Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes, you do. In effect, you're front-loading catching the wrongful convictions, which would mean that it's a faster process, a more fair process and one that doesn't utilize this special process that is after the fact. What you're, in fact, doing is empowering the court of appeal to catch wrongful convictions before they languish for years in that post-conviction review state.

Justice committee  Thank you for the invitation to present the CBA's views on Bill C-40. I'm the past chair of the national criminal section. I've worked with the UBC innocence project for the past 10 years, and I teach, at the University of British Columbia Law School, a course on preventing wrongful convictions.