Recent Justice-Related Documents from the Government of Canada

The Government of Canada's Weekly Acquisitions List can be a great way to discover new research reports published by various public bodies and agencies of the federal government. It is a record of all publications catalogued in the previous week.

Here are a few recent additions of justice-related documents:

• Financial industry forum on artificial intelligence : a Canadian perspective on responsible AI: "The rapid advancement, proliferation, and transformative nature of the artificial intelligence (AI) technology has accentuated the need to consider ethical, legal, financial and social implications of its development and deployment. This is where well-designed risk management practices come in, comprised of robust testing and evaluation frameworks, implementation of clear and transparent decision-making processes, and creation of mechanisms for accountability and redress in the event of harm (...) It was with this mindset of imagination and exploration in which the Financial Industry Forum on Artificial Intelligence (FIFAI) had operated — a gathering of Canada’s finest financial services experts in the application of AI, mixed with representatives from government bodies, and academia. We listened to leading AI experts and influential regulators from several countries, and then debated those learnings with the objective of safely harnessing AI potential to contribute significantly to Canada’s economy."
• Honouring the children who never came home : truth, education and reconciliation : interim report of the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples: "This report begins with an overview of the history of residential schools in Canada and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The report then discusses issues identified by witnesses which hinder Indigenous families from locating and bringing their children home, including access to records, measures to access and examine burial grounds, legal protections for burial grounds and unmarked graves and supporting the educational work of the NCTR. Based on this evidence, the report makes six recommendations that are focused on supporting Survivors, families and communities to find their missing children and finally bring them home. "
• Victims of Hate Crime, 2015-2021: "This fact sheet focuses on police-reported hate crime and, primarily, violent hate crime.2 A hate crime is defined in the UCR [Uniform Crime Reporting Survey] as a criminal violation  motivated by hate, based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor."
• Sentencing in Adult Criminal Courts in Canada in 2020–2021: "This fact sheet is based on publicly available data from Statistics Canada. It examines data from 2020–2021 ─ the first year following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, public health measures were put into place, which temporarily closed, postponed and/or restricted Canadian court proceedings. As a result, there was an unprecedented decline in the number of adult court cases, particularly in the first few months of 2020. It is important to keep this context in mind when interpreting the data in this fact sheet. "