After the murder of two Indo-Canadian women allegedly by a sex offender out on bail, a 14-year-old boy's murder has again turned the spotlight on justice system reform in Canada [Images].

Ravi Dharamdial was stabbed when he was walking home after classes at Sandawood Heights Secondary School in Brampton, a city that has a very large concentration of South Asians and other visible minority populations.

According to the Peel Police, after he was stabbed and started bleeding profusely, Ravi called 911 from his cell phone; by the time paramedics arrived, reports say, he was dead.  

A 15-year-old black boy has been charged of first-degree murder. In a full-page report in the Toronto Star, Ravi's father Ramkaran Dharamdial said his son was not robbed. 

Since he did not have a chance to have a last word with his son, Dharamdial wrote a letter to Ravi: 'May your soul rest in peace. I will fight for justice� I will fight for first degree murder charge and for then [the culprit] to be tried in adult court.'

Ravi's aunt Shanita Agam says she plans to start a petition calling for tougher sentences for young offenders.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeatedly said during the federal election campaign that he would push hard to have the Criminal Act amended so that young offenders who commit such heinous crimes are tried in adult courts and receive tougher sentences.

The amendment bill was not passed during the last Parliament. Harper reportedly wants to introduce that bill in the House of Commons as soon as possible.

All three opposition parties -- Liberal, Block Quebecois and the New Democratic Party � are opposed to such an amendment. A report in the Globe and Mail last week revealed that these parties are willing to go to any extent to defeat the bill when it comes up for voting in the House of Commons. So what if on this issue the country goes to the polls again, they say. 

Harper's spokesman Kory Teneycke is quoted in media reports as saying 'we are prepared to make them confidence matters if necessary'.

The implication is, if the Parliament rejects amendments on the justice system, the government falls.  

'If the other parties want to go into an election on criminal justice issues, I think we are prepared to call their bluff on that,' Teneckye reportedly said. 

Liberal lawmakers say during last Parliament they abstained on many controversial bills and allowed Harper's government to continue in power for over two-and-a-half years; they say there is no more any question of abstaining on confidence issues, including amendments on the criminal justice system. 

Derek Lee, the Liberal MP from Scarborough, was quoted as saying, 'There is no way I am going to sit on my hands.' There's no way, he emphasized, he would 'vote in favor of such ill-advised legislation, whether they call it confidence or not.'

Ravi's stabbing death was 24th of the year for Peel.

Brampton, Malton, Mississauga form part of the Peel region. The region has become a battleground between South Asian youth, blacks and other minorities.

Peel's population has increased by 33 percent between 2001 and 2006; 57 percent of the region's total population of 432,000 are visible minorities, and of that 32 percent are South Asians. Liberal MPs Gurbax Malhi and Ruby Dhalla are from federal ridings in these areas. Brampton's Harold M Brathwaite Secondary School has 80 percent South Asian students. And their parents have no idea about the cultural clashes in the schools.

Ravi's cremation October 22 at the Bernardo Funeral Home in Etobicoke was packed with classmates, teachers and grieving family members. Brampton City Mayor Susan Fennel attended the cremation.

Trying to console Ravi's mother Sunita -- who kept screaming her son's name while the pallbearers took the casket -- 'is one of the saddest things I've done,' Fennel said. 'It's time for people to start smartening up.'