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In a democracy, justice must be swift to be true.
Our right to be tried in a timely fashion is even entrenched in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which says “any person charged with an offence has the right … to be tried within a reasonable time.”
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And the Supreme Court has made clear any breach of this right won’t be tolerated and even those accused of the most heinous crimes may be let free if their rights aren’t ensured.