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The Canadian delegation to the Sixth Congress recommended “annual reporting to the UN on SMR implementation” and “serious consideration of incorporation of UN instruments such as SMR and Code of Conduct in legislation.” Canada’s delegation to the Seventh Congress reported that, for Canada, “the endorsement of the SMR was an important step in the humanization and development of our varied correctio [...] UNDER INSPECTION: 5 Report of the Canadian Delegation to the Fifth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime The Hiatus in BC Correctional and the Treatment of Offenders (Geneva: 1975). [...] The director of the IISO was required by law to “establish and maintain a program of periodic inspection of all correctional centres.”19 In 2003, the provincial Legislature proposed amendments to the Correction Act, transferring responsibility for routine inspections from the IISO to the Corrections Branch of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General.20 The Attorney General stated that t [...] The terms of reference and minutes of the meetings of the Custody Directors To fulfill the purpose of Management Committee (CDMC) make no reference to these activities as being a periodic inspection, inspections as required under s. 27(1) of the Act. [...] In 1994, the minister discussed the independence of the IISO in relation to inspections, stating that taking “inspections and standards investigations out of the corrections branch altogether … is designed to establish in the minds of the public, in a very real way, a clear separation from the corrections branch.”39 Ensuring inspectors are independent and impartial is also a key part of Canada’s i