all right hello and welcome to our week four lesson I've had quite a Time recording uh the lecture that you you see down below I realized about uh halfway through that my microphone wasn't working um so thank goodness I decided to like actually just kind of briefly look up at that little icon that shows you like when when zoom's picking up your voice and and not uh and realized that uh no in fact it was not picking up my voice at all my my USB drive died or something that my microphone connects to so anyway okay all this to say I went back I re-recorded it um if if I seem a bit tired by the end of the lecture it's because I had to to record it twice um but go ahead have a watch um of what's down below um but maybe before you get there um what do I have to say by way of of introduction um well there's actually three things that I want to do um in this intro video the first is just to tell you a little bit about uh the the content um that you've uh been asked to engage with uh for today um I also want to link it to our overall topic of of critical perspective I so take a minute just to to talk about that and then as always tell you about the specific learning goals um for this particular lesson so as I was saying I I think I mentioned I wanted to start off by saying uh What uh were you asked to engage with for today um well maybe maybe what I mean to to say in in getting at that is that uh there's a one- hour video here that I've I've asked you to to view um so I I every week um I I promise not to give you more than than two hours of video content to engage with normally that means I'll record a 2-hour lecture in this case I did not um so there's a 1 hour video here um that if you haven't viewed already please do check it out a panel discussion uh that took place in the wake of the the George Floyd protests um looking specifically at the way that um well I mean as the as as the title suggests overp policing of black and Indigenous lives take takes place especially here in in Canada um so then you'll find an hour an hour of content uh shorter lecture than usual um because you just spend your first hour watching uh this video here and listening to people much better educated on the subject than I am um before I go into some of the things um that we got from the national inquiry into missing murdered missing and murdered indigenous women and girls reading for today readings for today secondly I said I wanted to talk a little bit about the overall um overall topic that we've been engaging with because this is our final week on topic number one I can't believe that we are here already uh but topic one critical perspectives hard to hard to believe we're at this point already but um yeah I've I've been inviting you to consider critical perspectives on the law um in over two weeks now we we've thought about this in a in a few different ways so you'll recall that Elizabeth comac uh invites us um uh to question laws claim to be neutral impartial and objective and through weeks two and three by looking at uh justice Wilson's speech especially um and looking at um something like the art s case I think uh you've um really got to question that impartiality or you you should be questioning that impartiality uh really asking whose perspective is written into the law whose perspective is privileged when we interpret the law Etc um I think this week's material uh is certainly related um but perhaps not just asking that question whose perspective is is privileged or whose perspective is written into the law um rather by going through I'm just looking at my notes Here Yeah by going through this week's content uh not necessarily considering um impartiality uh but rather I think from our final week and critical perspectives the best question to ask would be who benefits from the law so we'll see that by going through uh this week's material it does seem that uh particularly in Canada despite the laws claim to be there for everyone's well-being criminal law especially appears to be set up to benefit the settler State and to do so by displacing and dispossessing Indigenous populations um yeah so yeah and I well you know let's not give away any more than that but at least keeping that in mind who benefits from the law as a final critical perspective we can think about um to take through us with to take take with us through the rest of the course in terms of what I hope you will get out of this particular lesson well there are three things that I hope you'll get out of the videos that I've got just below here and the first is that I hope you'll be able to identify what the colonial origins of criminal law enforcement in Canada are and that you'll get that from part number one so being able to see how um a project of colonization uh the interests of the settler state in particular uh went into the development of of criminal law enforcement secondly I hope they'll be able to explain how gender factored into historical justifications for criminal law enforcement in Canada and you'll get that from part number two um because certainly our classes called gender and the law and the readings that you read for today from the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls really tried to show how gender was a major factor uh in um coming up with the rationals uh that went into uh justifying uh what happened particularly with early police forces in Canada and then finally moving into the present um I hope that uh the third thing you'll be able to take from today so by the end of the lesson you'll be able to say yes Professor I can outline how this colonial history informs over incarceration of indigenous people in the present and like I said I hope you will get that from part number three so that's what I've got to say by way of introduction go ahead now now you can actually you know end this video and go have a look at what's down below uh check out these three parts and as always I'll check in with the learning goals again at the end to see if you can say yes indeed this is what you have achieved