Yes. Thanks for the question.
Practically speaking, when a person comes into contact with the criminal justice system for, let's say, simple possession, one of the things that a police officer may do, and most often will do, is check their police records to see how many contacts that person has had with the police. It doesn't take too much mental energy to figure out that racialized groups and indigenous groups, who are overpoliced and are overexposed to the criminal justice system, will only be further disproportionately affected by leniency that is rooted in police discretion. We have seen time and time and time again that when you provide those persons with a wide degree of discretion, it is disproportionately negatively impacting racialized groups.
A person who is found by a police officer to be smoking cannabis in their upper middle-class neighbourhood is going to be dealt with leniently. A person who is found in a lower-class or subsidized-income neighbourhood that's overpoliced, who has had a number of contacts with the police even if they weren't found guilty, is not going to get the benefit of the doubt. That, in my view, is how that's going to play itself out.