Canadian Lawyer

24 J U N E 2 0 1 5 w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m imberly Murray's new job is, as she wryly points out, the fifth of 17 recommendations in the 2013 Iacobucci report on First Nations legal issues, and she actually asked the inter- view panel for assurances that she wasn't being set up to fail. But just days into her new position as Ontario's first assistant deputy attorney general with responsibility for aboriginal issues, Murray is already brainstorming her strategic priorities and figuring out how her small team of 17 can best work with Ontario's various ministries and departments. Her brief is to implement the report's recommendations on bring- ing more aboriginals onto jury panels, a list that includes education programs for government, justice, and prison depart- ment officials; translation of key docu- ments; and a string of possible changes to jury registration rules. "There will be some desire to dump things into our office, and there will be some desire to kick things out of our office," Murray says in an interview in a downtown Toronto office that she's still arranging to suit her taste. A couple of the aboriginal pictures are not yet where she wants them to end up, and one of two woven dreamcatchers hang in a window, which Murray admits may — or may not — be against the building's rules. "We need to make sure we don't get dumped things we shouldn't get and that we are getting the things that should be in here. . . . We'll have to work with court services on jury issues, with criminal law on Gladue, with the prison services, with child and family services. And I'll be C R O S S E X A M I N E D SANDRA STRANGEMORE K A new portfolio Kimberly Murray's new job with the AG's offi ce in Kimberly Murray's new job with the AG's offi ce in Ontario comes directly from the Iacobucci report Ontario comes directly from the Iacobucci report on First Nations legal issues. on First Nations legal issues. By Janet Guttsman

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