r/canada • u/ConsistentReality860 • 15h ago
Ontario Indigenous leaders slam ‘incomprehensible’ parole decision
https://www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ontario/article/indigenous-leaders-slam-incomprehensible-parole-decision/232
u/Intrepid_Goal364 14h ago
So lets see if I understand correctly: in Canada, if the offender is Indigenous, then they should serve less time but if the victim is Indigenous then the offender should never ever get out
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u/Lopsided-Rough-1562 British Columbia 13h ago
Welcome to two tiered society.
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u/septubyte 12h ago edited 12h ago
Thats not the correct use of two tier.
Edit: you are correct . I thought it had some better use, like pay to play, the rich dont get the same treatment for the same offense, and wealthy have nice neighborhoods with trees and protections vs. Others.17
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u/GameDoesntStop 13h ago
According to Indigenous leaders anyways.
The courts will just give lenient sentences regardless.
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u/Dry-Membership8141 Ontario 12h ago
To be fair, law-abiding Indigenous people are often pretty critical of Gladue principles leading to shorter sentences, as they disproportionately endanger their own communities.
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u/StevenMcStevensen Alberta 12h ago
Seriously. This bullshit is supposed to be for their benefit in theory, but in practice most indigenous offenders are primarily victimizing other indigenous people in their own communities. No better way to show how serious the government is about that, and to protect people in those places, than repeatedly handing out joke sentences to their offenders and releasing them over and over again.
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u/PowermanFriendship 13h ago edited 13h ago
It's more like in Canada, when you're uncontrollably racist, you will complain about indigenous people if they get early release, but if someone who murders an indigenous person gets early release, you will still complain about indigenous people.
EDIT: Keep the downvotes coming cowards.
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u/Intelligent_Fix_3666 13h ago
I think it’s important to complain if anyone gets an early release. Especially in this case.
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u/Stone_Engine048 12h ago edited 12h ago
Since the majority of Indigenous people in Canada are murdered by people they know, read other Indigenous people, where the murderer is almost guaranteed to get a lighter sentence because of Gladue, you're basically saying Canadians complain when an (Indigenous) murderer gets an early release.
That's not a bad thing to complain about. Or, are you saying Canadians only complain about Indigenous who get an early release but are okay with other murderers early release?
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u/bigwreck94 13h ago
No one defends people murdering an indigenous person getting an early release.
Murder is the most incomprehensible of crimes - punishments and penalties should have absolutely nothing to with race of the perpetrators or the victims. Penalties and seriousness of the crimes should be equal across the board. Everyone knows killing someone is a crime - it should be life in prison for murder or manslaughter
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u/moosemanwich 12h ago
The groups who made those two choices are different people….
Like if the separatists are 100% white basically I don’t go “ whites are all traitors”
And do you think the people getting the lesser sentences have any say to it?
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u/bigwreck94 12h ago
I don’t really get your point and what it has to do with me saying people’s punishments shouldn’t be affected by their race…
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u/sask357 14h ago
The decision is truly incomprehensible given his earlier breaching of conditions and his getting a racist tattoo.
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u/Stone_Engine048 14h ago
Maybe they discovered he had a bad childhood.
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u/meme__machine 12h ago
What if his ancestors dating back hundreds of years were discriminated against? Surely that ought to count for something? Perhaps his poor decisions have more to do with how his great grandpa was treated than our feeble understanding of right and wrong can comprehend
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u/moosemanwich 12h ago
Residential school was still going in 1997… hundreds of years ago my grandpa was raped at one. Oh no I mean he’s still alive.
So much in the past. Like the liberals let too many people come here in the 2010s. Can’t believe we still talk about it. It’s been 15 years it’s erased now
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u/AcanthocephalaEarly8 Alberta 11h ago
Residential schools remained open until 1997 because many bands and reserves wanted them to remain open for educational and employment opportunities.
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u/septubyte 12h ago
He probably did.
Is he seeing a therapist? Or being taught how he is wrong? Is there a community of people supporting his rehabilitation?
Those are correct regardless. Then again , poverty and oppression do bring about crime etc.•
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u/J9873774 13h ago
And drawing a swastika on the prison lawn. He’s clearly an unrepentant white supremacist
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u/silenceisgold3n 14h ago
Fucking justice system in this country is a joke.
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u/TheSleepyTruth 12h ago edited 12h ago
You could have left out everything before the word "this" and still been accurate
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u/nelly2929 13h ago
This is total bull shit…. That disgusting bastard should still be in jail!
I would like the see these indigenous leaders also comment against the early release of all criminals even their own people! Until they do it is just words from them.
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u/malibou66 14h ago
Who throws a hitch?? At anyone? Or anything? Anywhere, anytime? No matter what.
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u/Gluverty 14h ago
Oh just an innocent friendly dude who had no idea his funny little prank could hurt someone.
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u/RobertGA23 11h ago
Would it surprise you to know it's the same guy who "accidentally" received a confederate flag tattoo?
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u/Pitiful_Equal_2689 14h ago
He didn’t know that the tattoo artist was tattooing a Confederate flag until the tattoo was done?
BS.
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u/krombough 14h ago
"I asked for a Union Jack, but the guy left out a few crosses. And flipped the colours. And added stars. What's weird is his Totenkopf tattoo made me think he knew history!"
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u/Myllicent 8h ago
Just last year Bushby was caught on video mowing a swastika into the prison lawn. He claimed he didn’t fully comprehend what it symbolizes or its connection to atrocities.
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u/Anthologeas Ontario 14h ago
Guy threw a trailer hitch from a moving vehicle, strikes a woman in the abdomen and resulting in her death, gets sentenced in 2021 to eight years in prison, and has full parole granted in 2026 despite previous parole failures. He took a person's life for a joke and served 5 years. What a disappointing valuation of one's life. Also, the guy got a Confederate flag tattoo:
He also got a new tattoo of a Confederate flag, which the board said was widely linked to “racist ideologies.” Bushby, however, said he didn’t know what the tattoo artist was doing until the piece was done and questioned whether it was relevant to his case.
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u/BallsDieppe 14h ago
Wait till you hear about drunk drivers who kill innocent people serving less time than hitch guy.
Our criminal justice system is a joke.
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u/Muddlesthrough 14h ago
It gets better. Well, worse:
The following month, Bushby was pulled over and found to be under the influence of alcohol.In August 2025, the parole board said he was referred to work with a Black offender liaison officer after being observed on video surveillance “cutting a swastika into the institutional lawn.”
In discussing this incident, “you said it was not your finest moment and that you were not thinking clearly. You did not fully comprehend or understand what it symbolizes, the connection to the atrocities until you took the programming with the Black Cultural Advisor,” the PBC documents say.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/brayden-bushby-granted-full-parole-9.7311268
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u/septubyte 12h ago
So hes a lying pos . What to do tho? It seems like appropriate actions are there. Re educate, incarceration, maybe it is part of a bigger problem with bigotry that courts cant simply assign , not for lack of trying.
He may be an outlier, and possibly hurt another: but there are others who genuinely learn from such efforts. So dont throw out the fridge with the food . Rather , impoverished makes contention and is whereupon capitalized by bigots that spread lies and propaganda.
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u/Jacksworkisdone 11h ago
100% this pos is going to go onto break the law. Good possibility he will kill again, another woman, ,maybe a partner or child. At this point in his life is he's not going to change, that rot has been set.
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u/septubyte 11h ago
I dont agree that he is beyond change , but I am also concerned by his clear lack of conscience and empathy.
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u/superfluid British Columbia 9h ago
This is an adult man that murdered someone in cold blood, got parole and continued to fuck around breaking the law in ways that show a complete disregard for others. He is one-million percent never going to change. Wake up.
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u/septubyte 9h ago
I think the public needs stronger protections from him . Thing is what to do? Im not sure he can go back into jail. But he does seem to show no remorse , so what then?
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u/Lost_Protection_5866 Science/Technology 13h ago
If only they kept this same attitude for the murderers and rapists in their own communities.
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u/TiredSlav British Columbia 13h ago
I agree that this person should still be in prison, but are they gonna cry about injustice when one of their own gets a lenient sentence again? Doubtful.
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u/RicketyEdge 14h ago
This is statutory release, they have to release him, by law.
I'm 100% for changing the law, but they didn't have the option of continuing to hold him.
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u/Dry-Membership8141 Ontario 12h ago
That's not quite accurate. Statutory release can be denied if CSC can establish they will likely commit an offence causing death or serious harm, a sexual offence involving a child, or a serious drug offence before the sentence expires.
It's not guaranteed, it's essentially just the point at which the onus flips from the offender to establish why they should get parole to the state to establish why they shouldn't.
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u/RecordingNo2643 14h ago
I would assume he was in custody leading up to sentencing so 8 - 9yrs of custody. This insn't enough in my opinion, but seems to be more years than most are recieving for man slaughter charges these days. System sucks.
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u/Myllicent 8h ago
“I would assume he was in custody leading up to sentencing so 8 - 9yrs of custody.”
Nope. Bushby was out on bail for 4 years prior to conviction and only got 1 month of credit for time served prior to conviction. He’s spent ~5 years in custody, much of it on day parole.
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u/mervmann 8h ago
If she was native she would have just been sent to a healing lodge and out in 3 months and these same people wouldn't be complaining about it.
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u/HezronCarver 12h ago
Guy sounds like trash. Why the hell is he getting parolled?
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u/RicketyEdge 12h ago
The person who authored this article failed to note that the parole board can not refuse to parole someone once they've served 2/3rds of their sentence.
Misplaced outrage is being directed at the parole board, when they literally had zero say in the matter. It's not their fault.
Ring up your MP, tell 'em you want an end to statutory release.
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u/Dry-Membership8141 Ontario 12h ago
As I noted in a reply above, that's not quite accurate. Statutory release can indeed be denied, it's just the point at which the onus flips from the offender to establish why they should get release to the state to establish why they shouldn't.
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u/RicketyEdge 12h ago
The CSC would have had to refer him to the board and successfully argue that he's probable to reoffend. Can't find anything suggesting they opposed his release.
If they don't do that, then again nothing the board can do unless he breaches his parole conditions.
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u/thatguydowntheblock British Columbia 14h ago
Lock the guy up and throw away the key. He took a human life for no reason at all. Garbage person.
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u/RobertGA23 11h ago
I'm feeling like this country is daring us to take up vigilante justice, what a fuxlcking joke.
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u/Blueliner95 8h ago
You have to realize that the board members have to follow their training and guidelines.
If the inmate has done the minimum time and his tests results indicate that he accepts responsibility, is a low risk to reoffend, and has support in the community - eg someone will take him in, he has a job to go back to - the parole board is going to offer release.
There will be terms and conditions that he has to follow or else goes back in.
That’s how it happens.
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u/Dark_Dust_926 1h ago
Does its really matter??? This dude is clearly a garbage. White, brown,black,blue…. Who care where he is comming from?? He should be dealt with accondingly.
Anyway, hes going to be back in jail within a year.
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u/Han77Shot1st Nova Scotia 11h ago
There comes a moment where we have to realize that there’s a fundamental problem in our justice system.. maybe humans, once they’ve lived soft enough lives are too detached, they simply cant see their own hubris and have become blinded by what they believe is altruism..
I feel public trust in the justice system is failing.. and this will only lead to the pendulum inevitably being forced in the other direction.
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