In a CBC article about judicial diversity targets, Associate Dean (Academic) Beverly Jacobs, said merely appointing a more diverse bench won't be good enough if the laws themselves don't change.
"It just means that it becomes a brown system with the same colonial laws so it's not going to work," Dr. Jacobs said.
Dr. Jacobs believes the justice system needs to incorporate more Indigenous perspectives in law and the existing system ignores the fact that Indigenous nations had their own laws prior to European contact.