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Mandatory Minimum Canada

Ottawa Admits Mandatory Minimum Sentences May Harm Some

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.20.2013 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - A small group of people might be harmed by mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, but Parliament is entitled to deference in how it tri...

Government's Charter Violations? Let Me Count the Ways

Irwin Cotler | Posted 04.23.2012 | Canada Politics
Irwin Cotler

Recently the Ontario Superior Court ruled that a mandatory minimum sentence imposed against a first time offender violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Yet this decision is but the latest in a growing list of instances where the judiciary has found the Harper government's law and policy to contravene the Charter while ignoring the rule of law.