Ian Mulgrew: More than jury tampering needed in Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould don’t have the power to eliminate the effects of colonialism and the residue of racism that remains to pervert the country’s criminal legal system.
They can eliminate peremptory “challenges” to potential jurors because that is part of the criminal code and under their jurisdiction. The Mother of Our Legal System, the U.K., did it in 1988. It’s no big deal.
The “challenge” is not the
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