Reconciliation requires us to decolonize, decriminalize and decarcerate | Senator Kim Pate

The 26th Annual Edwards Memorial Lecture, "Reconciliation requires us to decolonize, decriminalize and decarcerate," was delivered by the Honourable Kim Pate, Senator, at the Faculty Club, University of Toronto and livestreamed on November 18, 2024.
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07:49 Professor Kamari Clarke, CrimSL Director, provides welcoming remarks
09:04 CrimSL PhD candidate Sara Ali gives a Land Acknowledgment
12:49 First Nation artist Bruno Henry presents Senator Pate with gift of earrings he handmade
13:34 Professor Clarke returns to give background to the Edwards Memorial Lecture and CrimSL alumni
24:51 Professor Kerry Taylor and three students provide introductions to Senator Pate
37:37 Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffatt welcomes Senator Pate as an old friend
41:56 Senator Kim Pate, "Reconciliation requires us to decolonize, decriminalize and decarcerate"
Senator Pate speaks broadly about her report, "Injustices and Miscarriages of Justice Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women," and the intersectionality of reforms in the criminal legal system with health, economic and other reforms. Access the report online at: sencanada.ca/m....
1:39:25 Professor Beatrice Jauregui introduces the work of CrimSL's Research Cluster for the Study of Racism & Inequality, and opens the Q&A
02:06:53 Concluding remarks: Professor Clarke thanks Senator Pate and others and announces start of reception.
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The lecture was presented by the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and co-sponsored by U of T's Woodsworth College and Faculty of Law.
About Senator Kim Pate
Kim Pate was appointed to the Senate of Canada on November 10, 2016. First and foremost, the mother of Michael and Madison, she is also a nationally renowned advocate who has spent the last 45+ years working in and around the legal and penal systems of Canada, with and on behalf of some of the most marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized - particularly imprisoned youth, men and women.
Senator Pate graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1984 with honours in the Clinical Law Programme. She was the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) from January 1992 until her appointment to the Senate in November 2016. She has developed and taught Prison Law, Human Rights and Social Justice and Defending Battered Women on Trial courses at the Faculties of Law at the University of Ottawa, Dalhousie University and the University of Saskatchewan. She also occupied the Sallows Chair in Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law in 2014 and 2015.
Kim Pate is widely credited as the driving force behind the Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, headed by Justice Louise Arbour. During the Inquiry, she supported women as they aired their experiences and was a critical resource and witness in the Inquiry itself.
Senator Pate is a member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, the Canadian Bar Association’s Bertha Wilson Touchstone Award, and six honourary doctorates (Law Society of Upper Canada, University of Ottawa, Carleton University, St. Thomas University, Wilfred Laurier University, and Nipissing University).
About the John Ll. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture
The annual Edwards Memorial Lecture is delivered in honour of Professor John Llewellyn Jones Edwards, who founded the U of T Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies in 1963.
About the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at University of Toronto
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