Retroactive changes to criminal pardons found unconstitutional

An Ottawa man who challenged changes to the law that retroactively doubled the amount of time that offenders would have to wait before they could apply for a criminal pardon has succeeded in having it struck down as unconstitutional.
Michael Charron had already finished serving his sentence and was two years away from applying for a pardon when the previous Conservative government changed the law in 2012 to extend the time period he and others convicted of an indictable offence would have to wai