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OTTAWA — The Home of Commons has unanimously agreed to undertake the Liberal authorities’s bail-reform invoice in any respect levels and ship it to the Senate for assessment.
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The choice got here on MPs’ first day again in Ottawa after a summer time break.
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The proposed laws would make it more durable for some repeat violent offenders to be granted bail.
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Canada’s justice system requires prosecutors to show why somebody ought to keep behind bars, however the laws would as an alternative put the onus on some offenders to show why it could be secure for them to be let loose of jail.
The Liberal authorities launched the invoice within the spring amid sustained strain from premiers, police associations and victims’ rights teams to alter the regulation.
Liberals hinted throughout debate that they’d be open to the invoice’s speedy passage and it was a Conservative movement to make that in order that in the end obtained help from all events.
The movement stipulated that the invoice can be thought-about adopted on the finish of the Monday’s proceedings.
