Strict criminal trial deadlines imposed by the Supreme Court of Canada are derailing about 10,000 cases a year, a list that includes several alleged murders and hundreds of alleged sexual assaults, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.
The dire situation has led the federal government and the three biggest provinces to call on the Supreme Court to provide some leeway on the time limits, called Jordan deadlines, in a drug-trafficking case to be heard at the top court in Ottawa on Thursday.
The federal government is also planning to table legislative changes by mid-December to help address the problem of so many serious cases being tossed because of delays.
For decades, such delays have plagued Canada’s justice system. In a landmark decision in a 2016 case called Jordan, the Supreme Court tried to do something about them, citing a pervasive culture of complacency around the issue.
The top court created make-or-break deadlines. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, criminal trials must be completed in provincial courts within 18 months from the day a person is charged, and within 30 months in superior courts.
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice; How many serious crimes in Ontario went un-prosecuted because of the resources that were expended on Tamara Lich and Chris Barber? There’s a precedent, here. Roughly $7M of court resources was spent, about 20 years ago now, prosecuting Wheat Board dissidents, while violent crime prosecutions withered on the vine.
Yup. And blubber douggie and his crown persecutors are still trying to hang Randy Hillier for being brave and telling the truth.
We just can’t have those qualities in our politicians, you know.
When the whole construct of the Canadian government is that rights are established by law not nature, you get government that has no discretion on what rights you can and can’t have.
This is why anyone or any political party that advocates for limited government is seen as an existential threat to the establishment.
“you get government that has no discretion on what rights you can and can’t have.”
That is exactly the reverse of the situtation. Governments are always inventing new “rights” at its discretion and also persecutes and often prosecutes those it disfavors because it has given itself the power to decide what rights a person has in any particular situation.
How about firing each DoJ lawyer that is unable to bring forth all assigned cases within the required timeline? You would find more cases moving forward with expediency.
Because crimes against subjects are not the government’s priority. But if just one serf dares stand up to government, that cannot be tolerated. That is the true definition of “peace, order and good government”.
There was no Freedom Convoy in 2016.
Denying bail, or forcing people into bankruptcy by immuring them under pre-trial house arrest, has long been a lever used by the police and Crown Attorneys to pressure defendants into pleading out to anything the Crown offers just to get out of the limbo.
At some point soi-disant conservatives need to recognize that not only are the police and the Crown attorneys not your friends now, they were never your friends. Ever.
No one from the government is your friend, ever. They are becoming mortal enemies now, easy to do in a nation of coward sheep. Shithole.
You could always mete out … restorative Justice … the Chicago way? By releasing career criminals who like to play with fire and white whimmmen.
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Yep. DEI judges … judging all crime victims GUILTY of systemic racism or something.
Hire more judges and prosecutors. Do your effing job. Who put the retards in charge?
Voters
Nope. They just let the cases slide.
Where’s their downside? -They- do not live where those dirtbags do their crimes, right? They have nothing to worry about.
Judges don’t care.
Many Crown Prosecutors should be flogged for ineptitude and disinterest.
And both of these people are untouchable, above the law.
They are even above the Watchmen.
Shithole.
How is it that the Crown doesn’t put a priority in making sure that murder is properly prosecuted, managing to botch it at least 8 times?
“How is it…”
How, you ask? Well, since there is no COST to the Crown prosecutors or their office for botching cases, sheer laziness and not giving a f- will be a sufficient answer.
Priority is put on lunches and time off. And golf tee times. Sure is great to have an iron rice bowl, eh?