Participants at the March 2017 Justice Canada National Roundtable on over-representation of Indigenous Youth emphasized that Administration of Justice Offences (AOJO’s) needed to be addressed on a priority basis, suggesting that:

• too many conditions are imposed on youth and are often unrelated to the young person’s offending behaviour;
• youth need to be better supported to comply with conditions;
• non-charge options, such as extrajudicial measures or sentence reviews, would be more appropriate responses to breaches of conditions in most cases; and,
• the law should further limit discretion to impose custody in relation to (AOJO). Some participants questioned the social utility of having a breach offence and expressed support for non-criminalization of breaches.