We know that indigenous people are under-represented on juries. They don't appear on juries for lots of reasons, but one reason is that when they show up for a trial they would like to be involved in, they're kicked out because they're indigenous. We know that not just because of the recent Gerald Stanley trial, but we know that from the 1980s, the trial of the individuals who were charged with killing Helen Betty Osborne. The Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba specifically recommended the elimination of peremptory challenges in 1991 for that reason. You can't get people to want to participate in a court process if they feel they're going to be kicked off the jury whenever they may have an interest because someone is alleged to have done violence against an indigenous person.
On September 17th, 2018. See this statement in context.