual orientation, among other markers of identity.” Other jurisdictions need to follow to suit.

 

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