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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.”

The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition: Open letter to Premier McNeil re the Design Team - Nova Scotia Advocate Open letter: "The ANSDPAD Coalition rejects the legitimacy of the ‘design team’ announced as part of the government’s proposal. In addition to its lack of independence from the government, and its fundamentally flawed composition in terms of its failure to include ANSDPAD or its member organiz...

Black coalition won't join N.S. team looking at ways to restructure justice system | CBC News The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition announced Wednesday it would take a pass on joining the team.

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