There is a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice whose signature move is letting violent men walk free because of racism. Mirza’s flourish of race-based acquittals is not a case of a judge gone rogue: indeed, it’s perfectly on-brand. He was the defence lawyer of Kevin Morris, a Black man who was convicted of various firearms offences. Mirza filed two racial context reports about Morris and Black people as evidence, and the judge emphatically agreed to consider them. On appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal made racial considerations in sentencing the province-wide rule in 2021.

Source: National Post March 21, 2026 22:24 UTC