The Legal Network and HALCO oppose the proposed amendment to the Coroners Act that seeks to replace
mandatory inquests for non-natural deaths in provincial and federal correcMonal insMtuMons with
mandatory coroner-led annual reviews. This proposal represents a significant erosion of transparency and
government accountability. While the Ministry frames this change as an efficiency measure, it ulMmately
serves to further obscure deaths in custody and increases the risk of future preventable harms.
Amending the Coroners Act to Enable Annual Reviews of Non-natural Deaths in Correctional Institutions
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