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OTTAWA — Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said this week that if he became prime minister, his government would pass legislation to deny repeat violent offenders access to bail — and while the proposal speaks to Canadians' deepening concerns about crime, experts suggest it would likely be unconstitutional.
Poilievre said the measures don't go nearly far enough to improve public safety. But experts reacted to his alternate proposal with skepticism. Danardo Jones, an assistant professor at the University of Windsor's law school, said that from a constitutional legal perspective, the promise does not make"a tremendous amount of sense."
About 70 per cent of people who are already in Canadian detention facilities are there because they were denied bail, Jones said. The slogan Poilievre is using to promote the idea that certain offenders' rights to bail hearings should be waived —"Jail, not bail" — is"misguided," said Myers.
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