Failing to Put Promises into Practice: Comparing R v Siwicki with the Goals Established by Manitoba’
On 9 March 2018, the Manitoba Provincial Government released its Criminal Justice System Modernization Strategy. In the accompanying news release, the government expressed a need to address the high number of incarcerated adults in the province. The modernization strategy suggests that more frequent use of alternative measures to incarceration, including restorative justice practices, could be an effective way of tackling the issues that plague the justice system in the provi
