Opinion: Without new resources, expect more injustice in Alberta's court system

Re. “No one gets justice when courts don’t work right,” Paula Simons, June 27
I read Paula Simon’s Tuesday column with an incredible sense of frustration. I spent 27 years as a prosecutor in this province, including the last 10 running the Specialized Prosecutions Branch of the Alberta Prosecution Service.
I can say unequivocally that the state of the criminal justice system in Alberta is deplorable. We are seeing serious cases lost because of under-resourcing and other c