The overrepresentation and the underrepresentation of the blacks and the Aboriginal population should not be blamed on the Canadian criminal system and law. Still, the aboriginals should consider it a systemic problem to be blamed on the colonial authorities. The aboriginals must understand colonization and decolonization so they may live in a decolonized manner.
The colonialists practiced a system of ideological antagonism towards the poor; in this regard, there was an overrepresentation of the Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system. The programs applied by the colonial power to improve the inequitable treatment of the Aboriginal criminal offenders were inherently flawed. This is traced back to historical processes and primary colonialism. The social factors that led to the overrepresentation of the aboriginals in the criminal justice system are not as a result factors specific to native cultures but are due to the unequal power relations as well as the unjust resource and power distribution that was perpetrated by the colonialists. This overrepresentation of the Aboriginal population in the criminal justice system is considered a systemic problem, and they are harshly treated throughout the criminal justice system. Recent statistics indicate that there is always a limited chance of the Aboriginal being granted bail if he is convicted for a criminal offense, and at times they are asked to wait for a longer period of time for their court hearings to begin, and if indeed they might be required to serve for community service, then they are subjected to a longer one. This is an indication that the Aboriginal population experience endemic and systemic discrimination, which creates a negative belief concerning them. With regards to this matter of the criminal system, Aboriginals do not have some prominent people to turn to in the event they are wrongfully convicted; their poor education, widespread poverty, and inequalities in the health system have highly impacted the general welfare of the aboriginals. The overrepresentation of the Aboriginal population in the criminal system is only as offenders. This is linked to colonialism, which has not been adequately addressed, just as it is in the case of systematic racism. To decolonize the colonial ideologies, the colonizers must be involved so that the entire system is changed. The Aboriginals are extremely marginalized in all administrative aspects of the criminal justice system, and this threatens the younger generation of the Aboriginals, who are the majority.
The overrepresentation of the aboriginals and the black people was not necessitated by cultural breakdown but by colonialism since instead of colonial ideologies assisting and ameliorating the Aboriginal and the black populations, it further assimilated them, and the colonialists have not assumed responsibility for these actions, and this is well known to the aboriginals and their governments. Colonial legacy highly impacted the Aboriginal culture, but the Aboriginals adopted bi-culturalism, which has become uniquely inherent among them. The colonialism practiced racial segregation. The Aboriginals and the blacks were not considered part of the community of Canada; they were treated as peripheral, neglected, and underprivileged. The colonists practiced racial oppression. They were, for example, forcibly evicted from their rightful residence to pave the way for industrial development. This depicted how outsiders were treated. To the colonialists, the privileges of the blacks were intolerable.
The colonialists imposed racial segregation through imposed euthanasia that involved inflicting misery on the blacks. The whites considered the suffering of the blacks as normal and obvious, and any destruction was considered a form of rescue. The blacks consider their present situation to have been caused by the long history of poverty, colonialism, and racism that were inflicted upon them by the dominant colonial group, who at present have continued to perpetuate the current violence. Despite the end to racial segregation after the departure of the colonial powers, this segregation persists due to the existing structures in place. All this is blamed on the race-neutral legal rulings that were discriminatory and regulatory in form.
The housing ideologies of the colonialists also affected the aboriginals and the blacks population. The colonialists perpetuated policies that deliberately targeted the blacks. They were forced to break up with their families or give away some of their children to qualify for housing projects. This to date acted to deny their power of choice and eliminated their value system that was the basis of centrality for any nuclear family. Systemic eviction, denial of community, and suppression among the blacks were finalized via racism, exclusion, and neglect from all municipal services.
There is a need for a huge change in society to correct these ills forwarded to the Aboriginals and blacks. This may not work overnight but should be treated as a long-term project.