Murdocca, Carmela

The author uses Sherene Razack’s concept of an ethics of accountability to argue that the Gladue process constitutes a restorative approach to sentencing that falls short when operationalized through discourses of racial differences. This is because, as Razack discussed, the use of a discourse of cultural difference obscures the complexity of racial difference in settler colonialism and multiculturalism, rendering power relations invisible and keeping dominant cultural norms in place.