Inside Policy Talks
Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals
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Canada’s judges have become “completely divorced from reality” in the reasoning they use to bat down mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes, says Christine Van Geyn, interim executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
Tension around this issue reached a breaking point in October 2025 when the Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling in the Senneville case. The court…