Law360 Canada ( August 11, 2025, 12:39 PM EDT) -- Appeal by Bouvier from dangerous offender designation and indeterminate sentence and application to admit new evidence. Bouvier sought to substitute a determinate sentence of 14 years followed by a 10-year long term supervision order or, alternatively, to have remitted the matter for reconsideration. In addition, and to assist him with this appeal, Bouvier applied to have admitted new evidence. He raised three grounds of appeal. He submitted that the sentencing judge did not fully integrate his Indigenous heritage and intergenerational trauma at the designation and penalty stages, undermining Gladue principles. He further submitted the sentencing judge erred in treating as near determinative actuarial tools that were neither validated for Indigenous populations nor accounted for Bouvier’s historical disadvantages. Lastly, he submitted that the sentencing judge failed to apply the “least intrusive measures” principle by overemphasizing actuarial tools and disregarding Bouvier’s rehabilitative potential targeting mental health challenges through culturally adapted programs. The Court was called upon to have examined the reasonableness of the dangerous offender designation....