Why a First Nation in B.C. moved a courthouse to the site of a former residential school – CBC
Jul 11, 2025
Relocation is part of efforts to indigenize the criminal justice system
As Tofino provincial court Judge Alexander Wolf sentenced a man to jail for assaulting his girlfriend while intoxicated, he made sure to acknowledge the man’s intergenerational trauma.
His father and grandfather were residential school survivors, and many of his family members have struggled with alcohol use.
“You’ve got a lot of trauma and some of that trauma is not your fault,” Wolf told the man on Monday. “When I send an Indigenous person to jail, I’m mindful there are too many Indigenous people in jail.”
