Black Lives Matters actions across Canada have brought questions of police defunding into mainstream discourse. The need for justice reform in Canada is overdue.

This episode of Off the Hill considers justice reform through a national lens and features features panelists: Leah Gazan, MP for Winnipeg Centre; Pam Palmater, Mi’kmaw lawyer, author, social justice activist and the chair in Indigenous governance at Ryerson University; Paul Taylor of FoodShare Toronto; Karl Nerenberg, rabble.ca parliamentary reporter; and host, Author of Outside In: A Political Memoir, Libby Davies.

From the delayed government response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report, to carding and policing, to the leaked RCMP memo about the use of violence against Indigenous activists – the federal role in justice reforms is complex, and critical.

You can listen to the podcast here as well.