Heartspeak Productions has teamed up with Community Justice Initiatives with funding from the Law Foundation of BC, to create an educational video  that explores the opportunities that exist within the law for referral to a spectrum of relevant restorative and Aboriginal justice models at various levels of the justice system. The production will demonstrate that:

• the goals of sentencing as outlined in section 718 of the Criminal Code of Canada and the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), in many circumstances, can be best served and accomplished by these models and approaches.

• Canadian law, policy and legal precedents make clear that there is an obligation to consider restorative and Aboriginal justice approaches at all levels of the system from police diversion through post incarceration.

• Significant research and case study examples exist, illustrating that the primary goals of Canadian law, as well as those of the Criminal Justice System, can often best be achieved through restorative applications of Alternative Measures (section 717), Extrajudicial Measures (YCJA), Conditional Sentencing (section742.1), Probation (section 731), Corrections and Conditional Release Act (sections 81 and 84) and the Gladue Decision.

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