Supreme Court rules 2 Conservative sentencing reforms unconstitutional
2 rulings today from Canada's top court on mandatory minimum sentences for drugs and bail conditions
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that two key "tough on crime" measures brought in by the previous Conservative government are unconstitutional.
The first case determined that a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison for a drug offence violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It centres on Joseph Ryan Lloyd, an addict from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, who was convicted of trafficking after police caught him in 2013 with less than 10 grams of heroin, crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine.
The sentence imposed stemmed from the so-called "omnibus crime bill" brought in by the Stephen Harper government in 2012. The Safe Streets and Communities Act, also known as C10, made sweeping changes to Canada's criminal justice system, including mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
Comment: The CPC couldn't get anything right because they didn't try. Their approach to new legislation and new laws was to "throw it together" using the "helter skelter method then throw it at the wall, if it stuck good, if it didn't then it was the fault of someone else
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